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Karsten Specht

Karsten Specht

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Neuroscience
Norway
2022

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Neuroscience

D-Index
64
Citations
12461
World Ranking
3313
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Karsten Specht is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and has contributed extensively to neuroscience and medicine through research focusing on cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and neurology.

The scientist's main research areas include functional brain connectivity studies, advanced MRI techniques and applications, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and music perception, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and heart rate variability and autonomic control.

Frequent collaborators include Max Korbmacher, Mengyun Wang, Alexander R. Craven, Rune Eikeland, and Kenneth Hugdahl.

Specht has published in several academic venues, with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Aphasiology, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Psychophysiology, and Brain Connectivity.

Significant recent publications comprise:

  • Current Challenges in Translational and Clinical fMRI and Future Directions, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research, 2023, Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition
  • Cortical thickness and resting-state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross-sectional pooled mega-analysis, 2020, Psychophysiology
  • Associations between lesion size, lesion location and aphasia in acute stroke, 2020, Aphasiology
  • Time-of-Day Effects in Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Changes in Effective Connectivity and Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Signal, 2021, Brain Connectivity

Best Publications

  • Recognition of emotional prosody and verbal components of spoken language: an fMRI study.

    Tony W Buchanan;Kai Lutz;Shahram Mirzazade;Karsten Specht

  • Functional anatomy of intrinsic alertness: evidence for a fronto-parietal-thalamic-brainstem network in the right hemisphere

    W Sturm;A de Simone;B J Krause;K Specht

  • Prediction of human errors by maladaptive changes in event-related brain networks.

    Tom Eichele;Stefan Debener;Vince D. Calhoun;Vince D. Calhoun;Vince D. Calhoun;Karsten Specht;Karsten Specht

  • Sex Differences and the Impact of Steroid Hormones on the Developing Human Brain

    Susanne Neufang;Karsten Specht;Markus Hausmann;Onur Güntürkün

  • Using fMRI to decompose the neural processes underlying the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

    Chuh-Hyoun Lie;Karsten Specht;John C. Marshall;Gereon R. Fink

  • Cortical activations during paced finger-tapping applying visual and auditory pacing stimuli.

    L Jäncke;R Loose;K Lutz;K Specht

  • Development of attentional networks: An fMRI study with children and adults

    Kerstin Konrad;Susanne Neufang;Christiane M. Thiel;Karsten Specht

  • Assessing the spatiotemporal evolution of neuronal activation with single-trial event-related potentials and functional MRI

    Tom Eichele;Karsten Specht;Matthias Moosmann;Marijtje L. A. Jongsma

  • Intrasubject reproducibility of presurgical language lateralization and mapping using fMRI

    G.S.E. Fernandez;K. Specht;S. Weis;I. Tendolkar

  • On the existence of a generalized non-specific task-dependent network

    Kenneth Hugdahl;Marcus E. Raichle;Anish Mitra;Karsten Specht;Karsten Specht

  • Functional segregation of the temporal lobes into highly differentiated subsystems for auditory perception: an auditory rapid event-related fMRI-task.

    Karsten Specht;Jürgen Reul

  • Neuroanatomical precursors of dyslexia identified from pre-reading through to age 11

    Kristi A. Clark;Turid Helland;Karsten Specht;Karsten Specht;Katherine L. Narr

  • Mr morphometry analysis of grey matter volume reduction in schizophrenia: association with hallucinations.

    Gesche Neckelmann;Karsten Specht;Anders Lund;Lars Ersland

  • A parametric analysis of the `rate effect' in the sensorimotor cortex: a functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis in human subjects

    Lutz Jäncke;Karsten Specht;Shahram Mirzazade;Rainer Loose

  • Structural and functional imaging approaches in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: does the temporal lobe play a key role?

    Maja Kobel;Nina Bechtel;Nina Bechtel;Karsten Specht;Markus Klarhöfer

  • Resting states are resting traits--an FMRI study of sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in resting state cognitive control networks.

    Helene Hjelmervik;Markus Hausmann;Berge Osnes;René Westerhausen

  • Assessment of reliability in functional imaging studies

    Karsten Specht;Klaus Willmes;N. Jon Shah;Lutz Jäncke;Lutz Jäncke

  • Effective connectivity analysis demonstrates involvement of premotor cortex during speech perception.

    Berge Osnes;Kenneth Hugdahl;Kenneth Hugdahl;Karsten Specht;Karsten Specht

  • Voxel-based morphometry and voxel-based relaxometry in multiple system atrophy – A comparison between clinical subtypes and correlations with clinical parameters

    M Minnerop;K Specht;J Ruhlmann;N Schimke

  • Unmixing concurrent EEG-fMRI with parallel independent component analysis.

    Tom Eichele;Vince D. Calhoun;Vince D. Calhoun;Vince D. Calhoun;Matthias Moosmann;Karsten Specht

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
Lutz Jäncke
Lutz Jäncke University of Zurich
Lars Ersland
Lars Ersland University of Bergen
René Westerhausen
René Westerhausen University of Oslo
Klaus Willmes
Klaus Willmes RWTH Aachen University
Walter Huber
Walter Huber RWTH Aachen University
Susanne Weis
Susanne Weis Forschungszentrum Jülich
Tom Eichele
Tom Eichele Haukeland University Hospital
Iris-Katharina Penner
Iris-Katharina Penner Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Egil W. Martinsen
Egil W. Martinsen University of Oslo

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