Jeg undersøker evolusjonen og tilpasningsevnen til bevisste prosesser og underliggende nevrale strukturer i menneskelige og ikke-menneskelige organismer. Min tidlige forskning fokuserte på bevisste og underbevisste prosesser involvert i språk, syn, og numerisk kognisjon. Nylig utviklet jeg «avstandsindeksen» (DI) og den «globale indeksen» (GI) for å fange opp forskjeller i hjernestruktur mellom menn og kviner, mellom individer i kliniske grupper og mellom teleost fisk oppdrettet i minimale versus berikede miljøer. Jeg samarbeidet også med Anders Opdal, Sergey Budaev og Jarl Giske som bygger evolusjonære simuleringsmodeller for dyreadferd, økologi og velvære.

Min tidligere forskning på ETT minutt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jGvWmffSL0

IGSIN 913 Integrated Neuroscience, module "The Neuroscience of Memory"

MAPSYK 319B Cognitive Neuroscience, emneansvarlig

MAPSYK 360 Master's Thesis in Psychology, supervisor

MAPSYK 319A/PROPSY 303 Biological Psychology, module "Emotions" I and II

PROPSY 304 Cognitive Neuroscience, modules "Perception", "Memory", "Attention and Cognitive Control"

PSYK 122 Practical Research Methods

1. Giske, J., Dumitru, M. L., Enberg, K., Folkedal, O., Handeland, S. O., Higginson, A. D., Opdal, A. F., Rønnestad, I., Salvanes, A. G. V., Vollset, K. W., Zennaro, F. M., Mangel, M., & Budaev, S. (2025). Premises for digital twins reporting on Atlantic salmon wellbeing. Behavioral Processes, 226, 105163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2025.105163.
2. Dumitru, M. L., & Frugård Opdal, A, M. (2024). Beyond the Mosaic Model of Brain Evolution: Rearing Environment Defines Local and Global Plasticity. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1542, 58-66. https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.15267
3. Dumitru, M. L., Johnsen, E., Kroken, R. A., Løberg, E.-M., Lilleskare, L., Ersland, L., & Hugdahl, K. (2024). Widespread Asymmetries of Amygdala Nuclei Predict Auditory Verbal Hallucinatios in Schizophrenia. BMC Psychiatry, 24, 826. https://www.springermedizin.de/widespread-asymmetries-of-amygdala-nuclei-predict-auditory-verba/50224716?searchResult=2.amygdala&searchBackButton=true&fulltextView=true
4. Budaev, S., Dumitru, M. L., Enberg, K., Handeland, S. O., Higginson, A. D., Kristiansen , T. S., Opdal, A. F., Raislback, S. F., R√∏nnestad, I., Vollset, K. W., Mangel, M., & Giske, J. (2024). Premises for a digital twin of the Atlantic salmon in its world: agency, robustness, subjectivity, and prediction. Aquaculture, Fish, and Fisheries,4, e153. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aff2.153
5. Dumitru, M. L. (2023). Brain Asymmetry is Globally Different in Males and Females: Exploring Cortical Volume, Area, Thickness, and Mean Curvature. Cerebral Cortex, 33, 11623-11633. https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhad396/7320109
6. Dumitru, M. L., Korbmacher, M., & Bartsch, H. Male and Female Brain Coherence Models of Cognitive Performance andPsychopathology. (2022). bioRxivhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.28.509939v1.abstract
7. Kazimierczak, K., Craven, A. R., Ersland, L., Specht, K., Dumitru, M. L., Sandoy, L. B., & Hugdahl, K. (2022). Combined fMRI Region- and Network-Analysis Reveal New Insights of Top-Down Modulation of Bottom-Up Processes in Auditory Laterality. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.802319/full
8. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. Thought extramission: The eyes project conceptual maps at close distance. (2021). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.18.456814v1.abstract
9. Dumitru, M. L., & Pasqualotto, A. (2018). Helmets improve estimations of depth and visual angle to safe targets. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(8), 1879-1884. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-018-1605-9
10. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. (2018). Logical connectives modulate attention to simulations evoked by the constituents they link together. Frontiers in Psychology, 08/2018; 6. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01358/full
11. Dumitru, M. L.(2016). Gestalt-like representations hijack chunk-and-pass processing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://www.proquest.com/openview/76f00cda60657b9054556bc5e4a797aa/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=47829
12. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G.H. (2016). Gestalt reasoning with conjunctions and disjunctions. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151774. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151774
13. Pasqualotto, A., Dumitru, M. L., & Myachykov, A. (2016). Editorial: Multisensory Integration: Brain, Body, and World. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:2046. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02046/full
14. Dumitru, M. L.(2015). Coherence across consciousness levels: Symmetric visual displays spare working memory resources. Consciousness and Cognition, 38, 139-149. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810015300477
15. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. (2015). Similarity judgments of same-category object representations: Effects of physical size, manipulability, and word frequency. Visual Cognition, 23 (7), 855-859. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13506285.2015.1093242
16. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. (2015). Effects of word-evoked object size on covert numerosity estimations. Frontiers in Psychology, 08/2015; 6. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00876/full
17. Dumitru, M. L.(2014). Moving stimuli guide retrieval and (in) validation of coordination simulations. Cognitive Processing. 15 (3), 397-403. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10339-014-0604-6
18. Dumitru, M. L., & Taylor, A. J. (2014). Or cues knowledge of alternatives: Evidence from priming. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 55 (2), 97-101. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjop.12100
19. Dumitru, M. L., Joergensen, G. H., Cruickshank, A. G., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2013). Language-guided visual processing affects reasoning: The role of referential and spatial anchoring. Consciousness and Cognition, 22 (2), 562-571. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S105381001300041X

REK 60825 Hvordan hjernenettverk interagerer - betydning for forstaelse av horselshallusinasjoner 

REK 60748 Hjernelateralisering av oppmerksomhetskontroll etter kort meditasjonstrening

REK 60932 Hjernemekanismer for oppmerksomhetskontroll til auditive og visuelle stimuli

NSD 395393 Impact of Prediction Error on Social Appraisal