Memory and Language Lab




Institute of Psychology

Eotvos Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, EU














The main focus of research in Nemeth Lab is the cognitive neuroscience and the neuropsychology behind implicit skill learning.  We explore the entire process of implicit skill learning from memory formation to consolidation, and investigate how this process is affected by age, sleep, and various disorders such as autism, SLI, dyslexia, Huntington’s disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Spinocerebellar Ataxia.  These studies could lead us not only to a deeper understanding of this fundamental learning mechanism but also to discover how humans rewire their skills and boost habit change in general.
 

Project Director: NÉMETH, Dezső (PhD)


Members


PhD Candidates 

TÁNCZOS, Timea

BALOGH, Virág

CSÁBI, Eszter

GÁL, Zita

HALLGATÓ, Emese

JUHÁSZ, Dóra

TURI, Zsolt (Göttingen, SV: Andrea Antal)

Master Students

GYŐRI-DANI, Dóra

TURCSIK, Ádám

FARKAS, Gabriella

POLNER, Bertalan

SZÉPFALUSI, Noémi

HEILMANN, Ágnes

FÁBIÁN, Elza

BA Students

JAGODICS, Balázs

URBÁN, Gábor

HÖRÖMPÖLI,Ádám



Collaborators

Russell A. Poldrack - University of Texas, Austin

Michael T. Ullman - Georgetown University, Washington DC

Darlene V. Howard - Georgetown University, Washington DC

James H. Howard, Jr. - The Catholic University of America, DC

Cristina D. Dye - Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

Zsuzsa Londe - University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Alessandro Guida - University of Rennes 2, France

Andrea Antal - Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany

Neuroimaging Research Group - Szeged

Key Publications

Janacsek, K., Nemeth, D. (in press). Implicit Sequence Learning and Working Memory: Correlated or Complicated? Cortex. download request for raw data

Németh, D., Sefcsik, S., Németh, K., Turi, Zs., Dye, C. D., Csibri, P, Janacsek, K., Vörös, E., Vecsei, L., Sztriha, L. (in press). Impaired language production in asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis. Journal of Neurolinguistics. download  request for raw data

Klivenyi, P., Nemeth, D., Sefcsik, T., Janacsek, K., Hoffmann, I., Haden, G. P., et al. (2012). Cognitive Functions in Ataxia with Oculomotor Apraxia Type 2. Frontiers in Neurology, DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2012.00125 download   request for raw data

Nemeth, D., Dye, C. D., Sefcsik, T., Janacsek, K., Turi, Zs., Londe, Zs., Klivenyi, P., Kincses, T. Z., Szabó, N., Vécsei, L., & Ullman, M. T. (2012). Language deficits in Pre-Symptomatic Huntington’s Disease: Evidence from Hungarian. Brain and Language, 121(3), 248-253 download  request for raw data

Nemeth, D., Turcsik, A.D., Farkas, G., Janacsek, K. (in press). Social Communication Impairs Working Memory Performance. Applied Neuropsychology download  request for raw data

Nemeth, D., Janacsek, K., Polner, B. , & Kovacs, Z. A. (2013). Boosting human learning by hypnosis. Cerebral Cortex, 23(4): 801-805 download   request for raw data

Janacsek, K., Fiser, J., & Nemeth, D. (2012). The best time to acquire new skills: age related changes in implicit learning across human life span. Developmental Science, 15 (4), 496-505  download   request for raw data

Hallgató, E., Győri-Dani, D., Pekár, J., Janacsek, K., Németh, D. (2013). The differential consolidation of perceptual and motor learning in skill acquisition. Cortex, 49(4), 1073-1081.  download   request for raw data
 
Janacsek, K. & Nemeth, D. (2012). Predicting the future: from implicit learning to consolidation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 83 (2) 213-221 download 

Nemeth, D., Csabi, E., Janacsek, K., Varszegi, M., Mari, Z. (2012). Intact implicit probabilistic learning in Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Journal of Sleep Research, 21, 396-401  download   request for raw data

Nemeth, D., & Janacsek, K. (2011). Are Children with Autism Good or Bad Learners? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108:E57 download   request for raw data

Nemeth, D., Janacsek, K., Csifcsak, G., Szvoboda, G., Howard, D., Howard, J. H. (2011). Interference between sentence processing and probabilicstic implicit sequence learning. PLoS ONE, 6(3): e17577 download   request for raw data

Németh, D., Ivády, R. E., Guida, A., Miháltz, M., Peckham, D., Krajcsi, A., Pléh, Cs. (2011). The effect of morphological complexity on short-term memory capacity. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 58 (1–2), 85–107 download   request for raw data

Sefcsik, T., Nemeth, D., Janacsek, K., Hoffmann, I., Scialabba, J., Klivenyi, P., Ambrus, G., Haden, G., Vecsei, L. (2009). The role of the putamen in higher cognitive functions – A case study. Learning and Perception, 1(2), 215-227. download   request for raw data

Nemeth, D., Janacsek, K. (2010). The dynamics of implicit skill consolidation in young and elderly adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, 66B (1), 15-22   download   request for raw data

Nemeth, D., Janacsek, K., Balogh, V., Londe, Zs., Mingesz, R., Jámbori, S.,Fazekas, M., Danyi, I., Vetró, A. (2010). Learning in Autism: implicitly superb. PLoS ONE 5(7):e11731  download   request for raw data

Nemeth, D., Janacsek, K., Londe Zs., Ullman, M. T., Howard D. V., Howard, J. H. Jr (2010). Sleep has no critical role in implicit motor sequence learning in young and old adults. Experimental Brain Research, 201, 351-358  download    request for raw data

Nemeth, D. Hallgato, E., Janacsek, K., Sandor, T., Londe Zs. (2009). Perceptual and motor factors of implicit skill learning. Neuroreport, 20(18):1654-8  download   request for raw data   

Hoffmann, I,  Nemeth, D., Dye, C.,  Pákáski, M., Irinyi, T., Kálmán, J. (2010). Temporal features of spontaneous speech in Alzheimer’s Disease. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 12(1), 29-34  download   request for raw data

Sztriha, L. K., Nemeth, D., Sefcsik, T., Vecsei, L. (2009). Carotid stenosis and the cognitive function. Journal of Neurological Sciences. 283, 36–40  download

Janacsek, K., Tánczos, T., Mészáros, T., Németh, D. (2009). Hungarian version of Listening Span Task. Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle (Hungarian Review of Psychology) 64(2) 385-406 (in Hungarian)  download request for raw data

 

Manuscripts in preparation

Csabi, E., Varszegi-Schulz, M., Janacsek, K., Malacek, N., Nemeth, D. (submitted). Disassociating effect of sleep on memory consolidation: Evidence from Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Németh, D, Howard, DV, Howard, JH, Dye, Gardian, G, Janacsek, K, Sefcsik, T, Krajcsi, A, Klivényi, P, Vécsei, Ullman, MT (in preparation). Implicit sequence learning in pre-symptomatic Huntington’s disease.

Dezso Nemeth, Zsolt Turi, Karolina Janacsek, Ágnes Lukács,  Szilvia Szanka, Dorottya Gazso, Noémi Lovassy, Michael T. Ullman (in preparation). The dynamics of past-tense and plural production in an agglutinative language: Evidence from Hungarian


Research Interest

Experimental and neuropsychological study of the relationship between memory systems and language processing.

1) Implicit learning in autism, Huntington's Disease, MCI, dyslexia
2) The role of sleep in implicit learning
3) Implicit sequence learning and mental grammar
3) Retrieval of implicit knowledge in dual-task condition
4) The role of reward in implicit sequence learning 
5) The effect of explicit tasks on implicit learning 
6) Sex differences in the production of language (in collaboration with Michael T. Ullman) 
7) Lexical ambiguity, sentence processing, working memory
8) Working memory and morphological complexity 
9) The Hungarian versions of the following working memory tasks: listening span, operation span, counting span
10) Fluency tasks - Hungarian normative data (with Andrea Mészáros, Anikó Kónya)
11) The relationship between social skills and implicit sequence learning


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