Jens Kreitewolf
Faculty Lecturer
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Contact Information:
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Office: 2001 Æ»¹ûÒùÔº College, 702
Phone: 514.398.6129
Email: jens.kreitewolf[at]mcgill.ca
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Mailing Address:
Department of Psychology
2001 Æ»¹ûÒùÔº College, 7th floor
Montreal, QC
H3A 1G1
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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. — *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.
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.
Kreitewolf, J., Mathias. S. R., & von Kriegstein, K. (2017). Implicit Talker Training Improves Comprehension of Auditory Speech in Noise. Frontiers in Psychology 8:1584.
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.
Kreitewolf, J., Gaudrain, E., & von Kriegstein, K. (2014). A neural mechanism for recognizing speech spoken by different speakers. NeuroImage, 91, 375–385.