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

Bruns, P. (2024). Book Review: Sensory Individuals: Unimodal and Multimodal Perspectives by Aleksandra Mroczko-Wąsowicz and Rick Grush (Eds.). Perception. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066241254337.

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, in press.

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, in press

Schönberger, D., Bruns, P., & Röder B. (2024). Visual artificial grammar learning across one year in 7-year-olds and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 241, 105864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105864.

Lovich, S. N., King, C. D., Murphy, D. L. K., Abbasi, H., Bruns, P., Shera, C. A., & Groh, J. (in press). Conserved features of eye movement related eardrum oscillations (EMREOs) across humans and monkeys. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2023). Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(10), 961-973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.04.012

Özdemir, O., Kerzel, M., Weber, C., Lee, J. H., Hafez, M. B., Bruns, P., & Wermter, S. (in press). Learning bidirectional action-language translation with limited supervision and testing with incongruent extra input. Applied Artificial Intelligence.

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

Rohlf, S., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2021). The effects of cue reliability on crossmodal recalibration in adults and children. Multisensory Research, 31:1-19. DOI: 10.1163/22134808-bja10053

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

Tong, J.*, Li, L.*, Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2020). Crossmodal associations modulate multisensory spatial integration. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3490-3506. (*joint first authors).

Li, L., Rehr, R., Bruns, P., Gerkmann, T., & Röder, B. (in press). A survey on probabilistic models in human perception and machines. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

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.

Kramer, A., Röder, B., & Bruns, P. (2020). Feedback modulates audio-visual spatial recalibration. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 13, article 74.

Rohlf, S., Li, L., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2020). Multisensory integration develops prior to crossmodal recalibration. Current Biology, 30(9), 1726-1732.e7.

Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2019). Spatial and frequency specificity of the ventriloquism aftereffect revisited. Psychological Research, 83, 1400-1415.

Bruns, P. (2019). The ventriloquist illusion as a tool to study multisensory processing: An update. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 13, 51.

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.

Bruns, P., & Watanabe, T. (2019). Perceptual learning of task-irrelevant features depends on the sensory context. Scientific Reports, 9, 1666.

Zierul, B., Tong, J., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2019). Reduced multisensory integration of self-initiated stimuli. Cognition, 182, 349-359.

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.

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.

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.

Habets, B., Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2017). Experience with crossmodal statistics reduces the sensitivity for audio-visual temporal asynchrony. Scientific Reports, 7, 1486.

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. [*shared senior authorship]

Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2015). Sensory recalibration integrates information from the immediate and the cumulative past. Scientific Reports, 5, 12739.

Bruns, P.*, Maiworm, M.*, & Röder, B. (2014). Reward expectation influences audiovisual spatial integration. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76, 1815-1827. [*shared first authorship]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bruns, P., Spence, C., & Röder, B. (2011). Tactile recalibration of auditory spatial representations. Experimental Brain Research, 209, 333-344.

Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2010). Tactile capture of auditory localization: An event-related potential study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 1844-1857.

Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2010). Tactile capture of auditory localization is modulated by hand posture. Experimental Psychology, 57, 267-274.

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.

 

Conference paper published

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.

Bruns, P., & Röder, B. (2019). Visual recalibration of auditory spatial perception decays at different time scales. Proc. International Congress on Acoustics, 2019, 3915-3920.

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

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.