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Markus Handal Sneve

Senior engineer

Interests

Low level memory mechanisms in vision:

Early visual areas are sensitive to differences in basic stimulus features such as orientation, size (spatial frequency), and motion; so-called low-level features. The low-level feature coding neurons are highly active during the analysis of incoming perceptual information, and normally, when the stimulus disappears, their activity goes back to a pre-stimulus level. In a visual working memory task, however, the information about the low-level features of the stimulus to be remembered is probably retained and retrieved through activity in some of the areas of their encoding. Thus, under certain task-related demands the sensory role of the visual system can be utilized by and extended into other, often characterized as higher-level, cognitive domains. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in combination with psychophysical paradigms, I investigate how the early visual system in the human cortex is recruited during memory for low-level visual features.

Neural mechanisms of filling-in:

Some regions of the visual field are blind as a consequence of the normal organization of the visual system, e.g. the blind spot which is caused by the lack of photoreceptors at the point where the optic nerve leaves the retina. Such constantly blind regions of the visual field are normally not noticed because of filling-in processes; one perceives the brightness, color, and texture of the adjacent areas as if they were genuine visual inputs to the blind area. Again, using a combination of fMRI and psychophysics, I try to elucidate the mechanisms behind such filling-in processes.

Background

Education
  • 2006-2008: Neuro-Cognitive Psychology, Master’s Program. Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
  • 2003-2005: Clinical Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
Relevant work experience
  • 2009 – 2012: PhD research fellow – Center for the Study of Human Cognition
  • 2006 – 2009: E-Prime lecturer and consultant – at Sneve’s Prime Time Services
  • 2004 – 2009: Research assistant to Professor Svein Magnussen and Associate Professor Tor Endestad
  • 2008: Research assistant to Professor Bruno Laeng and Dr. Thomas Espeseth

Collaboration

  • Mark D’Esposito, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Mark W. Greenlee, University of Regensburg, Germany
  • Gianluca Campana, University of Padova, Italy
  • Lothar Spillmann, University of Freiburg, Germany
  • John S. Werner, University of California, Davis, USA

Contact

E-mail: m.h.sneve@psykologi.uio.no

Telephone: +47 228 45 216

Visiting address:
Harald Schjelderups hus
Forskningsveien
0373 Oslo

Postal address:
P.O. box 1094
Blindern
0317 Oslo

Project involvement

Constructive memory

Biological Predictors for Memory

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Select LCBC publications

28. August 2018

Maintained Frontal Activity Underlies High Memory Function Over 8 Years in Aging

Cerebral Cortex; pdf
Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sneve M.H., Nyberg L. H., Mowinckel A. M., Sedervicius D., Walhovd, K.B. & Fjell, A.M.
24. August 2018

The Lifespan Trajectory of the Encoding-Retrieval flip. A Multi-modal Examination of Medial Parietal Cortex Contributions to Episodic Memory

The Journal of Neuroscience; pdf
Amlien, I. K., Sneve, M., Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Walhovd, K. B. & Fjell, A. M.
18. August 2017

Neural correlates of durable memories across the adult lifespan: brain activity at encoding and retrieval

Neurobiology of Aging; pdf
Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sneve M.H., Storsve A.B., Roe, J.M., Walhovd, K.B. & Fjell, A.M.
1. March 2017

The Disconnected Brain and Executive Function Decline in Aging

Cerebral Cortex; pdf
Fjell A.M., Sneve, M.H., Grydeland, H. Storsve, A.B. & Walhovd K.B.
22. September 2016

Relationship between structural and functional connectivity change across the adult lifespan: A longitudinal investigation

Human brain mapping; pdf
Fjell, A. M., Sneve, M. H., Grydeland, H., Storsve, A. B., Amlien, I. K., Yendiki, A. &, Walhovd, K. B

Publications

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