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20 January 2021|BPN

Talk by Dr. Patrick Bruns

On Wednesday, 20.01.2021, 4:15 pm, Dr. Patrick Bruns will give a talk on "Mechanisms of Training-Induced Plasticity in the Adult Perceptual System".

The talk is part of the lecture series "Psychological Science" of the Institute of Psychology and will take place as Zoom meeting. The Zoom log in...

19 January 2021|BPN

Article published

Röder, B., and Kekunnaya, R. (2021). Visual experience dependent plasticity in humans. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 67, 155-162. DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2020.11.011

11 January 2021|BPN

Poster Competition: UN Sustainable Development Goal, Reduced Inequalities

Rashi Pant, MA, has won the poster competition "UN Sustainable Development Goal 10, Reduced Inequalities" in the graduate student category for a joint project between BPN and LVPEI on how it might contribute to reducing inequalities. The winners from the UHH and other universities that hold the...

11 January 2021|BPN

New publication accepted

Rogge, A.-K., Hamacher, D. , Cappagli, G., Kuhne, L., Hötting, K., Zech, A., Gori, M., & Röder, B. (2021). Balance, gait, and navigation performance are related to physical exercise in blind and visually impaired children and adolescents. Experimental Brain Research, in press.

4 January 2021|BPN

New publication accepted

Stroh, A.-L., Rösler, F., & Röder, B. (2021). The interaction of the visuo-spatial and the vestibular system depends on sensory experience in development. Neuropsychologia, in press. Share Link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1cNoM6TBFpspL

18 December 2020|BPN

BIAL-Foundation Grant for research

Dr. Aline de Borst received a "BIAL Foundation Grant for Scientific Research" for her project on "Crossmodal perception in blind individuals: Neural mechanisms and the role of mental imagery". The grant will support Dr. de Borst's work in the context of her Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual...

15 December 2020|BPN

Job Announcement Research Associate

The BPN invites applications for a Research Associate position in the project “Changes of the excitatory/inhibitory balance during human brain development". For further details, please click the following link:

Research Associate, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, Project “Changes of the...

9 December 2020|BPN

Article published

Röder, B., Kekunnaya, R. & Guerreiro, M.J.S. (2021). Neural mechanisms of visual sensitive periods in humans. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 120, 86-99. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.10.030. Share Link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cCjpY3M3TxmT

8 December 2020|BPN

Scientific board appointment

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder has been appointed a member of the scientific board of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (Magdeburg, Germany).

7 December 2020|BPN

Article published

Rajendran, S. S., Bottari, D., Shareef, I., Pitchaimuthu, K., Sourav, S., Troje, N. F., Kekunnaya, R., & Röder, B. (2020). Biological action identification does not require early visual input for development. eNeuro, 7(5). DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0534-19.2020

1 December 2020|BPN

Hamburg Open Science Award

Dr. Suddha Sourav is one of the recipients of Hamburg Open Science Awards, awarded for the first time in 2020. His project, investigating how commonly observed associations between sounds and shapes might depend on childhood vision, won this distinction in the "Research Projects" category and formed...

1 December 2020|BPN

Balance training study

On 28.11.2020, the ARD programme "W wie Wissen" reported on our balance training study with blind people under the title "Training: So stärken wir den sechsten Sinn".

The report be found on the ARD website "Das Erste" under the programme page "W wie Wissen": "Unser geheimnisvoller 6. Sinn".

20 November 2020|BPN

New publication accepted

Röder, B., Kekunnaya, R. & Guerreiro, M.J.S. (2020). Neural mechanisms of visual sensitive periods in humans. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, in press.

16 November 2020|BPN

New publication accepted

Röder, B., and Kekunnaya, R. (2020). Visual experience dependent plasticity in humans. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, in press.

12 November 2020|BPN

New publication accepted

Lubinus, C., Orpella, J., Keitel, A., Gudi-Mindermann, H., Engel, A. K., Röder, B., Rimmele, J. M. (2020). Data-driven classification of spectral profiles reveals brain region-specific plasticity in blindness. Cerebral Cortex, in press.

4 November 2020|BPN

Habilitation Colloquium

On Wednesday, 04.11.2020, at 4 pm, a colloquium will take place as part of the habilitation of Dr. Patrick Bruns, who will open the colloquium with a presentation of his habilitation thesis "Mechanisms of Training-Induced Plasticity in the Adult Perceptual System".

The colloquium will take place...

21 October 2020|BPN

Article published

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. DOI:10.1111/ejn.14779

13 October 2020|BPN

Job Announcement Postdoc Position

The BPN invites applications for a Postdoc position in the project "Learning to move your eardrum: Perceptual plasticity beyond the brain". For further details, please click the following link:

Research Associate, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, Project “Learning to move your eardrum...

9 October 2020|BPN

Article publshed

Badde, S., Ley, P., Rajendran, S. S., Shareef, I., Kekunnaya, R., & Röder, B. (2020). Sensory experience during early sensitive periods shapes cross-modal temporal biases. eLife, 9, e61238. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61238

6 October 2020|BPN

Article published

With summary for press (link)

Sourav, S., Bottari, D., Shareef, I., Kekunnaya, R., & Röder, B. (2020). An electrophysiological biomarker for the classification of cataract-reversal patients: A case-control study. EClinicalMedicine, 27, 100559. DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100559

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