Stefan R Schweinberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 2749512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan R Schweinberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Schweinberger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWEINBERGER S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5762-0188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Large-scale analysis of online social data on the long-term sentiment and content dynamics of online (mis)information
The widespread dissemination of online misinformation poses a significant threat to both our information ecosystem and the decision-making processes of individuals and societies. While prior research has extensively examined the static characteristics of misinformation, its long-term evolution remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by analyzing a dataset from Twitter (now “X”) comprising approximately two million tweets related to 3…
Big five personality perceptions from voices and faces
We investigated the perception of Big Five personality traits from trait-average voices when traits were based either on speakers’ self-ratings (Exp. 1, E1) or on other perceivers’ ratings of perceived personality of the original voice samples (E2). Trait-average voices were created from a voice database of 93 speakers (40 male, 53 female) using TANDEM-STRAIGHT n-way morphing. For speaker sex, trait and for two sentences, we created voice average…
Do typing skills matter? Investigating university students’ typing speed and performance in online exams
In response to COVID-19, universities worldwide experienced drastic and sudden changes including the need to shift to online teaching and assessment. Following previous research suggesting that individual differences in typing skills could influence text quantity and quality, we investigated whether university students’ typing speed is related to their performance in an online written exam, considering that low typing skills could potentially be …
Musicality – Tuned to the melody of vocal emotions
Musicians outperform non‐musicians in vocal emotion perception, likely because of increased sensitivity to acoustic cues, such as fundamental frequency (F0) and timbre. Yet, how musicians make use of these acoustic cues to perceive emotions, and how they might differ from non‐musicians, is unclear. To address these points, we created vocal stimuli that conveyed happiness, fear, pleasure or sadness, either in all acoustic cues, or selectively in e…
The psychometric properties of the compassionate love scale and the validation of the English and German 7-item compassion for others scale (COS-7)
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs
Research into voice perception benefits from manipulation software to gain experimental control over acoustic expression of social signals such as vocal emotions. Today, parameter-specific voice morphing allows a precise control of the emotional quality expressed by single vocal parameters, such as fundamental frequency (F0) and timbre. However, potential side effects, in particular reduced naturalness, could limit ecological validity of speech s…
Socio‐cognitive, expertise‐based and appearance‐based accounts of the other‐‘race’ effect in face perception
Two competing theories explain the other‐‘race’ effect (ORE) either by greater perceptual expertise to same‐‘race’ (SR) faces or by social categorization of other‐‘race’ (OR) faces at the expense of individuation. To assess expertise and categorization contributions to the ORE, a promising—yet overlooked—approach is comparing activations for different other‐‘races’. We present a label‐based systematic review of neuroimaging studies reporting incr…
The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other-'race' effect
Although different human races do not exist from the perspective of biology and genetics, ascribed 'race' influences psychological processing, such as memory and perception of faces. Research from this Special Issue, as well as a wealth of previous research, shows that other-'race' faces are more difficult to recognize compared to own-'race' faces, a phenomenon known as the other-'race' effect. Theories of expertise attribute the cause of the oth…
Vocal emotion adaptation aftereffects within and across speaker genders
While the human perceptual system constantly adapts to the environment, some of the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. For instance, although previous research demonstrated perceptual aftereffects in emotional voice adaptation, the contribution of different vocal cues to these effects is unclear. In two experiments, we used parameter-specific morphing of adaptor voices to investigate the relative roles of fundamental frequency (F0…
Links Between Musicality and Vocal Emotion Perception
Links between musicality and vocal emotion perception skills have only recently emerged as a focus of study. Here we review current evidence for or against such links. Based on a systematic literature search, we identified 33 studies that addressed either (a) vocal emotion perception in musicians and nonmusicians, (b) vocal emotion perception in individuals with congenital amusia, (c) the role of individual differences (e.g., musical interests, p…
Bridging the gap between intergroup and face perception research
Autistic traits, personality, and evaluations of humanoid robots by young and older adults
Neural Correlates of Own- and Other-Face Perception in Body Dysmorphic Disorder
The findings suggest no evidence for abnormalities at all levels of early face processing in our observed sample of BDD patients. Further research should investigate the neural substrates underlying BDD symptomatology
Current developments and challenges for the British Journal of Psychology
Dominance of texture over shape in facial identity processing is modulated by individual abilities
For face recognition, observers utilize both shape and texture information. Here, we investigated the relative diagnosticity of shape and texture for delayed matching of familiar and unfamiliar faces (Experiment 1) and identifying familiar and newly learned faces (Experiment 2). Within each familiarity condition, pairs of 3D‐captured faces were morphed selectively in either shape or texture in 20% steps, holding the respective other dimension con…
Reflections on impact issues
Neural correlates of adaptation to voice identity
Apart from speech content, the human voice also carries paralinguistic information about speaker identity. Voice identification and its neural correlates have received little scientific attention up to now. Here we use event-related potentials (ERPs) in an adaptation paradigm, in order to investigate the neural representation and the time course of vocal identity processing. Participants adapted to repeated utterances of vowel-consonant-vowel (VC…
Mental representations of familiar faces
The Bruce and Young (1986) framework makes a number of important distinctions between the types of representation needed to recognize a familiar face. Here, we return to these, focussing particularly on face recognition units. We argue that such representations need to incorporate idiosyncratic within-person variability, asking questions such as 'What counts as a picture of Harrison Ford?'. We describe a mechanism for achieving this, and discuss …
Person perception 25 years after Bruce and Young (1986)
Priming the access to names of famous faces
There is a continuing controversy in models of face identification concerning the level of access to names relative to semantic information. In order to determine whether names are accessed sequentially after or in parallel to semantic information, we studied participants' speeded decisions about famous faces that were primed by partial semantic or partial name information. Decisions that required the access to the celebrity's name (one or more f…
Mental representations of familiar faces
The Bruce and Young (1986) framework makes a number of important distinctions between the types of representation needed to recognize a familiar face. Here, we return to these, focussing particularly on face recognition units. We argue that such representations need to incorporate idiosyncratic within-person variability, asking questions such as 'What counts as a picture of Harrison Ford?'. We describe a mechanism for achieving this, and discuss …
Person perception 25 years after Bruce and Young (1986)
The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other-'race' effect
Although different human races do not exist from the perspective of biology and genetics, ascribed 'race' influences psychological processing, such as memory and perception of faces. Research from this Special Issue, as well as a wealth of previous research, shows that other-'race' faces are more difficult to recognize compared to own-'race' faces, a phenomenon known as the other-'race' effect. Theories of expertise attribute the cause of the oth…
Neural correlates of adaptation to voice identity
Apart from speech content, the human voice also carries paralinguistic information about speaker identity. Voice identification and its neural correlates have received little scientific attention up to now. Here we use event-related potentials (ERPs) in an adaptation paradigm, in order to investigate the neural representation and the time course of vocal identity processing. Participants adapted to repeated utterances of vowel-consonant-vowel (VC…
Reflections on impact issues
Priming the access to names of famous faces
There is a continuing controversy in models of face identification concerning the level of access to names relative to semantic information. In order to determine whether names are accessed sequentially after or in parallel to semantic information, we studied participants' speeded decisions about famous faces that were primed by partial semantic or partial name information. Decisions that required the access to the celebrity's name (one or more f…
Priming the access to names of famous faces
There is a continuing controversy in models of face identification concerning the level of access to names relative to semantic information. In order to determine whether names are accessed sequentially after or in parallel to semantic information, we studied participants' speeded decisions about famous faces that were primed by partial semantic or partial name information. Decisions that required the access to the celebrity's name (one or more f…
Neural correlates of adaptation to voice identity
Apart from speech content, the human voice also carries paralinguistic information about speaker identity. Voice identification and its neural correlates have received little scientific attention up to now. Here we use event-related potentials (ERPs) in an adaptation paradigm, in order to investigate the neural representation and the time course of vocal identity processing. Participants adapted to repeated utterances of vowel-consonant-vowel (VC…
Mental representations of familiar faces
The Bruce and Young (1986) framework makes a number of important distinctions between the types of representation needed to recognize a familiar face. Here, we return to these, focussing particularly on face recognition units. We argue that such representations need to incorporate idiosyncratic within-person variability, asking questions such as 'What counts as a picture of Harrison Ford?'. We describe a mechanism for achieving this, and discuss …
Person perception 25 years after Bruce and Young (1986)
Reflections on impact issues
Dominance of texture over shape in facial identity processing is modulated by individual abilities
For face recognition, observers utilize both shape and texture information. Here, we investigated the relative diagnosticity of shape and texture for delayed matching of familiar and unfamiliar faces (Experiment 1) and identifying familiar and newly learned faces (Experiment 2). Within each familiarity condition, pairs of 3D‐captured faces were morphed selectively in either shape or texture in 20% steps, holding the respective other dimension con…
Current developments and challenges for the British Journal of Psychology
Autistic traits, personality, and evaluations of humanoid robots by young and older adults
Neural Correlates of Own- and Other-Face Perception in Body Dysmorphic Disorder
The findings suggest no evidence for abnormalities at all levels of early face processing in our observed sample of BDD patients. Further research should investigate the neural substrates underlying BDD symptomatology
Links Between Musicality and Vocal Emotion Perception
Links between musicality and vocal emotion perception skills have only recently emerged as a focus of study. Here we review current evidence for or against such links. Based on a systematic literature search, we identified 33 studies that addressed either (a) vocal emotion perception in musicians and nonmusicians, (b) vocal emotion perception in individuals with congenital amusia, (c) the role of individual differences (e.g., musical interests, p…
Bridging the gap between intergroup and face perception research
Vocal emotion adaptation aftereffects within and across speaker genders
While the human perceptual system constantly adapts to the environment, some of the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. For instance, although previous research demonstrated perceptual aftereffects in emotional voice adaptation, the contribution of different vocal cues to these effects is unclear. In two experiments, we used parameter-specific morphing of adaptor voices to investigate the relative roles of fundamental frequency (F0…
The psychometric properties of the compassionate love scale and the validation of the English and German 7-item compassion for others scale (COS-7)
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs
Research into voice perception benefits from manipulation software to gain experimental control over acoustic expression of social signals such as vocal emotions. Today, parameter-specific voice morphing allows a precise control of the emotional quality expressed by single vocal parameters, such as fundamental frequency (F0) and timbre. However, potential side effects, in particular reduced naturalness, could limit ecological validity of speech s…
Socio‐cognitive, expertise‐based and appearance‐based accounts of the other‐‘race’ effect in face perception
Two competing theories explain the other‐‘race’ effect (ORE) either by greater perceptual expertise to same‐‘race’ (SR) faces or by social categorization of other‐‘race’ (OR) faces at the expense of individuation. To assess expertise and categorization contributions to the ORE, a promising—yet overlooked—approach is comparing activations for different other‐‘races’. We present a label‐based systematic review of neuroimaging studies reporting incr…
The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other-'race' effect
Although different human races do not exist from the perspective of biology and genetics, ascribed 'race' influences psychological processing, such as memory and perception of faces. Research from this Special Issue, as well as a wealth of previous research, shows that other-'race' faces are more difficult to recognize compared to own-'race' faces, a phenomenon known as the other-'race' effect. Theories of expertise attribute the cause of the oth…
Do typing skills matter? Investigating university students’ typing speed and performance in online exams
In response to COVID-19, universities worldwide experienced drastic and sudden changes including the need to shift to online teaching and assessment. Following previous research suggesting that individual differences in typing skills could influence text quantity and quality, we investigated whether university students’ typing speed is related to their performance in an online written exam, considering that low typing skills could potentially be …
Musicality – Tuned to the melody of vocal emotions
Musicians outperform non‐musicians in vocal emotion perception, likely because of increased sensitivity to acoustic cues, such as fundamental frequency (F0) and timbre. Yet, how musicians make use of these acoustic cues to perceive emotions, and how they might differ from non‐musicians, is unclear. To address these points, we created vocal stimuli that conveyed happiness, fear, pleasure or sadness, either in all acoustic cues, or selectively in e…
Large-scale analysis of online social data on the long-term sentiment and content dynamics of online (mis)information
The widespread dissemination of online misinformation poses a significant threat to both our information ecosystem and the decision-making processes of individuals and societies. While prior research has extensively examined the static characteristics of misinformation, its long-term evolution remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by analyzing a dataset from Twitter (now “X”) comprising approximately two million tweets related to 3…
Big five personality perceptions from voices and faces
We investigated the perception of Big Five personality traits from trait-average voices when traits were based either on speakers’ self-ratings (Exp. 1, E1) or on other perceivers’ ratings of perceived personality of the original voice samples (E2). Trait-average voices were created from a voice database of 93 speakers (40 male, 53 female) using TANDEM-STRAIGHT n-way morphing. For speaker sex, trait and for two sentences, we created voice average…
Psychology (20 works) · Cognitive psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Perception (8 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (7 works) · Neuroscience (6 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Communication (4 works)