Integrative Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (ICON Lab)
The fields of cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology study the relationship between brain and behavior. In the ICON Lab, we answer research questions about how the brain produces (and is shaped by) thoughts, emotions, and behavior, and how the brain relates to mental health. We use methods such as neuroimaging and cognitive tests in experimental studies, in larger population-based studies, and in studies of patients.
Research area
A common theme in the ICON Lab is to answer questions about how the brain produces (and is shaped by) thoughts, emotions, and behavior, and how the brain relates to mental health. This theme is by nature interdisciplinary and research in this field often requires collaboration between psychologist and medical doctors to successfully apply methods such as brain imaging and cognitive tests in studies of both healthy volunteers and patients. Our research has a focus on the plasticity of the brain during learning, aging of the brain in relation to memory performance, and how cognition and emotion are affected in neurological and psychiatric conditions.
Research projects
Members
Full professors
Martin Lövdén, Professor
Learning, Plasticity, Development, Aging
Associate professors
Marie Eckerström, Associate Professor
Clinical neuropsychology, Cognitive dysfunction in relation to dementia disorders, work-related stress disorder, and viral infections in the central nervous system
Gaia Olivo, Assistant professor
Learning, Plasticity, Development, Brain Imaging, fMRI
Sindre Rolstad, Associate Professor
Clinical neuropsychology
Toms Voits, Postdoctoral researcher
Aging, plasticity, neuroimaging, bi-/multilingualism
Stefan Winblad, Associate Professor
Executive functions, emotions, social cognition, neurological and psychiatric disorder
PhD students
Gustaf Glavå, Doctoral student
Pathological Fatigue, fNIRS, Clinical Neuropsychology
Maria Gröndal, Doctoral student
Emotions, irritability/ anger, hormones, women’s health, premenstrual symptoms
Amos Pagin, Doctoral student
Intelligence, Learning
Isac Sehlstedt, Doctoral student
Working memory, executive functions, mentalizing, language development, touch, EEG, eye tracking