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Marco Andre
Hirnstein
Associate Professor
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Jonas Lies vei 91
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Postboks 7807
5020 BERGEN
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Advantages of hemispheric asymmetries in humans; cognitive sex differences; non-invasive brain stimulation; lateralization and schizophrenia

Journal articles
  • Hjelmervik, Helene; Westerhausen, Rene; Hirnstein, Marco; Specht, Karsten; Hausmann, Markus. 2015. The neural correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion. NeuroImage. 113: 196-206. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.066
  • Ocklenburg, Sebastian; Güntürkün, Onur; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Hirnstein, Marco. 2015. Laterality and mental disorders in the postgenomic age – A closer look at schizophrenia and language lateralization. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 59: 100-110. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.08.019
  • Hirnstein, Marco; Hugdahl, Kenneth. 2014. Excess of non-right-handedness in schizophrenia: Meta-analysis of gender effects and potential biases in handedness assessment. British Journal of Psychiatry. 205: 260-267. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.113.137349
  • Ocklenburg, Sebastian; Hirnstein, Marco Andre; Beste, Christian; Gunturkun, Onur. 2014. Lateralization and cognitive systems. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01143

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Journal papers: academic

  • Ocklenburg, S., Güntürkün, O., Hugdahl, K. & Hirnstein, M. Laterality and mental disorders in the postgenomic age – A closer look at schizophrenia and language lateralization. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 59, 100-110. (Nivå 2)
  • Hjelmervik, H., Westerhausen, R. Hirnstein, M., Specht, K., & Hausmann, M. (2015). The neural correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion. Neuroimage, 113, 196- 206. (Nivå 2) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811915001901
  • Ocklenburg, S., Hirnstein, M., Beste, C., & Güntürkün, O. (2014). Lateralization and cognitive systems. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01143. http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01143/full
  • Hirnstein, M., & Hugdahl, K. The excess of non-right-handedness in schizophrenia: A meta-analysis of sex effects and potential biases in handedness assessment. British Journal of Psychiatry, 205(4), 260-267. (Nivå 2) http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/205/4/260.abstract 
  • Hirnstein, M., Coloma Andrews L., & Hausmann, M. Gender-stereotyping and cognitive sex differences in mixed- and same-sex groups. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 1663-1673. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-014-0311-5
  • Hirnstein, M., Hugdahl, K., & Hausmann, M. (2014). How brain asymmetry relates to performance - a large-scale dichotic listening study. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00997. http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00997/full
  • Hirnstein, M., Westerhausen, R., Korsnes, M. S., & Hugdahl, K. (2013) Sex differences in language asymmetry are age-dependent and small: A large-scale, consonant vowel dichotic listening study with behavioral and fMRI data. Cortex, 49(7), 1910-1921. (Nivå 2)
  • Ocklenburg, S., Westerhausen, R., Hirnstein, M., & Hugdahl, K. (2013). Auditory hallucinations and reduced language lateralization in schizophrenia: A meta-analysis of dichotic listening studies. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 19(4), 410-418.
  • Hirnstein, M., Westerhausen, R., & Hugdahl, K. (2013). The right planum temporale is involved in stimulus-driven, auditory attention – evidence from transcranial magnetic stimulation. PLOS ONE, 8(2): e57316. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057316. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057316
  • Alba-Ferrara, L., De Erausquin, G. A., Hirnstein, M., Weis, S., & Hausmann, M. (2013). Emotional prosody modulates attention in schizophrenia patients with hallucinations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 59. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00059. http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00059/full
  • Hirnstein, M., Freund, N., & Hausmann, M. (2012). Gender stereotyping enhances verbal fluency performance in men (and women). Zeitschrift für Psychologie/Journal of Psychology, 220, 70-77.
  • Hirnstein, M. Dichotic listening and left right confusion (2011). Brain and Cognition, 76, 239-244.          
  • Ocklenburg, S., Hirnstein, M., Ohmann, H., & Hausmann, M. (2011). Mental rotation does not account for sex differences in left-right confusion. Brain and Cognition, 76, 166-171.
  • Hirnstein, M., Bayer, U., Ellison, A. & Hausmann, M. 2011. TMS over the left angular gyrus impairs the ability to discriminate left from right. Neuropsychologia, 49, 29-33. (Nivå 2)
  • Ocklenburg, S., Hirnstein, M., Hausmann, M. & Lewald, J. 2010. Auditory space perception in left- and right-handers. Brain and Cognition, 72, 210-217.
  • Hirnstein, M., Leask, S., Rose, J. & Hausmann, M. 2010. Disentangling the relationship between hemispheric asymmetry and cognitive performance. Brain and Cognition, 73, 119-127.
  • Hirnstein, M., Ocklenburg, S., Schneider, D. & Hausmann, M. 2009. Sex differences in left-right confusion depend on hemispheric asymmetry. Cortex, 45, 891-899. (Nivå 2)
  • Hirnstein, M., Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. 2009. Sex-specific response strategies in mental rotation. Learning and Individual Differences, 19, 225-228.
  • Hirnstein, M., Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. 2008. The evolutionary origins of functional cerebral asymmetries in humans: Does lateralization enhance parallel processing? Behavioural Brain Research, 187, 297-303.
  • Hirnstein, M., Hausmann, M. & Lewald, J. 2007. Functional cerebral asymmetry in auditory motion perception. Laterality, 12, 87-99.

Book sections:

  • Hugdahl, K. & Hirnstein, M. (2013). Cerebral hemispheres: Behavior and imaging studies. In S. P. Koffler, J. E. Morgan, I. S. Baron, & M. F. Greiffenstein (Eds.), Neuropsychology: science and practice (pp. 95-113). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Hirnstein, M. & Hausmann, M. 2010. Kognitive Geschlechtsunterschiede. In Handbuch Psychologie und Geschlechterforschung. Steins, G. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften. 69-85.