Dr. Stefanie Schelinski

I studied psychology at the University of Leipzig. After a research stay at the Yale Child Study Center (Pelphrey- lab, Autism Program at Yale University), I was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (PhD 2018). During my PhD, I investigated neuronal and behavioural mechanisms of voice perception in autism under supervision of Katharina von Kriegstein. For my PhD work I received the Weber-Bosch-Prize – a young researchers award rewarded by the Scientific Society Autism Spectrum. I joined the Chair of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the TU Dresden as a post-doc in 2018. In 2019/2020, I was a visiting researcher at the Autism Research Centre (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) with a DFG research fellowship. Since 2024, I am a licensed psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). Clinical training: 2017/2018 psychiatry; 2021/2022 outpatient clinic for social interaction at Humboldt University Berlin; Since 2020 outpatient work. I am currently undergoing additional training in child and adolescent psychotherapy.

• Autism
• Attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder [AD(H)D]
• Voice processing (speaker identity, vocal emotion, speech and speech-in-noise perception)
• Audiovisual integration in speech and speaker recognition
• Role of subcortical structures in human perception and communication
• Psychopathology and neurodiversity at school

Schelinski, S., Kauffmann, L., Tabas, A., Müller-Axt, C., & von Kriegstein, K. (2024). Functional alterations of the magnocellular subdivision of the visual sensory thalamus in autism, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(47), e2413409121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413409121
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Schelinski, S., & von Kriegstein, K. (2023). Responses in left inferior frontal gyrus are altered for speech-in-noise processing, but not for clear speech in autism.
Brain and Behavior, 13(2):e2848. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2848

Schelinski, S., Tabas, A., & von Kriegstein, K. (2022). Altered processing of communication signals in the subcortical auditory sensory pathway in autism. Human Brain Mapping, 43(6), 1955-1972. https:doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25766

Schelinski, S., & von Kriegstein, K. (2020). Brief Report: Speech-in-Noise Recognition and the Relation to Vocal Pitch Perception in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typical Development. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50(1), 356–363. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04244-1

Schelinski, S., & von Kriegstein, K. (2019). The Relation Between Vocal Pitch and Vocal Emotion Recognition Abilities in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typical Development. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49 (1), 68 - 82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3681-z

Borowiak, K., Schelinski, S., & von Kriegstein, K. (2018). Recognizing visual speech: Reduced responses in visual-movement regions, but not other speech regions in autism. NeuroImage: Clinical.​ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.09.019

Roswandowitz, C., Schelinski, S., & von Kriegstein, K. (2017). Developmental phonagnosia: Linking neural mechanisms with the behavioural phenotype. NeuroImage, 155, 97 - 112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.064

Schelinski, S., Roswandowitz, C., & von Kriegstein, K. (2017). Voice identity processing in autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 10(1), 155 - 168. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1639

Schelinski, S., Borowiak, K., & von Kriegstein, K. (2016). Temporal voice areas exist in autism spectrum disorder but are dysfunctional for voice identity recognition. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(11), 1812 – 1822. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw089

Riedel, P., Ragert, P., Schelinski, S., Kiebel, S. J., & von Kriegstein, K. (2015). Visual face-movement sensitive cortex is relevant for auditory-only speech recognition. Cortex, 68, 86-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.11.016

Schelinski, S., Riedel, P., & von Kriegstein, K. (2014). Visual abilities are important for auditory-only speech recognition: Evidence from autism spectrum disorder. Neuropsychologia, 65, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.09.031

Roswandowitz, C., Mathias, S. R., Hintz, F., Kreitewolf, J., Schelinski, S., & von Kriegstein, K. (2014). Two cases of selective developmental voice-recognition impairments. Current Biology, 24(19), 2348-2353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.048

Anderson, L. C., Bolling, D. Z., Schelinski, S., Coffman, M. C., Pelphrey,  K. A., & Kaiser, M. D. (2013). Sex differences in the development of brain mechanisms for processing biological motion. NeuroImage, 83. 751–760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.040

Westphal, A., Schelinski, S., Volkmar, F., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2013). Revisiting Regression in Autism: Heller's Dementia Infantilis: Includes a translation of über Dementia Infantilis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(2). 265-271. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1559-z

Koelsch, S., Kilches, S., Steinbeis, N., & Schelinski, S. (2008). Effects of Unexpected Chords and of Performer's Expression on Brain Responses and Electrodermal Activity. PLoS One, 3(7): e2631. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002631

• Seminar on neurodevelopmental disorders (Teaching Award of the Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden, 2023)
• Seminar on mental disorders and neurodivergence in childhood and adolescence
• Postgraduate teaching
  • Psychotherapeutic training: Psychotherapy and diagnostics for autism
  • Teacher training: AD(H)D, neurodivergence