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Tor Endestad

Tor Endestad

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
4174
World Ranking
9967
National Ranking
94

Overview

Tor Endestad is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily falls within the field of neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, music, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology.

Their scientific contributions span various topics including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Diverse music education insights
  • Hearing loss and rehabilitation

Frequent collaborators in their work include Anne-Kristin Solbakk, Alejandro O. Blenkmann, Robert T. Knight, Pål G. Larsson, and Jugoslav Ivanović.

Tor Endestad has published extensively in a number of venues, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cerebral Cortex.

Notable recent papers illustrating their research include:

  • The association of PTSD symptom severity with amygdala nuclei volumes in traumatized youths, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • The ascending arousal system promotes optimal performance through mesoscale network integration in a visuospatial attentional task, 2021, Network Neuroscience
  • Subspace partitioning in the human prefrontal cortex resolves cognitive interference, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Pupil drift rate indexes groove ratings, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Top-Down Attentional Modulation in Human Frontal Cortex: Differential Engagement during External and Internal Attention, 2020, Cerebral Cortex

Best Publications

  • Pupil size signals mental effort deployed during multiple object tracking and predicts brain activity in the dorsal attention network and the locus coeruleus.

    Dag Alnæs;Markus Handal Sneve;Thomas Espeseth;Thomas Espeseth;Tor Endestad

  • Bright illusions reduce the eye's pupil

    Bruno Laeng;Tor Endestad

  • Children's usage of media technologies and psychosocial factors

    Jan Heim;Petter Bae Brandtzæg;Birgit Hertzberg Kaare;Tor Endestad

  • Generalized Role for the Cerebellum in Encoding Internal Models: Evidence from Semantic Processing

    Torgeir Moberget;Eva Hilland Gullesen;Stein Andersson;Stein Andersson;Richard B. Ivry

  • What people believe about memory

    Svein Magnussen;Jan Andersson;Cesare Cornoldi;Rossana De Beni

  • Placebo improves pleasure and pain through opposite modulation of sensory processing

    Dan-Mikael Ellingsen;Johan Wessberg;Marie Eikemo;Jaquette Liljencrantz

  • The role of the lateral prefrontal cortex in inhibitory motor control.

    Ulrike M. Krämer;Anne-Kristin Solbakk;Ingrid Funderud;Marianne Løvstad

  • Executive functions after orbital or lateral prefrontal lesions: neuropsychological profiles and self-reported executive functions in everyday living.

    M. Løvstad;I. Funderud;T. Endestad;P. Due-Tønnessen

  • Bidirectional Frontoparietal Oscillatory Systems Support Working Memory

    Elizabeth L. Johnson;Elizabeth L. Johnson;Callum Dewar;Anne-Kristin Solbakk;Tor Endestad

  • In the borderland between family orientation and peer culture: the use of communication technologies among Norwegian tweens

    Birgit Hertzberg Kaare;Petter Bae Brandtzæg;Jan Heim;Tor Endestad

  • Default network and frontoparietal control network theta connectivity supports internal attention

    Julia W Y Kam;Jack J Lin;Anne-Kristin Solbakk;Anne-Kristin Solbakk;Tor Endestad

  • Dynamic frontotemporal systems process space and time in working memory.

    Elizabeth L. Johnson;Jenna N. Adams;Anne-Kristin Solbakk;Tor Endestad

  • Relations between episodic memory, suggestibility, theory of mind, and cognitive inhibition in the preschool child

    Annika Melinder;Tor Endestad;Svein Magnussen

  • Rehabilitation of Executive Functions in Patients with Chronic Acquired Brain Injury with Goal Management Training, External Cuing, and Emotional Regulation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Sveinung Tornås;Marianne Løvstad;Anne-Kristin Solbakk;Jonathan Evans

  • Contribution of subregions of human frontal cortex to novelty processing

    Marianne Løvstad;Ingrid Funderud;Magnus Lindgren;Tor Endestad

  • Increased default-mode variability is related to reduced task-performance and is evident in adults with ADHD.

    Athanasia Monika Mowinckel;Dag Alnæs;Mads Lund Pedersen;Mads Lund Pedersen;Sigurd Ziegler

  • The association of PTSD symptom severity with amygdala nuclei volumes in traumatized youths.

    Olga Therese Ousdal;Anne Marita Milde;Gertrud Sofie Hafstad;Erlend Hodneland

  • Auditory deviance detection in the human insula: An intracranial EEG study.

    Alejandro Omar Blenkmann;Santiago Collavini;James Lubell;Anaïs Llorens;Anaïs Llorens

  • Attentional load modulates large-scale functional brain connectivity beyond the core attention networks.

    Dag Alnæs;Tobias Kaufmann;Geneviève Richard;Eugene P. Duff

  • Attentional control and subjective executive function in treatment-naive adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

    Venke Arntsberg Grane;Tor Endestad;Arnfrid Farbu Pinto;Anne-Kristin Solbakk

  • Anterior cingulate cortex and cognitive control: neuropsychological and electrophysiological findings in two patients with lesions to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex.

    M. Løvstad;I. Funderud;T. Meling;U.M. Krämer

  • Differential Go/NoGo Activity in both Contingent Negative Variation and Spectral Power

    Ingrid Funderud;Magnus Lindgren;Magnus Lindgren;Marianne Løvstad;Tor Endestad;Tor Endestad

  • Effects of prefrontal cortex damage on emotion understanding: EEG and behavioural evidence

    Anat Perry;Samantha N. Saunders;Jennifer Stiso;Callum Dewar

Frequent Co-Authors

Magnus Lindgren
Magnus Lindgren Lund University
Svein Magnussen
Svein Magnussen University of Oslo
Annika Melinder
Annika Melinder University of Oslo
Stein Andersson
Stein Andersson University of Oslo
Mark W. Greenlee
Mark W. Greenlee University of Regensburg
Bruno Laeng
Bruno Laeng University of Oslo
Merete Øie
Merete Øie University of Oslo
Nils Inge Landrø
Nils Inge Landrø University of Oslo
Karin Roelofs
Karin Roelofs Radboud University
Ivar Reinvang
Ivar Reinvang University of Oslo

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