Kenneth Hugdahl Explained

, Professor emeritus

Kenneth Hugdahl (born 15 January 1948, in Östersund, Sweden) is a Swedish psychologist. married to Märit 1973-2016, two children Anna and Emilia

He took his doctor's degree at the Uppsala University in 1977. He worked as a researcher there from 1980, and in 1984 he was appointed professor at the University of Bergen. His main research interests are brain asymmetry and dichotic listening,^[1] cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia,^[2] and neurobiology of auditory hallucinations.^[3] He has published over 300 articles in international peer reviewed journals, including in high impact factor journals, such as Brain (journal) ^[4] and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,^[5] and various books, among them Psychophysiology: The Mind-Body Perspective (1995),^[6] Experimental Methods in Neuropsychology (2002)^[7] and The Asymmetrical Brain (2002) (together with Prof. Richard Davidson).^[8] He also edited the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology from 1990 to 2004.^[9]

He was a member of the Research Council of Norway from 1988 to 1989, and of the MacArthur Foundation from 1990 to 2000.^[9] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[10] He is currently the Head of the Bergen fMRI Group which initiated use of functional magnetic resonance imaging in neuroscience in Norway and the Nordic countries in the 1990s.

Notes and References

1. Thomsen T, Rimol LM, Ersland L, Hugdahl K . Dichotic listening reveals functional specificity in prefrontal cortex: an fMRI study. NeuroImage . 21 . 1 . 211–218 . 2004 . 14741658 . 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.08.039. 11593478.
2. Brandt CL, Doan NT, Tønnesen S, Agartz I, Hugdahl K, Melle I, Andreassen OA, Westlye LT . Assessing brain structural associations with working-memory related brain patterns in schizophrenia and healthy controls using linked independent component analysis . NeuroImage Clin . 9 . 253–263 . 2015 . 26509112 . 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.08.010 . 4576364.
3. Mørch-Johnsen L, Nesvåg R, Jørgensen KN, Lange EH, Hartberg CB, Haukvik UK, Kompus K, Westerhausen R, Osnes K, Andreassen OA, Melle I, Hugdahl K, Agartz I . Auditory cortex characteristics in schizophrenia: associations with auditory hallucinations . Schizophr Bull . 43 . 1 . 75–83 . 2017 . 27605526 . 10.1093/schbul/sbw130. 5216858 .
4. Clark KA, Helland T, Specht K, Narr KL, Manis FR, Toga AW, Hugdahl K . Neuroanatomical precursors of dyslexia identified from pre-reading through to age 11 . Brain . 137 . 12 . 3136–3141 . 2014 . 25125610 . 10.1093/brain/awu229 . 4240283.
5. Cappelen AW, Eichele T, Hugdahl K, Specht K, Sørensen EØ, Tungodden B . Equity theory and fair inequality: a neuroeconomic study . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 111 . 43 . 15368–15372 . 2014 . 25313056 . 10.1073/pnas.1414602111 . 4217432. 2014PNAS..11115368C . free .
6. Hugdahl K (1995). Psychophysiology: The Mind-Body Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
7. Hugdahl K (2002). Experimental Methods in Neuropsychology. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
8. Hugdahl K, Davidson RJ (2002). The Asymmetrical Brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT press.
9. Book: Hvem er hvem? . 2008 . Knut Olav Åmås . Knut Olav Åmås . Aschehoug . Oslo . 978-82-03-23561-0 . 251 .
10. Web site: Gruppe 7: Medisinske fag. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. no. 7 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927171110/http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40128. 27 September 2011. dead.