Curriculum Vitae
ILONA KOVÁCS
E-mail:
ikovacs-at-cogsci.bme.hu
Department of Cognitive Science
Budapest University of Technology and
Economics (BME)
Budapest, Egry J. u. 1.,
Bldg. T V/503, H-1111
T/F:+36-1-463-1072
Degrees:
- DSc,
Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), 2004
- Dr.
Habil., Psychology, Pécs University, Pécs, Hungary, 2003
- CSc,
Psychology, HAS, 1997
- University
Doctor, Psychology, ELTE,
Budapest, Hungary, 1988
- degree in
Psychology, ELTE, Budapest,
Hungary, 1983
Positions:
- 2011-present Vice Dean of Sci. and Internat.
Affairs, Faculty of
Sciences, BME
- 2006-present
Professor of Psychology, BME, Hungary
- 2006-2009 Chair,
Department of Cognitive Science,
BME, Hungary
- 2006-present
Director, Graduate School in Psychology,
BME, Hungary
- 2006-present
Director, HAS-BME Research Group in
Cognitive Science
- 2003-2006 Associate Professor of Psychology, BME,
Hungary
- 2001-2002 Invited Fellow, Collegium Budapest /
Institute for Advanced Study
- 1997-2003 Assistant
Professor of Psychology, Dept.
Psychol.,
Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ (Rutgers), USA
- 1993-1997
Research
Associate, Laboratory of Vision
Research
(LVR), Rutgers, USA
- 1990-1992
Research Scholar, LVR, USA
- 1983 -
1989 Teaching Assistant, Department
of General
Psychology ELTE, Hungary
Honors:
- 2009
Elected member: Academia Europaea
- 2006
Academy Award (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 2005
Charles Simonyi Award
- 1991 Fight for Sight Research
Division of the National Society to Prevent Blindness Research Award,
USA
- 1990 Soros
Foundation Research Award
- 1980
National Award for Scholarship and Sportsmanship, Hungary
Research interests: Visual perception, using mainly psychophysical
techniques,
and attempting to relate psychological processes to actual brain
mechanisms.
Normal, developmental, and clinical aspects of visual spatial
integration,
shape perception, binocular rivalry, perceptual learning and
plasticity.
Selected
publications:
- Kovacs, I. and B. Julesz : A closed curve is much more
than an incomplete one: Effect of closure in figure-ground segmentation. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA 90 7495-7497. 1993
- Kovács,
I. and B. Julesz: Perceptual sensitivity maps within
globally defined visual shapes. Nature (London),
370:644-646, 1994.
- Kovacs, I., T. V. Papathomas, M. Yang and Á.
Fehér: When the brain changes its mind: Interocular grouping
during binocular rivalry. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 1996, 93: 15508-15511.
- Kovacs,
I., P. Kozma, Á. Fehér and G. Benedek: Late maturation of
visual spatial integration in humans. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, USA, 96(21):12204-12209, 1999.
- Kovacs,
I.: Visual Integration: Development and Impairments. Akadémiai, Budapest, 2004, pp. 1-101.
- Kovacs I.Hot-Spots" and Dynamic
Coordination in Gestalt Perception Ernst Strüngmann
Forum Dynamic Coordination in the Brain: From Neurons to Mind MIT Press ISBN-10: 0 437 2010.