PUBLICATIONS

Last updated 2021-06-11

PEER-REVIEWED

Andersen, L.M., Dalal, S.S., 2021. The cerebellar clock: Predicting and timing somatosensory touch. NeuroImage 238, 118202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118202  (I designed the study, wrote the paradigm code, collected the data, did the (statistical) analysis and wrote the manuscript)

Signoret, C., Andersen, L.M., Dahlström, Ö., Blomberg, R., Lundqvist, D., Rudner, M., Rönnberg, J., 2020. The Influence of Form- and Meaning-Based Predictions on Cortical Speech Processing Under Challenging Listening Conditions: A MEG Study. Front. Neurosci. 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.573254 (I designed the analysis of the MEG data, participated in the analysis and participated in the writing of the manuscript and creating the figures)

Andersen, L.M., Pfeiffer, C., Ruffieux, S., Riaz, B., Winkler, D., Schneiderman, J.F., Lundqvist, D., 2020. On-scalp MEG SQUIDs are sensitive to early somatosensory activity unseen by conventional MEG. NeuroImage 117157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117157 Download PDF (I designed the study, wrote the paradigm code, collected the data, did the (statistical) analysis and wrote the manuscript)

Manting, C.L., Andersen, L.M., Gulyas, B., Ullén, F., Lundqvist, D., 2020. Attentional Modulation of the Auditory Steady-State Response across the Cortex. NeuroImage 116930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116930 Download PDF (I participated in designing the experiment, was heavily involved in designing the MEG analysis and the coding of it and participated in the critical review of the paper)

Westin, K., Pfeiffer, C., Andersen, L.M., Ruffieux, S., Cooray, G., Kalaboukhov, A., Winkler, D., Ingvar, M., Schneiderman, J., Lundqvist, D., 2020. Detection of interictal epileptiform discharges: A comparison of on-scalp MEG and conventional MEG measurements. Clinical Neurophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2020.03.041 Download PDF (I participated in the design of recordings and participated in the critical review of the paper)

Andersen, L.M., Jerbi, K., Dalal, S.S., 2020. Can EEG and MEG detect signals from the human cerebellum? NeuroImage 116817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116817 Download PDF (I participated in the conception of the article, and I led the writing of the manuscript and the critical review)

Pfeiffer, C., Ruffieux, S., Andersen, L.M., Kalabukhov, A., Winkler, D., Oostenveld, R., Lundqvist, D., Schneiderman, J.F., 2020. On-scalp MEG sensor localization using magnetic dipole-like coils: A method for highly accurate co-registration. NeuroImage 212, 116686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116686 Download PDF (I participated in design of the data collection, collecting the data and critically reviewing the manuscript)

Islam, M., Westin, K., Carvalho, A., Eriksson, M., Lundvall, M., Stödberg, T., Adelöw, C., Lundqvist, D., Andersen, L.M., Lundstrom, B.N., Cooray, G., 2019. MEG and navigated TMS jointly enable spatially accurate application of TMS therapy at the epileptic focus in pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation 0. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2019.06.026 Download PDF (I participated in the design, setting up collection protocols and critically reviewing the manuscript)

Andersen, L.M., Overgaard, M., Tong, F., 2019. Visual expectations change subjective experience without changing performance. Consciousness and Cognition 71, 59–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.03.007  Download PDF (I designed the study, wrote the paradigm code, collected the data, did the (statistical) analysis and wrote the manuscript)

Andersen, L.M., Lundqvist, D., 2019. Somatosensory responses to nothing: An MEG study of expectations during omission of tactile stimulations. NeuroImage 184, 78–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.09.014 Download PDF (I designed the study, wrote the paradigm code, collected the data, did the (statistical) analysis and wrote the manuscript)

Pfeiffer, C., Andersen, L.M., Lundqvist, D., Hämäläinen, M., Schneiderman, J.F., Oostenveld, R. 2018. Localizing on-scalp MEG sensors using an array of magnetic dipole coils. PLoS ONE. 13. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191111 Download PDF (I participated in design of the data collection, collecting the data and critically reviewing the manuscript)

Andersen, L.M., 2018. Group analysis in FieldTrip of time-frequency responses: a pipeline for reproducibility at every step of processing, going from individual sensor space representations to an across-group source space representation. Front. Neurosci. 12. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191111 Download PDF (I collected the data, wrote the code and conceived of the pipeline, made data and code available online, and wrote the manuscript)

Andersen, L.M., 2018. Group Analysis in MNE-Python of Evoked Responses from a Tactile Stimulation Paradigm: A Pipeline for Reproducibility at Every Step of Processing, Going from Individual Sensor Space Representations to an across-Group Source Space Representation. Front. Neurosci. 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00006 Download PDF (I collected the data, wrote the code and conceived of the pipeline, made data and code available online, and wrote the manuscript)

Ströberg, K., Andersen, L.M., Wiens, S., 2017. Electrocortical N400 Effects of Semantic Satiation. Front. Psychol. 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02117 Download PDF (I conducted the source reconstruction analysis of the data and participated in writing the manuscript)

Song, C., Sandberg, K., Andersen, L. M., Blicher, J. U., and Rees, G. (2017). Human Occipital and Parietal GABA Selectively Influence Visual Perception of Orientation and Size. J. Neurosci. 37, 8929–8937. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3945-16.2017. Download PDF (I collected the data and critically reviewed the manuscript)

Andersen, L. M., Oostenveld, R., Pfeiffer, C., Ruffieux, S., Jousmäki, V., Hämäläinen, M., et al. (2017). Similarities and differences between on-scalp and conventional in-helmet magnetoencephalography recordings. PLoS ONE 12, e0178602. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178602. Download PDF (I designed the study, wrote the paradigm code, collected the data, did the (statistical) analysis, made data and code available online and wrote the manuscript)

Sandberg, K., Blicher, J.U., Del Pin, S.H., Andersen, L.M., Rees, G., Kanai, R., 2016. Improved estimates for the role of grey matter volume and GABA in bistable perception. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.08.006 (I collected the data and critically reviewed the manuscript)

Andersen, L.M., Pedersen, M.N., Sandberg, K., Overgaard, M., 2016. Occipital MEG Activity in the Early Time Range (<300 ms) Predicts Graded Changes in Perceptual Consciousness. Cereb. Cortex 26, 2677–2688. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv108 (I designed the study, wrote the paradigm code, collected the data, did the (statistical) analysis and wrote the manuscript)

Joensson, M., Thomsen, K.R., Andersen, L.M., Gross, J., Mouridsen, K., Sandberg, K., Østergaard, L., Lou, H.C., 2015. Making sense: Dopamine activates conscious self-monitoring through medial prefrontal cortex. Hum. Brain Mapp. 36, 1866–1877. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22742 (I participated in designing Experiment 2, did the statistical mixed model analysis myself, and participated in writing the relevant sections and critically reviewed the whole paper)

Sandberg, K., Andersen, L.M., Overgaard, M., 2014. Using multivariate decoding to go beyond contrastive analyses in consciousness research. Front. Psychol. 5, 1250. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01250 Download PDF (I participated in the conception of the paper, writing two of the sections of the paper, critically reviewing the remaining sections, and did the figures)

Andersen, L.M., Visser, I., Crone, E.A., Koolschijn, P.C.M.P., Raijmakers, M.E.J., 2014. Cognitive strategy use as an index of developmental differences in neural responses to feedback. Developmental Psychology 50, 2686–2696. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038106 (I participated in designing the study, I collected the data, I did the greatest part of the (statistical) analysis and I wrote the manuscript)

Andersen, L.M., Basile, B.M., Hampton, R.R., 2014. Dissociation of visual localization and visual detection in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Anim Cogn 17, 681–687. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-013-0699-7 (I designed the study, wrote the paradigm code, collected the data, did the (statistical) analysis and wrote the manuscript)

PREPRINTS (not peer-reviewed yet)

Andersen, L.M., 2019. Software and resources for experiments and data analysis of MEG and EEG data (No. e27988v1). PeerJ Inc. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27988v1 (I conceived the idea, wrote the code and wrote the manuscript)

Ribeiro, M.J., Fonseca, A., Moura-Ramos, M., Costa, M., Kilteni, K., Andersen, L.M., Harber-Aschan, L., Moscoso, J.A., Bagchi, S., Associations (ENPA), E.N. of P., 2019. Postdoc X-ray in Europe 2017: work conditions, productivity, institutional support and career outlooks. bioRxiv 523621. https://doi.org/10.1101/523621 (I participated in design of the report, I designed the statistical analysis on potential wage difference, wrote the relevant sections and critically reviewed the manuscript)

Ph.D.-dissertation

Spatio-temporal Localization and Task Specificity in the Search for Neural Correlates of Perceptual Consciousness: PhD Dissertation Download PDF

CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRENT POSITION

01.01.2020 -

Postdoc at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University

01.09.2019 - 30.11.2020

Postdoc at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at Aarhus University

FORMER POSITIONS

2016-2019

Postdoc at Karolinska Institutet at NatMEG (The Swedish National Facility for Magnetoencephalography)

2015-2016

Research assistant at Karolinska Institutet at NatMEG

2012-2015

PhD-student at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at Aarhus University. Main advisor: Professor Morten Overgaard.

2011-2012

Research Assistant at the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit at Aarhus University at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience.

EDUCATION

2016

PhD in Medicine from Aarhus University, based on the dissertation Spatio-temporal localization and task specificity in the search for neural correlates of perceptual consciousness, including a research visit to Frank Tong's lab at Vanderbilt University

2011

Research based Master of Science in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. A selective master at the University of Amsterdam including an internship in Robert Hampton's lab at Emory University.

2009

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and Linguistics, Aarhus University, including an exchange with Sheffield University

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS and AWARDS

2020

Awarded an AIAS-COFUND II Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies for the project: The cerebellum as an internal clock – altered cerebellar activity in Parkinson’s disease giving rise to abnormal temporal discrimination? covering the period December 1^st 2020 to January 31^st 2024

2020

Received funding for the project The cerebellar clock: tracking the pace of the world from Lundbeckfonden (1,588,804 DKK; ~215,000 Euro)

2019

Received funding (co-applicant) for the project Unlocking human cerebellar electrophysiology with random matrix theory together with Professors Sarang Dalal and Sune Jespersen (595,000 DKK; ~80,000 Euro)

2018

Received funding for the project The Cerebellar Clock: Predicting the Present from Carlsbergfondet, (589,000 DKK; ~80,000 Euro)

2018

Travel Award for the BIOMAG conference 2018 The 21st International Conference on Biomagnetism (8,750 SEK; ~900 Euro)

2016

Travel Award for the BIOMAG conference 2016 The 20th International Conference on Biomagnetism (5,000 SEK; ~500 Euro)

2014

Henry Outreach Award (5,000 DKK, ~650 Euro), CFIN, Yearly award for outstanding public outreach activities.

2013

Student Travel Award for the MEG UK 2014 The 8th Annual Meeting of Users in the UK (covering travel expenses)

2012

Procured Grant for fully financed 3-year PhD fellowship: ~1.3 million DKK (~175,000 Euro) at Aarhus University

SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

Andersen, L.M. & Dalal, S.S. The cerebellar clock – predicting and timing sensory touch. Poster presented at the LiveMEEG online conference October 5^th-9^th

Andersen, L.M. Group analysis in FieldTrip of time-frequency responses: a pipeline for reproducibility at every step of processing, going from individual sensor space representations to an across-group source space representation. Poster presented at the BIOMAG 2018 Biannual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA.

Andersen, L.M. Group analysis in MNE-Python of evoked responses from a tactile stimulation paradigm: going from individual sensor space representations to an across-group source space representation. Poster presented at the BIOMAG 2018 Biannual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA.

Andersen, L.M. Somatosensory responses to nothing: an MEG study of expectation during omission of stimulation. Poster presented at the OHBM 2018 Annual Meeting, Singapore

Andersen, L.M. On-scalp MEG using 7 high-temperature SQUIDs. Talk presented at the MEG NORD 2018 conference, May 17th-18th, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Andersen, L.M. Phalange discrimination, comparison between 7 high-temperature on-scalp SQUIDs and in-helmet MEG. Poster presented at the MEG NORD 2018 conference, May 17th-18th, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Andersen, L.M. Somatosensory responses to nothing. Talk presented at the MEG NORD 2017 conference, May 9th-10th, Aarhus University, Denmark

Andersen, L.M. Using machine learning to detect onset of conscious visual experience. Talk presented at the Machine learning for functional brain imaging Symposium and Workshop 2017, January 19th-20th, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Andersen, L.M., Jousmäki, V, Lundqvist, D. Evidence for a tactile mismatch response: Distinctive responses to actual and predicted stimulation. Poster presented at BIOMAG2016, The 20th International Conference on Biomagnetism

Andersen, L.M., Oostenveld, R., Hämäläinen, M., Jousmäki, V., Lundqvist, D., & Ingvar, M. Revelations of scalp magnetoencephalography. Poster presented at the StratNeuro retreat 2016, Sånga-Säby, Sweden

Andersen, L.M., Sandberg, K, & Overgaard, M. A dissociation of conceptualisation processes from consciousness processes. Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 18th annual meeting, Melbourne, Australia

Andersen, L.M., Pedersen, M.N., Sandberg K., & Overgaard M. (2014). Small Changes in Conscious Experience are Predicted by Visual Awareness Negativity. Short Talk at the MEG UK 2014 The 8th Annual Meeting of MEG Users in the UK

Andersen, L.M., Pedersen, M.N, Sandberg, K., & Overgaard M. (2013). Visual Awareness Negativity correlates with small changes in conscious experience, Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 17th annual meeting, San Diego, US.

Andersen, L.M., Feyen, P., Hildebrandt, L, Kostka, J. Tired of inhibition – Poster presented at Summer School 2011, University of Amsterdam

OPPONENT AND THESIS EXAMINATION DUTIES

2021

Examiner on Xiaofei Dong’s PhD thesis at Macquarie University, entitled Neurophysiological mechanisms of attentional capture and suppression by emotionally salient pictures: Investigations with EEG and MEG. Supervisor: Associate Professor Blake Johnson

2018

Senior opponent on Rasmus Eklund’s halftime seminar at Stockholm University, entitled The neural correlates of awareness. Supervisor: Professor Stefan Wiens

SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS

2020

Online Tutor at the Advanced MEG/EEG toolkit at the Donders workshop led by Robert Oostenveld and Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen

2019

Organising, creating materials and leading a FieldTrip workshop for ~30 participants at Oslo University together with Britta Westner. http://www.fieldtripFtoolbox.org/workshop/oslo2019/

2018

Hands-on seminar on group analysis for KIBIN at Karolinska Institutet. http://laumollerandersen.org/workshops.html

2018

Co-creating the material for the workshop: From single-subject source analysis to group statistics. Workshop run by Robert Oostenveld. See http://megnord.org/2018/workshops/groupanalysis.html or Workshop Page

2018

Creating the materials for the workshop: From raw data to single subject source analysis and also running the workshop for 16 participants at NatMEG, Karolinska Institutet, together with Mikkel Vinding. See http://megnord.org/2018/workshops/single%20subject%20analysis.html or Workshop Page

2017

Creating the materials for the workshop: Source reconstruction in MEG and EEG and also teaching using those materials for 30 participants at NatMEG, Karolinska Institutet, together with Mikkel Vinding. See http://natmeg.se/activities/source_reconstruction/workshop_material.html or Workshop Page

2017

Organizing the symposium: Source reconstruction in MEG and EEG at NatMEG, Karolinska Institutet with international speakers from around Europe. See http://natmeg.se/activities/source_reconstruction/index.html

INVITED TALKS AND APPEARANCES

2021

Seminar on: Cerebellar MEG - investigating the timing capabilities of the cerebellum, presented at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, invited by Julian Keil.

2021

Seminar on: The cerebellar clock – predicting and timing somatosensory touch, presented at the Karolinska Institute at the Swedish National Facility for Magnetoencephaolography.

2021

Seminar on: Cerebellar MEG - investigating the timing capabilities of the cerebellum, presented at the Karolinska Institute at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, invited by Janina Seubert.

2020

Seminar on: Cerebellar MEG - investigating the timing capabilities of the cerebellum, presented at the University of Münster at the Institute of Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalyses, invited by Joachim Gross

2020

Invited expert during Benjamin Basile’s class on consciousness at the Physiological Psychology at the Vassar College

2019

Talk on: Somatosensory responses to nothing, presented at Stockholm University at the Institute of Psychology

2016

Presentation, Consciousness seen from a neuroscientific perspective, for Teaching Staff at Neuropædagogisk Kompentencecenter (Centre of Neuropaedagogical Competence) at University College of Northern Denmark.

LABORATORY SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

2015-2018

Responsible for laboratory bookings, helium refills, acquisition settings and support during acquisition and analysis of MEG-data at NatMEG.

PRESS RELEASES AND POPULAR OUTLETS

2019

Participating on popular science podcast Mostly Science based on the Twitter Talk Somatosensory responses to nothing: An MEG study of expectations during omission of tactile stimulations https://www.facebook.com/MostlyScience/videos/576176919525025/

2019

Low pay, exclusivity requirements and lack of support plague postdocs across Europe https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00688-8

2013

Folkeuniversitetet (Public University of Denmark) – Tankernes Kraft (The power of Thoughts) giving a talk on Mind Reading to course attendees from the Public

2013

Monkeys can point to objects they do not report seeing http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-1445745-0

TEACHING CREDENTIALS

2018

Passed the 5 weeks teaching course: Teaching and learning in Higher Education (GHPCH18), which is a prerequisite for docentship at Karolinska Institutet

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

2019

Co-supervision of MSc student, Nikoline Hummelmose from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, on her Master’s Project with the working title: Random Matrix theory based denoising of redundant neuroimaging data

2019

Taught Working with MEG 1^st semester master's students of Cognitive Science (1 hour) (November 18^th)

Taught on MEG analysis to 1^st semester master's students of Cognitive Science (3 hours) (November 8th^h)

Co-taught on MEG analysis to 1^st semester master's students of Cognitive Science (2 hours) (October 30^th)

2019

Taught Global Neuronal Workspace & Theories of Information Integration at the course Mind and Consciousness to 3^rd semester bachelor students of Cognitive Science (2 hours) (November 30^th)

2019

Supervision of MSc student, Johannes Singer, from the Master of Neuro-Cognitive Psychology of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, who is doing an internship with me at CFIN Aarhus University from September 1^st to October 27^th. His internship will result in a written report and a poster presented at a poster session at his home university.

2018

Introduction to magnetoencephalography, lecture for master's students at their Theory and method in biological psychology course (6 hours), Stockholm University

2018

Co-organized and taught the course Imaging in neuroscience with a focus on MEG and EEG methods (Teaching time: 19 hours) at Karolinska Institutet for PhD students. See Teaching Material page

2017

Co-supervisor for PhD-student Cassia Low Man Ting on her project: “Selective Auditory Attention and the Influence of Expertise”

2017

Introduction to magnetoencephalography, lecture for master's students at their Theory and method in biological psychology course (6 hours), Stockholm University. See Teaching Material page

2016

Introduction to magnetoencephalography, lecture for master's students at their Theory and method in biological psychology course (3 hours), Stockholm University

2015

Supervision of research year medical student Malthe Brændholt Sørensen on his bachelor project, Cortical alpha waves as a neural correlate of attention, Aarhus University

2015

Explanations and complexity, lecture for Linguistics undergraduates at their Studium Generale course (3 hours), Aarhus University. See Teaching Material page

2013

Teaching at Aalborg University for Psychology Master students in the Neuropsychology programme, Is the Visual Awareness Negativity(VAN) a Neural Correlate of Consciousness (NCC)?

ONLINE MATERIAL

2019

Provided tutorial analysis pipelines maintained on GitHub at https://github.com/ualsbombe/language_electrified

2018 and onward

Member of and contributor to the FieldTrip Toolbox on Github at https://github.com/fieldtrip

2018

Provided open group analysis pipelines maintained on Github at https://github.com/ualsbombe/omission_frontiers

2017

Provided open dataset accompanied by analysis scripts for MNE-Python and FieldTrip. See: “Group Analysis in MNE-Python of Evoked Responses from a Tactile Stimulation Paradigm: A Pipeline for Reproducibility at Every Step of Processing, Going from Individual Sensor Space Representations to an across-Group Source Space Representation” and “Group Analysis in FieldTrip of Time-Frequency Responses: A Pipeline for Reproducibility at Every Step of Processing, Going From Individual Sensor Space Representations to an Across-Group Source Space Representation” with persistent identifier: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1134776

2017

Provided open dataset accompanied by analysis scripts for “Similarities and differences between on-scalp and conventional in-helmet magnetoencephalography recordings” with persistent identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11633/di.dccn.DSC_3015000.00_677

POSITIONS OF TRUST

2019

Member of the board in the role of Treasurer at Karolinska Institutet for KIPA (Karolinska Institutet Postdoc Association)

2018

Postdoc representative at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet for KIPA (Karolinska Institutet Postdoc Association)

PEER-REVIEW

2019

Reviewer for NeuroImage – 3 manuscripts

Reviewer for Psychophysiology

Reviewer for PLOS Computational Biology

2018

Reviewer for Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral Neuroscience

Tadel, F., Bock, E., Niso, G., Mosher, J.C., Cousineau, M., Pantazis, D., Leahy, R.M., Baillet, S., 2019. MEG/EEG Group Analysis With Brainstorm. Front. Neurosci. 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00076

2017

Jonkisz, J., Wierzchoń, M., Binder, M., 2017. Four-Dimensional Graded Consciousness. Front. Psychol. 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00420

LANGUAGES

Danish: Native Language

English: Fluent

Swedish: Fluent

Dutch: Conversational

German: Conversational