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Tom Fritz

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Tom Fritz

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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Stephanstraße 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

Department of Neurophysics

Phone: +49 341 9940 - 2262

Fax: +49 341 9940 2448

Function: PostDoc

Homepage: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/~fritz

CV

Curriculum Vitae table
Timeframe, Date	Description
Education
1979 - 1991	European School Karlsruhe, Germany
1991 - 1993	studies in chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe
1994 - 2000	studies in biology at the University of Darmstadt
10/00 - 09/01	diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute of Neuropsychology, Leipzig, title: ´Pleasant versus unpleasant – music as a tool in the research of emotion`
since 2003	PhD scientific collaborator at the junior research group 'Neurocognition of Music' at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig
10/03 - 01/06	master of fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Berlin in interface design and new media, theoretical thesis on ´Non intentional creative processes`.
Career
06/01 - 06/01	Participation in the organisation of the symposium "academy of knowledge" (june 2001) at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.
09/01 - 06/02	scientific assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Neuropsychology in Leipzig.
06/02 - 11/02	realisation of a fMRI study at BIDMC (harvard medical school) in the working group of Prof. Schlaug about the perception of music in children (9 year olds).
since 02/03	Since february 2003 scientific collaborator at the junior research group 'Neurocognition of Music' at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Realisation of behavioral and fMRI-studies for the Research Group 499 of the German Research Foundation: "Acoustic communication of emotions in nonhuman mammals and man: production, perception and neural processing."
04/04	Organisation of symposia on "memory" and "death" at the interdisciplinary PhD student meeting of the Max Planck Society (april 2004).
10/05 - 12/05	October 2005 - december 2005: music-ethnological study in north Cameroun with participants who were naive to music of a western tonal tradition (DAAD stipend).

Projects

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Selected Publications

Fritz, T., Jentschke, S., Gosselin, N., Sammler, D., Peretz, I., Turner, R., Friederici, A. D., & Koelsch, S. (2009). Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music. Current Biology, 19(7), 573-576.
Koelsch, S., Schulze, K., Sammler, D., Fritz, T., Müller, K., & Gruber, O. (2009). Functional architecture of verbal and tonal working memory: An FMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 30(3), 859-873.
Fritz, T., & Koelsch, S. (2008). Musik und Emotion. Universalien und neuronales Korrelat des Perzepts von angenehm und unangenehm [Music and Emotion. Universals and the neural correlate of the valence percept]. Atlantische Texte, 28, 51-56.
Fritz, T., Ott, D., Müller, K., & Koelsch, S. (2008). A neural network sensitive to spectral order determines how much musical sound engages the auditory cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl, 226.
Koelsch, S., & Fritz, T. (2007). Musik verstehen – Eine neurowissenschaftliche Perspektive [Understanding music – A neuroscientific perspective]. In A. Becker & M. Vogel (Eds.), Musikalischer Sinn. Beiträge zu einer Philosophie der Musik (p. ). Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp.
Koelsch, S., & Fritz, T. (2007). Neuronale Korrelate der Musikverarbeitung [The neural correlates of musical processing]. Verhaltenstherapie & Verhaltensmedizin, 28(1), 23-38.
Koelsch, S., Remppis, A., Sammler, D., Jentschke, S., Mietchen, D., Fritz, T., et al. (2007). A cardiac signature of emotionality. European Journal of Neuroscience, 26(11), 3328-3338.
Sammler, D., Grigutsch, M., Fritz, T., & Koelsch, S. (2007). Music and emotion: Electrophysiological correlates of the processing of pleasant and unpleasant music. Psychophysiology, 44(2), 293-304.
Fritz, T. (2006). Das motorische Repertoire des Stimmapparates im Dienste der Musikwahrnehmung [How the motor repertoire of the voice apparatus serves music perception]. In Bundesverband Deutscher Gesangspädagogen (Ed.), Singen (pp. 53-55). Detmold: Bundesverband Deutscher Gesangspädagogen.
Koelsch, S., Fritz, T., von Cramon, D. Y., Müller, K., & Friederici, A. D. (2006). Investigating emotion with music: An fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 27(3), 239-250.
Koelsch, S., Fritz, T., Schulze, K., Alsop, D., & Schlaug, G. (2005). Adults and children processing music: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 25(4), 1068-1076.
Koelsch, S., & Fritz, T. (2003). Untersuchung von Emotion mit Musik: eine funktionell-bildgebende Studie. [Music to examine emotion: An fMRI study]. Sprache Stimme Gehör, 27, 62-65.

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