, 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.
, 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.