Publications

2025

Takács, Á., Vékony, T., Pedraza, F., Haesebaert, F., Tillmann, B., Beste, C., & Németh, D. (2025). Sequence-dependent predictive coding during the learning and rewiring of skills. Cerebral Cortex, 35(2), bhaf025.

Pesthy, Z. V., Berta, K., Vékony, T., Németh, D., & Kun, B. (2025). Intact habit learning in work addiction: Evidence from a probabilistic sequence learning task. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 21, 100589.

Szücs-Bencze, L., Vékony, T., Pesthy, O., Kocsis, K., Kincses, Z. T., Szabó, N., & Nemeth, D. (2025). Enhancing retrieval capacity of the predictive brain through dorsolateral prefrontal cortex intervention. Cerebral Cortex, 35(2), bhaf005.

Vékony, T., Farkas, B. C., Brezóczki, B., Mittner, M., Csifcsák, G., & Simor, P. & Németh, D. (2025). Mind wandering enhances statistical learning. iScience.

Nagy, C. A., Hann, F., Brezóczki, B., Farkas, K., Vékony, T., Pesthy, O., & Németh, D. (2025). Intact ultrafast memory consolidation in adults with autism and neurotypicals with autism traits. Brain Research, 1847.

2024

Ngetich, R., Villalba-García, C., Soborun, Y., Vékony, T., Czakó, A., Demetrovics, Z., & Németh, D. (2024). Learning and memory processes in behavioural addiction: A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 163, 105747.

Pedraza, F., Farkas, B. C., Vékony, T., Haesebaert, F., Phelipon, R., Mihalecz, I., Janacsek, K., Anders, R., Tillmann, B., Plancher, G., & Nemeth, D. (2024). Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning. npj Science of Learning, 9(30).

Németh, D., Vékony, T., Orosz, G., Sarnyai, Z., & Zmigrod, L. (2024). The interplay between subcortical and prefrontal brain structures in shaping ideological belief formation and updating. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 57, 101385.

Diedrich, L., Kolhoff, H. I., Chakalov, I., Vékony, T., Németh, D., & Antal, A. (2024). Prefrontal theta—gamma transcranial alternating current stimulation improves non-declarative visuomotor learning in older adults. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 4955.

Németh, D., Gerbier, E., Born, J., Rickard, T., Diekelmann, S., Fogel, S., ... Vékony, T., Schabus, M. & Janacsek, K. (2024). Optimizing the methodology of human sleep and memory research. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3(2), 123-137.

Zhang, Z., Yang, L. Z., Vékony, T., Wang, C., & Li, H. (2024). Split-half reliability estimates of an online card sorting task in a community sample of young and elderly adults. Behavior Research Methods, 56(2), 1039-1051.

2023

Ngetich, R., Burleigh, T. L., Czakó, A., Vékony, T., Németh, D., & Demetrovics, Z. (2023). Working memory performance in disordered gambling and gaming: A systematic review. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 126, 152408.Rea

Brezóczki, B., Vékony, T., Pesthy, O., Tóth-Fáber, E., Csigó, K., Farkas, K., & Nemeth, D. (2023). Unraveling sequence learning in obsessive–compulsive disorder. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 54, 101326.Re a

Berta, K., Pesthy, Z. V., Vékony, T., Farkas, B. C., Németh, D., & Kun, B. (2023). The neuropsychological profile of work addiction. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 20090.

Szücs-Bencze, L., Vékony, T., Pesthy, O., Szabó, N., Kincses, TZ., Turi, Z., & Nemeth, D. (2023). Modulating Visuomotor Sequence Learning by Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: What Do We Know So Far? Journal of Intelligence, 11(10), 201.

Holczer, A., Vékony, T., Klivényi, P., & Must, A. (2023). Frontal two-electrode transcranial direct current stimulation protocols may not affect performance on a combined flanker Go/No-Go task. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 11901.

Pedraza, F., Vékony, T., & Nemeth, D. (2023). Nomen est omen: Serial reaction time task is not a motor but a visuomotor learning task. European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(4), 3111-3115.

Vékony, T., Takács, Á., Pedraza, F., Haesebaert, F., Tillmann, B., Mihalecz, I., Phelipon, R., Beste, C., & Nemeth, D. (2023). Modality-specific and modality-independent neural representations work in concert in predictive processes during sequence learning. Cerebral Cortex, bhad079.Read

Szücs-Bencze, L., Fanuel, L., Szabó, N., Quentin, R., Nemeth, D., & Vékony, T. (2023). Manipulating the rapid consolidation periods in a learning task affects general skills more than statistical learning and changes the dynamics of learning. eNeuro, 10(2).

2022

Vékony, T., Pleche, C., Pesthy, O., Janacsek, K., & Nemeth, D. (2022). Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently. npj Science of Learning, 7, 27.

Fanuel, L., Pleche, C., Vékony, T., Janacsek, K., Nemeth, D., & Quentin, R. (2022). How does the length of short rest periods affect implicit probabilistic learning? Neuroimage: Reports, 2(1), 100078.

2021

Vékony, T., Ambrus, G. G., Janacsek, K., & Nemeth, D. (2021). Cautious or causal? Key implicit sequence learning paradigms should not be overlooked when assessing the role of DLPFC (Response to Prutean et al.) Cortex, 148, 222-226.

Marno, H., Danyi, R., Vékony, T., Janacsek, K., & Németh, D. (2021). Prompting teaching modulates children’s encoding of novel information by facilitating higher-level structure learning and hindering lower-level statistical learning. Cognition, 104784.

Quentin, R., Fanuel, L., Kiss, M., Vernet, M., Vékony, T., Janacsek, K., Cohen, L., Nemeth (2021) Statistical learning occurs during practice while high-order rule learning during rest period. NPJ Science of Learning. 6(14), 1-8.

Holczer, A., Németh, V. L., Vékony, T., Kocsis, K., Király, A., Kincses, Z. T., ... & Must, A. (2021). The effects of bilateral theta-burst stimulation on executive functions and affective symptoms in major depressive disorder. Neuroscience, 461, 130-139.

2020

Vékony, T., Török, L., Pedraza, F., Schipper, K., Pleche, C., Tóth, L., Janacsek, K., & Nemeth, D. (2020) Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0243541.Rea

Ambrus, G. G., Vékony, T., Janacsek, K., Trimborn, A. B., Kovács, G., & Nemeth, D. (2020). When less is more: enhanced statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies after disruption of bilateral DLPFC. Journal of Memory and Language, 114, 104144.

Vékony, T., Marossy, H., Must, A., Vécsei, L., Janacsek, K., & Nemeth, D. (2020). Speed or accuracy instructions during skill learning do not affect the acquired knowledge. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 1(1).

Holczer, A., Németh, V. L., Vékony, T., Vécsei, L., Klivényi, P., & Must, A. (2020). Non-invasive brain stimulation in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment—a state-of-the-art review on methodological characteristics and stimulation parameters. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 179.

2018

Vékony, T., Németh, V. L., Holczer, A., Kocsis, K., Kincses, Z. T., Vécsei, L., & Must, A. (2018). Continuous theta-burst stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex inhibits improvement on a working memory task. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 14835.

2017

Szegedi-Hallgató, E., Janacsek, K., Vékony, T., Tasi, L. A., Kerepes, L., Hompoth, E. A., … & Németh, D. (2017). Explicit instructions and consolidation promote rewiring of automatic behaviors in the human mind. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 1-7.