Stefanie Peykarjou
Hauptstr. 47-51 06221-547578
69117 Heidelberg, Germany stefanie.peykarjou@psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de
EDUCATION
PhD student in Cotutelle (binational), Face Categorization Lab, Université Catholique Since Mar 2013 de Louvain, Belgium
Advisor: Dr. Bruno Rossion
PhD student in Cotutelle (binational), Developmental and Biological Psychology, Since Mar 2013 Heidelberg University, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen
Master of Science, Developmental and Clinical Psychology Feb 2013 Heidelberg University, Department of Developmental and Biological Psychology
9-month-old infants’ categorization of monkey faces: A rapid repetition ERP study Advisors: Dr. Stefanie Hoehl and Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen
Grade: 1.1
Bachelor of Science, Psychology Aug 2010 Heidelberg University, Department of Developmental and Biological Psychology
A face is not a car! – An ERP study on face-specific processing of 3-month-old infants Advisors: Dr. Stefanie Hoehl and Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen
Grade 1.3
Abitur (equivalent to A-Levels) Jun 2006 Berufskolleg Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
Grade 1.0
SKILLS
Matlab (basic), Presentation (basic), ERPlab (basic), BrainVision Analyzer, Letswave, Interact, SPSS Fluent in English, basic in French and Farsi
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Researcher
Face Categorization Lab, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Since Oct 2013 (Dr. Bruno Rossion)
Department of Developmental and Biological Psychology, Heidelberg University, Germany Since Mar 2013 (Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen)
Research Internships
Institute for Family Therapy, Heidelberg, Germany Jan – Apr 2012 (Prof. Dr. Manfred Cierpka)
Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital Boston, US Sept – Nov 2011 (Prof. Dr. Charles Nelson)
Department of Developmental and Biological Psychology, Heidelberg University, Germany Oct 2008 – Mar 2009 (Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen)
Clinical Internships
Social-Pediatric Center, University Clinic, Heidelberg, Germany Aug – Oct 2010 (Dr. Gitta Reuner)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Clinic, Heidelberg, Germany Aug 2009 – Jan 2010 (Dr. Johann Haffner)
Research Assistant Apr 2009 – Feb 2013 Department of Developmental and Biological Psychology, Heidelberg University, Germany
(Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewer for BMC Neuroscience, Psychology Research, and Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Certificate as nursery nurse (Staatlich Anerkannte Erzieherin), BK Castrop-Rauxel, Germany Jun 2007 Grade: 1.0
HONORS AND AWARDS
Recipient of VSS travel award, Vision Sciences Society May 2014
Recipient of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique PhD scholarship, FNRS, Belgium Oct 2013 – Sept 2015 Recipient of travel award (SRCD conference), Graduate Academy Heidelberg, Germany Apr 2013 Recipient of student scholarship, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V., Germany Oct 2007 – Feb 2013
Memberships
Member of the International Society for Infant Studies (ISIS), of the Society for Since 2014 Psychophysiological Research (SPR), and the Vision Sciences Society (VSS)
Member of the German Psychology Association (DGPs) Since 2011 Professional Groups: Developmental Psychology, Biological Psychology
Funding
VW foundation. Researcher in project “Knowledge through Interaction: Mar 2013 – Sept 2015 Developing Knowledge about persons, objects, and the self” (“Erkenntnis durch
Interaktion: Die Entwicklung von Wissen über Personen, Objekte und das Selbst”)
Teaching
Master Seminar: “Intelligence in infants and toddlers” Oct 2014 – Mar 2015 Lecturer for the Empirical Internship: ERP Studies on Face Categorization; Apr 2013 – Sept 2015
Behavioral studies on the Development of Fairness, Executive Functions & Face Processing
Master Seminar “Nature and Nurture: The Influence of Innate Factors and Apr – Aug 2014 Environment on Development“
Supervision of M.sc. thesis: Alexandra Huh Oct 2013 – Aug 2014 Master Seminar “Observing and Documenting Development Using MONDEY” Oct 2013 – Mar 2014
(“Entwicklungsbeobachtung und –dokumentation mit MONDEY”)
Lecturer of the MONDEY (Milestones of Normal Development in Early Years) Education Team Since Jan 2012 Courses for nursery nurses, day-care teachers, and parents
Publication list attached.
11/11/2014
Publication list
Peer-reviewed Journals
Peykarjou, S., de Heering, A., Hoehl, S., Pauen, S., & Rossion, B. (in preparation). Face race classification as
revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation.
Peykarjou, S., Pauen, S., & Hoehl, S. (in preparation). ERP repetition effects for individual faces in 9-month-
old infants?
Peykarjou, S., Wissner, J., & Pauen, S. (under review). Categorical repetition effects for humans and furniture items
in 7-month-old infants.
Peykarjou, S., Pauen, S., & Hoehl, S. (2014). How do 9-month-old infants categorize human and ape faces? A rapid
repetition ERP study. Psychophysiology, 51(9), 8668-78, doi: 10.1111/psyp.12238.
Peykarjou, S. (2013). What makes faces special for babies?. Howbabieslearn. URL:
http://www.howbabieslearn.com/blog/2013/11/what-makes-faces-special-for-babies/
(Invited Paper)
Peykarjou, S. & Hoehl, S. (2013). Three-month-olds’ brain responses to upright and inverted faces and cars.
Developmental Neuropsychology, 38(4), 272-80, doi: 10.1080/87565641.2013.786719.
Peykarjou, S., Westerlund, A., Macchi Cassia, V., Kuefner, D. & Nelson, C. A. (2013). The neural correlates of
processing newborn and adult faces in 3-year-old children. Developmental Science 16(6), 905-14, doi:
10.1111/desc.12063.
Hoehl, S. & Peykarjou, S. (2012). The early development of face-processing – What makes faces special?
Neuroscience Bulletin, 28(6), 765-88, doi: 10.1007/s12264-012-1280-0. (Invited Paper)
Non-peer-reviewed Journals
Eickhorst, A. & Peykarjou, S. (2012). Väter in den Frühen Hilfen – Erfahrungen, Chancen und Herausforderungen.
Frühe Kindheit.
Eickhorst, A. & Peykarjou, S. (2012). Väter in den Frühen Hilfen – Herausforderungen und Chancen.
Info_Dienst für Gesundheitsförderung, 12(1).
Invited Talks
Peykarjou, S. & Hoehl, S. (2012). Distinguishing faces – Do infants process human faces in a special way?. Talk,
Conference “Thirty years of research on face processing”, September, Dijon, France.
Eickhorst, A. & Peykarjou, S. (2012). Wie können Väter im Projekt “Keiner fällt durchs Netz” erreicht werden?
– Chancen und Herausforderungen in den Frühen Hilfen. Talk, 17th Congress “Armut und Gesundheit”,
March, Berlin, Germany.
Eickhorst, A. & Peykarjou, S. (2012). Wie können Väter im Projekt “Keiner fällt durchs Netz” erreicht werden?
- Chancen und Herausforderungen in den Frühen Hilfen. Talk, Congress „‘Was früh hilft…‘ Aktuelle
rechtliche und fachliche Entwicklungen bei Frühen Hilfen“, March, Bad Segeberg, Germany.
Talks
Peykarjou, S. (2014). Multimodal concepts in infancy. Talk, VW Project Meeting October, Neresheim, Germany.
Michel, C., Striano, T., Peykarjou, S., Bechtel, S., Pauen, S., & Hoehl, S. (2014). Unterschiede in der
Reaktion auf vertraute und fremde Gesichter bei Vorschülern. Talk, DGPS Congress, September, Bochum,
Germany.
Peykarjou, S. (2014). ERP evidence: The development of knowledge about persons and objects. Talk, VW
Project Meeting April, Heidelberg, Germany.
Peykarjou, S. (2013). Neural correlates of categorization and ostensive voice cues in infants. Talk, VW Project
Meeting October, Heidelberg, Germany.
Peykarjou, S. (2013). Social-cognitive processing during infancy. Talk, PhD Workshop, June, Munich,
Germany.
Peykarjou, S. (2013). Infants’ representation of faces on different levels of categorization. Talk, Seminary Series of the
Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences, May, Heidelberg, Germany.
Peykarjou, S. (2013). Infants’ representation of faces on different levels of categorization. Preconference Talk,
Face Processing Meeting, SRCD, April, Seattle, US.
Peykarjou, S. (2013). Human Voice or Ostensive Cue – An ERP priming paradigm. Talk, VW Project Meeting
March, Munich, Germany.
Peykarjou, S. (2013). Do infants process human faces in a special way? Application of an ERP rapid repetition
paradigm. Talk, Face Categorization Lab, February, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Peykarjou, S. (2011). Development of face-specific processing – A straightforward account?.Talk,
Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, October, Boston, US.
Posters
Bechtel, S., Peykarjou, S., Michel, C., & Hoehl, S. (2015).
Those fair girls? Sex differences in sharing goods
and correlations with inhibitory control. Poster presented at BCCCD, January, Budapest, Hungary.
Peykarjou, S., Pauen, S., & Hoehl, S. (2014). Categorical and individual-level repetition effects for faces in
infants. Poster presented at Summer School on Repetition Suppression, September, Jena, Germany.
Peykarjou, S., de Heering, A., Hoehl, S., Pauen, S., & Rossion, B. (2014). Face race visual classification
as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation. Poster presented at ECVP, August, Belgrade, Serbia.
Peykarjou, S., Pauen, S., & Hoehl, S. (2014). Repetition adaptation for individual human faces in 9-month-old
infants? – An ERP study. Poster presented at ICIS, July, Berlin, Germany.
Peykarjou, S., Pauen, S., & Hoehl, S. (2014).
9-month-old infants' categorization of faces on different levels of
abstraction. Poster presented at preconference workshop on computational modeling at ICIS, July,
Berlin, Germany.
Peykarjou, S., Wissner, J., & Pauen, S. (2014). Multimodal priming effects for human and furniture items in 7-
month-old infants. Poster presented at ICIS, July, Berlin, Germany.
Wissner, J., Peykarjou, S., & Pauen, S. (2014). Object Substitution in Pretense: Do Executive Function Skills
matter?. Poster presented at ICIS, July, Berlin, Germany.
Peykarjou, S., Pauen, S., & Hoehl, S. (2014). Repetition adaptation for individual human faces in 9-month-old
infants? – An ERP study. Poster presented at VSS, May, Florida, US.
Huh, A., Peykarjou, S., Wissner, J., & Pauen, S. (2014). The Neural Correlates of Processing Human and
Furniture Items in 7-Month-old Infants. Poster presented at Meeting of European Federation of
Psychology Students’ Associations, April, Bihor, Romania.
Peykarjou, S., Wissner, J., & Pauen, S. (2014). Visual and auditory ERP priming effects for human and
Wissner, J., Peykarjou, S., & Pauen, S. (2014). Relations between executive functions and pretend play
object-substitution in two-year-olds. Poster presented at BCCCD, January, Budapest, Hungary.
Wissner, J., Peykarjou, S., & Pauen, S. (2013). Pretend play and executive functions in early childhood.
Poster presented at Fachgruppentagung Entwicklungspsychologie, DGPs, September, Saarbrücken,
Germany.
Peykarjou, S., Hoehl, S. & Pauen, S. (2013). Flexible Categorization: Priming Effects on 9-month-old infants’
Brain Responses to Human and Monkey Faces. Poster presented at SRCD, April, Seattle, US.
Dusin, A., Nakhla, D., Peykarjou, S., Rudolf, M., Eickhorst, A. & Cierpka, M. (2012). Frühe Hilfen für Familien
– „Keiner fällt durchs Netz“. Poster presented at 17th German Prevention Day, April, Munich, Germany.
Peykarjou, S., Westerlund, A., Nelson, C. A. & Macchi Cassia, V. (2012). Experience-dependent
face-processing in toddlers?. Poster presented at Congress “Knowledge through Interaction: How Children
learn about Self, Others and Objects”, March, Heidelberg, Germany.
Peykarjou, S. & Hoehl,S. (2011). Vergleichbare Muster der neuronalen Gesichterverarbeitung bei 3 und 12
Monate alten Säuglingen. Poster presented at Fachgruppentagung Biological Psychology, DGPs
