PD Dr. rer. nat. Patrick Bruns

Scientific Positions

since 2012 Lab Manager, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg

2016-2018 Visiting Scholar, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University, USA

2010-2012 Postdoc, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg (EU-Project NOMS)

2006-2009 Fellow of the International Research Training Group CINACS at the University of Hamburg

2004-2006 Student research assistant at the "Spatial perception and executive functions" group of the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), Dortmund

Education

2020 Habilitation in Psychology, University of Hamburg

Thesis: Mechanisms of Training-Induced Plasticity in the Adult Perceptual System

2010 Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude) in Psychology, University of Hamburg

Thesis: Crossmodally induced plasticity of auditory spatial perception

2000-2006 Diploma degree in Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum

Thesis: Audiovisual interactions in the perception of visual apparent motion

Journal articles

1. Bruns, P. (2024). Book Review: Sensory Individuals: Unimodal and Multimodal Perspectives by Aleksandra Mroczko-Wąsowicz and Rick Grush (Eds.). Perception, 53, 579-581. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066241254337
2. Bruns, P., Thun, C., & Röder, B. (2024). Quantifying accuracy and precision from continuous response data in studies of spatial perception and crossmodal recalibration. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 3814-3830. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02416-1
3. Li, C., Xuan, Y., Bruns, P., & Fu, X. (2024). The role of arousal in the estimation of time-to-collision of threatening stimuli. PsyCh Journal, 13, 376-386. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.762
4. Schönberger, D. K., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2024). Visual artificial grammar learning across 1 year in 7-year-olds and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 241, 105864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105864
5. Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2023). Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27, 961-973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.04.012
6. Lovich, S. N., King, C. D., Murphy, D. L. K., Abbasi, H., Bruns, P., Shera, C. A., & Groh, J. M. (2023). Conserved features of eye movement related eardrum oscillations (EMREOs) across humans and monkeys. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378, 20220340. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0340
7. Özdemir, O., Kerzel, M., Weber, C., Lee, J. H., Hafez, M. B., Bruns, P., & Wermter, S. (2023). Learning bidirectional action-language translation with limited supervision and testing with incongruent input. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 37, e2179167. https://doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2023.2179167
8. Bruns, P., Li, L., Guerreiro, M. J. S., Shareef, I., Rajendran, S. S., Pitchaimuthu, K., Kekunnaya, R., & Röder, B. (2022). Audiovisual spatial recalibration but not integration is shaped by early sensory experience. iScience, 25, 104439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104439
9. Rohlf, S., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2021). The effects of cue reliability on crossmodal recalibration in adults and children. Multisensory Research, 34, 743-761. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-bja10053
10. Bruns, P., Dinse, H. R., & Röder, B. (2020). Differential effects of the temporal and spatial distribution of audiovisual stimuli on cross-modal spatial recalibration. European Journal of Neuroscience, 52, 3763-3775. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14779
11. Gudi-Mindermann, H., Rimmele, J. M., Bruns, P., Kloosterman, N. A., Donner, T. H., Engel, A. K., & Röder, B. (2020). Post-training load-related changes of auditory working memory – An EEG study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 72. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00072
12. Kramer, A., Röder, B., & Bruns, P. (2020). Feedback modulates audio-visual spatial recalibration. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 13, 74. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2019.00074
13. Li, L., Rehr, R., Bruns, P., Gerkmann, T., & Röder, B. (2020). A survey on probabilistic models in human perception and machines. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7, 85. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00085
14. Rohlf, S., Li, L., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2020). Multisensory integration develops prior to crossmodal recalibration. Current Biology, 30, 1726-1732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.048
15. Tong, J., Li, L., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2020). Crossmodal associations modulate multisensory spatial integration. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3490-3506. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02083-2
16. Bruns, P. (2019). The ventriloquist illusion as a tool to study multisensory processing: An update. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 13, 51. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2019.00051
17. Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2019). Repeated but not incremental training enhances cross-modal recalibration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45, 435-440. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000642
18. Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2019). Spatial and frequency specificity of the ventriloquism aftereffect revisited. Psychological Research, 83, 1400-1415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0965-4
19. Bruns, P., & Watanabe, T. (2019). Perceptual learning of task-irrelevant features depends on the sensory context. Scientific Reports, 9, 1666. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38586-8
20. Zierul, B., Tong, J., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2019). Reduced multisensory integration of self-initiated stimuli. Cognition, 182, 349-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.019
21. Badde, S., Röder, B., & Bruns, P. (2018). Task-irrelevant sounds influence both temporal order and apparent-motion judgments about tactile stimuli applied to crossed and uncrossed hands. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80, 773-783. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1476-5
22. Godde, B., Bruns, P., Wendel, V., & Trautmann, M. (2018). Effects of age and individual experiences on tactile perception over the life span in women. Acta Psychologica, 190, 135-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.08.004
23. Gudi-Mindermann, H., Rimmele, J. M., Nolte, G., Bruns, P., Engel, A. K., & Röder, B. (2018). Working memory training in congenitally blind individuals results in an integration of occipital cortex in functional networks. Behavioural Brain Research, 348, 31-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.04.002
24. Habets, B., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2017). Experience with crossmodal statistics reduces the sensitivity for audio-visual temporal asynchrony. Scientific Reports, 7, 1486. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01252-y
25. Zierul, B., Röder, B., Tempelmann, C., Bruns, P.*, & Noesselt, T.* (2017). The role of auditory cortex in the spatial ventriloquism aftereffect. NeuroImage, 162, 257-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.002 [*shared senior authorship]
26. Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2015). Sensory recalibration integrates information from the immediate and the cumulative past. Scientific Reports, 5, 12739. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep12739
27. Bruns, P., Camargo, C. J., Campanella, H., Esteve, J., Dinse, H. R., & Röder, B. (2014). Tactile acuity charts: A reliable measure of spatial acuity. PLoS ONE, 9, e87384. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087384
28. Bruns, P.*, Maiworm, M.*, & Röder, B. (2014). Reward expectation influences audiovisual spatial integration. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76, 1815-1827. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-014-0699-y [*shared first authorship]
29. Torras, N., Zinoviev, K. E., Camargo, C. J., Campo, E. M., Campanella, H., Esteve, J., Marshall, J. E., Terentjev, E. M., Omastova, M., Krupa, I., Teplicky, P., Mamojka, B., Bruns, P., Röder, B., Vallribera, M., Malet, R., Zuffanelli, S., Soler, V., Roig, J., Walker, N., Wenn, D., Vossen, F., & Crompvoets, F. M. H. (2014). Refreshable tactile device based on opto-mechanical actuation of liquid-crystalline elastomers. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 208, 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2014.01.012
30. Renzi, C., Bruns, P., Heise, K.-F., Zimerman, M., Feldheim, J.-F., Hummel, F. C., & Röder, B. (2013). Spatial remapping in the audio-tactile ventriloquism effect: A TMS investigation on the role of the ventral intraparietal area. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 790-801. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00362
31. Occelli, V., Bruns, P., Zampini, M., & Röder, B. (2012). Audiotactile integration is reduced in congenital blindness in a spatial ventriloquism task. Neuropsychologia, 50, 36-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.10.019
32. Bruns, P., Liebnau, R., & Röder, B. (2011). Cross-modal training induces changes in spatial representations early in the auditory processing pathway. Psychological Science, 22, 1120-1126. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611416254
33. Bruns, P., Spence, C., & Röder, B. (2011). Tactile recalibration of auditory spatial representations. Experimental Brain Research, 209, 333-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2543-0
34. Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2010). Tactile capture of auditory localization: An event-related potential study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 1844-1857. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07232.x
35. Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2010). Tactile capture of auditory localization is modulated by hand posture. Experimental Psychology, 57, 267-274. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000032
36. Bruns, P., & Getzmann, S. (2008). Audiovisual influences on the perception of visual apparent motion: Exploring the effect of a single sound. Acta Psychologica, 129, 273-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.08.002

Conference paper published

1. Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2024). Improvement of sound localization after spatially congruent audiovisual exposure: A special case of crossmodal recalibration or higher-order visual location learning? Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2024, 237-240.
2. Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2019). Visual recalibration of auditory spatial perception decays at different time scales. Proc. International Congress on Acoustics, 2019, 3915-3920.
3. Torras, N., Zinoviev, K.E., Camargo, C.J., Campo, E.M., Campanella, H., Esteve, J., Marshal, J.E., Terentjev, E.M., Omastova, M., Krupa, I. Teplický, P., Mamojka, B., Bruns, P., Röder, B., Vallribera, M., Malet, R., Zuffanelli, S., Soler, V., Roig, J., Walker, N., Wenn, D., Vossen, F., Crompvoets, F.M.H. (2013). Nematic opto-mechanical actuators for the fabrication of refreshable tactile systems. Transducers & Eurosensors XXVII: The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS & EUROSENSORS XXVII), Barcelona, 2013, pp. 1691-1694.

Book chapter

1. Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2019). Cross-modal learning in the auditory system. In A. Lee, M. Wallace, A. Coffin, A. Popper, & R. Fay (Eds.), Multisensory Processes. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (Vol. 68, pp. 221-242). Cham: Springer.