Publications 

Lehnen, J., Schweinberger, S.R., & Nussbaum, C. (2025). Vocal emotion perception and musicality – Insights from EEG decoding. Sensors, 25, 1669. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25061669External link

Nussbaum, C., Frühholz, S., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2025). Understanding voice naturalness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.01.010External link

Skuk, V.G., Jacob, I., Wientzek, R., Ward, R., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2025, in press). Big Five Personality Perceptions from Voices and Faces – Impressions and Kernels of Truth. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-025-00480-5External link.

Weirich, M. (in press) The interaction of gender, occupation, and fine-phonetic detail. Social Psychological Bulletin. [Accepted manuscript]. Social Psychological Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.15562External link

Aichele, C., Semmler, M., Kniesburges, S & Weirich, M. (2024) Zusammenhang zwischen Testosteron und Stimmqualität bei jungen, stimmgesunden Männern. Vortrag bei der 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phoniatrie un Pädaudiologie, 12. - 15. September 2024, Berlin 

von Eiff, C. I., Kauk, J., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2024). The Jena Audiovisual Stimuli of Morphed Emotional Pseudospeech (JAVMEPS): A database for emotional auditory-only, visual-only, and congruent and incongruent audiovisual voice and dynamic face stimuli with varying voice intensities. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 5103-5115. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02249-4External link

Funk, R., M. Weirich, & A. P. Simpson. (2024). The effect of fundamental frequency on gender perception in prepubertal children – Insights from the LoKiS database. Journal of Voice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2024.04.010External link

Henlein, A., Bauer, A., Bhattacharjee, R., Ćwiek, A., Gregori, A., Kügler, F., … & von Eiff, C. I. (2024, June). An Outlook for AI Innovation in Multimodal Communication Research. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 182-234). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland

Henneberger, I., Weirich, M. (2024) Vocal- and speech-transported Gender Representation in German Advertisements, Proc. ICLaVE 12, Wien.

Kachel, S., Simpson, A. P., & Steffens, M. C. (2024). Speakers’ vocal expression of sexual orientation depends on experimenter gender. Speech Communication, 156, 103023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2023.103023External link

Lobmaier, J.S., Klatt, W.K., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2024). Voice of a woman: Influence of interaction partner characteristics on cycle dependent vocal changes in women. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1401158. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1401158External link

Nussbaum, C., Schirmer, A., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2024). Musicality–tuned to the melody of vocal emotions. British Journal of Psychology, 115(2), 206-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12684External link

Weirich, M., Hilliger, L., Knauft, D., Maljavin, A., Schure, N. &  Ziemer, S. (2024) Hormonelle Einflüsse auf
die Sprechstimmlage bei Frauen. Posterpräsentation auf der P&P 20, Halle (Saale). 

Weirich, M., Simpson, A. P., & Knutti, N. (2024). Effects of testosterone on speech production and perception: Linking hormone levels in males to vocal cues and female voice attractiveness ratings. Physiology & Behavior, 114615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114615 External link

Funk, R. & A. P. Simpson. 2023. The acoustic and perceptual correlates of gender in children’s voices. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00682External link

Funk, R., M. Weirich, & A. P. Simpson. 2023. Speech tempo influences gender perception in prepubertal children. In Proc. Phonetik und Phonologie 19. Bern, 15-16.

Funk, R., M. Weirich, & A. P. Simpson. 2023. Phonetic correlates of gender in prepubertal voices. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volìn (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague: Guarant International, 22-26.

Funk, R., M. Weirich, & A. P. Simpson. 2023. The influence of fundamental frequency on gender perception in children’s voices – results from a longitudinal study. In 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe. Nijmegen, 93-94.

Gregori, A., Amici, F., Brilmayer, I., Ćwiek, A., Fritzsche, L., Fuchs, S., ... & von Eiff, C. I. (2023, July). A roadmap for technological innovation in multimodal communication research. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 402-438). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Henneberger, I., Weirich, M. (2023) „Musik in meinen Ohren“ – zur Untersuchung von phonetischen Korrelaten mit Hintergrundgeräuschen oder Musikbett-Unterlegung im medialen Kontext, Proc. P&P 19, Bern.

Henneberger, I., Weirich, M. (2023) Stimmliche und sprecherische Genderrepräsentationen in der Werbung, Proc. P&P 18, Bielefeld.

Kachel, S., Nussbaum, C., & Pöhlmann, M. (2023). Queer events, relationships, and sports: Does topic influence speakers’ acoustic expression of sexual orientation? INTERSPEECH 2023, 4269–4273. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2087External link

Nussbaum, C., Schirmer, A., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). Electrophysiological Correlates of Vocal Emotional Processing in Musicians and Non-Musicians. Brain Sciences, 13(11), 1563. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13111563External link

Nussbaum, C., Pöhlmann, M., Kreysa, H., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs. Cognition and Emotion, 37(4), 731-747., https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2200920External link

Weirich, M. & Zahner-Ritter, K. (2023) Indexing femininity in vowel acoustics: A comparison between speakers in eastern and western parts of Germany. In: Proceedings of 20^th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague.

Zäske, R., Kaufmann, J. M., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). Neural Correlates of Voice Learning with Distinctive and Non-Distinctive Faces. Brain Sciences, 13(4), Article 637. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13040637External link

von Eiff, C. I., Frühholz, S., Korth, D., Guntinas-Lichius, O., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2022). Crossmodal benefits to vocal emotion perception in cochlear implant users. iScience, 25(12). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105711 External link

von Eiff, C. I., Skuk, V. G., Zäske, R., Nussbaum, C., Frühholz, S., Feuer, U., Guntinas-Lichius, O., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2022). Parameter-Specific Morphing Reveals Contributions of Timbre to the Perception of Vocal Emotions in Cochlear Implant Users. Ear and hearing, 43(4), 1178–1188. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001181External link

Funk, R. & A. P. Simpson. 2022. Die Entwicklung von Geschlecht in der präpubertären Stimme: Eine Langzeitstudie. In Proc. Phonetik und Phonologie 18. Bielefeld, 15-16. https://doi.org/10.11576/pundp2022-1043External link

Nussbaum, C., von Eiff, C. I., Skuk, V. G., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2022). Vocal emotion adaptation aftereffects within and across speaker genders: Roles of timbre and fundamental frequency. Cognition, 219, 104967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104967 External link

Nussbaum, C., Schirmer, A., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2022). Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(12), 1145-1154. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac033 External link

Schweinberger, S. R., & von Eiff, C. I. (2022). Enhancing socio-emotional communication and quality of life in young cochlear implant recipients: Perspectives from parameter-specific morphing and caricaturing. Frontiers in neuroscience, 16, 956917.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.956917 External link

Tsuchiya, A., & Schweinberger, S.R., 2022. In-Mind Magazin. Themenausgabe: Wie verstehen wir andere besser? Teil 2 Heft 1/2022

Frühholz, S., & Schweinberger, S.R.  (2021). Nonverbal auditory communication - Evidence for Integrated Neural Systems for Voice Signal Production and Perception. Progress in Neurobiology, 199, 101948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101948External link .

Henneberger, I. (2021): Stereotype Werbestimmen – Untersuchung von geschlechterspezifischen Stimm- und Sprechtypen in der deutschen Primetime-Werbung anhand phonetischer Parameter. Proc. P&P 17, Frankfurt a.M.

Nussbaum, C., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2021). Links between musicality and vocal emotion perception. Emotion Review, 13(3), 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739211022803External link

Zäske, R., Frisius, N., Ivansic, D., Schweinberger, S.R., Guntinas-Lichius, O., & Dobel, C. (2021). Phonetic perception but not perception of speaker gender is impaired in chronic tinnitus. Progress in Brain Research, 260, 397-422. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2020.12.003External link

Kachel, S., Steffens, M. C., Preuß, S., & Simpson, A. P. (2020). Gender (conformity) matters: Cross-dimensional and cross-modal associations in sexual orientation perception. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 39(1), 40–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X19883902External link

Skuk, V.G., Kirchen, L., Oberhoffner, T., Guntinas-Lichius, O., Dobel, C., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2020). Parameter-specific Morphing Reveals Contributions of Timbre and F0 Cues to the Perception of Voice Gender and Age in Cochlear Implant Users. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(9), 3155-3175. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00026External link .

Young, A. W., Frühholz, S., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2020). Face and voice perception: Understanding commonalities and differences. Trends in cognitive sciences, 24(5), 398-410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.02.001 External link

Zäske, R., Skuk, V. G., Golle, J., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2020). The Jena Speaker Set (JESS)—A database of voice stimuli from unfamiliar young and old adult speakers. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 990-1007. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01296-0External link

Zäske, R., Skuk, V.G., & Schweinberger, S.R.  (2020). Attractiveness and distinctiveness between speakers ́ voices in naturalistic speech and their faces are uncorrelated. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 201244. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201244External link

Humble, D., Schweinberger, S.R., Dobel, C., & Zäske, R. (2019). Voices to remember: Comparing neural signatures of intentional and non-intentional voice learning and recognition. Brain Research, 1711, 214-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2019.01.028 External link

Kawahara, H., & Skuk, V.G. (2019). Voice Morphing. In: S. Frühholz and P. Belin (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception (Chapter 31, pp. 685-706). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743187.013.31 External link

Latinus, M. & Zäske, R. (2019). Perceptual Correlates and Cerebral Representation of Voices – Identity, Gender and Age. In: S. Frühholz and P. Belin (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception (Chapter 25, pp. 561-583). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743187.013.25 External link

Schweinberger, S.R. & Zäske, R. (2019). Perceiving Speaker Identity from the Voice. In: S. Frühholz and P. Belin (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception (Chapter 24, pp. 539-560). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743187.013.24 External link

Skuk, V.G., Palermo, R., Broemer, L., & Schweinberger, S.R.  (2019). Autistic Traits are Linked to Individual Differences in Familiar Voice Identification. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(7), 2747-2767. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3039-yExternal link

Kachel, S., Radtke, A., Skuk, V. G., Zäske, R., Simpson, A. P., & Steffens, M. C. (2018). Investigating the common set of acoustic parameters in sexual orientation groups: A voice averaging approach. PLoS ONE, 13(12): e0208686. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208686External link

Kachel, S., Simpson, A. P., & Steffens, M. C. (2018). “Do I sound straight?”: Acoustic correlates of actual and perceived sexual orientation and masculinity/femininity in men’s speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(7), 1560–1578. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-17-0125External link

Zäske, R., Limbach, K., Schneider, D., Skuk, V. G., Dobel, C., Guntinas-Lichius, O., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2018). Electrophysiological correlates of voice memory for young and old speakers in young and old listeners. Neuropsychologia, 116, 215-227.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.08.011 External link

Hansen, K., Steffens, M. C., Rakić, T., & Wiese, H. (2017). When appearance does not match accent: Neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(3), 507-515. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw148 External link

Kachel, S., Simpson, A. P., & Steffens, M. C. (2017). Acoustic correlates of sexual orientation and gender-role self-concept in women’s speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(6), 4793-4809. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4988684External link

Schweinberger, S.R., & Robertson, D.M.C. (2017). Audiovisual integration in familiar person recognition. Visual Cognition, 25(4-6), 589-610. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2016.1276110External link  

Zäske, R., Hasan, B.A.S., & Belin P. (2017). It doesn’t matter what you say: fMRI correlates of voice learning and recognition independent of speech content. Cortex, 94, 100-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.06.005 External link

Kachel, S., Steffens, M. C., & Niedlich, C. (2016). Traditional masculinity and femininity: Validation of a new scale assessing gender roles. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 956. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00956 External link

Kreysa, H., Kessler, L., & Schweinberger S. R. (2016). Direct speaker gaze promotes trust in trugh- ambiguous statements. PLoS One, 11(9), e0162291. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162291 External link

Zäske, R., Perlich, M. C., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2016). To hear or not to hear: voice processing under visual load. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78(5), 1488-1495. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-016-1119-2External link

Skuk, V. G., Dammann, L. M., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2015). Role of timbre and fundamental frequency in voice gender adaptation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(2), 1180-1193. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4927696 External link

Weirich, M., & Simpson, A. P. (2015). Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker’s sex on vowel length in German. In: A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid & V. Dellwo (Eds.), Trends in Phonetics and Phonology in German speaking Europe. Frankfurt, Deutschland: Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe.

Zäske, R., Mühl, C., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2015). Benefits for voice learning caused by concurrent faces develop over time. PLoS One, 10(11), e0143151. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143151 External link

Schweinberger, S. R., Kawahara, H., Simpson, A. P., Skuk, V. G., & Zäske, R. (2014). Speaker perception. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 5(1), 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1261External link

Skuk, V., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2014). Influences of fundamental frequency, formant frequencies, aperiodicity and spectral level information on the perception of voice gender. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57(1), 285-296. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2013/12-0314)External link

Zäske, R. Volberg, G., Kovács, G., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2014). Electrophysiological correlates of voice learning and recognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(33), 10821–10831. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0581-14.2014External link