Dr. Lakatos attended medical school and studied neuroscience at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. His area of focus was on characterizing attention related modulations of spontaneously occurring and stimulus driven gamma oscillations in auditory cortex using electrocorticographic recordings. Upon completion of his PhD, he joined the Nathan Kline Institute and began to investigate the mechanisms of neuronal oscillations on a more detailed spatial and temporal scale using laminar intracortical recordings. During the years he spent in Dr. Charles Schroeder’s lab, he described a hierarchy of low and high frequency oscillations (the Oscillatory Hierarchy) in sensory cortices, demonstrated multisensory interactions even at the level of primary cortical areas, determined that attention can regulate which of the senses controls excitability across all primary cortices, and described that rhythmic stimulation results in an entrainment of low frequency neuronal oscillations. Since becoming an independent investigator, his lab’s research established that topographically organized, counterphase entrained oscillations can be used as spectrotemporal filters in selective auditory attentional processes. Additionally, in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Javitt, the Lakatos lab has demonstrated that oscillatory entrainment is impaired in schizophrenia patients. Current studies are aimed at achieving two main goals: determining the role of internal rhythmic neuronal ensemble dynamics in the processing of external and internal information; and defining the top-down and bottom up circuitry that enables the dynamic modulation of this “neurophysiological context.”
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