Dr. Nadine Kloth
Please note that Nadine Kloth is now a member of the facelab at the University of Western Australia.
Address:
School of Psychology
University of Western Australia (M304)
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley, WA 6009
Australia
Phone: +61 (0)8 6488 1402
Fax: +61 (0)8 6488 1006
Email: nadine.kloth [at] uwa.edu.au
Curriculum Vitae
Date of birth: 26/01/1980
Education:
- 03/2009: Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. phil), University of Jena, Germany
- 11/2005: Dipl.-Psych. (corresponds to M.Sc.), University of Muenster, Germany
- 2002: Research internship at Dr. Martin Fischer’s lab in Dundee, Scotland
- 10/2001: Vordiplom (corresponds to B.Sc.), University of Muenster, Germany
Positions:
- 05/2011 – present: Post-doctoral researcher, Facelab, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- 03/2009 – 04/2011: Post-doctoral researcher, University of Jena, Germany
- 01/2006 – 03/2009: Post-graduate student and Research Assistant, University of Jena, Germany
- 2004 - 2005: Student Research Assistant, Eye tracking laboratory, Prof. Dr. P. Zwitserlood, University of Muenster, Germany
Professional societies and activities:
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Ad-hoc reviewer for:
- Brain and Cognition / Brain Research / British Journal of Psychology / Consciousness and Cognition / European Journal of Cognitive Psychology / Experimental Psychology / International Journal of Psychophysiology / Journal of Vision / Neuropsychologia / Neuropsychology / NeuroReport / Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Guest Editor for Special issue “Social Cues in Faces", Swiss Journal of Psychology, 69:3, September 2010 (together with PD Dr. Janek Lobmaier, University of Bern, Switzerland)
Main research interests
I am interested in the characteristics and neural basis of face-related high-level adaptation processes such as eye gaze and gender adaptation. Further, I am interested in how we categorize faces, e.g., according to their age or gender.
Awards
2010: Ph.D. thesis award of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Grants
2010/11: Young researcher’s grant awarded by the Friedrich Schiller University for the research project proposal “The perception of human eye gaze–processes and influencing factors”, May 2010 – May 2011 (Programm zur Förderung der Drittmittelfähigkeit von Nachwuchswissenschafterinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftlern)
2008: Travel grant to the CNS meeting, San Francisco, USA - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2002: ERASMUS scholarship for studies at the University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom Winter/Spring 2002
Publications
Papers in peer-reviewed journals:
Wiese H, Kloth N, Güllmar D, Reichenbach JR, Schweinberger SR (in press). Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: An fMRI study on face categorization. Brain and Cognition.
Kloth, N., Altmann, C.S., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2011). Facial attractiveness biases the perception of eye contact. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64:10, 1906-1918.
Schweinberger, S.R., Kloth, N., & Robertson, D.M. (2011). Hearing facial identities: Brain correlates of face-voice integration in person identification. Cortex, 47, 1026-1037.
Kloth, N. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). Electrophysiological correlates of eye gaze adaptation. Journal of Vision, 10(12):17, 1-13,
http://www.journalofvision.org/content/10/12/17 , doi:10.1167/10.12.17.
Kloth, N. , Schweinberger, S.R., & Kovács, G. (2010). Neural correlates of generic versus gender-specific face adaptation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2345-2356.
Kloth, N. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2008). The temporal decay of eye gaze adaptation effects. Journal of Vision, 8(11):4, 1-11, http://journalofvision.org/8/11/4/, doi:10.1167/8.11.4.
Schweinberger, S.R., Casper, C., Hauthal, N., Kaufmann, J.M., Kawahara, H., Kloth, N., Robertson, D., Simpson, A.P., & Zäske, R. (2008). Auditory adaptation in voice perception. Current Biology, 18, 684-688.
Schweinberger, S.R., Kloth, N., & Jenkins, R. (2007). Are you looking at me? Neural correlates of gaze adaptation. NeuroReport, 18, 693-696.
Kloth, N., Dobel, C., Schweinberger, S.R., Zwitserlood, P., Bölte, J., & Junghöfer, M. (2006). Effects of personal familiarity on early neuromagnetic correlates of face perception. European Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 3317-3321.
Conference Presentations (selection):
Kloth, N. , Schweinberger, S.R., & Wiese, H. (2011). The influence of facial age on gender perception: An ERP study on face categorization. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, April 2011, San Francisco, USA.
Kloth, N. , Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2011). Effekte des Alters auf die Bestimmung des Geschlechts von Gesichtern. Talk at the 53 rd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2011, Halle a.d Saale, Germany
Kloth, N. , Wiese, H., Güllmar, D., Reichenbach, J.R., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: An fMRI study on face categorization. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) meeting, October 2010, Portland, USA.
Kloth, N. , Wiese, H., Güllmar, D., Reichenbach, J.R., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: An fMRI study on face categorization. Poster to be presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) meeting, October 2010, Portland, USA.
Kloth, N. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). Neuronale Korrelate und zeitliche Charakteristika der Blickrichtungsadaptation. Invited talk at the Psychologie & Gehirn, June 2010, Greifswald.
Kloth, N. , Wiese, H., Güllmar, D., Reichenbach, J.R., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: An fMRI study on face categorization. “Volcano Poster” at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, April 2010, Montreal, Canada.
Kloth, N., Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2010). Effekte des Alters auf die Bestimmung des Geschlechts von Gesichtern. Talk at the 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2010, Saarbrücken.
Kloth, N. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2009). On the neural correlates of eye gaze adaptation. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) meeting, October 2009, Berlin.
Kloth, N. , Schweinberger, S.R., & Kovács, G. (2009). Influences of intra- and cross-modal adaptation on face gender perception. Invited talk at the11th Congress of the Swiss Psychological Society, August 2009, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Kloth, N., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kovács, G. (2009). Einflüsse intra- und cross-modaler Adaptation auf die Wahrnehmung des Geschlechts in Gesichtern. Talk at the 51. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2009, Jena.
Kloth, N., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kovács, G. (2008). Neural correlates of adaptation to face and voice gender: Is the N170 sensitive to gender adaptation or to face detection? Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, April 2008, San Francisco, USA.
Kloth, N. & Schweinberger, S.R (2008). Können diese Augen lügen? Effekte der Blickrichtungsadaptation und ihre zeitlichen Parameter. Talk at the 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), März 2008, Marburg.
Kloth, N., Schweinberger, S.R., & Jenkins, R. (2007). Are you looking at me? Neural correlates of gaze adaptation. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, May 2007. New York, USA.
Kloth, N., Dobel, C., Junghöfer, M., Zwitserlood, P., Bölte, J., & Schweinberger, S. (2006). Bedeutet es immer dasselbe jemanden zu kennen? Eine MEG-Studie. Talk at the 48. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), März 2006, Mainz.
Teaching
- Summer term 2010 Seminar: Eye gaze and social cognition II – Bachelor (Empiriepraktikum)
Supervision of a B.Sc. thesis - Winter term 2009/10 Seminar: Eye gaze and social cognition I – Bachelor (Empiriepraktikum)
- Summer term 2009 Seminar: Gaze direction and social cognition - Master (Forschungsorientierte Vertiefung)
- Winter term 2008/09 Seminar: Multimodal person perception - Master (Forschungsorientierte Vertiefung, together with Prof. Dr. S. R. Schweinberger)
- Summer term 2007 Seminar: Face adaptation II - Bachelor (Empiriepraktikum, together with Prof. Dr. S. R. Schweinberger)
- Winter term 2006/07 Seminar: Face adaptation I - Bachelor (Empiriepraktikum, together with Prof. Dr. S. R. Schweinberger)
- Summer term 2006 Seminar: Memory - Bachelor (together with Dr. M. F. Neumann)



