Orsolya Kolozsvari

Postdoc

Email:

orsolya.b.kolozsvari@jyu.fi

Research interests:

Auditory perception

Developmental neuroscience

A Bit About Me

My name is Orsolya Beatrix Kolozsvári and I’m a psychologist and recent PhD graduate of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. My PhD studies were part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Network (ITN) called PredictAble: Understanding and Predicting Developmental Language Abilities and Disorders in Multilingual Europe. My PhD thesis was titled “Investigation of brain processes of speech perception and production in adults and children using MEG”. The focus of my PhD was investigating the developmental changes of the brain’s ability to track the speech envelope during speech perception and overt speech production.

As a post-doctoral researcher, I’m investigating the developmental changes in auditory responses, with a focus on the M250 response. We investigate the changes in neuronal-circuitry using HNN (Human Neocortical Neurosolver, hnn.brown.edu) tool and in the cortical responses using MEG data collected from adults and children.

I’m a proud cat-mom to a 6-year-old Gremlin tomcat, who keeps me on my toes and likes to consult on my manuscripts. In my free time, I enjoy going on walks in nature and watching movies and have been known to try my hand at painting.

Publications

Jas, M., Thorpe, R., Tolley, N., Bailey, C., Brandt, S., Caldwell, B., Cheng, H., Daniels, D., Pujol, C. F., & Khalil, M. (2023). HNN-core: A Python software for cellular and circuit-level interpretation of human MEG/EEG. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(92), 5848.

Kolozsvári, O. B. (2021). Investigation of brain processes of speech perception and production in adults and children using MEG. JYU Dissertations.

Kolozsvári, O. B., Xu, W., Gerike, G., Parviainen, T., Nieminen, L., Noiray, A., & Hämäläinen, J. A. (2021). Coherence between brain activation and speech envelope at word and sentence levels showed age-related differences in low frequency bands. Neurobiology of Language, 2(2), 226–253.

Xu, W., Kolozsvari, O. B., Oostenveld, R., & Hämäläinen, J. A. (2020). Rapid changes in brain activity during learning of grapheme-phoneme associations in adults. NeuroImage, 220, 117058.

Xu, W., Kolozsvári, O. B., Oostenveld, R., Leppänen, P. H. T., & Hämäläinen, J. A. (2019). Audiovisual processing of Chinese characters elicits suppression and congruency effects in MEG. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 18.

Kolozsvári, O. B., Xu, W., Leppänen, P. H., & Hämäläinen, J. A. (2019). Top-down predictions of familiarity and congruency in audio-visual speech perception at neural level. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 243.

Xu, W., Kolozsvari, O. B., Monto, S. P., & Hämäläinen, J. A. (2018). Brain responses to letters and speech sounds and their correlations with cognitive skills related to reading in children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 304.

Honbolygó, F., Kolozsvári, O., & Csépe, V. (2017). Processing of word stress related acoustic information: A multi-feature MMN study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 118, 9–17.

Török, Á., Nguyen, T. P., Kolozsvári, O., Buchanan, R. J., & Nadasdy, Z. (2014). Reference frames in virtual spatial navigation are viewpoint dependent. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 646.

Török, Á., Kolozsvári, O., Virágh, T., Honbolygó, F., & Csépe, V. (2014). Effect of stimulus intensity on response time distribution in multisensory integration. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 8, 209–216.