Chair holder
© K. v. Kriegstein
Professor
NameProf. Dr. med. Katharina von Kriegstein
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| since 01/2022 | Vice-Dean, Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden |
| since 10/2017 | Professor of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden |
| 02/2009 - 12/2018 | Head of the Max Planck Research Group "Neural Mechanisms of Human communication", Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany |
| 02/2013 - 10/2017 | Professor of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität |
| 2004 - 2009 | Research Associate, Functional Imaging Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London, UK and Medical School, University of Newcastle, UK |
| 2001 - 2004 | Resident, Clinic for Neurology, University of Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2001 | PhD (Dr. med., summa cum laude), Molecular components of ribbon- and conventional synapses and their expression during neurogenesis |
| 1996 - 2000 | PhD student and research assistant, Dept. of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany |
| 1994 - 2001 | Medical School, University of Göttingen, Germany |
| 1995 - 1997 | Study of Philosophy, University of Göttingen, Germany |
- Sensory mechanisms of Human Communication
- Disorders of communication
- Cortico-thalamic interactions
Tabas, A., Mihai, G., Kiebel, S., Trampel, R., & von Kriegstein, K. (2020). Abstract rules drive adaptation in the subcortical sensory pathway. Elife, 9. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64501
Mihai, P. G., Moerel, M., de Martino, F., Trampel, R., Kiebel, S., & von Kriegstein, K. (2019). Modulation of tonotopic ventral medial geniculate body is behaviorally relevant for speech recognition. Elife, 8. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.44837.001
Roswandowitz, C., Kappes, C., Obrig, H., & von Kriegstein, K. (2018). Obligatory and facultative brain regions for voice-identity recognition. Brain, 141(1), 234–247. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx313
Müller-Axt, C., Anwander, A., & von Kriegstein, K. (2017). Altered Structural Connectivity of the Left Visual Thalamus in Developmental Dyslexia. Current Biology, 27(23), 3692–3698.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.034
Mayer, K. M., Yildiz, I. B., Macedonia, M., & von Kriegstein, K. (2015). Visual and motor cortices differentially support the translation of foreign language words. Current Biology, 25(4), 530–535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.068
Diaz, B., Hintz, F., Kiebel, S. J., & von Kriegstein, K. (2012). Dysfunction of the auditory thalamus in developmental dyslexia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(34), 13841–13846. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119828109 *featured as research highlight in Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13, 667
von Kriegstein, K., Dogan, O., Grüter, M., Giraud, A.-L., Kell, C. a, Grüter, T., … Kiebel, S. J. (2008). Simulation of talking faces in the human brain improves auditory speech recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(18), 6747–6752. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710826105 *recommended article by Faculty of 1000