His fields of research are perception, memory and event-related brain potentials.

Winkler was born in Budapest and graduated from the Radnóti Miklós Training High School of the Eötvös Loránd University.

He then studied at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and graduated in 1981.

He defended his DSc dissertation in Budapest, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 2005.

[1] These results suggest that innate perceptual processes support early preference for music and fast acquisition of communications skills.