István Winkler

István Winkler, PhD, DSc, electrical engineer, psychologist. He received his PhD in 1993 at the University of Helsinki, studying auditory sensory memory by electroencephalographic measures. He defended his Doctor of Science thesis in 2005 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on auditory deviance detection. His current fields of interest are predictive processing in the auditory deviance detection, auditory scene analysis, communication by sound, and the development of these functions in infancy. During his career, he has authored/coauthored over 250 publications, which received over 11000 references. Currently he is the head of the Sound and Speech Perception research group (http://www.ttk.hu/kpi/en/sound-and-speech-perception/) at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.