Dr. Jürgen M. Kaufmann
Phone: +49 (0)3641 9 45186
Fax: +49 (0)3641 9 45182
Email: juergen.kaufmann [at] uni-jena.de
Room: Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, room 112
Consultation times: Fri, 9.45-10.45
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
- Dipl. Psych. 1998, (First Class), University of Konstanz, Germany. Title of diploma thesis: “Functional organization of the auditory cortex in children with dyslexia in comparison to age-matched controls”.
- Ph.D. in Psychology, 2002, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Title of dissertation: “Asymmetric interactions between the processing of facial identity, emotional expression and facial speech?”
Awards and Scholarships:
- 2009: Thuringian Research Prize for Basic Research („Thüringer Forschungspreis für Grundlagenforschung“, together with Stefan R. Schweinberger & Holger Wiese)
- 2004: British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship
Professional societies and activities:
- Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) and the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
Reviewing for scientific journals
- BMC Neuroscience
- Brain Research
- Cognition
- Cognition and Emotion
- Current Psychology Letters
- European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Experimental Psychology
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Journal of Vision
- Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
- NeuroImage
- Neuropsychologia
- Neuropsychology
- Neuroreport
- Perception
- Psychological Research
- Psychophysiology
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Visual Cognition
Reviewing for research councils
- German-Israeli Foundation (GIF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
Positions:
- Since 2009: Principal Investigator in DFG funded Research Unit „Face Perception“; Project „Face Learning“
- Since 2005: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany
- 2004-2005: British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- 2002-2004: Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Glasgow
- 2002: Post-Doctoral Guest Researcher at the Cognitive Neuroscience Centre in Havana, Cuba
- 2000-2002: Post-Graduate Student and Research Assistant, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- 1998-2000: Post-Graduate Student and Research Assistant, University of Konstanz, Germany
- 1997 –1998: Student Research Assistant, MEG Lab of the Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Main research interests
Main Rearch Interests:
- Person recognition
- Multi-modal integration of person related information
- Face learning
- Interhemispheric communication and cooperation
- Affective processing of faces
Methods used: EEG, MEG as well as classical behavioural methods of experimental psychology
Grants
- Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (April 2011-March 2013). Individual Differences in Face Learning. Research Grant, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), KA 2997/3-1
- Kaufmann, J.M. (October. 2009 – September 2012). Face Learning. Research Grant, Research Unit “Person Perception“, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), KA 2997/2-1
- Kaufmann, J.M. (2008). Tavel grant, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, USA. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), KA 2997/1-1.
- Kaufmann, J.M. (October 2004 - September 2007). Developing and testing cognitive models of face learning by using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Post-doctoral Fellowship, British Academy (BAPDF0407).
- Kaufmann, J.M. (Jan. 2005- Dec. 2006). Developing and testing and cognitive models of face learning by using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). British Academy Small Research Grant (SG39757).
- Kaufmann, J.M. (2001). Grindley Grant, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, USA. Experimental Psychology Society (EPS), United Kingdom.
Publications
Papers in peer-reviewed journals:
Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (in press). The faces you remember: Caricaturing shape facilitates brain processes reflecting the acquisition of new face representations. Biological Psychology
Blickhan, M., Kaufmann, J.M., Denzler, J. Schweinberger, S.R.& Redies, C (in press). 1/fp Characteristics of the Fourier Power Spectrum Affects ERP Correlates of Face Learning and Recognition. Biological Psychology
Zäske, R., Schweinberger, S. R., Kaufmann, J. M., & Kawahara, H. (2009). In the ear of the beholder: neural correlates of adaptation to voice gender. European Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 527-534.
Kaufmann, J.M. , Schweinberger, S.R., & Burton, A.M. (2009). N250 ERP correlates of the acquisition of face representations across different images. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(4), 625-641.
Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2008). Distortions in the brain? ERP effects of caricaturing familiar and unfamiliar faces. Brain Research, 1228, 177-188.
Schweinberger, S.R., Casper, C., Hauthal, N., Kaufmann, J.M., Kawahara, H., Kloth, N. et al. (2008). Auditory adaptation in voice perception. Current Biology, 18, 684-688.
Schweinberger, S.R., Kaufmann, J.M., Moratti, S., Keil, A., & Burton, A. M. (2007). Brain responses to repetitions of human and animal faces, inverted faces, and objects - An MEG study. Brain Research, 1184, 226-233.
Schweinberger, S.R., Robertson, D., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2007). Hearing facial identities. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1446-1456.
Schweinberger, S.R., Ramsay, A. L., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2006). Hemispheric asymmetries in font-specific and abstractive priming of written personal names: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Brain Research, 1117, 195-205.
Carbon, C. C., Schweinberger, S.R., Kaufmann, J.M., & Leder, H. (2005). The Thatcher illusion seen by the brain: An event-related brain potentials study. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 544-555.
Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2005). Speaker variations influence speechreading speed for dynamic faces. Perception, 34, 595-610.
Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R. (2004). Expression influences the recognition of familiar faces. Perception, 33(4), 399-408.
Schweinberger S.R, Baird L.M, Blümler, M, Kaufmann J.M., Mohr, B. (2003). Interhemispheric cooperation for face recognition but not for affective facial expressions. Neuropsychologia 41(4), 407-414.
Schweinberger, S.R., Pickering, E.C., Jentzsch, I., Burton, A.M., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2002). Event-related brain potential evidence for a response of inferior temporal cortex to familiar face repetitions. Cognitive Brain Research, 14(3), 398-409.
Schweinberger, S.R., Kaufmann, J.M. & McColl, A. (2002). Famous personal names and the right hemisphere: the link keeps missing. Brain and Language 82, 95-110.
Schweinberger, S.R., Landgrebe, A., Mohr, B.& Kaufmann, J.M. (2002). Personal names and the human right hemisphere: an illusory link? Brain and Language 80, 111-120.
Schweinberger, S.R., Pickering, E.C., Burton, A.M., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2002). Human brain potential correlates of repetition priming in face and name recognition. Neuropsychologia , 40, 2057-2073.
Heim, S., Eulitz, C. Kaufmann, J., Fuechter, I., Pantev, C., Lamprecht-Dinnesen, A., Matulat, P., Scheer, P., Borstel, M. & Elbert, T. (2000). Atypical organisation of the auditory cortex in dyslexia as revealed by MEG. Neuropsychologia, 38, 1749-1759.
Conference Contributions (last 5 years only):
Kaufmann, J.M ., Schulz, & C., Walther (2011). Effects of Manipulated Distinctiveness on Face Learning". Paper presented at the DFG Person Perception Research Unit Workshop “Integrating Cognitive, Neuroscientific, and Social Approaches to Person Perception: Current Status and Future Perspectives", May 2011, Jena, Germany.
Kaufmann, J .M. (2011). Caricaturas y aprendizaje de caras. Conferencia en el Servicio de Neurología y A.L.B.A (Asociación Lewy Body Argentina), March 2011, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Kaufmann, J .M. (2010). Face Learning. Paper presented at the Conferencia Internacional, INECO, Centro de Estudios de la Memoria y la Conducta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2010.
Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). The “super-portrait” hypothesis revisited: Effects of caricaturing shape on recognition and best-likeness ratings of famous and personally familiar faces. Poster presented at the DFG Person Perception Research Unit Workshop “Person Perception 25 Years after Bruce and Young (1986)”, October 2010, Jena, Germany.
Kaufmann, J.M. , Preis, A. & Schulz, C. (2010). Brain correlates of learning attractive and distinctive faces. Poster presented at the DFG Person Perception Research Unit Workshop “Person Perception 25 Years after Bruce and Young (1986)”, October 2010, Jena, Germany.
Kaufmann, J.M. (2010). Face Learning. Paper presented at the DFG Person Perception Research Unit Workshop “Person Perception 25 Years after Bruce and Young (1986)”, October 2010, Jena, Germany.
Schulz, C., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). Individual Differences in Face vs. Picture Learning? Poster presented at the DFG Person Perception Research Unit Workshop “Person Perception 25 Years after Bruce and Young (1986)”, October 2010, Jena, Germany.
Schulz, C., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). Individual Differences in Face vs. Picture Learning? Poster presented at the DFG Person Perception Research Unit Workshop “Person Perception 25 Years after Bruce and Young (1986)”, October 2010, Jena, Germany.
Blickhan, M., Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R., Denzler, J. & Redies, C. (2010). Manipulating the ratio of coarse and fine structures affects learning and recognition of unfamiliar faces. Poster presented at the 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Saarbrücken, Germany, March 2010.
Kaufmann, J.M ., Buck, B., Koban, L., Leuthold, H. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). Expressionsabhängige Wiedererkennung neu gelernter Gesichter: Evidenz für durchschnittsbasierte Gesichterrepräsentationen. Paper presented at the 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Saarbrücken, Germany, March 2010.
Kaufmann, J. M. & Schweinberger, S. R. (2009). ERP Correlates of Improved Learning for Spatially Caricatured Faces. Psychophysiology, 46, S132.
Zäske, R., Schweinberger, S. R., Kaufmann, J. M., & Kawahara, H. (2009). In the Ear of the Beholder: Neural Correlates of Adaptation to Voice Gender. Psychophysiology, 46, S86.
Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R. (2009). Wahrnehmung und Gedächtnis für Gesichter. Symposium (Chair) at the 51. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Jena, Germany, March 2009.
Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R. (2009). Gesichter, die man nicht vergisst: der Einfluss von Karikierung auf Lernen und Wiedererkennen unbekannter Gesichter. Paper presented at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Jena, Germany, March 2009.
Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R. (2008). Distortions in the brain? Event-related potential effects of caricaturing familiar and unfamiliar faces. Poster presented at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting (CNS), San Francisco, USA, April 2008.
Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R. (2008). Ein Hirn voller Zerrbilder? Karikatureneffekte für bekannte und unbekannte Gesichter. Paper presented at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Marburg, Germany, March 2008.
Teaching
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.in Psychology):
- Experimental Psychology (Empirical Research Seminar)
- Bachelor “Propädeutikum”
- Supervision of bachelor theses
Master of Science (M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience):
- Classes on person perception and research methods
- Supervision of student research projects and master theses
Diplom-Psychologie:
- Classes on person perception and research methods
- Supervision of diploma theses
Ph.D. students:
- Co-supervision of post-graduate research projects
Other activities
- Erasmus coordinator of the Institute for Psychology ( http://www.uni-jena.de/Studieren_im_Ausland_p_112089.html )
- Teaching coordinator of the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
