Short CV
2004-present | Head of the Visual Processing Lab (Section for Clinical & Experimental Sensory Physiology) at the Ophthalmic Department Magdeburg, Germany |
2013 | Adjunct professor (apl. Prof.) |
2007 | Habilitation & venia legendi for neurobiology |
2002-2004 | Research fellow at the Ophthalmic Department Freiburg, Germany |
1999-2003 | Postdoc at the Royal Holloway University London, UK (Prof. A. Morland): fMRI-investiations of the human visual system |
1999 | Postdoc at the Ophthalmic Department Freiburg (Prof. M. Bach): Human motion perception |
1995-1998 | PhD thesis at the Ophthalmic Department Freiburg (Prof. M. Bach): "Investigation of visual motion perception in man with the EEG: Discrimination of eye- and object-induced motion" |
1994 | Diploma thesis at the Ophthalmic Department Tübingen (Prof. F. Schaeffel): "Investigation of the influence of melatonin on deprivation-myopia in the domestic chicken" |
1988-1993 | Undergraduate studies in biology at the University of Münster, University of Tübingen, University of Sussex, UK |
1967 | Born in Münster, Westfalen |
- Retina & visual cortex
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Non-invasive electrophysiology
- Plasticity & reorgansiation of the human visual system
- Visual perception & visuo-motor integration
- ISCEV
- Society for Neuroscience
- Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
- Center for Behavioural Brain Sciences
Michael Hoffmann |
Key Publications
- Klemen J, Hoffmann MB, Chambers CD (2012)
Cortical plasticity in the face of altered input to V1.
Cortex 48:1362-1365 - Hoffmann MB, Kaule FR, Levin N, Masuda Y, Kumar A, Gottlob I, Horiguchi H, Dougherty RF, Stadler J, Wolynski B, Speck O, Kanowski M, Liao YJ, Wandell BA, Dumoulin SO (2012)
Plasticity and stability of the visual system in human achiasma.
Neuron 75:393-401 - Wolynski B, Kanowski M, Meltendorf S, Behrens-Baumann W, Hoffmann MB (2010)
Self-organisation in the human visual system - visuo-motor processing with congenitally abnormal V1 input.
Neuropsychologia 48:3834-3845 - Wolynski B, Schott BH, Kanowski M, Hoffmann MB (2009)
Visuo-motor integration in humans: Cortical patterns of response lateralisation and functional connectivity.
Neuropsychologia: 47:1313-1322 - Hoffmann MB, Stadler J, Kanowski M, Speck O (2009)
Retinotopic mapping of the human visual cortex at a magnetic field strength of 7 Tesla.
Clinical Neurophysiology 120:108-16 - Hoffmann MB, Wolynski B, Meltendorf S, Behrens-Baumann W, Kaesmann-Kellner B (2008)
Multifocal visual evoked potentials reveal normal optic nerve projections in human carriers of oculocutaneous albinism type 1a.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences 49:2756-2764 - Hoffmann MB, Seufert P, Schmidtborn LC (2007)
Perceptual relevance of abnormal visual field representations - static visual field perimetry in human albinism.
British Journal of Ophthalmology 91:509-513 - Hoffmann MB, Lorenz B, Morland AB, Schmidtborn LC (2005)
Misrouting of the optic nerves in albinism: Estimation of the extent with visual evoked potentials.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences 46:3906-3912 - Heinrich SP, van der Smagt MJ, Bach M, Hoffmann MB (2004)
Electrophysiological evidence for independent speed channels in human motion processing.
Journal of Vision 4:469-475 - Hoffmann MB, Tolhurst DJ, Moore AT, Morland AB (2003)
Organisation of the visual cortex in human albinism.
Journal of Neuroscience 23:8921-8930
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