Kroczek, Leon - Universität Regensburg

Kroczek Leon Mpi 3329 Portra

Postadresse	Universität Regensburg Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie Prof. Dr. Andreas Mühlberger Universitätsstr. 31 93053 Regensburg
Adresse	Universität Regensburg Gebäude PT - Raumnr. 4.0.37 Universitätsstr. 31 93053 Regensburg
Telefon	+ 49 (0)941 943-6044
E-Mail	leon.kroczek@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de
Homepage	leonkroczek.netlify.app/
Twitter	https://twitter.com/LeonKroczek
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Akademische Ausbildung

2019

Promotion Psychologie: Dr. rer. nat.

Dissertation: "The impact of speaker information on language processing"

Ausgezeichnet mit der Otto-Hahn-Medaille der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

2013

Diplom Psychologie

Diplomarbeit: "May I get a beat with that? Neural correlates of gesture-syntax interaction"

2008 - 2013

Studium der Psychologie an der Universität Regensburg

Berufliche Tätigkeit

seit 2021	Akademischer Rat auf Zeit Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie Universität Regensburg
2018 - 2020	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie Universität Regensburg
2013 - 2018	Doktorand Abteilung Neuropsychologie, Prof. Friederici, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig
2012	Praktikum Bergen fMRI Group, Prof. Hugdahl, Bergen, Norwegen
2011 - 2012	Studentische Hilfskraft Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie, Prof. Bäuml, Universität Regensburg - Studentische Hilfskraft
2011	Praktikum Abteilung Neuropsychologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Prof. Friederici, Leipzig

Forschungsinteressen

Kommunikation und soziale Interaktion

Emotionales Lernen

Angst und Angststörungen

Funktionelle Bildgebung

Elektrophysiologie

Virtuelle Realität

Publikationen

Kroczek, L. O. H., Roßkopf, S., Stärz, F., Blau, M., van de Par, S., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(9), 918–933. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001222

Kroczek, L. O. H., Lingnau, A., Schwind, V., Wolff, C., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Observers predict actions from facial emotional expressions during real-time social interactions. Behavioural Brain Research, 471, 115126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2024.115126

Aspöck, L., Fels, J., Frank, M., Bertsch, M., Mühlberger, A., Kroczek, L., Roßkopf, S., Seeber, B. U., Llorca-Bofí, J., Vorländer, M., Sladeczek, C., Bergner, J., Hock, K., Rodigast, R., Bös, J., Zotter, F., Sharma, G. K., Stellbrink, M., Weinzierl, S., Amengual Garí, S. V. (2024). Anwendungen der Virtuellen Akustik. Akustik Journal,1,16-26.

Schröder, B., Kroczek, A., Kroczek, L. O. H., Ehlis, A. C., Batra, A., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Cigarette craving in virtual reality cue exposure in abstainers and relapsed smokers. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 7538.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58168-7

Schroën, J. A., Gunter, T. C., Numssen, O., Kroczek, L. O. H., Hartwigsen, G., & Friederici, A. D. (2023). Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(47), e2306279120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306279120

Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Public speaking training in front of a supportive audience in Virtual Reality improves performance in real-life. Scientific Reports, 13, 13968. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41155-9

Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Time to Smile: How Onset Asynchronies Between Reciprocal Facial Expressions Influence the Experience of Responsiveness of a Virtual Agent. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-023-00430-z

Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2022). Returning a smile: Initiating a social interaction with a facial emotional expression influences the evaluation of the expression received in return. Biological Psychology, 108453.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108453

Kroczek, L.O.H., Böhme, S. & Mühlberger, A. (2022). Face masks reduce interpersonal distance in virtual reality. Scientific Reports, 12, 2213. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06086-x

Pfaller, M., Kroczek, L.O.H., Lange, B., Fülöp, R., Müller, M. & Mühlberger, A. (2021) Social Presence as a Moderator of the Effect of Agent Behavior on Emotional Experience in Social Interactions in Virtual Reality. Front. Virtual Real. 2:741138. doi: 10.3389/frvir.2021.741138

Kroczek, L. O. H., Lingnau, A., Schwind, V., Wolff, C., & Mühlberger, A. (2021). Angry facial expressions bias towards aversive actions. Plos one, 16(9), e0256912. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256912

Kroczek, L. O.H., & Gunter, T. C. (2021). The time course of speaker-specific language processing. Cortex, 141, 311-321. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.017

Biehl, S. C., Schmidmeier, M., Wechsler, T. F., Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2021). Widespread Recommendations Can Change Our Habits of Hand-Washing and Physical Distance During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 3(1), 1-12. doi.org/10.32872/cpe.3061

Kroczek, L. O. H., Pfaller, M., Lange, B., Müller, M., & Mühlberger, A. (2020). Interpersonal Distance During Real-Time Social Interaction: Insights From Subjective Experience, Behavior, and Physiology. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 561.doi.org10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00561

Kroczek, L. O. H., & Gunter, T. C. (2020). Distinct neural networks relate to common and speaker-specific language priors. Cerebral Cortex Communications, tgaa021.doi.org10.1093/texcom/tgaa021

Kroczek, L.O.H., Gunter, T.C., Rysop, A.U., Friederici, A.D., and Hartwigsen, G. (2019). Contributions of left frontal and temporal cortex to sentence comprehension: Evidence from simultaneous TMS-EEG. Cortex 115, 86-98. doi.org10.1016/j.cortex.2019.01.010.

Kroczek, L.O.H., Gunter, T. C. (2017) Communicative predictions can overrule linguistic priors. Scientific Reports, 7, 17581. doi.org10.1038/s41598-017-17907-9

Hochschulschriften

Kroczek, L. O. H. (2019). The impact of speaker information on language processing. Dissertation, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig.

Kroczek, L. (2013): May I get a beat with that? Neural correlates of gesture-syntax interaction. Diplomarbeit, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg.

Vorträge

Kroczek, L.O.H. (2023). Investigating Reciprocity in Face-to-Face Dyadic Interaction in Virtual Reality. XR-Meeting Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.

Kroczek, L.O.H. (2023). From reality into the lab (and back again): Mechanisms of social interaction in Virtual Reality. Institute Colloquium of the psychological institute at Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

Kroczek, L.O.H. (2022). How reciprocity shapes social interactions: Insights from Virtual Reality.Tagung Psychologie und Gehirn, Freiburg i. B., Germany.

Kroczek, L.O.H. (2022). Social Context Conditioning in Virtual Reality. Eurpopean Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning, Virtual/Radboud, Netherlands.

Kroczek, L.O.H. (2021). How facial emotions affect action understanding during social interactions: Insights from action recognition and experience in Virtual Reality. Tagung Psychologie und Gehirn, Tübingen, Germany.

Kroczek, L.O.H. (2019). Returning a smile: The impact of social interaction on the processing of facial emotions. Hengstenberg Symposium on Social Interaction, Heidelberg, Germany.

Kroczek, L.O.H. (2014): Neural correlates of gesture-syntax interaction. 12th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society, Tübingen, Germany.