Annett Schirmer

Office: Block AS5 04-10

Tel.: 6516 8703

Fax.: (65) 6773 1843

E-mail: schirmer@nus.edu.sg

Mailing address:

Department of Psychology

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

9 Arts Link

National University of Singapore

Singapore 117570

Education

Ph.D.	2002	University of Leipzig, Germany
Diplom Psych.	1999	University of Leipzig, Germany

Professional Experience

2009 – present	Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore
2006 – 2009	Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore
2005 – 2006	Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia/Athens, USA
2002 – 2005	Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognition and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Awards

2012 NUS Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research Fellowship

2011 NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering Teaching Excellence Award

2010 NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

2007 NUS Young Investigator Award

Publications

Journal Articles:

Escoffier, N., Zhong, J., Schirmer, A., Qui, A. (in press) Emotions in voice and music: Same code, same effect? Human Brain Mapping.

Schirmer, A., Soh, Y.H., Penney, T.B., & Wyse, L. (2011). Perceptual and conceptual priming of environmental sounds. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3241-53.

Ferdenzi, C., Schirmer, A., Roberts, C., Delplanque, S., Porcherot-Lassallette, C., Cayeux, I., Velazco, M.-I., Sander, D., Scherer, K.R., & Grandjean, D. (2011). Affective dimensions of odor perception: A comparison between Swiss, British and Singaporean populations. Emotion, 11, 1168-81.

Min, C.S. & Schirmer, A. (in press). Perceiving verbal and vocal emotions in a second language. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 1376-92.

Schirmer, A. (2011). How emotions change time. Frontiers in Integrative Neurosciences, 5:58, doi:10.3389/fnint.2011.00058.

Liu, M., Penney, T.B., & Schirmer, A. (2011). Emotional distracters shorten perceived time: Attention versus pace-maker explanations for emotion effects on timing. PloSOne, e21829.

Schirmer, A., Vijayakumar, R., Teh, K.S., Nithianantham, D., Escoffier, N., & Cheok, A.D. (2011). Squeeze me, but don’t tease me: Human and mechanical touch enhance visual attention and emotion discrimination. Social Neuroscience, 6, 219-30.

Escoffier, N., Yeo, D.J.S., & Schirmer, A. (2010). Unattended musical beats enhance visual processing. Acta Psychologica, 135, 12-16.

Schirmer, A. (2010). Mark My Words: Tone of Voice Changes Affective Word Representations in Memory. PLoS One, e9080.

Schirmer, A. & Escoffier, N. (2010). Emotional MMN: Anxiety and heart rate correlate with the ERP signature for auditory change detection. Clinical Neurophysiology, 121, 53-59.

Schirmer, A., Escoffier, N., Li, Q.Y., Li, H., Strafford-Wilson, J., & Li, W.-I. (2008). What grabs his attention but not hers? Estrogen correlates with neurophysiological measures of vocal change detection. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 33, 718-727.

Schirmer, A., Escoffier, N., Zysset, S., Koester, D., Striano, T., & Friederici, A.D. (2008). When vocal processing gets emotional: On the role of social orientation in relevance detection by the human amygdala. NeuroImage, 40, 1402-1410.

Schirmer, A., Escoffier, N., & Simpson, E. (2007). Listen up! Processing of intensity change differs for vocal and nonvocal sounds. Brain Research, 1176, 103-112.

Schirmer, A., Lui, M., Escoffier, N., Maess, B., Chan, M., & Penney, T.B. (2006). Task and sex modulate the brain response to emotional incongruity in Asian listeners. Emotion, 6, 406-417.

Schirmer, A. & Kotz, S.A. (2006). Beyond the right hemisphere: Brain mechanisms mediating vocal emotional processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 24-30.

Schirmer, A., Kotz, S.A., & Friederici, A.D. (2005). On the role of attention for the processing of emotions in speech: Sex differences revisited. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 442-452.

Schirmer, A., Striano, T., & Friederici, A.D. (2005). Sex differences in the pre-attentive processing of vocal emotional expressions. Neuroreport, 16, 635-639.

Schirmer, A., Tang, S.L., Penney, T.B., Gunter, C.T., & Chen, H.C. (2005). Brain responses to segmentally and tonally induced semantic violations in Cantonese. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1-12.

Schirmer, A. (2004). Timing speech: A review of lesion and neuroimaging findings. Cognitive Brain Research, 21, 269-287.

Schirmer, A., Zysset, S., Kotz, S.A., & von Cramon, D.Y. (2004). Gender differences in the activation of inferior frontal cortex during emotional speech perception. NeuroImage, 21, 1114-1123.

Schirmer, A. & Kotz, S.A. (2003). ERP evidence for a gender specific Stroop effect in emotional speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 1135-1148.

Alter, K., Rank, E., Kotz, S.A., Töpel, U., Besson, M., Schirmer, A., & Friederici, A.D. (2003). Affective encoding in the speech signal and in event-related brain potentials. Speech Communication, 40, 61-70.

Schirmer, A., Kotz, S.A., & Friederici, A.D. (2002). Sex differentiates the role of emotional prosody during word processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 14, 228-233.

Schirmer, A., Alter, K., Kotz, S.A., & Friederici, A.D. (2001). Lateralization of prosody during language production: A lesion study. Brain and Language, 76, 1-17.

Book Chapters and Peer-reviewed Proceedings:

Schirmer, A. (in press). Sex differences in emotion. In: Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience. J. Armony & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.) Oxford University Press.

Schirmer, A. & Li, Q. (2009). Electrophysiological correlates of vocal emotional processing in male and female listeners. In: Linguistic Insights 97. M. Gotti (Ed.) Peter Lang Publishing Group: Bern, 193-210.

Schirmer, A., Escoffier, N., & Friederici, A.D. (2008). Out of the spotlight: Neurophsyiological mechanisms underlying the perception of unattended vocal expressions. In: Proceedings of the 4th Speech Prosody Conference, Campinas, Brazil, 211-216.

Schirmer, A. & Simpson, E. (2008). Brain correlates of vocal emotional processing in men and women. In: Emotions in the Human Voice (Volume 1, Foundations). K. Izdebski (Ed.) Plural Publishing: San Diego, 76-86.

Schirmer, A. (2007). Processing words in context: Insights from event-related potentials and functional magnetic resonance imaging. In: Communicating Skills of Intention. T. Sakamoto (Ed.) Hituzi Shobo: Tokyo, 165-174.

Schirmer, A. & Kotz, S.A. (2002). Sex differentiates the Stroop-effect in emotional speech: ERP evidence. In: Proceedings of the 1st Speech Prosody Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, 631-634.

Alter, K., Rank, E., Kotz, S.A., Toepel, U., Besson, M., Schirmer, A., & Friederici, A.D. (2000). Accentuation and emotions – two different systems? In: Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Speech and Emotion, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 138-142.

Alter, K., Schirmer, A., Kotz, S.A., & Friederici, A.D. (1999). Prosodic phrasing and accentuation in speech production of patients with right hemisphere lesions. In: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, 223-226.

Monographs and Books:

Schirmer, A. (2003). Emotional Speech Perception: Electrophysiological Insights into the Processing of Emotional Prosody and Word Valence in Men and Women. MPI Series in Cognitive Neuroscience. Saechsisches Digitaldruck Zentrum: Dresden.

Schirmer, A., Soh, Y.H., Penney, T.B., & Wyse, L. (in press). Perceptual and conceptual priming of environmental sounds. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.