Kroczek, Leon
| Postadresse??????? | Universit?t Regensburg Fakult?t für Psychologie, P?dagogik und Sportwissenschaft Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie Prof. Dr. Andreas Mühlberger Universit?tsstr. 31 93053 Regensburg |
| Office address | University of Regensburg PT-Building - 2.0.25 Universit?tsstr. 31 93053 Regensburg |
| Phone | + 49 (0)941 943-6044 |
| leon.kroczek@ur.de | |
| Website | leonkroczek.netlify.app/ |
| https://twitter.com/LeonKroczek | |
| Office hours | Appointments on request |
Academic Education
| 2019 | Dissertation Thesis: "The impact of speaker information on language processing" Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Awarded with the Otto Hahn medal of the Max Planck society. |
| 2013 | Graduation in Psychology (Diploma) Diploma Thesis:?"May I?get a beat with that? Neural correlates of gesture-syntax interaction" |
| 2008 - 2013 | Studies of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany |
Professional experience
| Since 2021 | "Akademischer Rat" /Assistant Professor equivalent Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Germany |
| Since 2018-2020 | PostDoc Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Prof. Mühlberger, University of Regensburg, Germany |
| 2013 - 2018 | PhD Candidate Department for Neuropsychology, Prof. Friederici, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2012 | Intern Bergen fMRI Group, Prof. Hugdahl, Bergen, Norway |
| 2011 - 2012 | Chair of Psychology, Cognition and?Development, Prof. B?uml, University of Regensburg - Student research assistant |
| 2011 ? | Intern Department of Neuropsychology, Prof. Friederici, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany |
Research interests
| Communication and social interaction Emotional learning Anxiety (disorders) Functional Imaging Electrophysiology Virtual reality |
Publications
Ro?kopf, S., Mühlberger, A., St?rz, F., van de Par, S., Blau, M., & Kroczek, L. O.H. (2025). Impact of Visual Virtual Scene and Localization Task on Auditory Distance Perception in Virtual Reality.?IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3549855
St?rz, F., Van De Par, S., Ro?kopf, S., Kroczek, L. O. H., Mühlberger, A., & Blau, M. (2025). Comparison of binaural auralisations to a real loudspeaker in an audiovisual virtual classroom scenario: effect of room acoustic simulation, HRTF dataset, and head-mounted display on room acoustic perception.?Acta Acustica,?9, 31.?https://doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2025012
Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2025). Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20(1), nsaf001. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf001
Paul, K., Angus, D. J., Bublatzky, F., Wüllhorst, R., Endrass, T., Greenwood, L.-M., Hajcak, G., Jack, B. N., Korinth, S. P., Kroczek, L. O. H., Lucero, B., Mundorf, A., Nolden, S., Peterburs, J., Pfabigan, D. M., Schettino, A., Severo, M. C., Lee Shing, Y., Turan, G., … Pourtois, G. (2025). Revisiting the electrophysiological correlates of valence and expectancy in reward processing – A multi-lab replication. Cortex, 184, 150–171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.12.017
Kroczek, L. O. H., Ro?kopf, S., St?rz, F., Blau, M., van de Par, S., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception.?Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,?50(9), 918–933.?https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001222
Kroczek, L. O. H., Lingnau, A.,