News11 June 2025|BPNTalk by Prof. Dr. Tobias HeedOn Wednesday, 11.06.2025, 4:15 pm, Prof. Dr. Tobias Heed (Reach & Touch Lab, Department of Psychology, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg) will give a talk with the title "Touch, limbs, posture, priors - how the brain relates body and space". Abstract: Humans are prone to misinterpreting on which limb...5 June 2025|BPNTalk by Dr. Ramesh Kekunnaya, FRCSOn Thursday, 05.06.2025, 5 pm, Dr. Ramesh Kekunnaya, FRCS (Network Director and Director of the Child Sight Institute; L V Prasad Eye Institute Hyderabad, India) will give a talk with the title "Overview of Pediatric Cataract Management in India". The event will take place at the...19 May 2025|BPNArticle publishedOssandón, J.P., Rossion, B., Dormal, G., Kekunnaya, R., & Röder, B. (2025). Impaired rapid neural face categorization after reversing long-lasting congenital blindness. Cortex, 187, 124-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.04.007 30 April 2025|BPNArticle publishedBruns, P., Dinse, H. R., & Röder, B. (2025). Higher-order visual location learning does not explain multisensory enhancement of sound localization (Reply to Vroomen & Stekelenburg, 2021). European Journal of Neuroscience, 61, e70132. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.7013228 April 2025|BPNNew publication acceptedBruns, P., Paumen, T., & Röder, B. (2025). Perceptual training of audiovisual simultaneity judgments generalizes across spatial locations. Perception, in press.16 April 2025|BPNTalk by Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder at the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in HamburgProf. Dr. Brigitte Röder will give a talk within the lecture series "Vielfalt" of the Academy of Sciences and Humanties in Hamburg on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at 7 pm. Titele of the talk: "Wie frühkindliche Erfahrungen unser Gehirn formen" (in German). The event will take place at the "Gartensaal"...15 April 2025|BPNNew publication acceptedOssandón, J.P., Rossion, B., Dormal, G., Kekunnaya, R., & Röder, B. (2025). Impaired rapid neural face categorization after reversing long-lasting congenital blindness. Cortex, in press.14 April 2025|BPNNew publication acceptedBruns, P., Dinse, H. R., & Röder, B. (2025). Higher-order visual location learning does not explain multisensory enhancement of sound localization (Reply to Vroomen & Stekelenburg, 2021). European Journal of Neuroscience, in press.21 February 2025|BPNTeaching Award Psychology 2024 for PD Dr. Patrick BrunsPD Dr. Patrick Bruns receives the Teaching Award Psychology 2024 of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Hamburg for his lecture "Biological Psychology". Congratulations!12 February 2025|BPNPostdoc position in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience availableFurther information on this vacancy and the link to the online application form can be found under this link. Application deadline: 26.02.202520 January 2025|BPNSchilling Research Award of the German Neuroscience Society 2025Dr. Diane Rekow, Alexander Humboldt Fellow at the Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology lab of the University of Hamburg, is this year's recipient of the Schilling Research Award which is awarded every two years by the German Neuroscience Society. Congratulations!7 January 2025|BPNArticle publishedPant, P., Pitchaimuthu, K., Ossandón, J., Shareef, I., Lingareddy, S., Finsterbusch, J., Kekunnaya, R., & Röder, B. (2024). Altered visual cortex excitatory/inhibitory ratio following transient congenital visual deprivation in humans. eLife, 13:RP98143. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98143.2 13 December 2024|BPNPhd position for the project "Sensory deprivation" availableFurther information on this vacancy and the link to the online application form can be found under this link. Application deadline: 13.12.20249 December 2024|BPNInterview with Prof. Dr. Brigitte RöderAn exciting interview with Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder on the question of whether people, who had been born blind, can learn to see can be found in the Newsroom of the University of Hamburg in the section "Forschen und Verstehen" under this Link.24 October 2024|BPNPhD position in multisensory research availableFurther information on this vacancy and the link to the online application form can be found under this link. Application deadline: 24.10.20249 October 2024|BPNArtikel publishedSourav, S., Röder, B., Ambsdorf, F., Melissari, A., Arvaniti, M., & Vatakis, A. (2024). No evidence that sound–shape associations influence temporal resolution in humans: Five nonreplications of Parise and Spence (2009) and meta-analyses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online...7 October 2024|BPNPostdoc-Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt FoundationDr. Gargi Majumdar, National Brain Research Institute, Manesar, India has been awarded a postdoc fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to join the Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology lab of the University of Hamburg for two years. Dr. Majumdar will use neural modeling approaches...4 September 2024|BPNArticle publishedHötting, K., Shareef, I., Rogge, A.-K., Hamacher, D., Zech, A., Kekunnaya, R., Christy, B., & Röder, B. (2024). Posture control depends on early visual experience. Journal of Vision, 24(9), 3. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.9.312 August 2024|BPNJob vacancyThe Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology research group has a job vacancy for a student assistant in a project on experience-dependent face perception using EEG. For more details please cklick this link PDF. 6 August 2024|BPNSuccessful defensePhoto: Rashi PantRashi Pant successfully defended her doctoral thesis „Disrupted developmental processes in the human visual cortex linked to congenital patterned visual deprivation“ on July 18, 2024. Congratulations!Show all news