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Kenneth Hugdahl (born 15 January 1948, in

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) is a Swedish psychologist. married to Märit 1973-2016, two children Anna and Emilia He took his doctor's degree at the

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in 1977. He worked as a researcher there from 1980, and in 1984 he was appointed professor at the University of Bergen. His main research interests are brain asymmetry and

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, cognitive dysfunction in

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, and neurobiology of

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s. He has published over 300 articles in international peer reviewed journals, including in high impact factor journals, such as ''

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'' and ''

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'', and various books, among them ''Psychophysiology: The Mind-Body Perspective'' (1995), ''Experimental Methods in Neuropsychology'' (2002) and ''The Asymmetrical Brain'' (2002) (together with Prof. Richard Davidson). He also edited the ''

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'' from 1990 to 2004. He was a member of the Research Council of Norway from 1988 to 1989, and of the MacArthur Foundation from 1990 to 2000. He is a member of the

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. He is currently the Head of the Bergen fMRI Group which initiated use of

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and the Nordic countries in the 1990s.

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1948 births Living people Norwegian psychologists Uppsala University alumni Academic staff of the University of Bergen Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Swedish psychologists {{Psychologist-stub