PD Dr. phil. Tina Plank, Dipl.-Psych.

Courses

WS 2018/19 

Research focus

• Neuroplastic changes following retinopathologies
• Psychoacoustics
• Perceptual learning
• Multisensoric object perception and categorisation

Current projects

DFG Research Unit 1075, Subproject 8 "Neuroplasticity in retinotopic visual cortex as a consequence of retinopathologies"

For more information see Projects.

Journal articles

• Plank, T., Lerner, L., Tuschewski, J., Pawellek, M., Malania, M., & Greenlee, M. W. (2021). Perceptual learning of a crowding task: Effects of anisotropy and optotype. Journal of vision, 21(11), 13-13. doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.11.13
• Plank, T., Benkowitsch, E., Beer, A. L., Brandl, S., Malania, M., Frank, S. M., Jägle, H. & Greenlee, M. W. (2021). Cortical Thickness Related to Compensatory Viewing Strategies in Patients With Macular Degeneration. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 1265. doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.718737 ;
• Hense, K., Plank, T., Wendl, C., Dodoo-Schittko, F., Bumes, E., Greenlee, M. W., Schmidt, N.O., Proescholdt, M. & Rosengarth, K. (2021). fMRI Retinotopic Mapping in Patients with Brain Tumors and Space-Occupying Brain Lesions in the Area of the Occipital Lobe. Cancers, 13(10), 2439. doi.org/10.3390/cancers13102439 ;
• Malania, M., Pawellek, M., Plank, T., & Greenlee, M. W. (2020). Training-induced changes in radial–tangential anisotropy of visual crowding. Translational Vision Science & Technology, 9(9), 25-25. doi.org/10.1167/tvst.9.9.25 ;
• Beer, A. L., Plank, T., & Greenlee, M. W. (2020). Aging and central vision loss: Relationship between the cortical macro-structure and micro-structure. NeuroImage, 212, 116670. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116670 ;
• Greenlee, M. W., & Plank, T. (2018). Sehen mit einem Zentralskotom. Blick in die Wissenschaft, Bd. 26 Nr. 35/36, 58-61. doi.org/10.5283/bidw.v26i35/36.13 ;
• Bauer, A., Hagenburger, J., Plank, T., Busch, V., & Greenlee, M. W. (2018). Mechanical pain thresholds and the rubber hand illusion. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 712. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00712 ;
• Wieneke, L., Schmuck, P., Zacher, J., Greenlee, M. W., & Plank, T. (2018). Effects of congruent and incongruent stimulus colour on flavour discriminations. i-Perception, 9(2), 2041669518761463. doi.org/10.1177/2041669518761463 ;
• Plank, T., Frolo, J., Brandl-Rühle, S., Renner, A. B., Jägle, H., & Greenlee, M. W. (2017). fMRI with central vision loss: effects of fixation locus and stimulus type. Optometry and Vision Science, 94(3), 297-310. doi.org/10.1097/OPX.0000000000001047 ;
• Prins, D., Plank, T., Baseler, H. A., Gouws, A. D., Beer, A., Morland, A. B., ... & Cornelissen, F. W. (2016). Surface-based analyses of anatomical properties of the visual cortex in macular degeneration. PloS one, 11(1), e0146684. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146684 ;
• Plank, T., Rosengarth, K., Schmalhofer, C., Goldhacker, M., Brandl-Rühle, S., & Greenlee, M. W. (2014). Perceptual learning in patients with macular degeneration. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1189. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01189 ;
• Goldhacker, M., Rosengarth, K., Plank, T., & Greenlee, M. W. (2014). The effect of feedback on performance and brain activation during perceptual learning. Vision Research, 99, 99-110. doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2013.11.010

• Rosengarth, K., Keck, I., Brandl-Rühle, S., Frolo, J., Hufendiek, K., Greenlee, M. W., & Plank, T. (2013). Functional and structural brain modifications induced by oculomotor training in patients with age-related macular degeneration.
  Frontiers in psychology, 4, 428. Published online: 17 July 2013.
  doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00428

• Beer, A. L., Plank, T., Meyer G., Greenlee M. W., (2013). Combined diffusion-weighted and functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals a temporal-occipital network involved in auditory-visual object processing. Front. Integr. Neurosci. 7:5. Published online: 13 February 2013.
  doi: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00005

• Hernowo, A. T., Prins, D., Baseler, H. A., Plank, T., Gouws, A. D., Hooymans, J. M., Morland, A.B., Greenlee, M.W. & Cornelissen, F. W. (2014). Morphometric analyses of the visual pathways in macular degeneration. Cortex, 56, 99-110. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2013.01.003  
• Plank, T., Frolo, J., Farzana, F., Brandl‐Rühle, S., Renner, A. B., & Greenlee, M. W. (2013). Neural correlates of visual search in patients with hereditary retinal dystrophies. Human Brain Mapping, 34(10), 2607-2623. doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22088 
• Beer, A. L., Plank, T., Greenlee, M. W. (2011). Diffusion tensor imaging shows white matter tracts between human auditory and visual cortex. Experimental Brain Research, E-pub ahead of print 2011 May 15. doi:10.1007/s00221-011-2715-y
• Plank, T., Rosengarth, K., Song, W., Ellermeier, W., & Greenlee, M. W. (2012). Neural Correlates of Audio-Visual Object Recognition: Effects of Implicit Spatial Congruency. Human Brain Mapping, 33(4), 797–811.
  (E-Pub ahead of print 21 March 2011). doi:10.1002/hbm.21254
• Plank, T., Frolo, J., Brandl-Rühle, S., Renner, A. B., Hufendiek, K., Helbig, H., & Greenlee, M. W. (2011). Gray matter alterations in visual cortex of patients with loss of central vision due to hereditary retinal dystrophies. Neuroimage, 56(3), 1556-1565. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.055
• Oberfeld, D., & Plank, T. (2011). The temporal weighting of loudness: effects of the level profile. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(1), 189-208. doi:10.3758/s13414-010-0011-8

Conference contributions

Conference papers

• Plank, T., & Ellermeier (2004). Role of the number of sound segments in discriminating temporal loudness profiles. In A. M. Oliveira, M. Teixeira, G. F. Borges & M. J. Ferro (Eds.), Fechner Day 2004, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 501-505). Coimbra, Portugal: ISP.
• Plank, T., & Ellermeier (2003). Discrimination of temporal loudness profiles. In B. Berglund & E. Borg (Eds.), Fechner Day 2003, Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 241-244). Stockholm, Sweden: ISP.

Talks

• Prins, D., Hernowo, A. T., Baseler, H., Plank, T., Greenlee, M. W., Morland, T., & Cornelissen, F. W. (2011, Aug). White matter in early visual pathway structures is reduced in patients with macular degeneration. 34th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Toulouse, France.
• Greenlee, M. W., Plank, T., & Beer, A. L. (2011, Jun). Multisensory integration: Evidence from structural and functional MRI. Munich Multisensory Perception Symposium, Munich, Germany.
• Greenlee, M. W., Farzana, F., Frolo, J., Brandl-Rühle, S., & Plank, T. (2010, Aug). Quality of eccentric fixation in patients with central scotomas determines performance and brain activation in a visual search task. 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Lausanne, Switzerland. Published abstract in Percpetion, 39(Supplement), 60.
• Plank, T., & Ellermeier (2004, Mar). Discriminating temporal loudness patterns in the absence of overall level cues. Joint CFA/DAGA 2004 Congress, Strasbourg, France.
• Plank, T., & Ellermeier, W. (2003, Mar). Auditive Unterscheidung von Lautheitsprofilen. 45. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Kiel, Germany.

Posters

• Beer, A. L., Plank, T., & Greenlee, M. W. (2011, Jun). Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Structural Connectivity between Human Auditory and Visual Cortex. 17th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM).

• Greenlee, M., Rosengarth, K., Venus, V., & Plank, T. (2010, Jun). Role of feedback in shaping the time course of visual cortical responses during perceptual learning. 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Barcelona, Spain.

• Greenlee, M. W., Rosengarth, K., & Plank, T. (2010, May). Brain plasticity associated with supervised and unsupervised learning in a coherent-motion detection task. 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, Florida. Published abstract in Journal of Vision, 10(7):1108. doi:10.1167/10.7.1108

• Frolo, J., Plank, T., Renner, A. B., Brandl-Rühle, S., Helbig, H., & Greenlee, M. W. (2010, May). Neural Correlates of Eccentric Fixation in Patients With Central Visual Field Scotomas. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's Annual Meeting (ARVO), Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• Plank, T., Frolo, J., Renner, A. B., Brandl-Rühle, S., Helbig, H., & Greenlee, M. W. (2010, May). Voxel Based Morphometry in Patients With Central Visual Field Scotomas. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's Annual Meeting (ARVO), Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• Rosengarth, K., Stemme, A., Plank, T., Deco, G., & Greenlee, M. W. (2009, Aug). Brain plasticity associated with supervised and unsupervised learning. 32nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Regensburg, Germany. Published abstract in Percpetion, 38(Supplement), 99.
• Plank, T., Renner, A. B., Frolo, J., Brandl-Rühle, S., Helbig, H., & Greenlee, M. W. (2009, Aug). fMRI in patients with central visual field scotomas reveals higher activation in visual cortex associated with pseudo-fovea. 32nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Regensburg, Germany. Published abstract in Percpetion, 38(Supplement), 101.
• Reisenauer, R., Plank, T., & Greenlee, M. W. (2009, Aug). Neural correlates of priming for audiovisual stimulus processing at different levels of categorization. 32nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Regensburg, Germany. Published abstract in Percpetion, 38(Supplement), 141.
• Plank, T., Ellermeier, W., Song, W., Rosengarth, K., Greenlee, M. W. (2007, Jun). Effects of spatial congruence in audiovisual object recognition. 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Chicago, Illinois. Published abstract in Neuroimage, 36(Supplement 1), e(1) [CD-Rom]. doi:10.1016/S1053-8119(08)70002-8
• Plank, T., & Ellermeier, W. (2005, Apr). Zeitliche Lautheitsintegration diskreter Schallereignisse. 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany.
• Oberfeld, D., & Plank, T. (2005, Mar). Zeitliche Gewichtung der Lautheit von graduell eingeblendetem Rauschen. Fortschritte der Akustik / 31. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), Munich, Germany. Published abstract in english "Temporal Weighting of Loudness: Effects of a Fade In" in M. Fruhmann & H. Fastl (Eds.), Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA '05 (pp. 227-228). Berlin, Germany: DEGA.
• Plank, T., & Ellermeier, W. (2004, Apr). Diskrimination zeitlicher Lautheitsmuster. 46. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Gießen, Germany.