Affiliation: University of Budapest
Keywords: Voice and speech perception, language evolution, comparative cognitive neuroscience, dog, EEG, fMRI
Full profile: After obtaining master’s degrees in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, mathematics and teaching, Andics pursued a PhD on voice neurocognition in the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. He joined the ELTE Department of Ethology, Budapest in 2012 to play a central role in laying the foundations for dog brain imaging. His ERC-funded research group (Neuroethology of Communication Lab) takes a comparative perspective, combining ethological, psycholinguistic and cognitive neuroscientific methods to investigate the evolution of the neural mechanisms underlying voice and speech perception in dogs, pigs and humans.