Peter Lakatos

Professor Peter Lakatos, MD, PhD investigates neural mechanisms of selective attention using primate neurophysiology models. His research focuses on oscillatory entrainment in auditory cortex and its role as a spectrotemporal filter for attended stimuli.

Key contributions include:

• Demonstrating how rhythmic neuronal excitability fluctuations track stimulus timing
• Identifying topographically organized oscillations in A1 as attention filters
• Establishing how entrainment amplifies attended and suppresses unattended inputs
• Linking these mechanisms to speech perception enhancement