CSHC - Center for the Study of Human Cognition

Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology

I am a cognitive psychologist with a growing interest for the relationship between models of cognitive functioning and the brain. I have a background from Human Factors research related to advanced control room settings and finished my PhD on cognitive aspects of metaphor reasoning at the University of Oslo.

My main research interest is in the relationship between low and high level cognitive mechanisms, general human memory both in everyday settings and in the laboratory, the relationship between emotion and cognition.

A special interest is related to the development of a fMRI facility to study the relationship between cognitive functions and the biological functioning of the brain.

I currently work on three major projects:

The cognitive psychology of eyewitness testimony
involves studies of everyday memory in naturalistic quasi experiments.

Low- and high-level mechanisms of perception and memory
Low- and high-level mechanisms of perception and memory is related to the relationship between the neuronal basis for perceptual memory and more complex memory functions like recollection and familiarity of scenes and stories.

Mechanisms of cognitive control
is a study of planning and performance monitoring in the human brain revealed by lesion and neuroimaging techniques.