
HORVÁTH János, Hungary
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
WG1-member
Our research focuses on human action-effect representations. The goal is to understand how actors choose effects to represent, plan and control their actions, and to be able to infer intentions from their movement parameters. I am also interested in perceptual changes related to actions or observed actions. We use behavioral and EEG measures.
Using a simple experimental model, we recently showed that the motor parameters of simple everyday actions are adapted to their sensory consequences, and that this adaptation is driven, in part, by our ability to form an elementary sensory-motor representation connecting the action and its effect in an automatic fashion.
Our research is currently (2018 – 2022) funded by the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary (128083 – “Sensory-motor reflections of intentional action”).
Neszmélyi, B., & Horváth, J. (2018). Temporal constraints in the use of auditory action effects for motor optimization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(11), 1815–1829. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000571
Horváth, J., Bíró, B., & Neszmélyi, B. (2018). Action-effect related motor adaptation in interactions with everyday devices. Scientific Reports, 8, 6592. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-25161-w
Neszmélyi, B., & Horváth, J. (2017). Consequences matter: Self-induced tones are used as feedback to optimize tone-eliciting actions: Self-induced tones used as feedback for actions. Psychophysiology 54(6), 904–915. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12845
Horváth, J. (2015) Action-related auditory ERP attenuation: Paradigms and hypotheses. Brain Research 1626, 54-65. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.03.038
Horváth, J., Maess, B., Baess, P., Tóth, A. (2012) Action-sound coincidences suppress evoked responses of the human auditory cortex in EEG and MEG. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 (9), 1919-1931. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00215
