Natalie Holz

Main research areas
- Neural basis of affective experience
- Nonverbal emotion expression and perception
- Auditory perception and processing of screams and non-speech vocalizations
Vita
Education
2012–2018 | Medical Studies, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main |
2011–2014 | Studies of Psychology, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main |
2010–2011 | Junior studies: English Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken |
2008–2009 | Westford Academy, Westford, Massachusetts |
2003–2011 | Gymnasium am Stefansberg, Merzig |
Career
Since 2017 | PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics |
Publications
Publications
Holz, N., Larrouy-Maestri, P., & Poeppel, D. (2022). The variably intense vocalizations of affect and emotion (VIVAE) corpus prompts new perspective on nonspeech perception. Emotion, 22(1), 213–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001048
Holz, N., Larrouy-Maestri, P., & Poeppel, D. (in press). The Variably Intense Vocalizations of Affect and Emotion Corpus VIVAE prompts new perspective on nonspeech perception. Emotion.
Holz, N., Larrouy-Maestri, P., & Poeppel, D. (2021). The paradoxical role of emotional intensity in the perception of vocal affect. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88431-0
Holz, N., Larrouy-Maestri, P., & Poeppel, D. (2020). The Variably Intense Vocalizations of Affect and Emotion Corpus (VIVAE) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4066234
Awards & Grants
Awards & Grants
Since 2011 | Stipend of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
Projects
- Acoustic and neural correlates of affect perception in screams
Screaming is an ability we share with many other primates, and which we possess long before we learn to express our affective state with speech. Previous studies focusing on fearful screams highlighted certain acoustic features, such as roughness, ...
- Inferring meaning from variably intense emotion expressions
Whether conveyed by the face, body, or voice, nonverbal emotion expressions are ubiquitous. We are, generally speaking, quite good at inferring meaning from such expressions. It has long been suggested that the stronger an emotional state is ...