Former Max Planck Research Group Neural Mechanisms of Human Communication
Selected Publications:
Speech Recognition
Begona Diaz, Florian Hintz, Stefan J. Kiebel, and Katharina von Kriegstein, "Dysfunction of the auditory thalamus in developmental dyslexia," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (34), 13841-13846 (2012).
Burak Yildiz, Katharina von Kriegstein, and Stefan J. Kiebel, "From birdsong to human speech recognition: Bayesian inference on a hierarchy of nonlinear dynamical systems," PLoS Computational Biology 9 (9), e1003219 (2013).
How the human brain recognizes speech in the context of changing speakers. Journal of Neuroscience 30 (2), pp. 629 - 638 (2010)
Person Recognition
Two cases of selective developmental voice-recognition impairments. Current Biology 24 (19), pp. 2348 - 2353 (2014)
Direct structural connections between voice- and face-recognition areas. The Journal of Neuroscience 31 (36), pp. 12906 - 12915 (2011)
Neural representation of auditory size in the human voice and in sounds from other resonant sources. Curr Biol 17, pp. 1123 - 1128 (2007)
Face-to-face Communication
Simulation of talking faces in the human brain improves auditory speech recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences 105 (18), pp. 6747 - 6752 (2008)
Visual face-movement sensitive cortex is relevant for auditory-only speech recognition. Cortex 68, pp. 86 - 99 (2015)
Visual and motor cortices differentially support the translation of foreign language words. Current Biology 25 (4), pp. 530 - 535 (2015)