Dr Dénes Szücs
Position/Status
Lecturer in Neuroscience and Education
Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge
E-mail Address
ds377@cam.ac.uk
Phone
01223 767636
Qualifications
MA (Psychology); PhD (Cognitive Psychology)
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
Special Interest Group 22: Neuroscience and Education
Profile
Dénes Szücs is a cognitive neuroscientist using behavioural and various brain activity measures to conclude about mental function. He is using non-invasive electrophysiology (EEG/ERP), electro-myography (EMG), near-infrared functional imaging (fNIRS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). He has two major lines of research. First, he examines the neural basis of number processing and arithmetic disabilities (developmental dyscalculia) in both adults and children. Second, he examines cognitive control and its development in both adults and children.
Academic Area/Links
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Numerical Processing
- Developmental Dyscalculia
- Cognitive control/Response organisation/Response inhibition
- Stroop effect
Current Research Projects
- Cognitive neuroscience of developmental dyscalculia. Supported by a project grant of the Medical Research Council, PI: D Szücs (2009-2012).
- Cognitive neuroscience of cognitive control and its development
- Auditory processing in dyslexic children: Behavioural and neural
investigations. Supported by a project grant of the Medical Research
Council. PI: U Goswami. Co-PI: D Szucs. (2005-2011)
Course Involvement
- BA: Language development
- BA: Developmental Psychology
- MPhil: Cognitive Neuroscience
- MEd: Quantitative methods
- PhD: Advanced quantitative data analysis
Publications
| 09-5 | Goswami U, Fosker T, Huss M, Fegan N, Szücs D (2009), Developmental Dyslexia and Auditory Perception: The Ba-Wa Distinction. Developmental Science. In Press |
| 09-4 | Soltész F, Szücs D (2009), An electro-physiological temporal principal component analysis of processing stages in number comparison and developmental dyscalculia. Cognitive Development. In Press. |
| 09-3 | Szücs D, Soltész F, Goswami U (2009), Beyond format-specificity: Is analogue magnitude really the core abstract feature of the cultural number representation? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32, 352-3; Discussion commentary, pages 356-73. |
| 09-2 | Szücs D, Soltész F, White S (2009), Motor conflict in Stroop tasks: direct evidence from single-trial electro-myography and electro-encephalography, Neuroimage, 47, 1960-1973. |
| 09-1 | Szücs D, Soltész F, Bryce D, Whitebread D (2009) Real-time tracking of motor response activation and response competition in a Stroop task in young children: A lateralized readiness potential study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. In Press. |
| 08-1 | Szücs D, Soltész F (2008), The interaction of task-relevant and task-irrelevant stimulus features in the number/size congruency paradigm: an ERP study. Brain Research. 1190, 143-158. |
| 07-5 | Szücs D, Goswami U (2007), Educational neuroscience: Defining a new discipline for the study of mental representations. Mind, Brain and Education 114-127. |
| 07-4 | Szücs D, Soltész F, (2007), Event-related potentials dissociate facilitation and interference effects in the numerical Stroop paradigm. Neuropsychologia. 45, 3190-3202. |
| 07-3 | Szücs D, Soltész F, Jármi É, Csépe V (2007), The speed of magnitude processing and executive functions in controlled and automatic number comparison in children: an electro-encephalography study. Behavioural and Brain Functions. 3:23 (EPub: 30 April 2007). |
| 07-2 | Soltész F, Szücs D, Dékány J, Márkus A, Csépe V (2007), A combined event-related potential and neuropsychological investigation of developmental dyscalculia. Neuroscience Letters. 417, 181-186. |
| 07-1 | Szücs D, Soltész F, Czigler I, Csépe V (2007), Electroencephalography effects to semantic and non-semantic mismatch in properties of visually presented single- characters: the N2b and the N400. Neuroscience Letters. 412, 18-23. |
| 05-4 | Szücs D, Teachers can substantially inform cognitive psychological and cognitive neuroscience research. The journal of the professional association of teachers of students with specific learning disabilities. Nov 2005. 4-7. |
| 05-3 | Szücs D, Csépe V (2005), The parietal distance effect appears in both the congenitally blind and matched sighted controls in an acoustic number comparison task. Neuroscience Letters. 384, 11-16. P-5. |
| 05-2 | Szücs D (2005), The role of electrophysiology in the study of early development: A commentary. Infant and Child Development. 14, 99-102. |
| 05-1 | Szücs D, Csépe V (2005), The effect of numerical distance and stimulus probability on ERP components elicited by numerical incongruencies in mental addition. Cognitive Brain Research. 22, 282-300. |
| 04-2 | Szücs D, Csépe V (2004), Similarities and differences in the coding of numerical and alphabetical order using acoustic stimulation as revealed by event-related potentials in humans. Neuroscience Letters. 360 (1-2) 65-68. |
| 04-1 | Szücs D, Csépe V (2004), Access to number representations is dependent on the modality of stimulus presentation in mental addition: a combined behavioral and ERP study. Cognitive Brain Research. 19 (1) 10-27. |
| 03-1 | Csépe V,Szücs D, Honbolygó F (2003), Number word reading as challenging task in dyslexia. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 51, 69-83. |
| Abstracts In English: | |
| 02-3 | Szücs D, Csépe V (2002), Evoked potential correlates of arithmetic size effects (Evozierte Potenzial Korrelate des arithmetischen Grösseneffekts). Brain Topography 15, 272 (Summer 2003). 11th German EEG/EP Mapping Meeting, Giessen, Germany, September 20-21. 2002. S + short OP |
| In Hungarian (with English abstract at the end of the article): |
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| 02-1 | Szücs D, Csépe V (2002), Event-related potentials in memory research: A review. Hungarian Journal of Psychology, LVII. 2. 289-326 |