Jens Kreitewolf

Biography:

Jens Kreitewolf received both his B.Sc. (2007) and M.Sc. in Psychology (2009) from Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). In 2014, he received a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology from Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) for his work on neural and behavioral interactions in the processing of speech and speaker information. Before his current, Dr. Kreitewolf was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research, BRAMS (2016) and the University of Lübeck (2017-2020).

Research Areas:

Quantitative & Modelling | Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Summary:

My research focuses on the auditory system and its ability to solve everyday listening tasks, such as accomplishing robust speech comprehension under adverse listening conditions. I am particularly interested in an important yet often-overlooked aspect of speech comprehension—the human voice. How do normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners use acoustic voice features to navigate at the “cocktail party? How does familiarity with a talker’s voice help speech comprehension? To tackle these questions, I use advanced methods of psychophysics and neuroimaging.

Selected References:

Lavan, N.*, Kreitewolf, J.*, Obleser, J., & McGettigan, C. (2021). Familiarity and task context shape the use of acoustic information in voice identity perception. Cognition, 215, 104780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104780 — *joint first authors

Kreitewolf, J., Wöstmann, M., Tune, S., Plöchl, M., & Obleser, J. (2019). Working-memory disruption by task-irrelevant talkers depends on degree of talker familiarity. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(4), 1108–1118.
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01727-2

Kreitewolf, J., Mathias, S. R., Trapeau, R., Obleser, J., & Schönwiesner, M. (2018). Perceptual grouping in the cocktail party: Contributions of voice-feature continuity. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(4), 2178–2188. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5058684

Kreitewolf, J., Mathias. S. R., & von Kriegstein, K. (2017). Implicit Talker Training Improves Comprehension of Auditory Speech in Noise. Frontiers in Psychology 8:1584. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01584

Kreitewolf, J., Friederici, A. D., & von Kriegstein, K. (2014). Hemispheric lateralization of linguistic prosody recognition in comparison to speech and speaker recognition. NeuroImage, 102(2), 332–344. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.038

Kreitewolf, J., Gaudrain, E., & von Kriegstein, K. (2014). A neural mechanism for recognizing speech spoken by different speakers. NeuroImage, 91, 375–385. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.01.005