Publications

Your place or mine? The neural dynamics of personally familiar scene recognition suggests category independent familiarity encoding. External link bioRxiv

Authors

Hannah Klink, Daniel Kaiser, Rico Stecher, Geza Gergely Ambrus, Gyula Kovacs

 

"Finding pattern in the noise: Persistent implicit statistical knowledge impacts the processing of unpredictable stimuliExternal link" 

Authors

Andrea Kóbor, Karolina Janacsek, Petra Hermann, Zsofia Zavecz, Vera Varga Valéria Csépe, Zoltán Vidnyánszky, Gyula Kovacs, Dezso Nemeth

Epperlein T, Kovács G, Ona LS, Amici F, Bräuer J Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species Plos One (in press)

Li , Kovács G  The effect of short-term training on repetition probability effects for non-face objects  External linkBiological Psychology (2022) 175: 108452External link

Schroeger A, Kaufmann JM, Zaske R, Kovács G, Klos T, Schweinberger SR Prosopagnosia following untypical right hemispheric stroke:
A 23 - year follow-up study with M.T. Cognitive Neuropsychologia (in press)

 

Dalski, A, Kovács G, Ambrus GG (2022) No Semantic Information is Necessary to Evoke General Neural Signatures of Face Familiarity - Evidence from Cross-Experiment Classification External linkBrain Struct Funct. 16.October 2022External link

Dalski A, Kovács G, Wiese H, Ambrus GG Characterizing the shared signals of face familiarity: long-term acquaintance, voluntary control, and concealed knowledge External linkBrain Res (2022) External link10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148094 Vol 1796 Dec 1.External link

Li C, Kovács G. Repetition probability effects for Chinese characters and German words in the visual word form area. Brain Res. 2022 Apr 1;1780:147812. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147812. Epub 2022 Feb 1. PMID: 35120904.

Li C, Burton AM, Ambrus GG, Kovács G. A neural measure of the degree of face familiarity. Cortex. 2022 Jul 13;155:1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.06.012. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35961248.

Kóbor A, Janacsek K, Hermann P, Zavecz Z, Varga V Csépe V, Vidnyánszky Z, Kovács G, Németh D Predictability-dependent encoding of statistical regularities in the early visual cortex. Neuropsychologia (2022)

Rostalski SM, Robinson JE, Ambrus GG, Johnston P, Kovács G. Person identity-specific adaptation effects in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Eur J Neurosci. 2022 Mar;55(5):1232-1243. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15604. Epub 2022 Feb 8. PMID: 35064609.

Li, C., Kovács, G., Trapp, S. (2021). Visual short-term memory load modulates repetition related fMRI signal adaptation. Biological Psychology. 166, 108199

Dalski, A., Kovács, G., Ambrus G. G. (2021). Evidence for a General Neural Signature of Face Familiarity External link.External link Cerebral Cortex. bhab366

Ficco, L., Mancuso, L., Manuello, J., Teneggi, A., Liloia, D., Duca, S., Costa, T., Kovacs, G. Z., & Cauda, F. (2021). Disentangling predictive processing in the brain: a meta-analytic study in favour of a predictive network. External link Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95603-5. 41 (26) 5687-5698.

Ambrus G. G., Kaiser, D., Eick, C. M., Kovács, G. (2021). Getting to know you: emerging neural representations during face familiarizationExternal link. The Journal of Neuroscience. 41 (26) 5687-5698.

Feuerriegel, D., Vogels, R., Kovács, G.G. (2021)  "Evaluating the Evidence for Expectation Suppression in the Visual System"External link . Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,126, 368-381

Eick, C. M., Ambrus, G.G., Kovács, G. (2021) "Inhibition of the occipital face area modulates the electrophysiological signals of face familiarity: a combined cTBS-EEG study" External link Cortex. 141:156–167

Donnier, S., Kovács, G., Oña, L. S., Bräuer, J., & Amici, F. (2020). Experience has a limited effect on humans’ ability to predict the outcome of social interactions in children, dogs and macaques.External link Scientific Reports 2020 10:1, 10(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78275-5.

 

Kovács, G (2020):  Interview for The Cognitive Neuroscience Society: "Getting to know you: New Insights in Facial Recognition"External link

Kovács, G. (2020) "Getting to Know Someone: Familiarity, Person Recognition, and Identification in the Human BrainExternal link.External link Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2020 Dec;32(12):2205-2225. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01627. Epub 2020 Sep 9. PMID: 32902334.

Rostalski, S., Amado, C., Kovács, G., Feuerriegel, D. (2020) Measures of repetition suppression in the Fusiform Face Area are inflated by co-occurring effects of statistically learned visual associations.External link Cortex (accepted).

Ambrus, G. G., Vékony, T., Janacsek, K., Trimborn, A.B.C., Kovács, G., & Németh, D. (2020). When less is more: Enhanced statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies after disruption of bilateral DLPFC.External link Journal of Memory and Language, 114, 1–31.

Honbolygó, F., Kóbor, A., Hermann, P., Kettinger, Á. O., Vidnyánszky, Z., Kovács, G., & Csépe, V. (2020). Expectations about word stress modulate neural activity in speech-sensitive cortical areas.External link Neuropsychologia, 107467.

Eick, C. M., Kovács, G., Rostalski, S. M., Röhrig, L., Ambrus, G. G. (in press) The occipital face area is causally involved in identity-related visual-semantic associations.External link Brain Structure and Function

Amado, C., Rostalski, S. M., Grotheer, M., Wanke, N., & Kovács, G. (2019). Similar expectation effects for immediate and delayed stimulus repetitionsExternal link. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13.

Kovács, G., Grotheer, M., Münke, L., Kéri, S., & Nenadić, I. (2019). Significant repetition probability effects in schizophrenia.External link Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 290, 22-29.

Ambrus, G. G., Kaiser, D., Cichy, R. M., & Kovács, G. (2019) The Neural Dynamics of Familiar Face RecognitionExternal link. Cerebral Cortex, 29(11), 4775–4784.

Ambrus, G. G., Amado, C., Krohn, L., Kovács, G. (2019) TMS of the occipital face area modulates cross-domain identity primingExternal link. Brain Structure and Function, 224(1), 149-157.

Eick, C. M., Ahmadi, K., Sweeney-Reed, C. M., & Hoffmann, M. B. (2019). Interocular transfer of visual memory–Influence of visual impairment and abnormalities of the optic chiasm.External link Neuropsychologia, 129, 171-178.

Rostalski, Sophie-Marie, Catarina Amado, and Gyula Kovács. 2019. “Repetition Suppression for Noisy and Intact Faces in the Occipito-Temporal Cortex.” Frontiers in Psychology 10 (June): 1348. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01348External link.

Rostalski, S. M., Amado, C., & Kovács, G. (2019). Repetition suppression for noisy and intact faces in the occipito-temporal cortex.External link Frontiers in psychology, 10.

Amado, C., Kovács, P., Mayer, R., Ambrus, G. G., Trapp, S., & Kovács, G. (2018). Neuroimaging results suggest the role of prediction in cross-domain priming. Scientific reports, 8(1), 10356.

Menzel, C., Kovács, G., Amado, C., Hayn-Leichsenring, G. U., & Redies, C. (2018). Visual mismatch negativity indicates automatic, task-independent detection of artistic image composition in abstract artworks. Biological psychology, 136, 76-86.

Amado, C., Stoyanova, P., & Kovács, G. (2018). Visual mismatch response and fMRI signal adaptation correlate in the occipital-temporal cortex. Behavioural brain research.

Trapp, S., Schweinberger, S. R., Hayward, W. G., & Kovács, G. (2018). Integrating predictive frameworks and cognitive models of face perception. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 1-8.

Ambrus GG, Dotzer M, Schweinberger SR, Kovács G. 2017. The occipital face area is causally involved in the formation of identity-specific face representations. Brain Struct Funct. 84:105–116.

Kovács, P., Knakker, B., Hermann, P., Kovács, G., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2017). Face inversion reveals holistic processing of peripheral faces. Cortex, 97, 81-95.

Menzel C, Hayn-Leichsenring GU, Redies C, Nemeth K, Kovács G. 2017. When noise is beneficial for sensory encoding: Noise adaptation can improve face processing. Brain and cognition. 117:73–83.

Ambrus G, Winder F, Burton M, Kovács G (2017) Casual evidence of the involvement of the right occipital face area in face-identity acquisition Neuroimage 148:212-218.

Hermann P, Grotheer M, Kovács G, Vidnyánszky Z (2016) The relationship between repetition suppression and face perception. Brain Imaging and Behav. Aug 15.

Gall, C., Schmidt, S., Schittkowski, M. P., Antal, A., Ambrus, G. G., Paulus, W., ... & Lux, A. (2016). Alternating current stimulation for vision restoration after optic nerve damage: A randomized clinical trial. PloS one, 11(6), e0156134.

Grotheer, M., Ambrus, G. G., & Kovács, G. (2016). Causal evidence of the involvement of the number form area in the visual detection of numbers and letters. NeuroImage, 132, 314-319.

Ambrus, G. G., Chaieb, L., Stilling, R., Rothkegel, H., Antal, A., & Paulus, W. (2016). Monitoring transcranial direct current stimulation induced changes in cortical excitability during the serial reaction time task. Neuroscience letters, 616, 98-104.

Amado C, Kovács G (2016) Does surprise enhancement or repetition suppression explains visual mismatch negativity? Eur. J. Neurosci. 43: 1590-1600

Kovács G, Schweinberger SR (2016) Repetition suppression- an integrative view. Cortex.

Amado, C, Hermann P, Kovács P, Grotheer M, Vidnyánszky Z, Kovács G (2016) The contribution of surprise to the prediction based modulation of fMRI responses. Neuropsychologia 84: 10-112

Grotheer M, Karl-Heinz Herrmann, Kovács G (2016) Neuroimaging evidences of a bilateral representation for visually presented numbers. J. Neuroscience 36: 88-97.
Grotheer M, Kovács G (2016) Can predictive coding explain repetition suppression Cortex Jan19

Vakli P, Németh K, Zimmer M, Kovács G. (2015) The electrophysiological correlates of integrated face and body-part perception. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 10: 1-36

Zimmer M, Zbant A, Németh K, Kovács G (2015) Adaptation duration dissociates category-, image and person specific processes on face evoked event-related potentials Frontiers in Psychol Dec22, 6: 1945.

Grotheer M, Kovács G (2015) The relationship between stimulus repetitions and fulfilled expectations. Neuropsychologia. 67: 175-182

akli P, Németh K, Zimmer M, Kovács G. (2014) The face evoked steady-state visual potentials are sensitive to the orientation, viewpoint, expression and configuration of the stimuli Int. J. Psychophys . 94:336-350.

Kovács G, Vogels R. When does repetition suppression depend on repetition probability? Front. Hum Neurosci. 8. September 2014, Article 685.

Grotheer M, Hermann P, Vidnyánszky Z and Kovács G (2014) Repetition probability effects for inverted faces Neuroimage 102:416-423.

Zaske R, Volberg G, Kovács G, Schweinberger SR (2014) Electrophysiological correlates of voice learning and recognition. J. Neuroscience. 33: 10821-10831.

Németh K, Zimmer M, Schweinberger SR, Vakli P, Kovács G (2014) The background of reduced face specificity of N170 in congenital prosopagnosia. PLOS ONE.Jul 1, 9(7).

Vakli P, Németh K, Zimmer M, Schweinberger S, Kovács G (2014) Altering second-order configurations reduces the adaptation effects on early face-sensitive event-related potential components. Front. Hum. Neurosci.

Németh K, Kovács P, Vakli P, Kovács G, Zimmer M Phase noise reveals early category-specific modulation of the event-related potentials Front. Psychol. 2014 April 24

Walther C, Schweinberger SR, Kovács G (2014) Decision dependent aftereffects for faces Vision Res. 100: 47-55.

Grotheer M and Kovács G (2014) Repetition probability effects depend on prior experiences. J. Neuroscience 34:6640-6646.

Németh K, Zimmer M, Nagy K, Bankó É, Vidnyánszky Z, Vakli P, Kovács G (2014) Altered BOLD response within the core face-processing network in congenital prosopagnosia. Clin. Neurosci.