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Annett Schirmer is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China and specializes in neuroscience and psychology. Their research primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology, with notable contributions to sensory systems and sociology and political science.

The scientific inquiries undertaken by Schirmer concentrate on several core topics, including:

  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Schirmer has published extensively in key academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Anthrozoös

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Schirmer include:

  • What are C-tactile afferents and how do they relate to "affective touch"? (2023), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Social touch - a tool rather than a signal (2022), Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Being 'in sync'-is interactional synchrony the key to understanding the social brain? (2020), Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Other notable research collaborations involving Schirmer have resulted in publications such as:

  • Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits (2020), Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • 3D Hand-Motion Tracking and Bottom-Up Classification Sheds Light on the Physical Properties of Gentle Stroking (2020), Neuroscience

The scientist's work has involved collaboration with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Ilona Croy
  • Clare Cham
  • Stefan R. Schweinberger
  • Clive Lo
  • Oscar Lai

Best Publications

  • Beyond the right hemisphere: brain mechanisms mediating vocal emotional processing.

    Annett Schirmer;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Emotion Perception from Face, Voice, and Touch: Comparisons and Convergence

    Annett Schirmer;Ralph Adolphs

  • Sex differentiates the role of emotional prosody during word processing

    Annett Schirmer;Sonja A Kotz;Angela D Friederici

  • ERP Evidence for a Sex-Specific Stroop Effect in Emotional Speech

    Annett Schirmer;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Gender differences in the activation of inferior frontal cortex during emotional speech perception.

    Annett Schirmer;Stefan Zysset;Sonja A Kotz;D Yves von Cramon

  • Variability of Affective Responses to Odors: Culture, Gender, and Olfactory Knowledge

    Camille Ferdenzi;S Craig Roberts;S Craig Roberts;Annett Schirmer;Sylvain Delplanque

  • On the role of attention for the processing of emotions in speech: Sex differences revisited

    Annett Schirmer;Sonja A. Kotz;Angela D. Friederici

  • Sex differences in the preattentive processing of vocal emotional expressions

    Annett Schirmer;CA Tricia Striano;Angela D. Friederici

  • Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits.

    Stefanie Hoehl;Merle Fairhurst;Merle Fairhurst;Annett Schirmer

  • Brain Responses to Segmentally and Tonally Induced Semantic Violations in Cantonese

    Annett Schirmer;Siu-Lam Tang;Trevor B. Penney;Thomas C. Gunter

  • Frequency of Maternal Touch Predicts Resting Activity and Connectivity of the Developing Social Brain

    Jens Brauer;Yaqiong Xiao;Tanja Poulain;Angela D. Friederici

  • Timing speech: a review of lesion and neuroimaging findings

    Annett Schirmer

  • Unattended musical beats enhance visual processing.

    Nicolas Escoffier;Darren Yeo Jian Sheng;Annett Schirmer

  • Affective Dimensions of Odor Perception: A Comparison Between Swiss, British, and Singaporean Populations

    Camille Ferdenzi;Annett Schirmer;S. Craig Roberts;Sylvain Delplanque

  • Emotion effects on timing: attention versus pacemaker accounts.

    Ming Ann Lui;Trevor B. Penney;Annett Schirmer

  • Affective semantic space of scents. Towards a universal scale to measure self-reported odor-related feelings

    Camille Ferdenzi;Sylvain Delplanque;Plinio Barbosa;Kimberly Court

  • Lateralization of prosody during language production: A lesion study

    Annett Schirmer;Kai Alter;Sonja A. Kotz;Angela D. Friederici

  • The Socio-Temporal Brain: Connecting People in Time.

    Annett Schirmer;Warren H. Meck;Trevor B. Penney

  • Emotional expressions in voice and music: Same code, same effect?

    Nicolas Escoffier;Jidan Zhong;Annett Schirmer;Anqi Qiu;Anqi Qiu

  • On the spatial organization of sound processing in the human temporal lobe: a meta-analysis.

    Annett Schirmer;P. Mickle Fox;Didier Grandjean

  • When vocal processing gets emotional: on the role of social orientation in relevance detection by the human amygdala.

    Annett Schirmer;Nicolas Escoffier;Stefan Zysset;Dirk Koester

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
S. Craig Roberts
S. Craig Roberts University of Stirling
Didier Maurice Grandjean
Didier Maurice Grandjean University of Geneva
David Sander
David Sander University of Geneva
Sylvain Delplanque
Sylvain Delplanque University of Geneva
Mireille Besson
Mireille Besson Aix-Marseille University
Stefanie Hoehl
Stefanie Hoehl University of Vienna
Richard P. Ebstein
Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona

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