Silke Paulmann

I studied English Linguistics, American Literature and Media at the Universities of Paderborn, Germany, and Groningen, The Netherlands. My PhD work on brain processes underlying emotional tone of voice processing was conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. I obtained my PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Potsdam in 2006. I then held a position at the Max Planck Institute as a postdoctoral research fellow and, in 2007, received a postdoctoral research fellowship award from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). This allowed me to join the Neuropgragmatics and Emotion Lab at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. I became a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex in September 2009 and was promoted to Professor in 2016. My current research focuses on how emotional, motivational, and attitudinal voice signals shape emotions and reactions.