Dr. Knakker Balázs

KB
Labor
NHP research lab
Psychophysiology lab
Employment history

2018 - now: research fellow - PTE GTKK

2011 - 2017: PhD student / assistant research fellow - Agyi Szerkezet és Dinamika Kutatócsoport Agyi Képalkotó Központ, MTA Természettudományi Kutatóközpont

Qualifications

2011 - 2017: PhD student - Roska Tamás Műszaki és Természettudományi Doktori Iskola,  Információs Technológiai és Bionikai Kar, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem

2009 - 2011: Biológia Msc., idegtudomány és humánbiológia szakirány - ELTE

2006 - 2009: Biológia Bsc.  - ELTE

Publications
  1. (preprint) B Knakker, J Inkeller, P Kovács, B Lendvai, I Hernádi: GLP-1 receptor agonist exenatide uncouples food intake from hedonic and anticipatory regulation in non-human primates: Insights from an operant meal schedule paradigm. under review, 2024.  https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.18.585513
  2. J Inkeller*, B Knakker*, P Kovács, B Lendvai, I Hernádi: Intrinsic prospective motives in non-human primate food consumption behaviour. iScience, accepted, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109459
  3. J Pekár, W Hofmann, B Knakker, S Tamm, A Kinder: Electrophysiological Correlates of the Interaction of Physical and Numerical Size in Symbolic Number Processing: Insights from a Novel Go/Nogo Numerical Stroop Task. Brain Sciences 13, no. 5: 702, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13050702
  4. Many Primates consortium, …, B Knakker, … : The Evolution of Primate Short-Term Memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition 9, no. 4: 428–516, 2022. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.04.06.2022
  5. P Hermann, B Weiss, B Knakker, P Madurka, A Manga, Á Nárai, Z Vidnyánszky: Neural Basis of Distractor Resistance during Visual Working Memory Maintenance. NeuroImage 245 118650, 2021.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118650
  6. B Knakker*, V Oláh*, A Trunk, B Lendvai, Gy Lévai, I Hernádi: Delay-dependent cholinergic modulation of visual short-term memory in rhesus macaques. Behavioural Brain Research 396, 112897, 2021.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112897
  7. V Oláh*, B Knakker*, A Trunk, B Lendvai, I Hernádi: Dissociating cholinergic influence on alertness and temporal attention in primates in a simple reaction time paradigm. Eur J Neurosci. 52: 3776–3789, 2020.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14852
  8. Zs Vecsei, B Knakker, P Juhász, Gy Thuróczy, A Trunk, I Hernádi: Short-term radiofrequency exposure from new generation mobile phones reduces EEG alpha power with no effects on cognitive performance. Scientific Reports 8, Paper 18010., 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36353-9
  9. P Kovács, B Knakker, P Hermann, Gy Kovács, Z Vidnyánszky: Face inversion reveals holistic processing of peripheral faces. Cortex 97: 81-95., 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.09.020
  10. E Maróti, B Knakker, Z Vidnyánszky, B Weiss: The effect of beat frequency on eye movements during free viewing. Vision Research, vol.131, p. 57-66, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2016.12.009
  11. B Weiss, B Knakker, Z Vidnyánszky: Visual processing during natural reading. Scientific Reports 6: Paper 26902., 2016.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/srep26902
  12. B Knakker, B Weiss, Z Vidnyánszky: Object-based attentional selection modulates anticipatory alpha oscillations. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8: 8 p. Paper 1048. 8 p., 2015. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.01048
    *co-first authorship
Most important publications

 

Scientometrics

Number of publications: 11

Impact factor:

Citations: 78 (Independent citations: 87)

h-index: 5