Arbeitsbereich Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie
Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaft, Psychologie und Bewegungswissenschaft
Universität Hamburg
Von-Melle-Park 5
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49-40-42838-3251
Fax: +49-40-42838-6591
Email: brigitte.roeder@uni-hamburg.de
 

April 12, 1967
 

1986-1991

1991

1991-1995

 
1995

 
1995-1997

 
1997-2000

 
2000-2003

 
 
2002

2003-present  

 
2004-present

Studies of Psychology, Philipps University Marburg

Diplom, Psychology; Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)

Research and Teaching Associate; Psychology Department, Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)

Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D. equivalent) Psychology; Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)

Visiting Scholar; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience (HJ Neville); University of Oregon, Eugene (US)

Research and Teaching Associate; Psychology Department, Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)

Emmy Noether-fellow (German Research Foundation); head of a junior research group at the Psychology Department of the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)

Habilitation, Psychology; Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)

Full professor (C4), Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg

Adjunct Professor at the University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf

Master Theses: Finished: 27; Pending: 5

Doctoral Theses: Finished: 9; Pending: 15

Postdocs: Past: 3; current: 5
 

Member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg and the German Academy of
Sciences Leopoldina.

Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)

Gesellschaft für Neuropsychologie (GNP)

Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (NWG)

Society of Neuroscience (SFN)

Wilhelm-Wundt Gesellschaft (WWG)
 

Multisensory action control

Neuroplasticity: Functional and structural changes in the brain due to development, perceptual-cognitive training, physical exercising, traumatic events such as sensory deprivation/deafferentation.

Focus is on the age dependence of the brain’s capacity to reorganize.
 

• Röder B, Teder-Sälejärvi W, Sterr A, Rösler F, Hillyard SA, Neville HJ (1999) Improved auditory spatial tuning in blind humans. Nature 400: 162-166

• Röder B, Stock O, Neville HJ, Bien S, Rösler F (2002) Brain activation modulated by the comprehension of normal and pseudo-word sentences of different processing demands: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. NeuroImage 15: 1003-1014

• Hötting K, Röder B (2004) Hearing cheats touch but less in the congenitally blind than in sighted individuals. Psychol. Sci. 15: 60-64

• Röder B, Rösler F, Spence C (2004) Early vision impairs tactile perception in the blind. Curr. Biol. 14: 121-124

• Röder, B, Kusmierek, A, Spence, C, & Schicke, T (2007) Developmental vision determines the reference frame for the multisensory control of action. PNAS 104 (11): 4753-4758

• Schicke, T, & Röder, B (2006) Spatial remapping of touch: confusion of perceived stimulus order across hand and foot. PNAS 103: 11808-11813

• Röder, B, Föcker, J, Hötting, K, & Spence, C (2008) Spatial coordinate systems for tactile spatial attention depend on developmental vision: Evidence from event-related potentials in sighted and blind adult humans. Eur. J. Neurosci. 28: 475-483

• Putzar, L, Goerendt, I, Lange, K, Rösler, F, Röder, B (2007) Early visual deprivation impairs multisensory interactions in humans. Nature Neurosci. 10: 1243-1245

• Hötting, K, Friedrich, C, & Röder, B (2009) Neural correlates of crossmodally induced changes in tactile awareness. J. Cogni. Neurosci. in press

• Pagel, B, Schicke, T, & Röder, B, (2009) Change of reference frame for tactile localization during child development. Dev. Sci., in press