Nussbaum, C., Schirmer, A., & Schweinberger, S.R. (in press). Electrophysiological correlates of vocal emotional processing in musicians and non-musicians. Brain Sciences. 

Nussbaum, C., Schirmer, A., & Schweinberger, S.R. (in press). Musicality ? Tuned to the Melody of Vocal Emotions. The British Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12684

Schirmer, A., Croy, I., & Ackerley, R. (in press). What are C-tactile afferents and how do they relate to ?affective touch?? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105236

Schirmer, A., Lai, O., Cham, C., & Lo, C. (2023). Velocity-tuning of somatosensory EEG predicts the pleasantness of gentle caress. NeuroImage, 265, 119811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119811

Schirmer, A., Cham, C., Lai, O., Le, T.-L. S., & Ackerley, R. (2023). Stroking trajectory shapes velocity effects on pleasantness and other touch percepts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49, 71-86. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001079 

Schirmer, A., Cham, C., Zhao, Z., & Croy, I. (2023). What makes touch comfortable? An examination of touch giving and receiving in two cultures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49, 1392-1407. 

Schirmer, A., Lo, C., & Wijaya, M. (2023). When the music'€™s no good: Rhythms prompt interactional synchrony but impair affective communication outcomes. Communication Research, 50, 30-52.

Nussbaum, C., Schirmer, A., Schweinberger. (2022). Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17, 1145-1154.

Schirmer, A., Cham, C., Zhao, Z., Lai, O., & Croy, I. (2022). Understanding sex differences in affective touch: Sensory pleasantness, social comfort and precursive experiences. Physiology and Behavior, 250, 113797.

Schirmer, A., McGlone, F. (2022). Affective touch—neurobiology and function. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 45, 101129.

Schirmer, A., Croy, I., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2022). Social touch—a tool rather than a signal. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 44, 2352-1546.

Schirmer, A., Lai, O., McGlone, F., Cham, C., Lau, D. (2022). Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17, 864-875. 

Schirmer, A., Chiu, M.H., & Croy, I. (2021). More than one kind: Different sensory signatures and functions divide affectionate touch. Emotion, 21, 1268-1280.

Lo, C., Chu, S.T., Penney, T.B., & Schirmer, A. (2021). 3D hand motion tracking and bottom-up classification sheds light on the physical properties of gentle stroking. Neuroscience, 464, 90-104.

Schirmer, A., Fairhurst, M., & Hoehl, S. (2021). Being '€˜in syn':€“ Is interactional synchrony the key to understanding the social brain? Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 1-4.

Schirmer, A., Wijaya, M., Chiu, M.H., Maess, B., & Gunter, T.C. (2021). Musical rhythm effects on visual attention are non-rhythmical: Evidence against metrical entrainment. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neurosciences, 16, 58-71.

Hoehl, S., Fairhurst, M., & Schirmer, A. (2021). Interactional Synchrony: Signals, Mechanisms, and Benefits. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 5-18.

Schirmer, A., Romero-Garcia, R., Chiu, M.H., Escoffier, N., Penney, T.B., Goh, B., Suckling, J., Tan, J., & Feng, L. (2020). Rhythmic timing in aging adults: On the role of cognitive functioning and structural brain integrity. Psychology and Aging, 35, 1184-1200.

Schirmer, A., Chiu, M.H., Lo, C., Feng, Y., Penney, T.B. (2020). Angry, old, male – and trustworthy? How expressive and person voice characteristics shape listener trust. PLOSOne, 15, e0232431.

Wijaya M., Lau D., Horrocks S., McGlone, F., Ling, H., & Schirmer, A. (2020). The human feel of touch contributes to its perceived pleasantness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46, 155-171.

Trapp, S., Havlicek, O., Schirmer, A., & Keller, P. (2020). When the rhythm disappears and the mind keeps dancing: Sustained effects of attentional entrainment. Psychological Research, 84, 81-87.

Schirmer, A., Feng, Y., Sen, A., & Penney, T.B. (2020). Angry, old, male – and trustworthy? How expressive and person voice characteristics shape listener trust. PloSOne, 14(1), e0210555.

Schirmer, A., Wijaya, M., Wu, E., & Penney, T.B. (2019). Vocal threat enhances visual perception as a function of attention and sex. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 14, 727-735.

Schirmer, A. & McGlone, F. (2019). A touching sight: EEG/ERP correlates for the vicarious processing of affectionate touch. Cortex, 111, 1-15.

Trapp, S., Havlicek, O., Schirmer, A., & Keller, P. (2018). When the rhythm disappears and the mind keeps dancing: Sustained effects of attentional entrainment. Psychological Research.

Schirmer, A., Ng, T., & Ebstein, R. (2018). Vicarious social touch biases gazing at faces and facial emotions. Emotion, 18, 1097-1105.

Sen, A., Isaacowitz, D., & Schirmer, A. (2018). Age differences in vocal emotion perception: On the role of speaker age and listener sex. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 1189-1204.

Schirmer, A. (2018). Is the voice an auditory face? An ALE meta-Analysis comparing vocal and facial emotion processing. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 13, 1-13.

Schirmer, A. & Gunter, T.C. (2017). The right touch: Stroking of CT-innervated skin promotes vocal emotion processing. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 17, 1129-1140. 

Schirmer, A. & Gunter, T.C. (2017). Temporal signatures of processing voiceness and emotion in sound. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neurosciences, 12, 902-909.

Schirmer, A. & Adolphs, R. (2017). Emotion perception from face, voice and touch: Comparison and Convergence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 216-228.

Schirmer, A., Meck, W.H., Penney, T.B. (2016). The socio-temporal brain: Connecting people in time. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 760-772.

Schirmer, A., Ng., T., Escoffier, N., & Penney, T.B. (2016). Emotional voices distort time: behavioral and neural correlates. Timing & Time Perception, 4, 79-98.

Schirmer, A., Escoffier, N., Cheng, X., Feng, Y., & Penney, T. B. (2016). Detecting temporal change in dynamic sounds: on the role of stimulus duration, speed, and emotion. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 2055.

Liu, S., Vanderhasselt, M.-A., Zhou, J., Schirmer, A. (2016). Better not to know: Emotion regulation fails to benefit from affective cuing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 25.

Brauer, J., Xiao, Y., Poulain, T., Friederici, A.D., & Schirmer, A. (2016). Frequency of maternal touch predicts resting activity and connectivity of the developing social brain. Cerebral Cortex, 26, 3544-52.

Reece, C.E., Ebstein, R., Cheng, X., Ng, T., & Schirmer, A. (2016). Data set demonstrating an absence of touch effects on social orienting in adults. Data in Brief, 8, 904-909.

Reece, C.E., Ebstein, R., Cheng, X., Ng, T., & Schirmer, A. (2016). Maternal touch predicts social orienting in young children. Cognitive Development, 39, 128-140.

Schirmer, A. (2016). Editorial of the Special Issue on Emotion and Time Time Perception: In the Heat of the Moment. Timing & Time Perception, 4, 1-6.

Schirmer, A., Wijaya, M., Liu, S. (2016). The Midas effect – How somatosensory impressions shape affect and other-concern. In: Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT-afferents. H. Olausson, J. Wessberg, I., Morrison, F. McGlone (Eds.) Springer.

Swee, G. & Schirmer, A. (2015). On the Importance of Being Vocal: Saying “Ow” Improves Pain Tolerance. The Journal of Pain, 16, 326-334.

Escoffier, N., Herrmann, C.S., & Schirmer, A. (2015). Auditory rhythms entrain visual processes in the human brain: Evidence from evoked oscillations and event-related potentials. NeuroImage, 111, 267-276.

Schirmer, A., Reece, C., Zhao, C., Ng, E., Wu, E., & Yen, S.-C. (2015). Reach out to one and you reach out to many: Social touch affects third party observers. British Journal of Psychology, 106, 107-32.

Schirmer A., Seow, C.S., Penney, T.B. (2013) Humans Process Dog and Human Facial Affect in Similar Ways. PLoS ONE 8(9): e74591. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074591

Schirmer, A. (2013). Sex differences in emotion. In: Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience. J. Armony & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.) Oxford University Press, 591-610.

Schirmer, A., Jesuthasan, S., & Mathuru, A. (2013). Tactile stimulation reduces fear in fish. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7:167.

Escoffier, N., Zhong, J., Schirmer, A., & Qiu, A. (2013). Emotions in voice and music: same code, same effect? Human Brain Mapping, 34, 1796-1810.

Ferdenzi, C., Delplanque, S., Barbosa, P., Court, K., Guinard, J.-X., Guo, T., Roberts, S.C., Schirmer, A., Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., Sander, D., Grandjean, D. (2013). Affective semantic space of scents. Towards a universal scale to measure odor-related feelings. Food Quality and Preference, 30, 128-138.

Schirmer, A. Chen, C.-B., Ching, A., Tan, L., & Hong, R.Y. (2013). Vocal emotions influence verbal memory: Neural correlates and inter-individual differences. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 80-93.

Ferdenzi, C., Roberts, C., Schirmer, A., Delplanque, S., Porcherot-Lassallette, C., Cayeux, I., Velazco, M.-I., Sander, D., Scherer, K.R., & Grandjean, D. (2013). Variability of Affective Responses to Odors: Culture, Gender and Olfactory Knowledge. Chemical Senses, 38, 175-186.

Schirmer, A., Fox, M., & Grandjean, D. (2012). On the spatial organization of sound processing in the human temporal lobe: A meta-analysis. Neuroimage, 63, 137-147.

Lui, M.A., Penney, T.B., Schirmer, A. (2011). Emotion effects on timing: Attention versus pacemaker accounts. PLoS ONE, 6.

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.

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.

Schirmer, A. (2011). How emotions change time. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 5:58.

Lui, M.A., Penney, T.B., & Schirmer, A. (2011). Emotion effects on timing: Attention versus pacemaker accounts. PloS One, e21829.

Min, C.S. & Schirmer, A. (2011). Perceiving verbal and vocal emotions in a second language. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 1376-92.

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.

Penney, T.B., Vaitilingam L., Liu, S. (2010). Implicit Timing. In Srinivasan, N., Kar, B.R., & Pandey, J. (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Science: Volume 2. Sage.

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. & 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., Vijayakumar, R., Teh, K.S., Nithianantham, D.,on. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 33, 718-727.

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

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., Lui, M., Maess, B., Eiscoffier, N., 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., 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., 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., 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. & 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.

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.

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.