Frank Bremmer

Short info

Our research focuses on (i) vision and eye-movements and (ii) multisensory representations of spatial and motion information in the primate brain.

Given that we make eye-movements more often than our heart beats, we aim to understand if and how visual processing is modulated by eye-movements. Furthermore, we are concerned with the interplay of visual, auditory and tactile signals for the representation of space and self-motion. In our studies, we combine cell recordings and EEG in the animal model with modelling and behavioral and imaging studies in humans. In collaboration with UKGM we investigate disturbances of spatial and motion processing in neurological and psychiatric patients.

Articles

Churan, J., Kaminiarz, A., Schwenk, J. C., & Bremmer, F. (2021).
Coding of interceptive saccades in parietal cortex of macaque monkeys.
Brain Structure and Function, 226(8), 2707-2723.

Churan, J., Kaminiarz, A., Schwenk, J. C., & Bremmer, F. (2021).
Action-dependent processing of self-motion in parietal cortex of macaque monkeys.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 125(6), 2432-2443.

Dowiasch, S., Kaminiarz, A., & Bremmer, F. (2022).
The visual representation of space in the primate brain.
Neuroforum, 28(4), 199-209.

Engel, D., Student, J., Schwenk, J. C., Morris, A. P., Waldthaler, J., Timmermann, L., & Bremmer, F. (2021).
Visual perturbation of balance suggests impaired motor control but intact visuomotor processing in Parkinson’s disease.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 126(4), 1076-1089.

Rosenblum, L., Grewe, E., Churan, J., & Bremmer, F. (2022).
Influence of Tactile Flow on Visual Heading Perception
Multisensory Research, 35(4), 291-308.

Rosenblum, L., Kreß, A., Schwenk, J. C., & Bremmer, F. (2022).
Visuo-tactile heading perception.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 128(5), 1355-1364.

Schmitt, C., Krala, M., & Bremmer, F. (2022).
Neural signatures of actively controlled self-motion and the subjective encoding of distance.
Eneuro.

Schmitt, C., Schwenk, J. C. B., Schütz, A., Churan, J., Kaminiarz, A., Bremmer, F. (2021).
Preattentive processing of visually guided self-motion in humans and monkeys.
Progress in Neurobiology, 205, 102117.

Student J, Engel D, Timmermann L, Bremmer F, Waldthaler J (2022).
Visual Perturbation Suggests Increased Effort to Maintain Balance in Early Stages of Parkinson’s to be an Effect of Age Rather Than Disease.
Front. Hum. Neurosci. 16:762380.