Associated PhD Student
University Hospital Freiburg, Project Neurobiological Correlates of Psychotherapy in Autism
As a cognitive scientist trained in psycholinguistics, my interest in autism research evolved via questions regarding the linguistic processing of irony. In my current PhD-project I am investigating neural correlates of emotion recognition and how these might be affected by autism spectrum disorders.
When not in the lab, I enjoy spending time with my bike and my family.
Areas of interest & expertise
- Social Cognition
- Eye tracking
- Psycholinguistic
Contact
E-Mail: simon.kirsch@uniklinik-freiburg.de
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simon_Kirsch
Publications
2023
Saakyan, W., Norden, M., Herrmann, L., Kirsch, S., Lin, M., Guendelman, S., Dziobek, I., & Drimalla, H. (2023, September). On Scalable and Interpretable Autism Detection from Social Interaction Behavior. In 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII59096.2023.10388157
Lin, M., Kirsch, S., Guendelman, S., Kaufmann, C., Maier, S., van Elst, L. T., & Dziobek, I. (2023). Neural Engagement during Social Approach and Avoidance in Autistic Adults without Intellectual Disability. INSAR 2023.
Kirsch, S., Lin, M., Guendelman, S., Kaufmann, C., Maier, S., Dziobek, I., & van Elst, L. T. (2023). Minimal Neural Differences during Facial Emotion Recognition between Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults in High-Powered fMRI Study. INSAR 2023.
2022
Kirsch, S., Elser, C., Barbieri, E., Kümmerer, D., Weiller, C., & Musso, M. (2022). Syntax Acquisition in Healthy Adults and Post-Stroke Individuals: The Intriguing Role of Grammatical Preference, Statistical Learning, and Education. Brain sciences, 12(5), 616. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050616
2020
Beume, L. A., Rijntjes, M., Dressing, A., Kaller, C. P., Hieber, M., Martin, M., Kirsch, S., Kümmerer, D., Urbach, H., Umarova, R. M., & Weiller, C. (2020). Dissociation of visual extinction and neglect in the left hemisphere. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 129, 211–222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.010