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CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: dr. Gyula Kovács

CITIZENSHIP: Hungarian

LANGUAGES: English, Dutch

LAST OCCUPATION:

  Research fellow, Katholieke Univesiteit Leuven, Neurophysiological Lab. Leuven, Belgium; Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium. Ph:32-34-458-57, Fax: 32-16-34-59-93
 

PRESENT OCCUPATION:

 Full-time researcher, 1990, assistant professor 1995: Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University,   Department of Physiology

ADDRESS:
Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical Unversity, Dept. of Physiology, H-6720, Szeged, Dóm tér 10, Ph:36-62-45-53-73, Fax:36-62-45-51-01; email: gkovacs@phys.szote.u-szeged.hu

BORN: 11th of July, 1965, Budapest, Hungary

EDUCATION:

   Master of Science in Biology: 1990, Attila József University, Szeged, Hungary
   University Doctor: 1992, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, Szeged, Hungary
   PhD: 1996, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, Szeged, Hungary
 

SPECIALIZATIONS:

   Sensory electrophysiology:
     -Cortical and subcortical single cell recording
     -Visual evoked potential recording
   Visual psychophysiology on humans and on rhesus monkeys

MEMBERSHIPS:
   Hungarian Neurophysiological Society

International publication and presentations:

Gy. Kovács, L. Fischer-Szatmári and Gy. Benedek: Spatial selectivity in the anterior ectosylvian visual area of the cat, Neurobiology 1 (1), 33-45, 1993.

Gy. Kovács, Rufin Vogels, and Guy A. Orban  Backward masking: a psychophysical phenomenon and its physiological correlate Neurobiology 3(1), 86, 1995

Gy. Kovács, Rufin Vogels, and Guy A. Orban Selectivity of macaque inferior temporal neurons for partially occluded shapes, J. Neurosci. 1995 15(3): 1984-1997 abstract

Gy. Kovács, Rufin Vogels, and Guy A. Orban Cortical correlate of pattern backward masking Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1995 92(12): 5587-5591

Gy. Sáry, Rufin Vogels, Gy. Kovács, and Guy A. Orban Responses of monkey inferior temporal neurons to luminance, motion and texture defined gratings. J Neurophysiol. 1995, 73(4): 1341-1354 abstract
 

Benedek, Gy, Fischer-Szatmári, L, Kovács, Gy, Perényi, J., Katoh, Y. Visual, somatosensory and auditory modality properties along the feline suprageniculate-anterior ectosylvian sulcus/ insular pathway Progress in Brain Research, 1996: 112, 325-334

Benedek, Gy, Perényi J., Kovács Gy., Fischer-Szatmári L., Katoh, Y. Visual, somatosensory, auditory and nociceptive modality properties in the feline suprageniculate nucleus.

 Neuroscience 78: 179-189, 1997
 
 

Kovács Gy., Benedek Gy., Janáky M., Adamkovich N. and Rubicsek Gy. Spatial frequency dependence of pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials recorded under scotopic and photopic conditions. EPIC X. Tenth International Conference on Event-Related Potentials of the Brain. 1992, Eger, Hungary.

Gy. Kovács, R. Vogels and G.A. Orban: The effect of static and dynamic occlusion on shape discrimination, European .Conference on Visual Perception. 1993, Edinburgh, UK; Perception 1993 (22 suppl): 28c

Gy. Kovács, R. Vogels and G.A. Orban Shape selectivity of inferior tempoiral neurons under conditions of backward masking. Soc Neurosci Abstr., Vol 20, Part 2, pp 1054, 1994, Miami Beach. abstract

Gy. Kovács, R. Vogels and G.A. Orban: Pattern backward masking resluts from response interruption: direct physiological evidence European .Conference on Visual Perception 1995, Tübingen, Germany; Perception 1995 (24 suppl): 44a  abstract

Gy. Kovács, S. Kéri, Gy Benedek Object recognition based on surface and contour information European .Conference on Visual Perception 1996, Strasbourg, France; Perception 1996 (25 suppl): 88c abstract
 
Gy. Kovács, K. Köteles, M. Hosseinalikhani, A. Lõrincz* Categorical perception of illusory contour defined shapes abstract European .Conference on Visual Perception 1997, Helsinki, Finland; Perception 1997 (26 suppl) abstract

Gy. Benedek, Y. Katoh, Gy. Sáry, Gy. Kovács, M. Norita: A single continuous visual area extends along the Anterior Ectosylvian Sulcus (AES) in cat. 1989 Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Phoenix.

Gy. Benedek, J. Perényi, Gy. Kovács, Y. Katoh, B. Csákány, M. Norita: Sensory modality specificity of neuronal responses within the cat's suprageniculate nucleus. 1991 Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana.

R. Vogels, Gy. Kovács and G.A. Orban: Selectivity of macaque inferior temporal neurons for partially occluded shapes. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. Vol 19, Part 1., 19: 28, 1993, Washington DC.

Benedek G, Fischer-Szatmári L, Kovács Gy, Perényi J Visual, somatosensory and auditory modality properties along the feline suprageniculate aes/insular pathway Satellite Symposium for 4th IBRO, 1995 Niigata, Japan

Orban GA, Vogels R, Sáry Gy, Kovács Gy Shape selectivity of macawue infero-temporal cells and shape perception Satellite Symposium for 4th IBRO, 1995 Niigata, Japan