• Neuroimaging with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
• Neuroimaging with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)
• Neuronal correlates of speech comprehension and speech production
• fMRI in persons who stutter
• Music perception and music processing
• Clinical fMRI, in particular in stroke patients

 

Selected lectures for students in different bachelor and master programs:

PRPSY304: Cognitiv Neuroscience

MAPSYK302: Research methods

LOGO310: Introduction to logopedics

MUTP111: Music and brain

 

For PhD candidates:

IGSIN911: Functional neuroimaging 

IGSIN913: Interdisciplinary neuroscience

Conference poster

• René Westerhausen; S.O. Belsby; Matthias Moosmann et al. (2009). Dynamic modulation of brain activation in response to varying degrees of top-down/bottom-up processing conflict. (external link)
• Wageningen, Heidi Karin Van; Hugo A. Jørgensen; Karsten Specht et al. (2006). Are hallucinations mediated through dysregulation of glutamate at the neuronal level?. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2010). Effective connectivity analysis demonstrates involvement of premotor cortex during speech perception. (external link)
• Kristin Haukebø; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht et al. (2007). An fMRI-study of brain activation to ontogenetic, phobic vs. phylogenetic, fear-relevant stimuli. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Lars Morten Rimol; Kenneth Hugdahl (2005). The use of a sparse-sampling acquisition schema as a filter for effects of low interest in a verbal dichotic listening paradigm at 3T. (external link)
• Anca Larisa Sandu; Karsten Specht; Arvid Lundervold et al. (2006). Computation of the fractal dimension in the brain using MR images: Applications to schizophrenia. (external link)
• Max Korbmacher; Meng-yun Wang; Rune Eikeland et al. (2023). Field strength and potentially scan quality influence brain age estimates. (external link)
• Wageningen, Heidi Karin Van; Hugo Arild Jørgensen; Karsten Specht et al. (2007). Attention modulation may be regulated through glutamate: Implications for mental disorders? An pharmacological fMRI study. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl (2007). Negative priming of attention in dichotic listening - an fMRI study. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Matthias Walter Moosmann; Karsten Specht et al. (2005). When the context needs no update. An ERP-fMRI coregistration study of P3 modulation to random vs. regular target to target intervals. (external link)
• Sunniva Ulstein Kayser; Wolfgang Schmid; Minna Hynninen et al. (2022). DysfaSing! Music therapy pilot study to adress dysphagia cognitve function and psychological well-being in early stage of Huntington Disease. (external link)
• Kenneth Hugdahl; Gesche Neckelmann; Karsten Specht (2004). Grey matter reduction and hallucinations in schizophrenia: An MRI voxel-based morphometry study. (external link)
• Sarah Dos Santos Sequeira; Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl (2006). Effects of background noise on brain asymmetry in dichotic listening - an fMRI investigation. (external link)
• Anca-Larisa Sandu; Inge-Andre Rasmussen; Arvid Lundervold et al. (2008). MR measures of brain volume and cortical irregularities in schizophrenia and dyslexia. (external link)
• Liv Eggset Falkenberg; Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2010). Mid-sagittal corpus callosum size correlates with brain activation in a speech perception task. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl (2010). Dance floor in the brain. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Helene Hjelmervik; Berge Osnes et al. (2010). Differential inferior frontal activation by an implicit lexical decision task. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Berge Osnes (2010). Dynamic causal modelling reveals involvement of premotor cortex during speech perception. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2009). Effective connectivity analysis demonstrates involvement of premotor cortex during speech perception. (external link)
• Bruno Laeng; Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl (2006). A fMRI study of a grapheme-color synaesthete: The larger the color difference between ink and illusory colors, the more the visual areas are engaged. (external link)
• Frøydis Morken; Turid Helland; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2016). Effective connectivity in dyslexia. A longitudinal DCM study.. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Helene Hjelmervik et al. (2011). Instruction 
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perception. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2009). A fMRI study of executive processing in the auditory and visual domain. (external link)
• Matthias Moosmann; Vinzenz h. Schönfelder; Karsten Specht et al. (2008). Realignment parameter-informed artifact correction for simultaneous EEG-fMRI recordings. (external link)
• Wageningen, Heidi Karin Van; Hugo A Jørgensen; Tom Eichele et al. (2008). The effects of glutamate antagonist memantine on brain activation in an auditory discrimination task. A pharmacological fMRI study. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; René Westerhausen; Berge Osnes et al. (2012). Executive functions & frontal lobe: Cognitive control modulation of ear advantage across the menstrual cycle assessed by a dichotic listening paradigm. (external link)
• Liv Eggset Falkenberg; René Westerhausen; Else-Marie Løberg et al. (2012). N-acetyl aspartate and glutamate levels of the anterior cingulate predict symptoms severity in schizophrenia: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) study. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Matthias Walter Moosmann; Karsten Specht et al. (2005). ERP-fMRI of the Auditory Oddball. Correlated Dynamics in Electric and Hemodynamic Responses to Random vs. Regular Target-to Target Intervals. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Tom Eichele; Matthias Walter Moosmann et al. (2006). Inhibition of primed dichotic listening stimuli in an ERP study: Influence of context on auditory processing and attention. (external link)
• Lars Morten Rimol; R. Savoy; Karsten Specht et al. (2004). Neuronal activation to single phonemes in left temporal cortex measured with fMRI. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Lars Morten Rimol; J. Reul et al. (2004). When a sound becomes a word. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Helene Hjelmervik et al. (2010). Differential Processing of Phonetic and Non-phonetic Information Involving the Same Areas in Superior Temporal Gyrus. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2008). Exploring a common executive attention network in the brain across stimulus modalities using visual and auditory sorting tasks. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; Berge Osnes; Karsten Specht (2012). Sex differences in resting state activity within the inferior frontal gyrus is only evident when women are in the follicular phase. (external link)
• Tormod Thomsen; Lars Ersland; Roger Barndon et al. (2002). Differences in Top-down and Bottom-up processing of visual attention: An fMRI study. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Helge Nordby; Tom Eichele et al. (2011). Asymmetric Mismatch Negativity Responses to Parametrically Varied Speech and Music Sounds. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; Eileen Luders; Karsten Specht et al. (2009). A longitudinal study of inter-hemispheric interaction and corpus callosum development in 6 and 8 year old children. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; K Hugdahl; Helene Hjelmervik et al. (2009). Speech sensitivity in early auditory processes. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2007). Soundmorphing": Tracing the differential perception of speech and music with gradually manipulated sound spectra. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; Renate Grüner; Karsten Specht et al. (2008). A DTI tractography study on the functional relevance of inter-individual differences in callosal connectivity. (external link)
• Animesh Sharma; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2011). Meta analysis of language data using Machine Learning. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Tom Eichele; Matthias Walter Moosmann et al. (2005). Electrophysiologic and hemodynamic indicators of early attentional modulation in audition: BOLD correlates of processing negativity (PN) in a simultaneous ERP-fMRI. (external link)
• Anca Larisa Sandu; Karsten Specht; Arvid Lundervold et al. (2006). Determination of fractal dimension in the human brain using MR images: Applications to severe mental disorders. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Bruno Laeng (2011). An Independent Component Analysis of fMRI data of grapheme-color synaesthesia. (external link)
• Matthias Walter Moosmann; Karsten Specht; Tom Eichele et al. (2005). Simultaneous ERP-fMRI of the auditory N2b modulation to temporal predictability of targets. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2010). Effective connectivity analysis demonstrates involvement of premotor cortex during speech perception. (external link)
• Renate Grüner; Karsten Specht; Kerstin Von Plessen et al. (2004). Analyses of Diffusion Tensor Images (DTI) by a morphometrical analysis of iterative normalized DTI's: An optimised procedure approved in a group of children with Tourete Syndrome. (external link)
• Noeska Natasja Smit; Stefan Bruckner; Helwig Hauser et al. (2018). Research Agenda of the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre in Bergen, Norway. (external link)
• Susanne Passow; Alexander R. Craven; Else-Marie Løberg et al. (2014). Glutamate as a mediating transmitter for auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: A 1H-MRS study. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl (2008). Dance floor in the brain. (external link)
• Pascale Sandmann; Tom Eichele; Karsten Specht et al. (2006). Electrophysiological correlates of effects of voice onset time in dichotic listening. (external link)
• Gesche F Neckelmann; Karsten Specht; Alf Inge Smievoll et al. (2002). Left temmporal lobe reduction in grey matter in schizophrenia: An MRI voxel-based morphometry study. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Tom Eichele; Helge Nordby et al. (2007). Attention inhibition in primed dichotic listening: Behavioural, ERP and source localisation effects. (external link)
• Wageningen, Heidi Karin Van; Hugo A. Jørgensen; Karsten Specht et al. (2006). Attention modulation may be regulated through glutamate. (external link)
• Anca-Larisa Sandu; Inge-Andre Rasmussen; Arvid Lundervold et al. (2007). Towards the validation of a new technique for the analysis of MR brain images - the fractal dimension. (external link)
• Anca Larisa Sandu; Karsten Specht; Arvid Lundervold et al. (2006). Computation of the fractal dimension in patients with schizophrenia using MR images. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; Kristiina Kompus; Margaretha Dramsdahl et al. (2011). Sexual dimorphism in corpus callosum microstructure: a critical re-evaluation. (external link)
• Liv Eggset Falkenberg; René Westerhausen; Karsten Specht et al. (2011). Anterior cingulate glutamate levels differentially modulate BOLD response to cognitive conflict. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Tom Eichele; Matthias Walter Moosmann et al. (2006). Attention inhibition in primed dichotic listening. (external link)
• Meng-yun Wang; Max Korbmacher; Rune Eikeland et al. (2023). The long night effect on the brain functional organization. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; René Westerhausen; Berge Osnes et al. (2012). Intra-individual differences in cognitive control across the menstrual cycle assessed with the dichotic listening paradigm. (external link)
• Liv Eggset Falkenberg; Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2010). Mid-sagittal corpus callosum size correlates with brain activation in a speech perception task. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Matthias Walter Moosmann; Vince D Calhoun et al. (2006). Joint ICA of simultaneous single trial ERP-fMRI. (external link)
• Lars Ersland; Erling Andersen; Tormod Thomsen et al. (2002). Automated synchronization of fMRI stimulus presentations and image acquisitions. (external link)
• Bruno Laeng; Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl (2006). A fMRI study of a grapheme-colour synaesthete: The larger the colour difference between ink and illusory colours, the more the visual areas are engaged. (external link)
• Liv Eggset Falkenberg; René Westerhausen; Else-Marie Løberg et al. (2012). Anterior cingulate biochemistry predicts symptom severity in schizophrenia: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) study. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; Marco Hirnstein; Berge Osnes et al. (2009). The neural basis of left-right decisions – a pilot fMRI study. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Helge Nordby; Tom Eichele et al. (2009). Mismatch negativity responses to parametrically varied speech and music sounds. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2009). A fMRI study of executive processing in the auditory and visual domain. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Helene Hjelmervik et al. (2011). Instruction dependent activations during a speech perception task. (external link)
• Wageningen, Heidi Karin Van; Hugo A. Jørgensen; Karsten Specht et al. (2006). Are hallucinations mediated through dysregulation of glutamate at the neuronal level?. (external link)
• Sarah Dos Santos Sequeira; Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl (2006). Effects of background noise on brain asymmetry in dichotic listening - an fMRI investigation. (external link)
• Heidi Karin van Wageningen; Renate Grüner; Roger Barndon et al. (2009). Controlling the BOLD effect in functional spectroscopy allows exploring the Glutamate-Glutamine cycle. (external link)
• Anca-Larisa Sandu; Karsten Specht; Inge-Andre Rasmussen et al. (2007). Analysing the fractal dimension of the brain from MR images: a powerful technique for revealing brain microstructure properties. (external link)
• Judit Haász; Arvid Lundervold; Thomas Espeseth et al. (2014). Longitudinal changes in visual working memory performance and frontoparietal intrinsic connectivity network synchronization non-cortical stroke. (external link)
• Wageningen, Heidi Karin Van; Hugo Arild Jørgensen; Karsten Specht et al. (2007). Attention modulation may be regulated through glutamate: A pharmacological fMRI study. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2007). “Soundmorphing”: Tracing the differential perception of speech and music with gradually manipulated sound spectra. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Lie Chuh-Hyoun; J.N. Shah et al. (2006). A “What and Where“ variant of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST): Disentangling the prefrontal network for rule selection by means of a parametrical hybrid fMRI-design. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2010). Speech Sounds Initiate Effective Connectivity between Auditory and Premotor Areas. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Renate Grüner; Roger Barndon et al. (2005). Functional spectroscopy: A new experimental method in exploring the Glutamate-Glumamine cycle in the human brain. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Renate Grüner; Heidi Wageningen et al. (2006). Functional spectroscopy: A new experimental method in exploring the Glutamate-Glutamine cycle in the human brain. (external link)
• Renate Grüner; Karsten Specht; Lars Ersland et al. (2004). Application of Voxel-Based Group Analysis in a small group of former professional deep-sea divers. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Renate Grüner; Wageningen, Heidi Karin Van et al. (2006). Functional spectroscopy: A new experimental method in exploring the Glutamate-Glutamine cycle in the human brain. (external link)
• Hedda Døli; Wenche Andersen Helland; Karsten Specht (2015). Associations between aphasia and lesion location in acute stroke. (external link)

Academic article

• Karsten Specht; Lars Morten Rimol; Jürgen Reul et al. (2005). "Soundmorphing": A new approach to studying speech perception in humans. (external link)
• Liv Eggset Falkenberg; René Westerhausen; Alexander Richard Craig-Craven et al. (2014). Impact of glutamate levels on neuronal response and cognitive abilities in schizophrenia. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Karsten Specht; Matthias Walter Moosmann et al. (2005). Assessing the spatiotemporal evolution of neuronal activation with single-trial event-related potentials and functional MRI. (external link)
• Sevdalina Kandilarova; Drozdstoy Stoyanov; Stefan Kostianev et al. (2018). Altered resting state effective connectivity of anterior insula in depression. (external link)
• Hilde Gundersen; Karsten Specht; Renate Grüner et al. (2008). Separating the effects of alcohol and expectancy on brain activation: An fMRI working memory study. (external link)
• Margaretha Dramsdahl; Lars Ersland; Jan Haavik et al. (2011). Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - a brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; Renate Grüner; Karsten Specht et al. (2009). Functional relevance of inter-individual differences in temporal lobe callosal pathways: A DTI tractography study. (external link)
• Kenneth Hugdahl; Maria Stylianou Korsnes; Karsten Specht (2008). Funksjonell magnetresonansavbildning (fMRI) av hjernen prinsipper og klinisk anvendelse. (external link)
• Marita Hovland Evensen; Silje Segadal Fluge; Trine Skeistrand Kjoberg et al. (2016). Den blinde hjernen: Plastisk og fantastisk. (external link)
• Kristiina Kompus; Karsten Specht; Lars Ersland et al. (2012). A forced-attention dichotic listening fMRI study on 113 subjects. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; Eileen Luders; Karsten Specht et al. (2011). Structural and Functional Reorganization of the Corpus Callosum between the Age of 6 and 8 Years. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Vince Calhoun; Matthias Walter Moosmann et al. (2008). Unmixing concurrent EEG-fMRI with parallel independent component analysis. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2011). Effective connectivity analysis demonstrates involvement of premotor cortex during speech perception. (external link)
• Kenneth Hugdahl; Else-Marie Løberg; Karsten Specht et al. (2008). Auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: the role of cognitive, brain structural and genetic disturbances in the left temporal lobe. (external link)
• Sarah Dorothee Dos Santos Sequeira; Karsten Specht; Heikki Hämäläinen et al. (2008). The effects of different intensity levels of background noise on dichotic listening to consonant-vowel syllables. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Chuh-Hyoun Lie; Nadim Jon Shah et al. (2009). Disentangling the prefrontal network for rule selection by means of a non-verbal variant of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. (external link)
• Gesche Neckelmann; Karsten Specht; Anders Lund et al. (2006). Mr morphometry analysis of grey matter volume reduction in schizophrenia: association with hallucinations. (external link)
• Kenneth Hugdahl; Marcus E. Raichle; Anish Mitra et al. (2015). On the existence of a generalized non-specific task-dependent network. (external link)
• Martina Minnerop; Eileen Luders; Karsten Specht et al. (2008). Grey and white matter loss along cerebral midline structures in myotonic dystrophy type 2. (external link)
• Sevdalina Kandilarova; Drozdstoy Stoyanov; Katrin Aryutova et al. (2021). Effective Connectivity Between the Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Precuneus Differentiates Major Psychiatric Disorders: Results from a Transdiagnostic Spectral DCM Study. (external link)
• Heidi Karin van Wageningen; Hugo A Jørgensen; Karsten Specht et al. (2009). The effects of the glutamate antagonist memantine on brain activation to an auditory perception task. (external link)
• Maja Kobel; Nina Bechtel; Karsten Specht et al. (2010). Structural and functional imaging approaches in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Does the temporal lobe play a key role?. (external link)
• Lynn Anne Marquardt; Alexander R. Craven; Kenneth Jan Hugdahl et al. (2022). Pilot-RCT Finds No Evidence for Modulation of Neuronal Networks of Auditory Hallucinations by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. (external link)
• Roland Zahn; Martin Buechert; Jan Overmans et al. (2005). Mapping of temporal and parietal cortex in progressive nonfluent aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease using chemical shift imaging, voxel-based morphometry and positron emission tomography. (external link)
• Marianna Ruiz Loria; Maayan Salomon-Gimmon; Karsten Specht et al. (2025). Bridging neuroscience and practice: A semi-structured music therapy approach with autistic children. (external link)
• Max Korbmacher; Ingrid Anne Lie; Kristin Wesnes et al. (2025). Multimodal predictors of disability progression and processing speed decline in relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis. (external link)
• Kristine Sirevåg; Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Trond Sjøbø et al. (2023). Physical exercise augmented cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with generalised anxiety disorder (PEXACOG): a feasibility study for a randomized controlled trial. (external link)
• Gerard Eric Dwyer; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht et al. (2018). Current Practice and New Developments in the Use of In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for the Assessment of Key Metabolites Implicated in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia. (external link)
• Hedda Døli; Wenche Andersen Helland; Turid Helland et al. (2021). Associations between stroke severity, aphasia severity, lesion location, and lesion size in acute stroke, and aphasia severity one year post stroke. (external link)
• Hans Petter Brodal; Berge Osnes; Karsten Specht (2017). Listening to rhythmic music reduces connectivity within the basal ganglia and the reward system. (external link)
• Maja Kobel; Nina Bechtel; Peter Weber et al. (2009). Effects of methylphenidate on working memory functioning in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (external link)
• Charalampos Tzoulis; Gia Tuong Thi Tran; Thomas Schwarzlmüller et al. (2013). Severe nigrostriatal degeneration without clinical parkinsonism in patients with polymerase gamma mutations. (external link)
• Mengyun Wang; Max Korbmacher; Rune Eikeland et al. (2023). The intra-individual reliability of ¹H-MRS measurement in the anterior cingulate cortex across 1 year. (external link)
• Myzoon Ali; A Lifshitz Ben Basat; M Berthier et al. (2022). Protocol for the development of the international population registry for aphasia after stroke (I-PRAISE). (external link)
• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Tom Eichele; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2014). Equity theory and fair inequality: A neuroeconomic study. (external link)
• Martina Minnerop; Karsten Specht; Jürgen Ruhlmann et al. (2009). In vivo voxel-based relaxometry in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (external link)
• Liv Eggset Falkenberg; René Westerhausen; Karsten Specht et al. (2012). Resting-state glutamate level in the anterior cingulate predicts blood-oxygen level-dependent response to cognitive control. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Helene Hjelmervik et al. (2012). Stimulus expectancy modulates inferior frontal gyrus and premotor cortex activity in auditory perception. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; Matthias Moosmann; Kimmo Alho et al. (2010). Identification of attention and cognitive control networks in a parametric auditory fMRI study. (external link)
• Holly Robson; Karsten Specht; Helen Beaumont et al. (2017). Arterial spin labelling shows functional depression of non-lesion tissue in chronic Wernicke's aphasia. (external link)
• Nadine Oser; Martina Hubacher; Karsten Specht et al. (2014). Default mode network alterations during language task performance in children with benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS). (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl (2009). Detection of differential speech-specific processes in the temporal lobe using fMRI and a dynamic "sound morphing" technique. (external link)
• Peder Olaf Laugen Heggdal; Hans Jørgen Aarstad; Jonas Brännström et al. (2019). An fMRI-study on single-sided deafness: Spectral-temporal properties and side of stimulation modulates hemispheric dominance. (external link)
• Edda Ottarsdottir; Fatemeh Zamanzad Ghavidel; Øystein Vesterli Tveiten et al. (2024). Predictors of self-reported word-finding difficulties in glioma patients–a longitudinal study. (external link)
• Maurits Van Den Noort; Karsten Specht; Lars Morten Rimol et al. (2008). A new verbal reports fMRI dichotic listening paradigm for studies of hemispheric asymmetry. (external link)
• Frøydis Morken; Turid Helland; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2014). Children with dyslexia show cortical hyperactivation in response to increasing literacy processing demands. (external link)
• Frøydis Morken; Turid Helland; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2016). Reading in dyslexia across literacy development: A longitudinal study of effective connectivity. (external link)
• Bruno Laeng; Camilla Barthel Flaaten; Kjersti Maehlum Walle et al. (2021). “Mickey Mousing” in the Brain: Motion-Sound Synesthesia and the Subcortical Substrate of Audio-Visual Integration. (external link)
• Berit Vik; Geir Olve Skeie; Karsten Specht (2019). Neuroplastic effects in patients with traumatic brain injury after music-supported therapy. (external link)
• Hilde Gundersen; Renate Grüner; Karsten Specht et al. (2008). The effects of alcohol intoxication on neuronal activation at different levels of cognitive load. (external link)
• Matthias Moosmann; Vinzenz H. Schönfelder; Karsten Specht et al. (2009). Realignment parameter-informed artefact correction for simultaneous EEG–fMRI recordings. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; M Minnerop; J Muller-Hubenthal et al. (2005). Voxel-based analysis of multiple-system atrophy of cerebellar type: complementary results by combining voxel-based morphometry and voxel-based relaxometry. (external link)
• Mengyun Wang; Max Korbmacher; Rune Eikeland et al. (2022). Deep brain imaging of three participants across 1 year: The Bergen breakfast scanning club project. (external link)
• Tormod Thomsen; Karsten Specht; Lars Ersland et al. (2005). Processing of conflicting cues in an attention-shift paradigm studied with fMRI. (external link)
• Kristine Sirevåg; Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Karsten Specht et al. (2025). Diagnostic status moderates the association between verbal memory and left hippocampal volume in older adults with generalised anxiety disorder and healthy controls. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Micael Andersson; Meng-yun Wang (2023). The Effect of Exogenous and Endogenous Parameters on Group Resting-State Effective Connectivity and BOLD Signal. (external link)
• Liucija Vaisvilaite; Micael Andersson; Alireza Salami et al. (2023). Time of day dependent longitudinal changes in resting-state fMRI. (external link)
• Susanne Passow; Karsten Specht; Tom Christian Adamsen et al. (2015). Default-mode network functional connectivity is closely related to metabolic activity. (external link)
• Kenneth Hugdahl; Alexander Richard Craig-Craven; Merethe Nygård et al. (2015). Glutamate as a mediating transmitter for auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: A 1H MRS study.. (external link)
• Ulvhild Helena Tormodsdatter Færøvik; Karsten Specht; Kjetil Vikene (2021). Suppression, Maintenance, and Surprise: Neuronal Correlates of Predictive Processing Specialization for Musical Rhythm. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Walter Huber; Klaus Willmes et al. (2008). Tracing the ventral stream for auditory speech processing in the temporal lobe by using a combined time series and independent component analysis. (external link)
• Liv Eggset Falkenberg; Karsten Specht; René Westerhausen (2011). Attention and cognitive control networks assessed in a dichotic listening fMRI study. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; Rene Westerhausen; Marco Hirnstein et al. (2015). The neural correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion. (external link)
• Nina Bechtel; Maja Kobel; Iris-Katharina Penner et al. (2012). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in childhood epilepsy: A neuropsychological and functional imaging study. (external link)
• Erik Rødland; Kathrine Midgaard Melleby; Karsten Specht (2022). Evaluation of a Simple Clinical Language Paradigm With Respect to Sensory Independency, Functional Asymmetry, and Effective Connectivity. (external link)
• Max Korbmacher; Mengyun Wang; Rune Eikeland et al. (2023). Considerations on brain age predictions from repeatedly sampled data across time. (external link)
• Lars Morten Rimol; Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl (2006). Controlling for individual differences in fMRI brain activation to tones, syllables, and words. (external link)
• Kristiina Kompus; Rene Westerhausen; Alexander Richard Craig-Craven et al. (2015). Resting-state glutamatergic neurotransmission is related to the peak latency of the auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) for duration deviants: An 1H-MRS-EEG study. (external link)
• Kenneth Hugdahl; Katarzyna Anna Kazimierczak; Justyna Beresniewicz et al. (2019). Dynamic up- and down-regulation of the default (DMN) and extrinsic (EMN) mode networks during alternating task-on and task-off periods. (external link)
• Markus Hausmann; Marc Brysbaert; Lise van der Haegen et al. (2019). Language lateralisation measured across linguistic and national boundaries. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Helene Hjelmervik et al. (2011). Increased activation in superior temporal gyri as a function of increment in phonetic features. (external link)
• Edda Ottarsdottir; Øystein Vesterli Tveiten; Leif Oltedal et al. (2024). Impact of subjective and objective language function and psychological distress on quality of life in glioma patients awaiting surgery. (external link)
• Sevdalina Kandilarova; Drozdstoy Stoyanov; Nickolay Sirakov et al. (2019). Reduced grey matter volume in frontal and temporal areas in depression: Contributions from voxel-based morphometry study. (external link)
• Kristine Sirevåg; Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Karsten Specht et al. (2024). Executive functions in older adults with generalised anxiety disorder and healthy controls: Associations with heart rate variability, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and physical fitness.. (external link)
• Anca-Larisa Sandu; Inge-Andre Rasmussen; Arvid Lundervold et al. (2008). Fractal dimension analysis of MR images reveals grey matter structure irregularities in schizophrenia. (external link)
• Julien Laloyaux; Marco Hirnstein; Karsten Specht et al. (2022). Eliciting false auditory perceptions using speech frequencies and semantic priming: a signal detection approach. (external link)
• Peder Olaf Laugen Heggdal; Kristina Sture Larsen; Jonas Brännström et al. (2020). Reduced grey- and white matter volumes due to unilateral hearing loss following treatment for vestibular schwannoma. (external link)
• Heidi Karin van Wageningen; Hugo A Jørgensen; Karsten Specht et al. (2009). Evidence for glutamatergic neurotransmission in cognitive control in an auditory attention task. (external link)
• Pascale Sandmann; Tom Eichele; Karsten Specht et al. (2007). Hemispheric asymmetries in the processing of temporal acoustic cues in consonant-vowel syllables. (external link)
• Siv Andresen; Frøydis Morken; Karsten Specht et al. (2025). Evidence of different grey matter volume patterns in men and women who stutter – An explorative structural MRI study. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Josef J Bless; Karsten Specht et al. (2025). The Relation Between Auditory Cognitive Control and Vagally‐Mediated Heart Rate Variability in and Outside the Lab: Differential Effects of Circadian Rhythm?. (external link)
• Kjetil Vikene; Geir Olve Skeie; Karsten Specht (2019). Compensatory task-specific hypersensitivity in bilateral planum temporale and right superior temporal gyrus during auditory rhythm and omission processing in Parkinson?s disease. (external link)
• Julia Axiina Tuominen; Karsten Specht; Liucija Vaisvilaite et al. (2023). An information-theoretic analysis of resting-state versus task fMRI. (external link)
• Bruno Laeng; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2011). The neural correlate of colour distances revealed with competing synaesthetic and real colours. (external link)
• Heidi Øhrn; Emilie Pettersen Sjursen; Karsten Specht et al. (2025). The neural underpinnings of repeated skill transfer in human cultural evolution. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; Markus Hausmann; Alexander R. Craven et al. (2018). Sex- and sex hormone-related variations in energy-metabolic frontal brain asymmetries: A magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. (external link)
• Lutz Jäncke; Karsten Specht; J.N. Shah et al. (2003). Focused attention in a simple dichotic listening task: an fMRI experiment. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Stefan Debener; Vince Calhoun et al. (2008). Prediction of human errors by maladaptive changes in event-related brain networks. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Florian Baumgartner; Jörg Stadler et al. (2014). Functional asymmetry and effective connectivity of the auditory system during speech perception is modulated by the place of articulation of the consonant – A 7 T fMRI study. (external link)
• Marianna Ruiz Loria; Alexander Groessing; Alexandrina Guran et al. (2023). Music for autism: a protocol for an international randomized crossover trial on music therapy for children with autism. (external link)
• Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert; Tom Eichele; Karsten Specht et al. (2013). Functional Parcellation of the Inferior Frontal and Midcingulate Cortices in a Flanker-Stop-Change Paradigm. (external link)
• Kristi A. Clark; Turid Helland; Karsten Specht et al. (2014). Neuroanatomical precursors of dyslexia identified from pre-reading through to age 11. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2010). Effective connectivity analysis demonstrates involvement of premotor cortex during speech perception. (external link)
• Guro Stensby Sjuls; Karsten Specht (2022). Variability in Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The Effect of Body Mass, Blood Pressure, Hematocrit, and Glycated Hemoglobin on Hemodynamic and Neuronal Parameters. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Karsten Specht (2012). Cognitive conflict in a syllable identification task causes transient activation of speech perception area. (external link)
• Liucija Vaisvilaite; Vetle Hushagen; Janne Grønli et al. (2021). Time-of-Day Effects in Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Changes in Effective Connectivity and Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Signal. (external link)
• Ulvhild Helena Tormodsdatter Færøvik; Kjetil Vikene; Karsten Specht (2025). RETRACTED: Put the control back in the control condition: are brown, pink, and white noise neutral control stimuli?. (external link)
• Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Kristine Sirevåg; Inger Hilde Nordhus et al. (2019). Physical exercise augmented cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with generalised anxiety disorder (PEXACOG): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. (external link)
• Christian Kohler; Ingo Keck; Peter Gruber et al. (2008). Spatiotemporal group ICA applied to fMRI datasets. (external link)
• Gunnar Moen; Karsten Specht; Torfinn Taxt et al. (2010). Cerebral diffusion and perfusion deficits in North Sea divers. (external link)
• Vera Dinkelacker; Martina Grüter; Peter Klaver et al. (2011). Congenital prosopagnosia: multistage anatomical and functional deficits in face processing circuitry. (external link)
• Martina Minnerop; Eileen Luders; Karsten Specht et al. (2010). Callosal tissue loss in multiple system atrophy-A one-year follow-up study. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2008). Hjerneaktivering som predikerer feilhandlinger. (external link)
• Sarah Dos Santos Sequeira; Karsten Specht; Heikki Hämäläinen et al. (2008). The effects of background noise on dichotic listening to consonant-vowel syllables. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Philip Wigglesworth (2018). The functional and structural asymmetries of the superior temporal sulcus. (external link)
• Martina Minnerop; Karsten Specht; Jürgen Ruhlmann et al. (2007). Voxel-based morphometry and voxel-based relaxometry in multiple system atrophy-a comparison between clinical subtypes and correlations with clinical parameters. (external link)
• Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Kristine Sirevåg; Inger Hilde Nordhus et al. (2025). Physical exercise augments cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with generalized anxiety disorder: a randomized controlled trial. (external link)
• Lars Morten Rimol; Karsten Specht; Susanne Weis et al. (2005). Processing of sub-syllabic speech units in the posterior temporal lobe: An fMRI study. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Bruno Laeng (2011). An independent component analysis of fMRI data of grapheme-colour synaesthesia. (external link)
• Guy Vingerhoets; Helena Verhelst; Robin Gerrits et al. (2023). Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research. (external link)
• Liucija Vaisvilaite; Meng-yun Wang; Micael Andersson et al. (2023). The Effect of Exogenous and Endogenous Parameters on Group Resting-State Effective Connectivity and BOLD Signal. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; Kristiina Kompus; Margaretha Dramsdahl et al. (2011). A critical re-examination of sexual dimorphism in the corpus callosum microstructure. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl; Sonja Helgesen Ofte et al. (2009). Brain activation on pre-reading tasks reveals at-risk status for dyslexia in 6-year-old children. (external link)
• Olga Therese Ousdal; Karsten Specht; ANDRES SERVER et al. (2014). The human amygdala encodes value and space during decision making. (external link)
• Kjetil Vikene; Geir Olve Skeie; Karsten Specht (2019). Subjective judgments of rhythmic complexity in Parkinson's disease: Higher baseline, preserved relative ability, and modulated by tempo. (external link)
• Julian Koenig; Birgit Abler; Ingrid Agartz et al. (2020). Cortical thickness and resting‐state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross‐sectional pooled mega‐analysis. (external link)
• Lynn Anne Marquardt; Isabella Kusztrits; Alexander R. Craven et al. (2020). A multimodal study of the effects of tDCS on dorsolateral prefrontal and temporo-parietal areas during dichotic listening. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Karsten Specht (2009). Cognitive conflict and inhibition in primed dichotic listening. (external link)
• Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht; Eva Aaker Biringer et al. (2007). Increased parietal and frontal activation after remission from recurrent major depression: A repeated fMRI study. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2012). Synaesthesia: cross activations, high interconnectivity, and a parietal hub. (external link)
• Anca-Larisa Sandu; Karsten Specht; Harald Beneventi et al. (2008). Sex-differences in grey-white matter structure in normal-reading and dyslexic adolescents. (external link)
• Per Olav Folgerø; Lasse Hodne; Christer Johansson et al. (2016). Effects of facial symmetry and gaze direction on perception of social attributes: A study in experimental art history. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Roland Zahn; Klaus Willmes et al. (2009). Joint Independent Component Analysis of structural and functional images reveals complex patterns of functional reorganisation in stroke aphasia. (external link)
• Kjetil Vikene; Geir Olve Skeie; Karsten Specht (2018). Abnormal phasic activity in saliency network, motor areas, and basal ganglia in Parkinson's disease during rhythm perception. (external link)
• Hedda Døli; Wenche A Helland; Turid Helland et al. (2020). Associations between lesion size, lesion location and aphasia in acute stroke. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; L Ersland; E Andersen et al. (2004). Plug & play fMRI. (external link)
• Berit Vik; Geir Olve Skeie; Eirik Vikane et al. (2018). Effects of music production on cortical plasticity within cognitive rehabilitation of patients with mild traumatic brain injury. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; René Westerhausen; Berge Osnes et al. (2012). Language lateralization and cognitive control across the menstrual cycle assessed with a dichotic-listening paradigm. (external link)
• Walter Sturm; Britta Schmenk; Bruno Fimm et al. (2005). Spatial attention: more than intrinsic alerting?. (external link)
• Heidi Karin van Wageningen; Hugo A Jørgensen; Karsten Specht et al. (2010). A 1H-MR spectroscopy study of changes in glutamate and glutamine (Glx) concentrations in frontal spectra after administration of memantine. (external link)
• Sarah Dos Santos Sequeira; Karsten Specht; Matthias Moosmann et al. (2010). The effects of background noise on dichotic listening to consonant-vowel syllables: An fMRI study. (external link)
• Anca-Larisa Sandu; Edouard Izard; Karsten Specht et al. (2014). Post-adolescent developmental changes in cortical complexity. (external link)
• Kristiina Kompus; Vegard Volehaugen; Alexander R. Craven et al. (2020). Glutamatergic modulation of auditory cortex connectivity with attentional brain networks in unpredictable perceptual environment. (external link)
• Susanne Neufang; Karsten Specht; Markus Hausmann et al. (2009). Sex differences and the impact of steroid hormones on the developing human brain. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2013). Mapping a lateralization gradient within the ventral stream for auditory speech perception. (external link)
• Stefanie Abel; Cornelius Weiller; Walter Huber et al. (2015). Therapy-induced brain reorganization patterns in aphasia. (external link)
• Katarzyna Anna Kazimierczak; Alexander R. Craven; Lars Ersland et al. (2021). Combined fMRI region- and network-analysis reveal new insights of top-down modulation of bottom-up processes in auditory laterality. (external link)
• Christine Lycke; Karsten Specht; Lars Ersland et al. (2008). An fMRI study of phonological and spatial working memory using identical stimuli. (external link)
• Michael Abele; Martina Minnerop; H Urbach et al. (2007). Sporadic adult onset ataxia of unknown etiology : A clinical, electrophysiological and imaging study. (external link)
• Helene Hjelmervik; Markus Hausmann; Berge Osnes et al. (2014). Resting states are resting traits - An fMRI study of sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in resting state cognitive control networks. (external link)
• Tormod Thomsen; Karsten Specht; Åsa Hammar et al. (2004). Brain localization of attentional control in different age groups by combining functional and structural MRI. (external link)

Journal corrigendum

• Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Kristine Sirevåg; Inger Hilde Nordhus et al. (2020). Erratum: Physical exercise augmented cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with generalised anxiety disorder (PEXACOG): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (Trials (2019) 20 (174) DOI: 10.1186/s13063-019-3268-9). (external link)

Conference lecture

• Karsten Specht (2011). When a sound becomes speech: Mapping the ventral stream in auditory speech perception with dynamic paradigms. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2007). Workflow in Clinical fMRI. (external link)
• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Tom Eichele; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2012). Fair inequality: A neuroeconomic study. (external link)
• Kristine Sirevåg; Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Inger Hilde Nordhus et al. (2019). Physical exercise augmented cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with generalized anxiety disorder – scientific rationale, study protocol, and preliminary findings for the Pexacog trial.. (external link)
• Renate Grüner; Karsten Specht; Lars Ersland et al. (2004). Voxel-based group analysis of perfusion images. (external link)
• Kristine Sirevåg; Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Inger Hilde Nordhus et al. (2018). Physical exercise augmented cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with generalised anxiety disorder (PEXACOG): Study protocol and feasibility results from a randomised controlled trial. (external link)
• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Tom Eichele; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2013). Fair inequality: a neuroeconomic study. (external link)
• Simen Krogstie Lagesen; Geir Olve Skeie; Karsten Specht et al. (2013). Musikk, terapi og nevrologiske sykdommer. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Matthias Walter Moosmann; Karsten Specht et al. (2006). Approaches to Single-Trial ERP-fMRI Integration. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2011). When a sound becomes speech: Mapping the ventral stream in auditory speech perception with dynamic paradigms. (external link)
• Kristine Sirevåg; Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Inger Hilde Nordhus et al. (2025). Physical fitness modulates peripheral brain-derived neurotrophic factor after a single physical exercise session in older adults with generalised anxiety disorder. (external link)
• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Tom Eichele; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2012). Neural evidence of unfairness aversion and inequality acceptance. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2011). When a sound becomes speech: Mapping the ventral stream in auditory speech perception with dynamic paradigms. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2006). Functional spectroscopy: A new experimental method in exploring the Glutamate-Glutamine cycle in the human brain. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; Renate Grüner; Karsten Specht et al. (2008). The functional relevance of differences in callosal connectivity. (external link)
• Turid Helland; Sonja Helgesen Ofte; Karsten Specht et al. (2008). A longitudinal fMRI study of children at risk for developing dyslexia. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl (2008). When a sound becomes speech. (external link)
• Karsten Specht; Roland Zahn; Klaus Willmes et al. (2008). Tracing the recovery of aphasia with a joint ICA of functional and structural data. (external link)
• Berge Osnes; Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2010). “Non-auditory” involvement in auditory perception. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2007). Neuroanatomy of Aphasia. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2007). Clinical fMRI. (external link)
• Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Kristine Sirevåg; Trygve Bruun Endal et al. (2018). Augmenting CBT with physical exercise intreatment of generalised anxiety disorder in holder adults – results from a pilot study. (external link)
• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Tom Eichele; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2012). Neural evidence of unfairness aversion and inequality acceptance. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Kenneth Hugdahl; Karsten Specht (2005). Funksjonell magnetresonansavbildning (fMRI) av hjernen ved psykotiske lidelser. (external link)

Conference abstract

• Martina Hubacher; Peter Weber; Markus Stöcklin et al. (2013). Case-based approach to evaluate the efficacy of working memory training in juvenile Multiple Sclerosis. (external link)
• Joerg Vandenhirtz; Matthias Eberius; Axel Jung et al. (2010). Future Developments for Non-destructive 3D Plant and Root Imaging. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; Eileen Luders; Karsten Specht et al. (2009). A longitudinal study of inter-hemispheric interaction and corpus callosum development in 6 and 8 year old children. (external link)
• Iris-Katharina Penner; P Weber; M Stoecklin et al. (2013). Efficacy of working memory training in juvenile multiple sclerosis. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Matthias Walter Moosmann; Karsten Specht et al. (2006). Approaches to single-trial ERP-fMRI integration. (external link)
• Joerg Vandenhirtz; Dirk Vandenhirtz; Matthias Eberius et al. (2010). Future Developments for Non-Destructive 3D Plant and Root Imaging. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2012). The neural basis of synaesthesia. (external link)
• René Westerhausen; S.O. Belsby; Matthias Moosmann et al. (2009). DYNAMIC MODULATION OF BRAIN ACTIVATION IN RESPONSE TO VARYING DEGREES OF TOP-DOWN/BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING CONFLICT. (external link)
• Sarah Dos Santos Sequeira; Karsten Specht; Kenneth Hugdahl (2006). Does background noise affect hemisphere asymmetry for speech processing?. (external link)
• Tom Eichele; Matthias Walter Moosmann; Karsten Specht et al. (2006). Single-trial ERP-FMRI: The electric and hemodynamic correlates of expectancy in target processing. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Vetle Hushagen; G.C. Tresselt; Noeska Natasja Smit et al. (2021). The Role of Depth Perception in XR from a Neuroscience Perspective: A Primer and Survey. (external link)
• Hubertus Hautzel; Felix M. Mottaghy; Karsten Specht et al. (2009). Evidence of a modality-dependent role of the cerebellum in working memory? An fMRI study comparing verbal and abstract n-back tasks. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2014). Neuronal basis of speech comprehension. (external link)
• Karsten Specht (2020). Current challenges in translational and clinical fMRI and future directions. (external link)
• Peder Olaf Laugen Heggdal; Jonas Brännström; Hans Jørgen Aarstad et al. (2016). Functional-structural reorganisation of the neuronal network for auditory perception in subjects with unilateral hearing loss: Review of neuroimaging studies. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Helene Hjelmervik; Karsten Specht (2015). Sex and sex-hormonal effects on brain organization of fronto-parietal networks. (external link)
• Kjetil Vikene; Karsten Specht; Geir Olve Skeie (2019). Complexity in Rhythm and Parkinson’s disease: Cognitive and Neuronal Correlates. (external link)
• Silje Haukenes Stavestrand; Anders Hovland; Inger Hilde Nordhus et al. (2025). In the Face of Worry : Physical exercise augmented cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with generalised anxiety disorder. (external link)
• Kristine Sirevåg; Anders Hovland; Inger Hilde Nordhus et al. (2025). Generalised Anxiety Disorder : An investigation of clinical and neurobiological risk and protective factors in a sample of older adults. (external link)
• Peder Olaf Laugen Heggdal; Hans Jørgen Aarstad; Flemming Vassbotn et al. (2018). Functional-structural reorganization of the neuronal network for auditory perception in subjects with unilateral hearing loss. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Mengyun Wang; Helge J. Zöllner; Meryem A. Yücel et al. (2024). Editorial: Variability and reproducibility of brain imaging. (external link)
• Megha Sharda; Giorgia Silani; Karsten Specht et al. (2019). Music therapy for children with autism: investigating social behaviour through music. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Kristi A Clark; Turid Helland; Karsten Specht et al. (2015). Reply: Cortical differences in preliterate children at familiar risk of dyslexia are similar to those observed in dyslexic readers. (external link)

Research report

• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Tom Eichele; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2015). Equity theory and fair inequality: a neuroeconomic study.. (external link)

Lecture

• Gro Trondalen; Brynjulf Stige; Karsten Specht (2017). Musikk som terapi. (external link)

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Publication list

• When a sound becomes speech (BFS grant)
• It's time for some music (NRF grant)
• “When default is not default: Solutions to the replication crisis and beyond”