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Overview

Stefan R. Schweinberger is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with notable contributions to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work also intersects with clinical psychology, social psychology, and aspects of sociology and political science.

Schweinberger's research covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies

Their publication record includes several recent papers, such as:

  • "Face and Voice Perception: Understanding Commonalities and Differences," 2020, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "What makes a good dog-owner team? - A systematic review about compatibility in personality and attachment," 2023, published in Applied Animal Behaviour Science
  • "Attractiveness and distinctiveness between speakers' voices in naturalistic speech and their faces are uncorrelated," 2020, published in Royal Society Open Science
  • "Autistic traits, personality, and evaluations of humanoid robots by young and older adults," 2020, published in Computers in Human Behavior
  • "Vocal emotion adaptation aftereffects within and across speaker genders: Roles of timbre and fundamental frequency," 2021, published in Cognition

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jürgen M. Kaufmann
  • Romi Zäske
  • Celina I. von Eiff
  • Christian Dobel
  • Laura Sperl

Schweinberger's publications are often found in journals such as:

  • Royal Society Open Science
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Applied Animal Behaviour Science
  • Computers in Human Behavior

Best Publications

  • Event-related brain potential evidence for a response of inferior temporal cortex to familiar face repetitions

    Stefan R Schweinberger;Esther C Pickering;Ines Jentzsch;A.Mike Burton

  • Attention capture by faces.

    Stephen R.H. Langton;Anna S. Law;A. Mike Burton;Stefan R. Schweinberger

  • Repetition priming and associative priming of face recognition: Evidence from event-related potentials.

    Stefan R. Schweinberger;Eva-Maria Pfütze;Werner Sommer

  • N250r: a face-selective brain response to stimulus repetitions.

    Stefan R. Schweinberger;Vyv Huddy;A. Mike Burton

  • Asymmetric relationships among perceptions of facial identity, emotion, and facial speech.

    S R Schweinberger;G R Soukup

  • Covert recognition and the neural system for face processing.

    Stefan R. Schweinberger;A. Mike Burton

  • What's special about personally familiar faces? A multimodal approach.

    Grit Herzmann;Stefan R. Schweinberger;Werner Sommer;Ines Jentzsch

  • Repetition effects in human ERPs to faces

    Stefan R Schweinberger;Stefan R Schweinberger;Markus F Neumann

  • Human brain potential correlates of repetition priming in face and name recognition.

    Stefan R Schweinberger;Esther C Pickering;A.Mike Burton;Jürgen M Kaufmann

  • Age-related slowing in face and name recognition: evidence from event-related brain potentials.

    Eva-Maria Pfütze;Werner Sommer;Stefan R Schweinberger

  • Familiarity enhances invariance of face representations in human ventral visual cortex: fMRI evidence.

    Evelyn Eger;Stefan Robert Schweinberger;Raymond J. Dolan;Richard N. Henson

  • Expertise and own-race bias in face processing: an event-related potential study.

    Johanna Stahl;Holger Wiese;Stefan R. Schweinberger

  • N250 erp correlates of the acquisition of face representations across different images

    Jürgen M. Kaufmann;Stefan R. Schweinberger;A. Mike Burton

  • Mental representations of familiar faces.

    A. Mike Burton;Rob Jenkins;Stefan R. Schweinberger

  • The age of the beholder : ERP evidence of an own-age bias in face memory

    Holger Wiese;Stefan R. Schweinberger;Kerstin Hansen

  • Asymmetric dependencies in perceiving identity and emotion: Experiments with morphed faces

    Stefan R. Schweinberger;A. Mike Burton;Stephen W. Kelly

  • Developmental phonagnosia: a selective deficit of vocal identity recognition.

    Lúcia Garrido;Frank Eisner;Carolyn McGettigan;Lauren Stewart

  • Expression Influences the Recognition of Familiar Faces

    Jürgen M Kaufmann;Stefan R Schweinberger

  • Face and Voice Perception: Understanding Commonalities and Differences.

    Andrew W. Young;Sascha Frühholz;Sascha Frühholz;Stefan R. Schweinberger;Stefan R. Schweinberger

  • Arguments Against a Configural Processing Account of Familiar Face Recognition.

    A. Mike Burton;A. Mike Burton;Stefan R. Schweinberger;Rob Jenkins;Jürgen M. Kaufmann

  • Neuropsychological impairments in the recognition of faces, voices, and personal names.

    Frank Neuner;Stefan R. Schweinberger

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Mike Burton
A. Mike Burton University of York
Werner Sommer
Werner Sommer Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hartmut Leuthold
Hartmut Leuthold University of Tübingen
Gillian Rhodes
Gillian Rhodes University of Western Australia
Markus Bindemann
Markus Bindemann University of Kent
Rob Jenkins
Rob Jenkins University of York
Helmut Leder
Helmut Leder University of Vienna
Anina N. Rich
Anina N. Rich Macquarie University
Andreas Keil
Andreas Keil University of Florida
Wendy R. Kates
Wendy R. Kates SUNY Upstate Medical University

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