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I investigate the evolution and adaptability of conscious processes and underlying neural structures in human and non-human organisms. My early research tapped into conscious and subconscious processes involved in language, vision, and numerical cognition. Recently, I developed the ‘distance index’ (DI) and the ‘global index’ (GI) to capture differences in brain structure between males and females, between individuals in clinical groups, and between teleost fish reared in minimal versus enriched environments. I also joined efforts with Anders Opdal, Sergey Budaev, and Jarl Giske who build evolutionary simulation models of animal behavior, ecology, and wellbeing.

My early research in ONE minute:

IGSIN 913 Integrated Neuroscience, module "The Neuroscience of Memory"

MAPSYK 319B Cognitive Neuroscience, emneansvarlig

MAPSYK 360 Master's Thesis in Psychology, supervisor

MAPSYK 319A/PROPSY 303 Biological Psychology, module "Emotions" I and II

PROPSY 304 Cognitive Neuroscience, modules "Perception", "Memory", "Attention and Cognitive Control"

PSYK 122 Practical Research Methods

1. Giske, J., Dumitru, M. L., Enberg, K., Folkedal, O., Handeland, S. O., Higginson, A. D., Opdal, A. F., Rønnestad, I., Salvanes, A. G. V., Vollset, K. W., Zennaro, F. M., Mangel, M., & Budaev, S. (2025). Premises for digital twins reporting on Atlantic salmon wellbeing. Behavioral Processes, 226, 105163. .
2. Dumitru, M. L., & Frugård Opdal, A, M. (2024). Beyond the Mosaic Model of Brain Evolution: Rearing Environment Defines Local and Global Plasticity. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1542, 58-66. 
3. Dumitru, M. L., Johnsen, E., Kroken, R. A., Løberg, E.-M., Lilleskare, L., Ersland, L., & Hugdahl, K. (2024). Widespread Asymmetries of Amygdala Nuclei Predict Auditory Verbal Hallucinatios in Schizophrenia. BMC Psychiatry, 24, 826. 
4. Budaev, S., Dumitru, M. L., Enberg, K., Handeland, S. O., Higginson, A. D., Kristiansen , T. S., Opdal, A. F., Raislback, S. F., R√∏nnestad, I., Vollset, K. W., Mangel, M., & Giske, J. (2024). Premises for a digital twin of the Atlantic salmon in its world: agency, robustness, subjectivity, and prediction. Aquaculture, Fish, and Fisheries,4, e153. 
5. Dumitru, M. L. (2023). Brain Asymmetry is Globally Different in Males and Females: Exploring Cortical Volume, Area, Thickness, and Mean Curvature. Cerebral Cortex, 33, 11623-11633. 
6. Dumitru, M. L., Korbmacher, M., & Bartsch, H. Male and Female Brain Coherence Models of Cognitive Performance andPsychopathology. (2022). bioRxiv
7. Kazimierczak, K., Craven, A. R., Ersland, L., Specht, K., Dumitru, M. L., Sandoy, L. B., & Hugdahl, K. (2022). Combined fMRI Region- and Network-Analysis Reveal New Insights of Top-Down Modulation of Bottom-Up Processes in Auditory Laterality. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 
8. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. Thought extramission: The eyes project conceptual maps at close distance. (2021). 
9. Dumitru, M. L., & Pasqualotto, A. (2018). Helmets improve estimations of depth and visual angle to safe targets. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(8), 1879-1884.
10. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. (2018). Logical connectives modulate attention to simulations evoked by the constituents they link together. Frontiers in Psychology, 08/2018; 6. 
11. Dumitru, M. L.(2016). Gestalt-like representations hijack chunk-and-pass processing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 
12. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G.H. (2016). Gestalt reasoning with conjunctions and disjunctions. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151774. 
13. Pasqualotto, A., Dumitru, M. L., & Myachykov, A. (2016). Editorial: Multisensory Integration: Brain, Body, and World. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:2046. 
14. Dumitru, M. L.(2015). Coherence across consciousness levels: Symmetric visual displays spare working memory resources. Consciousness and Cognition, 38, 139-149. 
15. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. (2015). Similarity judgments of same-category object representations: Effects of physical size, manipulability, and word frequency. Visual Cognition, 23 (7), 855-859.
16. Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. (2015). Effects of word-evoked object size on covert numerosity estimations. Frontiers in Psychology, 08/2015; 6. 
17. Dumitru, M. L.(2014). Moving stimuli guide retrieval and (in) validation of coordination simulations. Cognitive Processing. 15 (3), 397-403. 
18. Dumitru, M. L., & Taylor, A. J. (2014). Or cues knowledge of alternatives: Evidence from priming. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 55 (2), 97-101. 
19. Dumitru, M. L., Joergensen, G. H., Cruickshank, A. G., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2013). Language-guided visual processing affects reasoning: The role of referential and spatial anchoring. Consciousness and Cognition, 22 (2), 562-571. 

60825 Hvordan hjernenettverk interagerer - betydning for forstaelse av horselshallusinasjoner 

60748 Hjernelateralisering av oppmerksomhetskontroll etter kort meditasjonstrening

60932 Hjernemekanismer for oppmerksomhetskontroll til auditive og visuelle stimuli

NSD 395393 Impact of Prediction Error on Social Appraisal