PD Dr. Tina Plank is a private lecturer at the Institute of Psychology. She is part of the Multisensory Research Group. Her research interests include visual disorders in particular with macula degeneration. Her research methods include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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PD Dr. Tina Plank
- E-mail address: tina.plank(at)ur.de (opens your email program)
- Tel: +49-941-943-3849 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
- Location: PT 4.0.41
Universität Regensburg
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93053 Regensburg - Important information: Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung
Academic career
Education:
- Diplom in Volkswirtschaftslehre (Economics) · University of Regensburg · 1996
- Diplom in Psychology · University of Regensburg · April 2001
- Dr. phil. · University of Regensburg · January 2006 · Dissertation: "Auditory Discrimination of Loudness Profiles"
- Dr. phil. habil. · University of Regensburg · February 2017 · “Structural and functional neural correlates of visual processing in patients with central vision loss”
Academic Career:
- Research Assistant, DFG Project on Loudness Perception (Prof. Ellermeier & Prof. Pfeiffer), University of Regensburg
(2001–2005) - Visiting Researcher, Sound Quality Research Unit, Aalborg University, Denmark (2003) · Postdoctoral Fellowship (HWP Program),
University of Regensburg (since 2005) - Research Assistant, BMBF Project “Brain Plasticity and Perceptual Learning” (Prof. Greenlee)
- Co-Investigator, DFG Research Group FOR 1075 (since 2011)
- Temporary Academic Advisor/Senior Academic Advisor, Institute of Psychology, UR (2017–2021)
- Principal Investigator, DFG project “MRI of neural plasticity in the visual cortex in patients with central vision loss” (since
2021)
Main research areas
- Visual cortex organisation and cortical reorganisation in central vision loss
- Perceptual learning and training-induced plasticity in patients with age-related and hereditary macular degeneration
- fMRI retinotopic mapping and population receptive fields
- Cortical macro- and microstructure (morphometry, DTI) in retinal disease and aging
- Auditory-visual multisensory object recognition
- Methods: functional MRI, diffusion-weighted MRI, morphometric analysis (VBM, surface-based), psychophysics, eye-tracking
Publications (selection)
- Plank T et al. (2011). Gray matter alterations in visual cortex of patients with loss of central vision due to hereditary retinal dystrophies. NeuroImage, 56(3):1556–1565.
- Plank T et al. (2014). Perceptual learning in patients with macular degeneration. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1189.
- Plank T, Benkowitsch EMA, Beer AL et al. (2021). Cortical thickness related to compensatory viewing strategies in patients with macular degeneration. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15:718737.
- Beer AL, Plank T, Greenlee MW (2020). Aging and central vision loss: Relationship between the cortical macro-structure and micro-structure. NeuroImage, 212:116670.
- Malania M, Lin YS, Hörmandinger C, Werner JS, Greenlee MW, Plank T (2024). Training-induced changes in population receptive field properties in visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 24:(5)7.