- E-mailSebastian.Jentschke@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 66 40
- Visitor AddressChristies gate 12(4th floor)5015 BergenRoom452
- Postal AddressPostboks 78075020 Bergen
- Psychological and neuroscientific methods (including writing purpose-made software)
- Neurocognitive development and brain plasticity, in typically developing, impaired, and specially trained (e.g. musically) populations
- Neural correlates of music and language perception and their interrelation
- Neural correlates underlying differences in memory performance, academic achievement, and general cognitive skills in children who perinatally suffered from hypoxia / ischemia
- Induction of emotions (e.g., through music), exploration of their psycho- and neurophysiological correlates and their relation with other aspects of personality
Teaching:
- Preparing for professional work in psychology (PRPSYK301B)
- Developmental psychology (PRPSYK302)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (PRPSYK304)
- Culture, health, and development (PROPSY310)
- Perspectives in Psychological Science (MAPSYK301)
- Research methods (MAPSYK302)
- Developmental, cognitive, and biological psychology (PSYK114 / PSYK120)
- Language development (SPED101)
- Quantitative methods (GHIG937)
Course coordinator:
- (2023). Neural correlates of statistical learning in developmental dyslexia: An electroencephalography study. Biological Psychology. 11 pages.
- (2022). Unpredictability of the “when” influences prediction error processing of the “what” and “where”. PLOS ONE.
- (2022). Self-Compassion and Its Association With Ruminative Tendencies and Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability in Recurrent Major Depression. Frontiers in Psychology.
- (2021). The illusion of absence: how a common feature of magic shows can explain a class of road accidents. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 1-16.
- (2021). SEMLj: A Suite for Structural Equation Models in jamovi.
- (2021). Neocortical substrates of feelings evoked with music in the ACC, insula, and somatosensory cortex. Scientific Reports.
- (2020). jmvReadWrite: Routines to read and write (jamovi) OMV-files from R.
- (2020). Volume reduction of caudate nucleus is associated with movement coordination deficits in patients with hippocampal atrophy due to perinatal hypoxia-ischaemia. NeuroImage: Clinical. 10 pages.
- (2020). Cortical thickness and resting‐state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross‐sectional pooled mega‐analysis. Psychophysiology. 16 pages.
- (2019). When the statistical MMN meets the physical MMN. Scientific Reports.
- (2019). The association between juvenile onset of depression and emotion regulation difficulties. Frontiers in Psychology. 1-12.
- (2019). Statistical learning in the developing brain: Towards early diagnosis of impaired language acquisition.
- (2019). Statistical learning in the developing brain.
- (2019). Heroic music stimulates empowering thoughts during mind-wandering . Scientific Reports.
- (2019). Author Correction: When the statistical MMN meets the physical MMN (Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 1, (5563), 10.1038/s41598-019-42066-4). Scientific Reports.
- (2018). Interaktionen zwischen Sprache und Musik [Interactions between Language and Music]. 26 pages.
- (2017). Interaktionen zwischen Musik und Sprache [Interactions between language and music] .
- (2016). Under the hood of statistical learning: A statistical MMN reflects the magnitude of transitional probabilities in auditory sequences. Scientific Reports.
- (2016). The Relationship between Music and Language. 13 pages.
- (2016). Sexual Dimorphism in White Matter Developmental Trajectories Using Tract-Based Spatial Statistics. Brain Connectivity. 37-47.
- (2016). Modulation of syntax processing in music and language by musical training and language impairment.
- (2015). Optic radiation structure and anatomy in the normally developing brain determined using diffusion MRI and tractography. Brain Structure and Function. 291-306.
- (2015). Neonatal hypoxia, hippocampal atrophy, and memory impairment: evidence of a causal sequence. Cerebral Cortex. 1469-1476.
- (2015). Music Perception Influences Language Acquisition – Melodic and Rhythmic-Melodic Perception in Children with Specific Language Impairment. Behavioural Neurology.
- (2015). Hippocampal Volume Reduction in Humans Predicts Impaired Allocentric Spatial Memory in Virtual-Reality Navigation. Journal of Neuroscience. 14123-14131.
- (2014). Neural correlates of music-syntactic processing in two-year old children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 200-208.
- (2014). Differential effects of early life stress on hippocampus and amygdala volume as a function of emotional abilities. Hippocampus. 1094-1101.
- (2013). Neural correlates of emotional personality: a structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging study. PLOS ONE.
- (2013). From Understanding to Appreciating Music Cross-Culturally. PLOS ONE.
- (2012). Normative development of white matter tracts: similarities and differences in relation to age, gender, and intelligence. Cerebral Cortex. 1738-1747.
- (2012). Cardiac signatures of personality. PLOS ONE.
- (2012). A Rapid, Hippocampus-Dependent, Item-Memory Signal that Initiates Context Memory in Humans. Current Biology. 2369-2374.
- (2011). Neurokognition von Musik und Sprache [Neurocognition of music and language]. Sprachheilarbeit. 178-185.
- (2010). Differences in Electric Brain Responses to Melodies and Chords. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2251-2262.
- (2009). Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music. Current Biology. 573-576.
- (2009). Musical training modulates the development of syntax processing in children. NeuroImage. 735-744.
- (2008). Short-term effects of processing musical syntax: An ERP study. Brain Research. 55-62.
- (2008). Processing of musical syntax in children with and without Specific Language Impairment. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 1940-1951.
- (2008). EEG correlates of moderate intermittent explosive disorder. Clinical Neurophysiology. 151-162.
- (2007). Untangling syntactic and sensory processing: An ERP study of music perception. Psychophysiology. 476-490.
- (2007). Neural Correlates of Processing Syntax in Music and Language – Influences of Development, Musical Training, and Language Impairment.
- (2007). Einflüsse von Entwicklungsveränderungen auf die Musikwahrnehmung und die Beziehung von Musik und Sprache [The relationship of music and language and developmental influences on music perception]. 24 pages.
- (2007). A cardiac signature of emotionality. European Journal of Neuroscience. 3328-3338.
- (2006). Brain, Music, Plasticity, and Development. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. 51-70.
- (2005). Neural Correlates of Processing Structure in Music and Language – Influences of Musical Training and Language Impairment. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 231-242.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
I have created Wikis with resources for psychological methods.
In addition, I am curating the web documentation for the statistical package jamovi as well as a web version of the text book learning statistics with jamovi.
Feel free to take a look!
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