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Katharina von Kriegstein

Katharina von Kriegstein

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
6897
World Ranking
7018
National Ranking
335

Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
7098
World Ranking
6955
National Ranking
585

Katharina von Kriegstein publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Katharina von Kriegstein sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 188 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Katharina von Kriegstein D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Katharina von Kriegstein sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Katharina von Kriegstein is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work spans a total of 69 publications in Neuroscience and 38 in Psychology, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Katharina von Kriegstein has published extensively in a number of academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 7 publications
  • Journal of Neuroscience with 4 publications
  • Human Brain Mapping with 3 publications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 3 publications
  • Educational Psychology Review with 2 publications

Their recent papers include:

  • "Learning Foreign Language Vocabulary with Gestures and Pictures Enhances Vocabulary Memory for Several Months Post-Learning in Eight-Year-Old School Children," 2020, Educational Psychology Review
  • "Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation," 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Abstract rules drive adaptation in the subcortical sensory pathway," 2020, eLife
  • "Adjudicating Between Local and Global Architectures of Predictive Processing in the Subcortical Auditory Pathway," 2021, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • "Mapping the human lateral geniculate nucleus and its cytoarchitectonic subdivisions using quantitative MRI," 2021, NeuroImage

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Alejandro Tabas
  • Brian Mathias
  • Manuela Macedonia
  • Christa Müller-Axt
  • Stefan J. Kiebel

Best Publications

  • Music and the brain: disorders of musical listening

    Lauren Stewart;Katharina von Kriegstein;Jason D. Warren;Timothy D. Griffiths

  • Implicit Multisensory Associations Influence Voice Recognition

    Katharina von Kriegstein;Anne-Lise Giraud;Anne-Lise Giraud

  • Modulation of neural responses to speech by directing attention to voices or verbal content.

    Katharina von Kriegstein;Evelyn Eger;Andreas Kleinschmidt;Anne Lise Giraud

  • Distinct functional substrates along the right superior temporal sulcus for the processing of voices.

    Katharina von Kriegstein;Anne-Lise Giraud

  • Interaction of Face and Voice Areas during Speaker Recognition

    Katharina Von Kriegstein;Andreas Kleinschmidt;Philipp Sterzer;Anne-Lise Giraud

  • How the brain repairs stuttering

    Christian A. Kell;Christian A. Kell;Katrin Neumann;Katharina von Kriegstein;Katharina von Kriegstein;Claudia Posenenske

  • Features versus feelings: dissociable representations of the acoustic features and valence of aversive sounds.

    Sukhbinder Kumar;Sukhbinder Kumar;Katharina von Kriegstein;Karl Friston;Timothy D. Griffiths;Timothy D. Griffiths

  • Simulation of talking faces in the human brain improves auditory speech recognition

    Katharina von Kriegstein;Özgür Dogan;Martina Grüter;Anne-Lise Giraud

  • Direct Structural Connections between Voice- and Face-Recognition Areas

    Helen Blank;Alfred Anwander;Katharina von Kriegstein

  • Gestures Enhance Foreign Language Learning

    Manuela Macedonia;Katharina von Kriegstein

  • The Sensory Cortical Representation of the Human Penis: Revisiting Somatotopy in the Male Homunculus

    Christian A. Kell;Katharina von Kriegstein;Alexander Rösler;Andreas Kleinschmidt

  • Person recognition and the brain: Merging evidence from patients and healthy individuals

    Helen Blank;Helen Blank;Nuri Wieland;Nuri Wieland;Katharina von Kriegstein;Katharina von Kriegstein

  • Recognizing Sequences of Sequences

    Stefan J. Kiebel;Stefan J. Kiebel;Katharina von Kriegstein;Katharina von Kriegstein;Jean Daunizeau;Karl J. Friston

  • Dysfunction of the auditory thalamus in developmental dyslexia.

    Begoña Díaz;Florian Hintz;Stefan J. Kiebel;Katharina von Kriegstein

  • Distribution of synaptic vesicle proteins in the mammalian retina identifies obligatory and facultative components of ribbon synapses.

    Katharina Von Kriegstein;Frank Schmitz;Egenhard Link;Thomas C. Südhof

  • How the Human Brain Recognizes Speech in the Context of Changing Speakers

    Katharina von Kriegstein;Katharina von Kriegstein;Katharina von Kriegstein;David R. R. Smith;David R. R. Smith;Roy D. Patterson;Stefan J. Kiebel;Stefan J. Kiebel

  • Visual and Motor Cortices Differentially Support the Translation of Foreign Language Words

    Katja M. Mayer;Izzet Burak Yildiz;Izzet Burak Yildiz;Manuela Macedonia;Manuela Macedonia;Katharina von Kriegstein;Katharina von Kriegstein

  • Voice Recognition and Cross-Modal Responses to Familiar Speakers' Voices in Prosopagnosia

    Katharina von Kriegstein;Andreas Kleinschmidt;Anne-Lise Giraud

  • From birdsong to human speech recognition: Bayesian inference on a hierarchy of nonlinear dynamical systems

    Izzet B. Yildiz;Katharina von Kriegstein;Katharina von Kriegstein;Stefan J. Kiebel

  • Understanding the mechanisms of familiar voice-identity recognition in the human brain.

    Corrina Maguinness;Claudia Roswandowitz;Katharina von Kriegstein;Katharina von Kriegstein

  • Direct structural connections between voice- and face-recognition areas

    Helen Blank;Katharina von Kriegstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy D. Griffiths
Timothy D. Griffiths University College London
Sukhbinder Kumar
Sukhbinder Kumar Newcastle University
Anne-Lise Giraud
Anne-Lise Giraud University of Geneva
Gesa Hartwigsen
Gesa Hartwigsen Max Planck Society
Federico De Martino
Federico De Martino Maastricht University
Pierre-Louis Bazin
Pierre-Louis Bazin University of Amsterdam
Burkhard Maess
Burkhard Maess Max Planck Society
Hellmuth Obrig
Hellmuth Obrig Max Planck Society
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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