Bernd J. Kröger (; born 1959 in

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population ...

, Germany) is a German

phonetician Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

and professor at

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

. He is known for his contributions in the field of

neurocomputational speech processing Neurocomputational speech processing is computer-simulation of speech production and speech perception by referring to the natural neuronal processes of speech production and speech perception, as they occur in the human nervous system (central nerv ...

, in particular the ACT model.Beal, Deryk S., et al. "Speech-induced suppression of evoked auditory fields in children who stutter." ''Neuroimage'' 54.4 (2011): 2994-3003. Kröger received his master's degree in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

from the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

in 1985, his PhD degree in

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

from the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

under the supervision of

Georg Heike Georg Heike (; born 21 July 1933) is a German phonetician and linguist. He studied musicology, phonetics, communication science and psychology at the University of Bonn and finished his doctoral thesis in 1960 at the Department of Phonetics and Co ...

in 1989, and his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in phonetics from the same university in 1997.Bernd J. Kröger: biography
at rwth-aachen.de. Accessed May 22, 2013. In 1987 Kröger started his academic career as research associate at Cologne's Department of Phonetics, which was then headed by Georg Heike. He became assistant professor in Cologne in 1990, and was guest professor at Berlin's

Humboldt University Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of ...

in 1999. Since 2001 he has been professor and senior researcher at the Department of Phoniatrics, Pedaudiology and Communication Disorders, Medical School, RWTH Aachen University. He has been guest professor at

Tianjin University Tianjin University (TJU, ), formerly Peiyang University (), is a national public research university in Tianjin, China. The university was established in 1895 by Guangxu Emperor's royal charter to be the first university of China. It is now fun ...

, China since 2011.

Selected writings

Books and articles, a selection: * 1989. Co-authored by G. Heike, R. Greisbach and S. Hilger: Speech synthesis by acoustic control. ''Proceedings of Eurospeech 1989'', p. 2020–2022 * 1991. Co-authored by G. Heike and R. Greisbach: Coarticulation rules in an articulatory model. ''Journal of Phonetics'' 19, p. 465–471. * 1993. A gestural production model and its application to reduction in German. ''Phonetica'' 50: p. 213-233. * 1995. Co-authored by G. Schröder and C. Opgen-Rhein: A gesture-based dynamic model describing articulatory movement data. ''Journal of the Acoustical Society of America'' 98: p. 1878-1889. * 1998. ''Ein phonetisches Modell der Sprachproduktion''. Niemeyer-Verlag, Tübingen. * 2000. Co-authored by R. Winkler, C. Mooshammer and B. Pompino-Marschall. Estimation of vocal tract area function from magnetic resonance imaging: Preliminary results. ''Proceedings of 5th Seminar on Speech Production: Models and Data.'' Kloster Seeon, Bavaria. p. 333-336. * 2003. Ein visuelles Modell der Artikulation. ''Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie'' 82: p. 402-407. * 2004. Co-authored by P. Hoole, R. Sader, C. Geng, B. Pompino-Marschall and C. Neuschaefer-Rube: MRT-Sequenzen als Datenbasis eines visuellen Artikulationsmodells. ''HNO'' 52: 837-843. * 2007. Co-authored by P. Birkholz: A gesture-based concept for speech movement control in articulatory speech synthesis. In: Esposito A, Faundez-Zanuy M, Keller E, Marinaro M (eds.) ''Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours, LNAI 4775''. Springer, Berlin, p. 174–189. * 2009. Co-authored by J. Kannampuzha and C. Neuschaefer-Rube: Towards a neurocomputational model of speech production and perception. ''Speech Communication'' 51: p. 793-809. * 2011. Co-authored by P. Birkholz and C. Neuschaefer-Rube: Towards an articulation-based developmental robotics approach for word processing in face-to-face communication. ''PALADYN Journal of Behavioral Robotics'' 2: p. 82-93. * 2013. Co-authored by S. Heim: How could a self-organizing associative speech action repository (SAR) be represented in the brain? ''Hallesche Schriften zur Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik'' 45: p. 61-68. * 2014. Co-authored by J. Kannampuzha and E. Kaufmann: Associative learning and self-organization as basic principles for simulating speech acquisition, speech production, and speech perception. EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics 2:2 (Springer) * 2016. Co-authored by E. Crawford, T. Bekolay and C. Eliasmith: Modeling Interactions between Speech Production and Perception: Speech Error Detection at Semantic and Phonological Levels and the Inner Speech Loop. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 10:51 URL=http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/Abstract.aspx?s=237&name=computational_neuroscience&ART_DOI=10.3389/fncom.2016.00051 DOI=10.3389/fncom.2016.00051

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