Dr Denes Szucs University positionReader Dr Denes Szucs is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students. DepartmentsInstitutesCentre for Neuroscience in Education Home pagehttp://www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/... Research ThemesInterestsDénes Sz?cs has background in cognitive neuroscience and psychology. He has used electro-encephalography (EEG), electro-myography (EMG), functional near infrared imaging (fNIRS), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioural methods. On the one hand, he investigates mathematical understanding and development, mathematics anxiety (including gender differences), dyscalculia, and gifted mathematics. On the other had, he is very interested in modern research methodology and in the meta-analysis of the published neuroscience and psychology literature. Dénes was the recipient of the prestigious scholar award of the James S. McDonnell foundation (2013). Research Focus
EquipmentElectroencephalography (EEG) Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsSzücs D, Soltész F, Bryce D, Whitebread D (in press), “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 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 Soltész F, Sz?cs D, Dékány J, Márkus A, Csépe V (2007), “A combined event-related potential and neuropsychological investigation of developmental dyscalculia” Neuroscience Letters 417:181-186 Details Publications2014Zhang L, Chen M, Lin C, Sz?cs D (2014), “Flexible and unique representations of two-digit decimals.” Acta Psychol (Amst) 151C:89-97 Details Zirk-Sadowski J, Lamptey C, Devine A, Haggard M, Sz?cs D (2014), “Young-age gender differences in mathematics mediated by independent control or uncontrollability.” Dev Sci Details 2013Gabriel F, Coché F, Szucs D, Carette V, Rey B, Content A (2013), “A componential view of children's difficulties in learning fractions.” Front Psychol 4:715 Details Gabriel F, Szucs D, Content A (2013), “The mental representations of fractions: adults' same-different judgments.” Front Psychol 4:385 Details Gabriel FC, Szucs D, Content A (2013), “The development of the mental representations of the magnitude of fractions.” PLoS One 8(11):e80016 Details Kaufmann L, Mazzocco MM, Dowker A, von Aster M, Göbel SM, Grabner RH, Henik A, Jordan NC, Karmiloff-Smith AD, Kucian K, Rubinsten O, Szucs D, Shalev R, Nuerk HC (2013), “Dyscalculia from a developmental and differential perspective.” Front Psychol 4:516 Details Killikelly C, Sz?cs D (2013), “Asymmetry in stimulus and response conflict processing across the adult lifespan: ERP and EMG evidence.” Cortex 49(10):2888-903 Details Killikelly C, Sz?cs D (2013), “Delayed development of proactive response preparation in adolescents: ERP and EMG evidence.” Dev Cogn Neurosci 3:33-43 Details Morsanyi K, Devine A, Nobes A, Sz?cs D (2013), “The link between logic, mathematics and imagination: evidence from children with developmental dyscalculia and mathematically gifted children.” Dev Sci 16(4):542-53 Details Soltész F, Sz?cs D, Leong V, White S, Goswami U (2013), “Differential entrainment of neuroelectric delta oscillations in developmental dyslexia.” PLoS One 8(10):e76608 Details Szucs D, Devine A, Soltesz F, Nobes A, Gabriel F (2013), “Developmental dyscalculia is related to visuo-spatial memory and inhibition impairment.” Cortex 49(10):2674-88 Details Sz?cs D, Nobes A, Devine A, Gabriel FC, Gebuis T (2013), “Visual stimulus parameters seriously compromise the measurement of approximate number system acuity and comparative effects between adults and children.” Front Psychol 4:444 Details Wong B, Szücs D (2013), “Single-digit Arabic numbers do not automatically activate magnitude representations in adults or in children: evidence from the symbolic same-different task.” Acta Psychol (Amst) 144(3):488-98 Details Zirk-Sadowski J, Szucs D, Holmes J (2013), “Content-specificity in verbal recall: a randomized controlled study.” PLoS One 8(11):e79528 Details 2012Devine A, Fawcett K, Sz?cs D, Dowker A (2012), “Gender differences in mathematics anxiety and the relation to mathematics performance while controlling for test anxiety.” Behav Brain Funct 8:33 Details Hämäläinen JA, Rupp A, Soltész F, Szücs D, Goswami U (2012), “Reduced phase locking to slow amplitude modulation in adults with dyslexia: an MEG study.” Neuroimage 59(3):2952-61 Details Hsu YF, Sz?cs D (2012), “The time course of symbolic number adaptation: oscillatory EEG activity and event-related potential analysis.” Neuroimage 59(4):3103-9 Details Pincham HL, Sz?cs D (2012), “Intentional subitizing: exploring the role of automaticity in enumeration.” Cognition 124(2):107-16 Details Pincham HL, Sz?cs D (2012), “Target cueing provides support for target- and resource-based models of the attentional blink.” PLoS One 7(5):e37596 Details Pincham HL, Szucs D (2012), “Conscious access is linked to ongoing brain state: electrophysiological evidence from the attentional blink.” Cereb Cortex 22(10):2346-53 Details Sz?cs D, Killikelly C, Cutini S (2012), “Event-related near-infrared spectroscopy detects conflict in the motor cortex in a Stroop task.” Brain Res 1477:27-36 Details Sz?cs D, Soltész F (2012), “Functional definition of the N450 event-related brain potential marker of conflict processing: a numerical stroop study.” BMC Neurosci 13:35 Details White SL, Sz?cs D (2012), “Representational change and strategy use in children's number line estimation during the first years of primary school.” Behav Brain Funct 8:1 Details 2011Bryce D, Sz?cs D, Soltész F, Whitebread D (2011), “The development of inhibitory control: an averaged and single-trial Lateralized Readiness Potential study.” Neuroimage 57(3):671-85 Details Goswami U, Fosker T, Huss M, Mead N, Szucs D (2011), “Rise time and formant transition duration in the discrimination of speech sounds: the Ba-Wa distinction in developmental dyslexia.” Dev Sci 14(1):34-43 Details Goswami U, Sz?cs D (2011), “Educational neuroscience: Developmental mechanisms: towards a conceptual framework.” Neuroimage 57(3):651-8 Details Hämäläinen JA, Fosker T, Szücs D, Goswami U (2011), “N1, P2 and T-complex of the auditory brain event-related potentials to tones with varying rise times in adults with and without dyslexia.” Int J Psychophysiol 81(1):51-9 Details Hsu YF, Szücs D (2011), “Arithmetic mismatch negativity and numerical magnitude processing in number matching.” BMC Neurosci 12:83 Details Soltész F, White S, Szücs D (2011), “Event-related brain potentials dissociate the developmental time-course of automatic numerical magnitude analysis and cognitive control functions during the first three years of primary school.” Dev Neuropsychol 36(6):682-701 Details Stefanics G, Fosker T, Huss M, Mead N, Szucs D, Goswami U (2011), “Auditory sensory deficits in developmental dyslexia: a longitudinal ERP study.” Neuroimage 57(3):723-32 Details White SL, Sz?cs D, Soltész F (2011), “Symbolic number: the integration of magnitude and spatial representations in children aged 6 to 8 years.” Front Psychol 2:392 Details 2010Soltész F, Szucs D, Szucs L (2010), “Relationships between magnitude representation, counting and memory in 4- to 7-year-old children: a developmental study.” Behav Brain Funct 6:13 Details Szucs D, Soltész F (2010), “Event-related brain potentials to violations of arithmetic syntax represented by place value structure.” Biol Psychol 84(2):354-67 Details Szucs D, Soltész F (2010), “Stimulus and response conflict in the color-word Stroop task: a combined electro-myography and event-related potential study.” Brain Res 1325:63-76 Details 2009Szucs 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.” J Cogn Neurosci 21(11):2195-206 Details Szucs D, Soltész F, White S (2009), “Motor conflict in Stroop tasks: direct evidence from single-trial electro-myography and electro-encephalography.” Neuroimage 47(4):1960-73 Details 2008Szucs D, Soltész F (2008), “The interaction of task-relevant and task-irrelevant stimulus features in the number/size congruency paradigm: an ERP study.” Brain Res 1190:143-58 Details 2007Szucs D, Soltész F (2007), “Event-related potentials dissociate facilitation and interference effects in the numerical Stroop paradigm.” Neuropsychologia 45(14):3190-202 Details Szucs 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.” Neurosci Lett 412(1):18-23 Details Sz?cs D, Soltész F, Jármi E, Csépe V (2007), “The speed of magnitude processing and executive functions in controlled and automatic number comparison in children: an electro-encephalography study.” Behav Brain Funct 3:23 Details 2005Szucs D, Csépe V (2005), “The parietal distance effect appears in both the congenitally blind and matched sighted controls in an acoustic number comparison task.” Neurosci Lett 384(1-2):11-6 Details Szucs D, Csépe V (2005), “The effect of numerical distance and stimulus probability on ERP components elicited by numerical incongruencies in mental addition.” Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 22(2):289-300 Details 2004Szucs 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.” Neurosci Lett 360(1-2):65-8 Details Szucs D, Csépe V (2004), “Access to numerical information is dependent on the modality of stimulus presentation in mental addition: a combined ERP and behavioral study.” Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 19(1):10-27 Details 2003Csépe V, Szücs D, Honbolygó F (2003), “Number-word reading as challenging task in dyslexia? An ERP study.” Int J Psychophysiol 51(1):69-83 Details |