CSHC - Center for the Study of Human Cognition

Ph.D. student in Psychology

I finished my psychology degree at the University of Oslo in 2006 and have since been a Ph.D. student. My Ph.D. project is entitled Neuropsychology, ERP and MRI as measures of development of brain structure and function. The main goal of my project is to contribute to a better understanding of normal cognitive development and its biological basis. It is part of a larger project called Life span development and decline in cognition – biological foundations.

I am particularly interested in the normal development of different aspects of cognitive control and memory of children and adolescents and how this is related to the development of the brain.

 More specifically, I investigate and differentiate between different “executive functions” such as performance monitoring, inhibition, shifting and updating and relate these to grey matter and white matter properties with the use of structural magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging. The integration of different neuroscientific methods, including experimental cognitive tests, neuropsychology, electrophysiology, structural MRI and DTI, is therefore a central aspect of my work.