Prof. Dr. Gyula Kovács

Research focus

• Face perception
• Categorization
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Current projects

DFG Research Unit 1097 "Person Perception"

• Official website
• More information on subproject "The role of temporal context in face recognition"

Journal articles

• Walther C, Schweinberger SR, Kaiser D, Kovács G. (in press). Neural correlates of priming and adaptation in familiar face perception. Cortex, E-Pub ahead of print 2012 Sep 3.
• Ambrus, G. G., Zimmer, M., Kincses, Z. T., Harza, I., Kovács, G., Paulus, W., & Antal, A. (in press). The enhancement of cortical excitability over the DLPFC before and during training impairs categorization in the prototype distortion task. Neuropsychologia, E-pub ahead of print 2011 Mar 31. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.026
• Zimmer, M., & Kovács, G. (2011). Electrophysiological correlates of face distortion after-effects. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(3), 533-544. doi:10.1080/17470218.2010.501964
• Zimmer, M., & Kovács, G. (2011). Position specificity of adaptation-related face aftereffects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, 586-595. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0265
• Bankó, É. M., Gál, V., Körtvélyes, J., Kovács, G., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2011). Dissociating the Effect of Noise on Sensory Processing and Overall Decision Difficulty. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(7), 2663-2674. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2725-10.2011
• Theodoni, P., Kovács, G., Greenlee, M. W., & Deco, G. (2011). Neuronal Adaptation Effects in Decision Making. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(1), 234-246. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2757-10.2011
• Schweinberger, S. R., Zäske, R., Walther, C., Golle, J., Kovács, G., & Wiese, H. (2010). Young without plastic surgery: Perceptual adaptation to the age of female and male faces. Vision Research, 50(23), 2570-2576. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2010.08.017
• Kloth, N., Schweinberger, S. R., & Kovács, G. (2010). Neural Correlates of Generic versus Gender-specific Face Adaptation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(10), 2345-2356. doi:10.1162/jocn.2009.21329
• Kovács, G., Cziraki, C., & Greenlee, M. W. (2010). Neural correlates of stimulus-invariant decisions about motion in depth. Neuroimage, 51(1), 329-335. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.02.011
• Cziraki, C., Greenlee, M. W., & Kovács, G. (2010). Neural Correlates of High-Level Adaptation-Related Aftereffects. Journal of Neurophysiology, 103(3), 1410-1417. doi:10.1152/jn.00582.2009
• Nagy, K., Zimmer, M., Liu, W., & Kovács, G. (2009). The sensitivity of face specific ERP components to the nature of stimulus noise. Learning & Perception, 1(2), 183-197. doi:10.1556/LP.1.2009.2.3
• Chaieb, L., Kovacs, G., Cziraki, C., Greenlee, M., Paulus, W., & Antal, A. (2009). Short-duration transcranial random noise stimulation induces blood oxygenation level dependent response attenuation in the human motor cortex. Experimental Brain Research, 198(4), 439-444. doi:10.1007/s00221-009-1938-7
• Kovács, G., Cziraki, C., Vidnyánszky, Z., Schweinberger, S. R., & Greenlee, M. W. (2008). Position-specific and position-invariant face aftereffects reflect the adaptation of different cortical areas. Neuroimage, 43(1), 156-164. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.06.042
• Kovács, G., Raabe, M., & Greenlee, M. W. (2008). Neural Correlates of Visually Induced Self-Motion Illusion in Depth. Cerebral Cortex, 18(8), 1779-1787. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhm203
• Kovács, G. (2008). Az arcpercepció és arcadaptáció elektrofiziológiája. Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle 63(1), 9-17. doi:10.1556/MPSzle.63.2008.1.2 [Hungarian]
• Carbon, C. C., Strobach, T., Langton, S. R. H., Harsányi, G., Leder, H., & Kovács, G. (2007). Adaptation effects of highly familiar faces: immediate and long lasting. Memory & Cognition, 35(8), 1966-76. doi:10.3758/BF03192929
• Varga, E. T., Elif, K., Antal, A., Zimmer, M., Harza, I., Paulus, W., & Kovács, G. (2007). Cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the parietal cortex modifies facial gender adaptation. Clinical Neuroscience - Ideggyógyászati szemle, 60(11-12), 474-479.
• Kovács, G., Zimmer, M., Harza, I., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2007). Adaptation duration affects the spatial selectivity of facial aftereffects. Vision Research, 47(25), 3141-3149. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2007.08.019
• Sáry, G., Chadaide, Z., Tompa, T., Köteles, K., Kovács, G., & Benedek, G. (2007). Illusory shape representation in the monkey inferior temporal cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience, 25(8), 2558-2564. doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05494.x
• Zsadányi-Nagy, Z., & Kovács, G. (2007). Férfi szex hormonszeru anyag szaglása megváltoztatja az emberi arcok szexuális diszkriminációját. Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle, 62(2), 181-191. doi:10.1556/MPSzle.62.2007.2.2 [Hungarian]
• Thán, M., Kocsis, P., Tihanyi, K., Fodor, L., Farkas, B., Kovács, G., Kis-Varga, Á., Szombathelyi, Z., & Tarnawa, I. (2007). Concerted action of antiepileptic and antidepressant agents to depress spinal neurotransmission: Possible use in the therapy of spasticity and chronic pain. Neurochemistry International, 50(4), 642-652. doi:10.1016/j.neuint.2006.12.008
• Kovács, G. (2006). Adaptáció és utóhatások a látórendszerben. Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle, 61(2), 251-264. doi:10.1556/MPSzle.61.2006.2.3 [Hungarian]
• Kóbor, I., Füredi, L., Kovács, G., Spence, C., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2006). Back-to-front: Improved tactile discrimination performance in the space you cannot see. Neuroscience Letters, 400(1-2), 163-167. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2006.02.037
• Kovács, G., Zimmer, M., Bankó, É., Harza, I., Antal, A., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2006). Electrophysiological Correlates of Visual Adaptation to Faces and Body Parts in Humans. Cerebral Cortex, 16(5), 742-753. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhj020
• Kovács, G., Zimmer, M., Harza, I., Antal, A., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2005). Position-specificity of facial adaptation. Neuroreport, 16(17), 1945-1949.
• Tompa, T., Sáry, G., Chadaide, Z., Köteles, K., Kovács, G., & Benedek, G. (2005). Achromatic shape processing in the inferotemporal cortex of the macaque. Neuroreport, 16(1), 57-61.
• Sáry, G., Chadaide, Z., Tompa, T., Kovács, G., Köteles, K., Boda, K., Raduly, L., & Benedek, G. (2004). Relationship between stimulus complexity and neuronal activity in the inferotemporal cortex of the macaque monkey. Cognitive Brain Research, 22(1), 1-12. doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.06.015
• Antal, A., Varga, E. T., Nitsche, M. A., Chadaide, Z., Paulus, W., Kovács, G., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2004). Direct current stimulation over MT+/V5 modulates motion aftereffect in humans. Neuroreport, 15(16), 2491-2494.
• Kocsis, P., Kovács, G., Farkas, S., Horváth, C., Szombathelyi, Z., & Tarnawa, I. (2004). NR2B receptors are involved in the mediation of spinal segmental reflex potentials but not in the cumulative motoneuronal depolarization in vitro. Brain Research Bulletin, 64(2), 133-138. doi:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2004.06.002
• Kovács, G., Gulyás, B., Savic, I., Perrett, D. I., Cornwell, R. E., Little, A. C., Jones, B. C., Burt, D. M., Gál, V., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2004). Smelling human sex hormone-like compounds affects face gender judgment of men. Neuroreport, 15(8), 1275-1277.
• Kovács, G., Kocsis, P., Tarnawa, I., Horváth, C., Szombathelyi, Z., & Farkas, S. (2004). NR2B containing NMDA receptor dependent windup of single spinal neurons. Neuropharmacology, 46(1), 23-30. doi:10.1016/S0028-3908(03)00339-3
• Saxe, R., Xiao, D. K., Kovacs, G., Perrett, D. I., & Kanwisher, N. (2004). A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions. Neuropsychologia, 42(11), 1435-1446. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.04.015
• Kovács, G., Sáry, G., Köteles, K., Chadaide, Z., Tompa, T., Vogels, R., & Benedek, G. (2003). Effects of Surface Cues on Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortical Responses. Cerebral Cortex, 13(2), 178-188. doi:10.1093/cercor/13.2.178
• Wade, N. J., Kovács, G., & Vidnyánsky, Z. (2003). Inverted faces. Perception, 32(1), 1-6. doi:10.1068/p3201ed
• Kóródi, K., Bite, A., Borbély, E., Kovács, G., Nagy, A., Süle, Z., & Toldi, J. (2002). A combined electrophysiological and behavioural study for the assessment of activity-dependent changes in mice. Acta Biologica Hungarica, 53(1-2), 85-94.
• Kocsis, P., Tarnawa, I., Kovács, G., Szombathelyi, Z., & Farkas, S. (2002). [Mydeton: a centrally acting muscle relaxant drug from Gedeon Richter LTD]. Acta Pharmaceutica Hungarica, 72(1), 49-61. [Hungarian]
• Antal, A., Kéri, S., Kovács, G., Liszli, P., Janka, Z., & Benedek, G. (2001). Event-related potentials from a visual categorization task. Brain Research Protocols, 7(2), 131-136. doi:10.1016/S1385-299X(01)00055-1
• Benedek, G., Sztriha, L., & Kovács, G. (2000). Coding of spatial co-ordinates on neurones of the feline visual association cortex. Neuroreport, 11(7), 1381-1384.
• Antal, A., Kéri, S., Kovács, G., Janka, Z., & Benedek, G. (2000). Early and late components of visual categorization: an event-related potential study. Cognitive Brain Research, 9(1), 117-119. doi:10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00053-1
• Kovács, G., Benedek, G., & Sáry, G. (1999). Response variability and stimulus discrimination capacity of neurons in monkey inferior temporal cortex. Neurobiology (Budapest), 7(2), 93-102.
• Körmendy-Rácz, J., Szabó, S., Lörincz, A., Antal, A., Kovács, G., & Lörincz, A. (1999). Winner-Take-All Network Utilising Pseudoinverse Reconstruction Subnets Demonstrates Robustness on the Handprinted Character Recognition Problem. Neural Computing & Applications, 8(2), 163-176. doi:10.1007/s005210050018
• Benedek, G., Perény, J., Kovács, G., Fischer-Szátmári, L., & Katoh, Y. Y. (1997). Visual, somatosensory, auditory and nociceptive modality properties in the feline suprageniculate nucleus. Neuroscience, 78(1), 179-189. doi:10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00562-3
• Benedek, G., Fischer-Szatmári, L., Kovács, G., Perényi, J., & Katoh, Y. Y. (1996). Visual, somatosensory and auditory modality properties along the feline suprageniculate-anterior ectosylvian sulcus/insular pathway. Progress in Brain Research, 112, 325-334. doi:10.1016/S0079-6123(08)63339-7
• Kovács, G., Vogels, R., Orban, G. A. (1995). Selectivity of Macaque Inferior Temporal Neurons for Partially Occluded Shapes. The Journal of Neuroscience, 15(3), 1984-1997.
• Kovács, G., Vogels, R., & Orban, G. A. (1995). Cortical correlate of pattern backward masking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 92(12), 5587-5591.
• Sáry, G., Vogels, R., Kovács, G., & Orban, G. A. (1995). Responses of Monkey Inferior Temporal Neurons to Luminance-, Motion-, and Texture-Defined Gratings. Journal of Neurophysiology, 73(4), 1341-1354.
• Kovács, G., Fischer-Szatmári, L., & Benedek, G. (1993). Spatial selectivity in the anterior ectosylvian visual area of the cat. Neurobiology (Budapest), 1(1), 33-45.