• Dipl.-Psych. 1998, 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?”

• 2009: Thuringian Research Prize for Basic Research („Thüringer Forschungspreis für Grundlagenforschung“, together with Stefan R. Schweinberger & Holger Wiese)
• 2004: British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship (2004-2007)

• Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) and the Society for Research in Autism Spectrum Conditions (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Autismus Spektrum, WGAS)

• Acta Psychologica
• Advances in Cognitive Psychology
• Applied Cognitive Psychology
• Applied Psychology
• Biological Psychology
• BMC Neuroscience
• Brain & Language
• Brain & Cognition
• Brain Research
• British Journal of Psychology
• Cerebral Cortex
• Cognition
• Cognition and Emotion
• Cortex
• Current Psychology Letters
• European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
• Experimental Brain Research
• Experimental Psychology
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
• Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Journal of Vision
• Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
• Memory & Cognition
• NeuroImage
• Neuropsychologia
• Neuropsychology
• Neuroreport
• Neuroscience Letters
• Perception
• PLOS One
• Psychological Research
• Psychophysiology
• Psychological Science
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
• Scientific Reports
• Social, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience
• Vision Research
• Visual Cognition

• Agence National de la Recherche, (ANR), France
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Germany
• European Research Council (ERC), European Union
• German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), Germany & Israel
• Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (H.F.R.I.), Greece
• National Science Foundation (NSF), USA

• 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

• Face learning and recognition
• Neural correlates of face and voice recognition
• Person recognition
• Multi-modal integration of person related information
• Individual differences in face learning and recognition
• Interhemispheric communication and cooperation
• Affective processing of faces

Methods used: EEG, MEG as well as classical behavioural methods of experimental psychology

• Kaufmann, J.M. (2024). Conference travel grant, European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 0002724648-2.
• Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (January 2014-June 2017). Individual Differences in Face Learning and Recognition. Research Grant, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), KA 2997/3-2.
• Zäske, R., Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (October 2012-September 2014). Determinants of Voice Learning. Research Grant within the Research Unit “Person Perception“. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), ZA 745/1-1.
• 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 within the 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.

Papers in peer-reviewed journals:

Sperl, L., Schröger, A., Kaufmann, J. M., & Kreysa, H. (2024). Mental representation of words and concepts in late multilingualism A replication and extension of the Revised Hierarchical Model. The  Mental Lexicon. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.23018.spe

Ficco, L., Li, C., Kaufmann, J. M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Kovács, G. Z. (2024). Investigating the neural effects of typicality and predictability for face and object stimuli. PLOS ONE, 19(5), e0293781. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293781

Dastgheib, S. S., Wang, W. B., Kaufmann, J. M., Moratti, S., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2024). Mu-Suppression Neurofeedback Training Targeting the Mirror Neuron System: A Pilot Study. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-024-09643-4

Kruse, U., Kaufmann, J. M., Seidel, F., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras: results from six German police departments. Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 88, 102113, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2023.102113

Schroeger, A., Ficco, L., Wuttke, S. J., Kaufmann, J. M., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023).
Differences between high and low performers in face recognition in electrophysiological correlates of face familiarity and distance-to-norm, Biological Psychology, Volume 182, 2023, 108654, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108654

Zäske, R., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2023). Neural Correlates of Voice Learning with Distinctive and Non-Distinctive Faces. Brain Sciences, 13, 637. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13040637

Ficco, L., Müller, V. I., Kaufmann, J. M., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). Socio-cognitive, expertise-based and appearance-based accounts of the other-‘race’ effect in face perception: A label-based systematic review of neuroimaging results. British Journal of Psychology, 114, Suppl. 1, Special Issue, 45-69. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12595

Schroeger, A., Kaufmann, J. M., Zaske, R., Kovacs, G., Klos, T., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2022). Atypical prosopagnosia following right hemispheric stroke: A 23-year follow-up study with MT. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 39(3-4), 196-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2022.2119838

Limbach, K., Itz, M. L., Schweinberger, S. R., Jentsch, A. D., Romanova, L., & Kaufmann, J. M. (2022). Neurocognitive effects of a training program for poor face recognizers using shape and texture caricatures: A pilot investigation. Neuropsychologia, 165. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108133

Zhou, X. M., Itz, M. L., Vogt, S., Kaufmann, J. M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Mondloch, C. J. (2021). Similar use of shape and texture cues for own- and other-race faces during face learning and recognition. Vision Research, 188, 32-41. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2021.06.014

Sperl, L., Ambrus, G. G., Kaufmann, J. M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Canal-Bruland, R. (2021). Electrophysiological correlates underlying interference control in motor tasks. Biological Psychology, 163. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108138

Sperl, L., Ruttloff, J. M., Ambrus, G. G., Kaufmann, J. M., Canal-Bruland, R., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2021). Effects of motor restrictions on preparatory brain activity. Experimental Brain Research, 239(11), 3189-3203. doi:10.1007/s00221-021-06190-w

Ritter, V., Kaufmann, J. M., Krahmer, F., Wiese, H., Stangier, U., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2020). Neural Correlates of Own- and Other-Face Perception in Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00302

Limbach, K., Kaufmann, J.M., Wiese, H., Witte, O., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2018). Enhancement of face-sensitive ERPs in older adults induced by face recognition training. Neuropsychologia, 119:197-213. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.08.010. Epub 2018 Aug 13.

Estudillo, A.J., Kaufmann, J.M., Bindemann, M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2018). Multisensory Stimulation Modulates Perceptual and Post-perceptual Face Representations: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. European Journal of Neuroscience, Sep; 48(5):2259-2271. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14112

Itz, M.L., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2018). Familiar Face Priming: The Role of Second-Order Configuration and Individual Face RecognitionAbilities. Perception, 47(2), 185-196. doi: 10.1177/0301006617742069. Epub 2017 Nov 22.

Kaufmann, J. M., Vogt, S., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2018). The big nose bias, or when distinctiveness hinders face learning: Evoking an other-race effect with selectively manipulated same-race faces. Journal of Vision, 18(10). doi:10.1167/18.10.1101

Itz, M.L., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2017). Caricature generalization benefits for faces learned with enhanced idiosyncratic shape or texture. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 17(1), 185-197, doi: 10.3758/s13415-016-0471-y.

Itz, M.L., Golle, J., Luttmann, S., Schweinberger, S. R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2017). Dominance of texture over shape in facial identity processing is modulated by individual abilities. British Journal of Psychology, 108(2), 369-396. doi:10.1111/bjop.12199

Faerber, S.J., Kaufmann, J.M., Leder, H., Martin, E.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2016). The Role of Familiarity for Representations in Norm-Based Face Space. PLoS ONE, 11(5). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155380

Itz, M.L., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2016). Effects of Caricaturing in Shape or Color on Familiarity Decisions for Familiar and Unfamiliar Faces.  PLoS ONE 11(2): e0149796. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149796

Faerber, S. J., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2015). Early temporal negativity is sensitive to perceived (rather than physical) facial identity. Neuropsychologia, 75, 132-142. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.023

Burton, A. M., Schweinberger, S., Jenkins, R., Kaufmann, J.M. (2015). Arguments against a ‘configural processing’ account of familiar face recognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(4), 482-496. doi:10.1177/1745691615583129

Itz, M.L., Schweinberger, S.R., Schulz, C., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2014). Neural correlates of facilitations in face learning by selective caricaturing of facial shape or reflectance.NeuroImage, 102, 736-747, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.042

Wiese, H., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2014), The Neural Signature of the Own-Race Bias: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Cerebral Cortex, 24(3), 826-835.

Zäske, R., Skuk, V.G., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2013). Perceiving vocal age and gender: An adaptation approach. Acta Psychologica, 144(3), 583-593

Kaufmann, J.M., Schulz, C., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2013). High and low performers differ in the use of shape information for face recognition. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1310-1319.

Schulz, C., Kaufmann, J.M., Kurt, A., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012). Faces Forming Traces: Neurophysiological Correlates of Learning Naturally Distinctive and Caricatured Faces. NeuroImage 63, 491-500.

Schulz. C., Kaufmann, J.M., Walther, L. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012) Effects of anticaricaturing vs. caricaturing and their neural correlates elucidate a role of shape for face learning. Neuropsychologia, 50, 2426-2434.

Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012). The faces you remember: Caricaturing shape facilitates brain processes reflecting the acquisition of new face representations.Biological Psychology, 89, 21-33.

Blickhan, M., Kaufmann, J.M., Denzler, J. Schweinberger, S.R.& Redies, C (2011). 1/fp Characteristics of the Fourier Power Spectrum Affects ERP Correlates of Face Learning and Recognition. Biological Psychology, 88, 204-214.

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.

Talks and conference contributions (last 10 years only):

Kaufmann, J.M. (2022). The other-“race” effect in face perception. Talk presented at the Research Seminars of the Institute for Psychology, University of Würzburg, Germany, December 12th, 2022.

Kaufmann, J.M. (2022). Aplicando potentiales evocados para la investigación de percepción de caras. Talk presented at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina, 19th August 2022.

Kaufmann, J.M. (2022). Percepción en personas: Investigaciónes con potentiales evocados. Talk presented at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina, 27th July 2022.

Kaufmann, J.M., Zhou, X, Itz, M.L., Vogt. S., Schweinberger, S.R., & Mondloch, C. (2022). Contributions of shape and texture to learning and recognition of same and other-“race” face. Talk presented at the 64th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2022, Köln, Germany. 

Kaufmann, J.M., Zhou, X, Itz, M.L., Vogt. S., Schweinberger, S.R., & Mondloch, C. (2022). Contributions of shape and texture to learning and recognition of same and other-“race” face. Talk presented at the 64th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2022, Köln, Germany. 

Dastgheib, S.S., Kaufmann, J.M., Moratti, S., & Schweinberger, S.R (2022). Event-related oscillations in human social interaction and action observation. Poster presented at the 64th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2022, Köln, Germany.

Ficco, L., Müller. V.I., Kaufmann, J.M.,  & Schweinberger, S.R (2022). Socio-cognitive, expertise-based and appearance-based accounts of the other -“race” effect in face perception a label-based systematic review of neuroimaging results. Poster presented at the 64th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2022, Köln, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M. (2022). News from the other-“race” effect. Talked presented at Brain Talks, Department of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, February, 3rd, 2022.

Schweinberger, S., von Eiff, C., Kaufmann, J., Kowallik, A., Nussbaum, C., Tsuchiya, A., & Skuk, V. (2021). Parameter-specific face and voice morphing: perspectives for investigating emotional and social perception and interaction. Psychophysiology, 58, S4-S4.

Sperl, L., Ambrus, G.G., Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R., Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Dealing with undesired motor automatisms: What EEG can tell us about the cognitive processes underlying successful interference control. Short presentation at the 63th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2021, Ulm, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R., Frister, M. (2020). The so-called other-“race” effect in face memory: A question of appearance.  62nd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2020, Jena, Germany.

Schweinberger, S.R., Von Eiff, C., Kaufmann, J.M, Skuk, V.G. (2020). Parameter-specific face and voice morphing: Perspectives for investigating emotional and identity processing. 62nd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2020, Jena, Germany.

Sperl, L, Kaufmann, J.M., Kreysa, H. (2020). Several languages in the mind – On the architecture of the multilingual mental lexicon. 62nd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2020, Jena, Germany.

Schroeger, A., Wuttke, S.J., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2020). Electrophysiological correlates of distance-to-norm and familiarity in face perception in high and low performers in face recognition. 62nd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2020, Jena, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2020). When distinctiveness hinders face learning: Evoking an other–“race” effect with selectively manipulated same–“race” faces. Annual Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society. Department of Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences, University College London, UK, January 8-10, 2020.

Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2019). The big nose bias, or when distinctiveness hinders face learning: Evoking an other–phenotype effect with selectively manipulated same–phenotype faces. 4th Understanding Others Workshop, Munich, March 28–29, 2019.

Kaufmann, J.M., Vogt, S., Schweinberger, S.R. (2018). The big nose bias, or when distinctiveness hinders face learning: Evoking an “other-race effect” with selectively manipulated same-race faces. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2018, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Kaufmann, J.M. (2018). Some thoughts (and data) on familiar and unfamiliar face processing. Talked presented at Brain Talks, Department of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, January, 20th, 2018.

Kaufmann, J.M., Itz, M.L., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2016). Individual differences in the contribution of shape and texture to the recognition of personally familiar faces. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2016, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Itz, M.L., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2016). The reverse caricature effect for faces caricatured in shape or texture . Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2016, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Kaufmann, J.M., Itz, M.L., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2016). Individual differences in the contribution of shape and texture to personally familiar face recognition. Talk presented at the 58th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2016, Heidelberg, Germany.

Itz, M.L., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2016). Individual differences and the influence of second-order configuration on familiar face recognition: A priming study. Poster presented at the 58th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2016, Heidelberg, Germany.

Limbach, K., Kaufmann, J.M., Wiese, H. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2016). Electrocortical correlates of training face recognition in older adults. Poster presentat at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), June 2016, Geneva, Switzerland.

Kaufmann, J.M., Itz, M.L., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2015). Processing identity information from faces. Talk presented at the 12th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Person Perception: Current topics and perspectives“, October 15-16, 2015, Jena, Germany.

Itz, M.L., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2015). Encoding of faces caricatured in shape or reflectance improves recognition of veridical counterparts. Talk presented at the 12th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Person Perception: Current topics and perspectives“, October 15-16, 2015, Jena, Germany.

Faerber, S., Kaufmann, J.M., Leder, H., Martin, E.M. &  Schweinberger, S.R. (2015). Impact of familiarity on representations in norm-based face space. Talk presented at the 12th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Person Perception: Current topics and perspectives“, October 15-16, 2015, Jena, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M., End, A., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2015). Individual differences in the activation of mental representations of famous faces by lookalikes. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2015, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Itz, M.L., Golle, J., Luttmann, S., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2015). Dominance of reflectance over shape in facial identity processing is related to individual abilities. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2015, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Faerber, S., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2015). Face recognition: Early temporal negativity is Sensitive to Perceived (rather than Physical) Facial Identity. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2015, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Kaufmann, J.M. (2015). Individual differences in person recognition. Talk presented at the 11th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Human communication: From person perception to social action“, April 9-10, 2015, Jena, Germany.

Itz, L.M., Romanova, L., Schlüter, H., Wanke, N., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2015). Evidence for a reverse caricature effect for newly learned caricatures of shape or reflectance. Poster presented at the 11th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Human communication: From person perception to social action“, April 9-10, 2015, Jena, Germany.

Faerber, S., Kaufmann, J.M., Leder, H., &  Schweinberger, S.R. (2014). Attractiveness, distinctiveness and typicality in face-space: Perception of familiar and unfamiliar faces and their anti-faces. Poster presented at the 10th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Person impression, emotions and social cognitive neuroscience“, October 9-10, 2014, Jena, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schulz, C., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2014). Effects of caricaturing featural vs. configural information in good and poor face recognizers: An ERP study. Poster presented at the 9th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “From cortical areas to social functions“, April 4-5, 2014, Jena, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schulz., C., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2014). Individual differences in effects of caricaturing featural vs. configural information: An ERP study. Poster presented at  the 56th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2014, Gießen, Germany.

Itz, M.L., Luttman, S., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2014). Surface reflectance dominates shape information for face matching and recognition. Poster presented at the 56th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2014, Gießen, Germany.

Faerber, S., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2014). The face sensitive N250r ERP component is associated with perceived (rather than physical) facial identity. Poster presented at the 56th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2014, Gießen, Germany.

End, A., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2014). Individual differences in the activation of mental representations of famous faces by lookalikes: an ERP study. Poster presented at the 56th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2014, Gießen, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M. (2014). Face recognition. Talk presented at the Regional Meeting of the Society for Neuropsychology (Gesellschaft für Neuropsychologie, GNP), at the Neurologische Klinik Bad Neustadt. February 2014, Bad Neustadt, Germany.

Faerber, S., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2013). Evidence for dominance of surface reflectance and tolerance for violations of shape in face matching and recognition. Poster presented at the 8th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Foundations of person perception: Trends in cognition and  neuroscience“, October 10-11, 2013, Jena, Germany

Zäske, R., Kaufmann, J.M., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2013). Neural correlates of voice learning with distinctive and non-distinctive faces. Poster presented at the 8th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Foundations of person perception: Trends in cognition and  neuroscience“, October 10-11, 2013, Jena, Germany.

Itz, M.L., Luttman, S., Schweinberger, S.R., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2013). Evidence for dominance of surface reflectance and tolerance for violations of shape in face matching and recognition. Poster presented at the 8th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Foundations of person perception: Trends in cognition and  neuroscience“, October 10-11, 2013, Jena, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schierz, K., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2013). Recognizing familiar faces: Evidence for average and instance based mental representations. Talk presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), October 2-6, Florence, Italy.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schulz.C., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2013). Individual differences in the use of shape information for face recognition. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Annual Meeting, April 2013, San Francisco, USA.

Schweinberger, S.R. Plötner, Schulz.C., Neyer, F.J., & Kaufmann, J.M. (2013). Individual differences and neural correlates of learning faces with caricatured inner or outer features. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Annual Meeting, April 2013, San Francisco, USA.

Kaufmann, J.M., Mayer, A., Schulz, C., Neyer, F.J., Schweinberger, S.R. (2013). Individual differences in face learning and recognition, Poster presented at the 7th International Workshop of the DFG Research Unit Person Perception, “Person Perception Preserved and Impaired: Neuroscientific, Clinical, Experimental and Computational Evidence”, April 26-27, 2013, Jena, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schierz, K. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2013). Recognizing familiar faces: Evidence for average and instance based mental representations. Talk presented at  the 55th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2013, Vienna, Austria.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schulz, C, Zäske, R. & Schweinberger, R. (2012). ERP correlates of learning faces and persons. Paper presented at the 8 th Congress of the Spanish Society for Psychophysiology and Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SEPNECA), July 2012, Barcelona, Spain.

Zäske, R. & Kaufmann, J.M. (2012). Neural correlates of voice learning with distinctive and non-distinctive faces. Poster presented at the joint Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen (DGPA) and the Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), “Psychologie und Gehirn”, June 2012, Jena, Germany, .

Schulz, C., Kaufmann, J.M., Walther, L. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012).Effekte räumlicher Antikarikierung und Karikierung auf das Lernen von Gesichtern (2012). Poster presented at the joint Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen (DGPA) and the Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), “Psychologie und Gehirn”, Jena, Germany, June 2012.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schulz, C, Preis, A. & Schweinberger, R. (2012). More than average: ERP correlates of learning attractive faces, Poster presented at the joint Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen (DGPA) and the Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), “Psychologie und Gehirn”, Jena, Germany, June 2012.

Kaufmann, J.M., Itz, M., Schulz, C. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012). Neural correlates of learning and recognizing faces caricatured in shape or texture. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2012, Naples, Florida, USA.

Schulz, C., Kaufmann, J.M. , Walther, L. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012). Effects of spatial caricaturing and anti-caricaturing on face learning (2012). Poster presented at the 12 th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, USA, May 2012.

Wiese, H., Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. Neural correlates of the own-race bias in face recognition memory: Evidence from event-related potentials. Paper presented at the 12 th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, USA, May 2012.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R. (2012). Individual Differences in Person Recognition. Symposium (Chair) at the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), April 2012, Mannheim, Germany.

Kaufmann, J.M., Schulz, C, & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012). Effects of caricaturing face shape in poor and good face recognizers. Paper presented at the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), April 2012, Mannheim, Germany.

Schulz, C., Kaufmann, J.M., Walther, L. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012). Effects of spatial caricaturing and anti-caricaturing on face learning. Paper presented at the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), April 2012, Mannheim, Germany.

Itz, M.L., Kaufmann, J.M. Schulz, C. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012). Effects of caricaturing shape and texture on face learning: An ERP study. Poster presented at the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), April 2012, Mannheim, Germany.

Oehler, K., Schulz, C., Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2012). Learning faces vs. learning images: Effects of stimulus variability on face learning and recognition. Poster presented at the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), April 2012, Mannheim, Germany.

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.in Psychology):

• Perception, Attention & Conciousness (Lecture)
• Experimental Psychology (Empirical Research Seminar)
• Bachelorpropädeutikum
• Supervision of bachelor theses

Master of Science (M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience):

• Seminar “Person perception”
• Seminar “Basic and applied aspects of perception”
• Seminar “Basic and applied aspects of perception and memory: Forensic aspects of eyewitness testimony”
• Project seminars in General Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences
• Supervision of student research projects and master theses

Diplom-Psychologie:

• Forschungsorientierte Vertiefung: Affektive Verarbeitung von Gesichtern
• Forschungsorientierte Vertiefung: Personenwahrnehmung
• Forschungsorientierte Vertiefung: Erwerb mentaler Gesichterrepräsentationen
• Forschungsorientierte Vertiefung: Soziale Signale in Gesichtern
• Empirisches Forschungsseminar
• Begleitseminar zur Vorlesung “Gedächtnis, Denken und Sprache”
• Supervision of diploma theses

Ph.D. students:

• Supervision of post-graduate research projects