- E-postStefan.Koelsch@uib.no
- Telefon+47 55 58 62 31
- BesøksadresseJonas Lies vei 915009 Bergen
- PostadressePostboks 78075020 Bergen
Stefan Koelsch (Kölsch) er en hjerneforsker og bestselgende forfatter som ble rekruttert av UiB i 2015 som Toppforsk professor. Hans primære forskningsfelt er nevrovitenskap og eksperimentell psykologi. Han er kjent for sitt omfattende interdisiplinære arbeid og har medforfattet publikasjoner med nevrologer, immunologer, psykiatere, fysikere, filosofer, musikologer, litteraturvitere og psykolingvister. Hans ISI h-index er på 50 (70 i scholar.google), med gjennomsnittlig >65 siteringer per artikkel.
Prof. Koelsch beskriver sine forskningsinteresser som følgende: “Jeg er interessert i hvilke hjerneprosesser som gjør oss glade og friske, samt triste og syke. Jeg har en personlig tilknytning til musikk, som tidligere musiker selv, og jeg er spesielt interessert i hvordan musikk kan støtte opp under humørregulering, sosial tilknytning og selvmotivering. Jeg er også interessert i hvilke terapeutiske effekter musikk har på lidelser og sykdommer, spesielt nevrologiske sykdommer og psykiatriske lidelser. Min forskningsgruppe arbeider for øyeblikket med en omfattende studie finansiert av Forskningsrådet som undersøker de terapeutiske effektene av musikk og fysisk aktivitet i pasienter med Alzheimers sykdom, mild kognitiv svikt og subjektiv kognitiv svikt. Andre nevrovitenskapelige prosjekter i min gruppe undersøker de nevrale korrelatene til emosjoner, læring og prediktive prosesser.”
Stefan Kolesch er også en forskningsmedarbeider ved Max Planck Instituttet for Human Kognitiv og Hjerneforskning i Leipzig (Tyskland)
Forskningsinteresser
- Emosjoner og hjernen
- Humørregulering med musikk
- Kliniske intervensjoner mot Alzheimers sykdom
- Effekten av musikk og fysisk aktivitet i Alzheimers pasienter
- Nevrovitenskapelige metoder
- fMRI (funksjonell funksjonell magnetresonanstomografi)
- MRS (magnetisk resonans spektroskopi)
- Prediktive prosesser i hjernen
- Musikk og hjerne
Utvalgte publikasjoner
Publikasjonsliste google.scholar
- (2023). Sensorimotor synchronization to music reduces pain. PLOS ONE.
- (2023). A 12-month randomised pilot trial of the Alzheimer’s and music therapy study: a feasibility assessment of music therapy and physical activity in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease. BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 15 sider.
- (2022). Unpredictability of the “when” influences prediction error processing of the “what” and “where”. PLOS ONE.
- (2022). Tormenting thoughts: The posterior cingulate sulcus of the default mode network regulates valence of thoughts and activity in the brain's pain network during music listening. Human Brain Mapping. 773-786.
- (2022). Study protocol for the Alzheimer and music therapy study: An RCT to compare the efficacy of music therapy and physical activity on brain plasticity, depressive symptoms, and cognitive decline, in a population with and at risk for Alzheimer's disease. PLOS ONE. 19 sider.
- (2022). Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young? Brain Structure and Function.
- (2022). Brain-correlates of processing local dependencies within a statistical learning paradigm. Scientific Reports.
- (2021). Trait Empathy Shapes Neural Responses Toward Sad Music. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 231-241.
- (2021). Neocortical substrates of feelings evoked with music in the ACC, insula, and somatosensory cortex. Scientific Reports.
- (2020). REPLY: Aesthetic Emotions Are a Key Factor in Aesthetic Evaluation: Reply to Skov and Nadal (2020). Psychological review. 650-654.
- (2020). Cortical thickness and resting‐state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross‐sectional pooled mega‐analysis. Psychophysiology. 16 sider.
- (2020). A coordinate-based meta-analysis of music-evoked emotions. NeuroImage. 1-10.
- (2019). When the statistical MMN meets the physical MMN. Scientific Reports.
- (2019). Uncertainty and surprise jointly predict musical pleasure and amygdala, hippocampus, and auditory cortex activity. Current Biology. 4084-4092.e4.
- (2019). The Effect of Emotional Valence on Ventricular Repolarization Dynamics Is Mediated by Heart Rate Variability: A Study of QT Variability and Music-Induced Emotions. Frontiers in Physiology.
- (2019). Heroic music stimulates empowering thoughts during mind-wandering . Scientific Reports.
- (2018). The right inferior frontal gyrus processes nested non-local dependencies in music. Scientific Reports. 1-12.
- (2018). The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy. PLOS ONE. 1-22.
- (2018). Identifying Emotional Specificity in Complex Large-Scale Brain Networks. Emotion Review. 217-218.
- (2018). Hippocampal-Temporopolar Connectivity Contributes to Episodic Simulation during Social Cognition. Scientific Reports. 1-13.
- (2017). The periodic repolarization dynamics index identifies changes in ventricular repolarization oscillations associated with music-induced emotions. Computing in cardiology. 1-4.
- (2017). The emotional power of poetry: Neural circuitry, psychophysiology and compositional principles. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. 1229-1240.
- (2017). The Temporal Pole Top-Down Modulates the Ventral Visual Stream during Social Cognition. Cerebral Cortex. 777-792.
- (2017). The Distancing-Embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
- (2017). Language and music phrase boundary processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An ERP study. Scientific Reports.
- (2017). Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and the Default Mode Network. Scientific Reports.
- (2016). Under the hood of statistical learning: A statistical MMN reflects the magnitude of transitional probabilities in auditory sequences. Scientific Reports.
- (2016). The impact of acute stress on hormones and cytokines, and how their recovery is affected by music-evoked positive mood. Scientific Reports.
- (2016). Neurophysiological correlates of musical and prosodic phrasing: Shared processing mechanisms and effects of musical expertise. PLOS ONE.
- (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). Cardiac signatures of personality. PLOS ONE.
- (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). 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.
- (2017). Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions and implications for therapy.
- (2019). Statistical learning in the developing brain: Towards early diagnosis of impaired language acquisition.
- (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 sider.
- (2019). Statistical learning in the developing brain.
- (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.
- (2022). The promise of music therapy for Alzheimer's disease: A review. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 11-17.
- (2019). What are aesthetic emotions? Psychological review. 171-195.
- (2019). Predictive processes and the peculiar case of music. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 63-77.
- (2017). Negative emotions in art reception: Refining theoretical assumptions and adding variables to the distancing-embracing model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44-63.
- (2017). Effects of music therapy and music-based interventions in the treatment of substance use disorders: A systematic review. PLOS ONE. 1-36.
- (2023). Neural correlates of statistical learning in developmental dyslexia: An electroencephalography study. Biological Psychology.
- (2019). Uncertainty and Surprise Jointly Predict Musical Pleasure and Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Auditory Cortex Activity. Current Biology.
2014-2015 Professor i Psykologi (emosjons og biologisk psykologi), det Psykologiske Fakultet ved Universitetet i Lancaster, Storbritannia.
2010-2014 Professor i Psykologi (Biologisk Psykologi og Musikkpsykologi), Freie Universität Berlin, Tyskland
2006-2010 Seniorforeleser, Universitetet i Sussex, Storbritannia.
2003-2008 Assisterende Professor/Forskningsgruppeleder av en uavhengig juniorforskningsgruppe ved Max Planck Institututtet for kognitiv nevrovitenskap, Leipzig, Tyskland
2001-2002 Postdoktor ved Harvard Medical School, ved Fakultet for Nevrologi/hjerneavbilding (Gruppeprofessor Dr. G. Schlaug), Harvard Univerisity, USA
Annet
2004 Tysk habilitasjon, 06.12.2004, , Max Planck Instituttet for kognitiv nevrovitenskap / Universitetet i Leipzig (fakultet for biovitenskap, farmakologi og psykologi, Tyskland
2000 PhD i Psykologi (Dr. rer. nat.), 08.05.2000, Max Planck Instituttet for kognitiv nevrovitenskap / Universitetet i Leipzig, Tyskland (summa cum laude)