Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Stefanie Höhl

Vice Dean
Head of the Research Unit for Developmental Psychology

T: +43-1-4277-47470

E: stefanie.hoehl@univie.ac.at

Office: 01.15

Office hours: Tuesday, 10.00-11.00, during the semester only. Please arrange an appointment with dorothea.zonka@univie.ac.at

Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology

Liebiggasse 5

1010 Vienna

 Research Interests

  • Neural and behavioral synchrony in social interactions (EEG/ fNIRS-hyperscanning)
  • Functionality of neural rhythms in early development
  • Social learning and communication across development
  • Development of face, emotion and gaze perception

 Professional Experience

Since 09/2017 University of Vienna
Full Professor of Developmental Psychology
2016 - 2019

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Research Group Leader, Max Planck Research Group on Early Social Cognition

04 - 08/2016 University of Wuppertal
Interim Professor for Psychology with a Focus on Neurocognitive Development and Behavioral Regulation
2009 - 2016 Heidelberg University
Researcher and Lecturer, Department for Developmental Psychology and Biological Psychology
2007 - 2008 Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
PhD Student

 Education

12/2013Habilitation
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
12/2008 Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.)
Universität Leipzig
4/2007 Diploma, Psychology
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg

 Awards and Stipends

2014 Distinguished Early Career Award of the International Society on Infant Studies
2011 - 2013 Fast Track Program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung
Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science
2011Klaus-Georg und Sigrid Hengstberger-Prize
for Young Scientists at the University of Heidelberg
2009 Klaus Tschira Award for Achievements in Public Understanding of Science
2007 - 2008 Doctoral stipend granted by the Max Planck Society

 Publications

2023


Nguyen, T., Zimmer, L., & Hoehl, S. (2023). Your turn, my turn. Neural synchrony in mother–infant proto-conversation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1875), Article 20210488. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0488

2022


Xie, S., Hoehl, S., Moeskops, M., Kayhan, E., Kliesch, C., Turtleton, B., Koster, M., & Cichy, R. M. (2022). Visual category representations in the infant brain. Current Biology, 32(24), 5422-5432.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.016

Nguyen, T., Hoehl, S., Bertenthal, B. I., & Abney, D. H. (2022). Coupling between prefrontal brain activity and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in infants and adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 58, Article 101184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101184

Vanoncini, M., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Elsner, B., Hoehl, S., & Kayhan, E. (2022). The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 69, Article 101772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101772