Qualifications

• MSc (Psychology) - University of Konstanz, Germany
• PhD (Psychology) - University of Tübingen, Germany

Teaching

• Abnormal Psychology (Year 3 - module leader)
• Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology (Year 3 - module leader)
• Learning, Memory & Perception (Year 2)
• Biopsychology (Year 2)

Research Interests

• Hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric interaction in healthy participants, neuropsychological - and psychiatric patients
• Language processing in patients with left and right hemispheric brain lesions
• EEG and MEG correlates of cognitive processes (ie language, face and object processing, attention)
• Neuropsychological rehabilitation in patients with aphasia
• Neuropsychology of schizophrenic disorders
• ERP correlates of associative learning

Publications

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Rockstroh, B., Endrass, T. 2008: Hemispheric cooperation - A crucial factor in schizophrenia - Neurophysiological evidence. Neuroimage, 41, 1102-1110.

Mohr, B., Endrass, T., Pulvermüller, F., 2007: Neurophysiological correlates of the bilateral redundancy gain for words: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2114-2124.

Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O., Zohsel, K., Neininger, B. & Mohr, B. 2005: Therapy-related reorganization of language in both hemispheres of patients with chronic aphasia. Neuroimage, 28, 481-489.

Endrass, T., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., 2004. Enhanced mismatch negativity brain response after binaural word presentation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 19, 1653-1660.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Lutzenberger, W., 2004. Neurophysiological signs of word and pseudoword processing in well-recovered aphasics and patients with right hemispheric stroke. Psychophysiology, 41, 584-591.

Neininger, B., Pulvermüller, F., Elbert, T., Rockstroh, B. & Mohr, B. 2004: Intensivierung, Fokussierung und Verhaltensrelevanz als Prinzipien der Neuropsychologischen Rehabilitation und ihre Implementation in der Therapie chronischer Aphasie - eine Übersichtsarbeit. [Constraint, focussing, behavioural relevance: Principles of neuropsychological rehabilitation and their implementation in aphasia therapy after chronic stroke: A review.] Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 15, 219-232.

Pulvermüller, F. & Mohr, B. 2004: Determinants of ignition times: Topographies of cell assemblies and activation delays they imply. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 27, 308-311.

Schweinberger, S.R., Baird, L.M., Blumler, M., Kaufmann, J.M., Mohr, B., 2003. Interhemispheric cooperation for face recognition but not for affective facial expressions. Neuropsychologia, 41 (4), 407-14.

Endrass, T., Mohr, B., Rockstroh, B., 2002. Reduced interhemispheric transmission time in schizophrenia patients: Evidence from event-related potentials. Neuroscience Letters, 320 (1-2), 57-60.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., 2002. Redundancy gains and costs in cognitive processing: effects of short SOAs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 28 (6), 1200-23

Mohr, B., Landgrebe, A., Schweinberger, S., 2002. Interhemispheric cooperation for familiar but not unfamiliar face processing. Neuropsychologia, 40 (11):1841-8

Schweinberger, S., Landgrebe, A., Mohr, B., Kaufmann, J., 2002. Personal names and the right hemisphere: an illusory link. Brain and Language, 80 (2):111-20

Pulvermüller, F., Genkinger, B., Elbert, T., Mohr, B., Rockstroh, B., Koebbel, P., Taub, E., 2001. Constraint-induced therapy of chronic aphasia following stroke. Stroke, 32, 1621-1626.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Schleichert, H., Veit, R., 2000. Operant conditioning of left-hemispheric slow cortical potentials and its effect on word processing. Biological Psychology 53, 177-215.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Cohen, R., Rockstroh, B., 2000. Interhemispheric cooperation during word processing: Evidence for callosal transfer dysfunction in schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenia Research 46, 231-239.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Schleichert, H., 1999. Semantic or lexico-syntactic features: What determines word-class specific activity in the human brain? Neuroscience Letters 275, 81-84.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Schleichert, H., 1998. Learned changes of brain states alter cognitive processing in humans. Neuroscience Letters 253, 159-162.

Müller, V., Mohr, B., Rosin, R., Pulvermüller, F., Müller, F., Birbaumer, N., 1997. Short-term effects of behavioural treatment on movement initiation and postural control in Parkinson's disease: A controlled clinical study. Movement Disorders 12, 306-314.

Pulvermüller, F., Birbaumer, N., Lutzenberger, W., Mohr, B., 1997. High-frequency brain activity: Its possible role in attention, perception and language processing. Progress in Neurobiology 52, 427-445.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Mittelstädt, K., Rayman, J., 1996. Multiple simultaneous stimulus presentation facilitates lexical processing. Neuropsychologia 34, 1003-1013.

Mohr, B., Müller, V., Mattes, R., Rosin, R., Federmann, B., Strehl, U., Pulvermüller, F., Müller, F., Lutzenberger, W., Birbaumer, N., 1996. Behavioural treatment of Parkinson's disease leads to improvement of motor skills and to tremor reduction. Behaviour Therapy 27, 235-255.

Pulvermüller, F., Eulitz, C., Pantev, C., Mohr, B., Feige, B., Lutzenberger, W., Elbert, T., Birbaumer, N., 1996. Gamma-band brain responses reflect lexical processing: an MEG study. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 98, 76-85.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Sedat, N., Hadler, B., Rayman, J., 1996. Word class specific deficits in Wernicke's aphasia. Neurocase 2, 203-212.

Pulvermüller, F., Lutzenberger, W., Müller, V., Mohr, B., Dichgans, J., Birbaumer, N., 1996. P3 and contingent negative variation in Parkinson's disease. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 98, 456-467.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., 1996. The concept of transcortical cell assemblies: a key to the understanding of cortical lateralization and interhemispheric interaction. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews 20, 557-566.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Preißl, H., 1996. Biology of language: principles, predictions, evidence. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 19, 643-645.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Zaidel, E., 1994. Lexical decision after left, right, and bilateral presentation of content words, function words, and non-words: evidence for interhemispheric interaction. Neuropsychologia 32, 105-124.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Rayman, J., Zaidel, E., 1994. Interhemispheric cooperation during lexical processing is mediated by the corpus callosum: evidence from the split-brain. Neuroscience Letters 181, 17-21.

Chapters in text books:
Mohr, B., Müller, V., Rosin, R., Strehl, U., Birbaumer, N. 1997Verhaltenstherapeutisches Gruppentraining bei Morbus Parkinson: Eine Effizienzstudie. In: D. Emmans & G. Fuchs (Hrsg.): Morbus Parkinson und Psychologie. Ein Handbuch. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen.

Mohr, B. 1996: Neuropsychologie des Morbus Parkinson. In: Strehl, U. & Birbaumer, N.: Verhaltensmedizinische Intervention bei Morbus Parkinson. Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim, 8-12.

Pulvermüller, F., Lutzenberger, W., Mohr, B., Preißl, H., Eulitz, C., Pantev, C., Elbert, T., Birbaumer, N. 1995: Evoked gamma-band responses in the EEG and MEG. In: Heinze, H.J., Münte, T.F., Scheich, H. & Mangun, G.R. (Eds.): Mapping cognition in time and space: combining EEG, MEG with functional imaging. Birkhäuser, Boston.

Peer Reviewed Abstracts:
Mohr, B., Schmalz, C., Nielsen, C., & Endrass, T., 2008. Perceptual and cognitive bilateral redundancy gains: Evidence for hemispheric interaction specific to the processing of learned meaningful stimuli. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 2008.

Mohr, B. Schmalz, C., 2006. The effects of associative learning of words and pseudowords on the N100 enhancement after stimulation in both visual half-fields. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement, p.202.
Endrass, T., Mohr, B., Rockstroh, B., 2003. Lateralization and interhemispheric integration in schizophrenia patients. Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Psychophysiology and its Applications (DGPA). Journal of Psychophysiology, 17(3), 142-187.

Mohr, B., 2002. Interhemispheric cooperation in higher cognitive processing. Experimental Psychological Society. Cambridge Meeting Abstracts.

Endrass, T., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Rockstroh, B., 2001. ERP evidence for reduced interhemispheric cooperation during language processing in schizophrenia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl., March.

Endrass, T., Mohr, B., Watzl, H., Rockstroh, B., 2001. Reduced interhemispheric transmission time in schizophrenic patients. SPR-abstracts, Psychophysiology.

Genkinger, B. Pulvermüller, F., Elbert, T.R., Mohr, B., Rockstroh, B., Koebbel, P., Taub, E., 2001. Constraint-induced therapy of aphasia following stroke. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, Suppl., 127-128.
Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., 2001. Modulation of word processing by lateralized slow cortical potential feedback: Implications for the rehabilitation of language disorders. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7, 410.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Cohen, R., Rockstroh, B., 2000. Schizophrenia Research, 41 (1), 17.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Schleichert, H., 2000. . Modulation of verbal processing in aphasics by operant conditioning of slow cortical potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl. March, p. 47.

Reichert, A., Mohr, B., Härle, M., Pulvermüller, F., Rockstroh, B., 2000. Electrocortical word class differences in normals and schizophrenic patients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl. March, p. 124.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Schleichert, H., Preissl, H. 1999. Grammatical versus semantic features: What determines word class differences in the brain? Abstracts of Human Brain Mapping Meeting, 1999.
Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Schleichert, H., 1999. Operant conditioning of slow cortical potentials and word processing: Evidence from normals and aphasic patients. Psychophysiology, September 1999.

Pulvermüller, F., Genkinger, B., Ehlert, C., Elbert, T., Mohr, B., 1999. Evidence for contributions of the right frontal lobe to action Word processing. In: Witruck, E., Lachmann, T. (Eds.): Basic mechanisms of language disorders. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, p. 46.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Schleichert, H., Veit, R., 1999. Modulation of Word processing by lateralized slow cortical potential feedback: implications for the rehabilitation of language disorders. In: Witruck, E., Lachmann, T. (Eds.): Basic mechanisms of language disorders. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, p. 115.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Lutzenberger, W. 1997: Lexical processing after stroke. Abstracts of the 3rd European Conference of Psychophysiology 3.

Pulvermüller, F., Lutzenberger, W., Preißl, H., Mohr, B., Birbaumer, N. 1997: HF responses to spoken and written nouns and verbs. Abstracts of the 3rd European Conference of Psychophysiology 3.
Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Lutzenberger, W. 1997: Psychophysiology of bilateral gain. Abstracts of the 3rd European Conference of Psychophysiology 3.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Schleichert, H., Veit, R., Lutzenberger, W. 1997: Elektrokortikale Veränderungen bei der Wortverarbeitung nach Schlaganfall: Psychophysiologische Befunde und therapeutische Perspektiven des Neurofeedback. Abstractband der Jahrestagung 1997 der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik.

Pulvermüller, FRockstroh, B., Kissler, J., Lommen, U., Mohr, B., Wienbruch, C., Elbert, T., 2001. Altered hemispheric asymmetry of auditory magnetic fields to tones and syllables in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 49, 694-703.

Mohr, B., Heim, S., Pulvermüller, F., Rockstroh, B., 2001. Functional asymmetry in schizophrenic patients during auditory speech processing, Schizophrenia Research 52 (1-2), 69-78.

Müller, V., Lutzenberger, W., Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Birbaumer, N., 2001. Investigation of brain dynamics in Parkinson's disease by methods derived from nonlinear dynamics. Experimental Brain Research, 137, 103-110.

Mohr, B., Lutzenberger, W. 1997: Lexical processing after stroke. Journal of Psychophysiology, 11, 380.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F. 1996: Activation dynamics of cortical cell assemblies: behavioural studies. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Meeting Handbook 3, 91.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Lutzenberger, W. 1996: Electrocortical signs of redundancy gain. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Meeting Handbook 3, 69.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F. 1996: Bilateralvorteil bei lexikalischer Verarbeitung: Verhaltensdaten von Gesunden und Split-Brain Patienten. 40. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Abstractband, 92.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Lutzenberger, W. 1996: Hemispheric cooperation during motor programming and language perception. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 22, 1111.

Birbaumer, N., Pulvermüller, F., Preißl, H., Tempelmann, C., Scheich, H., Heinze, H.-J. Mohr, B., Lutzenberger, W. 1996. Changes in brain metabolism induced by EEG-biofeedback: a fMRI study. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 22, 434.

Mohr, B., Müller, V., Rosin, R., Müller, F., Birbaumer, N. 1995. Behavioural treatment of Parkinson's disease leads to improvement of motor and social skills. Annals of Behavioural Medicine 17, Supplement, 172.

Lutzenberger, W., Preißl, H., Müller, V., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Birbaumer, N. 1995: P3, CNV and chaotic EEG dynamics in Parkinson's disease. Psychophysiology 32, S51.

Mohr, B. Pulvermüller, F., Zaidel, E. 1993: Behavioural evidence for interhemispheric interaction in lexical processing. Linguistic Society of America, Meeting Handbook, 53.

Pulvermüller, F., Mohr, B., Rayman, J., Zaidel, E., Aertsen, A. 1993: Bilateral presentation of words facilitates lexical processing in normals but not in split-brain patients. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19, 1808.