About

The events of everyday life are filtered through our attention, and this selection largely determines what we remember later. The research team aims to study this interaction between attention and memory, to explore the underlying brain processes and to investigate deficits in both systems in different patient populations. In our experimental work, we use the traditional tools of experimental psychology, complemented by eye-tracking and pupillometry.

The focus of our research

Investigating how uncertainty and environmental change is detected and encoded by our brain, and how this affects later memory of specific events.

Examining, how attentional processes are recruited during the retrieval of previously encoded information.

Exploring the changes in attentional and memory processes in normal and pathological aging using psychological tests and psychophysiological indices.

Developing new, open source tools for pupil size measurement.

News

2023

September

We presented our research on the conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology in Porto. Talk by Peter Pajkossy and Poster by Ádám Albi can be downloaded here.

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2023

May

Péter Pajkossy presented a poster at the conference of the French Neuroscience Society in Lyon. The poster can be downloaded here.

2023

Our new paper is out!

The manuscript entitled “How uncertain are you? Disentangling expected and unexpected uncertainty in pupil-linked brain arousal during reversal learning” has been published in Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neurosciences.

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Team
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Péter Pajkossy, Phd

Lab Leader

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Eszter Kiss

Phd Student

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Gábor Gesztesi

Research Assistant

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Ádám Albi

Phd Student

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Gábor Bényei

Phd Student

Publications

2023

Pajkossy, P., Gesztesi, G., & Racsmány, M. (2023). How uncertain are you? Disentangling expected and unexpected uncertainty in pupil-linked brain arousal during reversal learning. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-22.

Albi, Á.Pajkossy, P. (2023). Memory Strength Differently Affects Pupil Dilation during Recognition and Cued-Recall. Preprint.

Contact us

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