Dr. János György Horváth is a Professor at the Department of General Psychology and Methodology within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Károli Gáspár Reformed University. He also serves as a Scientific Advisor and Group Leader at the Experimental Psychology Research Group within the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology at HUN-REN Natural Sciences Research Center. His academic journey includes positions at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology (2008-present), University of Leipzig (2006-2008), and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Psychological Research Institute (1998-2006). Horváth completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University in 2002, with his dissertation focusing on acoustic environmental regularities in auditory memory using event-related potential studies. He holds dual MA degrees in Physics and Psychology from the same institution (1997, 2002). His research primarily investigates attention and distraction mechanisms, particularly in the auditory modality, along with action regulation, intentional action, and perception-action interactions. He employs experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience methods, with a strong emphasis on event-related potential analysis. Horváth has been principal investigator on numerous significant research grants including NKFIH projects on proprioceptive and motor functional brain connectivity during stroke rehabilitation (K 134787), sensory-motor reflections of intentional action (K 128083), and action-induced changes in perceptual processing (K 108783). His publication record shows consistent high-impact output, with research focusing on motor adaptation, action-effect integration, auditory distraction, and the neural correlates of perception-action interactions. Bolyai plakett, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2015 János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the HAS (2015-2016) János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the HAS with Bolyai plakett award (2011-2014) Horváth serves as co-editor of Psychophysiology (since 2016) and was associate editor of the Hungarian Journal of Psychology (2012-2017). He has supervised doctoral students including Márta Volosin (ELTE, 2019), Bence Neszmélyi (BME, 2020), Sámuel Varga, and Fanni Dóra Kovács. His research group focuses on experimental approaches to understanding the neural mechanisms underlying attention, distraction, and action-perception integration.



