Christina Thunberg

Doctoral Research Fellow - Cognitive psychology, Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

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Email christina.thunberg@psykologi.uio.no

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Visiting address Forskningsveien 3A Harald Schjelderups hus 0373 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1094 Blindern 0317 Oslo

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Academic Interests

Cognitive control and action control
Sensory, attentional and perceptual processes
Consciousness
Multimodal imaging (EEG, EMG, MR)
Research methods

How do we control our actions? Which subprocesses are important, and how do they shape each other?

The ability to cancel ongoing or prepotent actions is often seen as something willed and controlled, but less attention is given to the multitude of underlying processes contributing to this form of action control. The main purpose of my PhD project will be to dive deeper into the neural cascade of processes contributing to action cancellation.

Research group

Multimodal Imaging and Cognitive Control lab (MICC lab)

Teaching

PSY4340 - Internship
PSY4310 - Research methods 1
PSY4318 - Multidisciplinary studies of consciousness
PSY1300 - Cognitive psychology

Tags: Cognitive neuroscience

Publications

Scientific articles and book chapters

Thunberg, Christina; Wiker, Thea; Bundt, Carsten & Huster, Rene Jürgen (2024). On the (un)reliability of common behavioral and electrophysiological measures from the stop signal task: Measures of inhibition lack stability over time. Cortex. ISSN 0010-9452. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.02.008.
Raud, Liisa; Thunberg, Christina & Huster, Rene Jürgen (2022). Partial response electromyography as a marker of action stopping. eLIFE. ISSN 2050-084X. 11, p. 1–34. doi: 10.7554/eLife.70332.
Huster, Rene; Messel, Mari Sælid; Thunberg, Christina & Raud, Liisa (2020). The P300 as marker of inhibitory control – Fact or fiction? Cortex. ISSN 0010-9452. 132, p. 334–348. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.05.021. Full text in Research Archive
Fjermestad, Krister; Huster, Rene; Thunberg, Christina; Stokke, Simen; Gravholt, Claus H & Solbakk, Anne-Kristin (2020). Neuropsychological functions, sleep, and mental health in adults with Klinefelter syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part C, Seminars in Medical Genetics (AJMG). ISSN 1552-4868. 184C, p. 482–492. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.c.31797. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
A few studies have examined neuropsychological functions, sleep, and mental health combined in Klinefelter syndrome (KS; 47,XXY). We investigated neuropsychological functions with standard tests, sleep with actigraphy, and self-reported mental health in 30 men with KS (Mean age = 36.7 years) compared to 21 controls (Mean age = 36.8 years). Men with KS scored significantly lower on mental speed, attention span, working memory, inhibition, and set-shifting tests, as well as overall IQ (mean effect size difference Cohen's d = 0.79). Men with KS had significantly longer night wakes, with no differences in other sleep variables (mean d = 0.34). Men with KS reported poorer mental health than controls (mean d = 1.16). Regression analyses showed neuropsychological functions explained variance in some sleep domains for men with KS but not for controls. Neuropsychological functions explained variance in some mental health domains for controls. For men with KS, however, verbal IQ was the only significant predictor of mental health. Altogether, men with KS display problems in neuropsychological functions and mental health but do not appear different from controls on most sleep parameters. Our findings indicate that relations between neuropsychological functions, sleep, and mental health differ between men with KS and controls.
Thunberg, Christina; Messel, Mari Sælid; Raud, Liisa & Huster, Rene (2020). tDCS over the inferior frontal gyri and visual cortices did not improve response inhibition. Scientific Reports. ISSN 2045-2322. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62921-z. Full text in Research Archive

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Projects

Research groups

MICC lab