Curriculum Vitae
ILONA KOVÁCS
Department of Cognitive Science
Budapest University of Technmology and Economics (BME)
Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (GTK)
Tel: +36-1-463-1072
Fax: +36-1-463-1072
E-mail: ikovacs-at-cogsci.bme.hu
www: http://cogsci.bme.hu/~ikovacs
Degrees:
- DSc, Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), 2004
- Dr. Habil., Psychology, Pécs University, Pécs,
Hungary, 2003
- CSc, Psychology, HAS, 1997
- University diploma in Psychology, ELTE, Budapest,
Hungary,
1983
Positions:
- 2006-present Professor of
Psychology, Budapest
University
of Technology and Economics
(BME), Hungary
- 2006-2009 Chair, Department
of Cognitive Science,
Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (GTK) BME, Hungary
- 2006-present Director, Graduate
School in Psychology, GTK
BME, Hungary
- 2006-present Director, HAS-BME
Research Group in Cognitive
Science, Hungary
- 2003-2006 Associate
Professor of
Psychology, BME, Hungary
- 2001-2002 Invited Fellow,
Collegium Budapest
/ Institute for Advanced Study,
Hungary
- 1997-2003 Assistant
Professor of Psychology,
Department
of Psychology, 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
Postdoctoral fellow, LVR, USA
- 1983 - 1989
Department of General Psychology, ELTE, Hungary
Honors:
- 2009 Academia Europaea, member
- 2006 Award of the 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 Scholarschip and Sportsmanship, Hungary
Current
Memberships:
- 2007-present Member,
Hungarian
Scientific
Research Fund, Life Sciences Committee
- 2005-present Editorial
Board
member, Vision
Research, Elsevier Journals
- 2003-2007
Member, Hungarian Scientific
Research Fund, Social Sciences Committee
Selected
peer-reviewed publications:
- Kovács,
I. and B. Julesz : Depth, motion, and static-flow perception at
metaisoluminant
color contrast Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 89
10390-1-39 1992
- Kovács,
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
- Kovács, I. : Gestalten
of
today: Early
processing of
visual contours and surfaces Behavioral Brain
Research (invited
review) 82(1) 1-11 1996
- Kovács,
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 93 15508-1551 1996.
- Kovács, I., Á.
Fehér and B.
Julesz :
Medial-point
description of shape: a representation for action coding and its
psychophysical
correlates. Vision Research (Special Issue on Recognition) 38
2323-2333
1998
- Kovács,
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) 12204-1220 1999
- Silverstein,
S., I. Kovács, R. Corry & C. Valone : Perceptual
organization, the
disorganization syndrome, and context processing in chronic
schrizophrenia. Schizophrenia
Research 43(1) 11-20 2000
- Kovács, I., U. Polat, A.
M.
Norcia, P. M.
Pennefather
and A. Chandna : A new test of contour integration deficits in patients
with a
history of disrupted binocular experience during visual development. Vision
Research 40(13) 1775-1783 2000
- Kovács, I. : Human
Development
of
Perceptual Organization Vision
Research (Special Issue on Attention, invited paper) 40(10-12)
1301-1310. 2000
- Káldy,
Z. & Kovács, I. : Visual
context
integration is not fully developed in 4-year-old children. Perception 32(6) 657-66 2003
- Gerhardtstein
P, Kovács I, Ditre J & Fehér Á : Detection of
contour continuity
and
closure in 3-month-old human infants Vision
Research 44 2881-2988
2004
- Silverstein, S.
M., Hatashita-Wong, M. H., Schenkel. L.
S., Kovács, I. , Feher, A.,
Smith, T.
E.,
Goicochea, C., & Uhlhaas, P. : Reduced top-down influences in
contour
detection in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
11
112-132 2006
- Kemner,
C., Lamme, V.A.F., Kovacs, I.,
Engeland, H. :
Integrity of lateral and feedbackward connections in visual processing
in
children with Pervasive Developmental Disorder Neuropsychologia
45(6)
1293-8 2007
Non-professional
interests:
- Basketball
- Member of the Hungarian National Team 1975-1980
- Olympic Games, 4th place 1980
- Boardgames
- Member of the Hungarian Go Association 1981-present
- Photography
- Salon 2000, The first show of the New Millenium, Limner
Gallery, NY,
NY,
2000.
- Tisza 2000, Votisky Gallery, Tiszakürt, Hungary, 2000.
- winner, Visions of Science, Novartis Hungaria, 2006
- Music