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Prof. 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"...

Ossandón, 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.

Bruns, 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.

PD 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!

Further information on this vacancy and the link to the online application form can be found under this link.

Application deadline: 26.02.2025

Dr. 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!

Pant, 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 

Further information on this vacancy and the link to the online application form can be found under this link.

Application deadline: 13.12.2024

An 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.

Further information on this vacancy and the link to the online application form can be found under this link.

Application deadline: 24.10.2024

Sourav, 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...

Dr. 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...

Hötting, 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.24.9.3

The Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology research group has a job vacancy for a student assistant in a project on experience-dependent face perception using EEG.

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Rashi 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!

In an exciting symposium organised by Universität Hamburg and the Hector Fellow Academy, Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder (Universität Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Sebastian Frank (Universität Regensburg), Prof. Dr. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz (UKE) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Elbert (Universität Konstanz) explored the question...

Rashi Pant, M.A., will defend her doctoral thesis „Disrupted developmental processes in the human visual cortex linked to congenital patterned visual deprivation“ on July 18, 2024 at 2:15 pm. Location: Lecture hall (R 4), Von-Melle-Park 11.

Hötting, 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, in press.

On July 11, 2024, the 9th Hector Fellow Academy symposium on the subject "Why do children and adults learn differently?" will take place in Hamburg (ESA 1, UHH. The scientific organizer Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder invites everybody interested to join, either in presence or via livestream. More...