Academic Interests
- Multisensory Integration, Cross-modal Perception, Synesthesia,
- Time (micro-macro), Rhythm
- Ilusory perceptions
- Mental Imagery, Mental Rotation
- Visual Attention, Mental Effort
- Color Vision
- Perception of Space, Stereopsis
- Category specificity in language and perception
- Faces (Identity, Emotions, Beauty)
- Music and Emotions, Arousal
- Eye Tracking & Pupillometry
Teaching
PSY4303B - Vision and the Brain
Pupillometry: The Eye as a Window Into the Mind (MOOC in FutureLearn)


Higher education and employment history
Bruno Laeng is professor in Cognitive Neuropsychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo.
He received is Bachelor/Master in experimental psychology from Universitá La Sapienza (Roma, Italia) and Ph.D. in biological psychology from The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA).
Previously held positions: University of Bergen, University of Tromsø, University of Guelph (Canada), Harvard University (USA). In addition, Laeng has been a Clinical Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (USA).
Laeng is one of the principal investigators at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (RITMO), at the University of Oslo.
He is currently the Director of the Eye Tracking and Pupillometry laboratory at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo.
In 2018, Laeng was called to be a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science (Humanities and Social Sciences Division).
Laeng has been a visiting scholar at: Columbia University (New York), Universita' Cattolica (Rome), Sophia University, Senshu University, and Teikyo University, all in Tokyo (Japan), with fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
For Laeng's academic heritage ("neurotree") click here¤
For some bibliometrics see Google Scholar
- 2017 - present RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion: Core Group, University of Oslo
- 2008 - present Professor in Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- 2006-2010 Adjunct Professor, Institute of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- 2002-2007 Professor in Psychology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
- 1997-2002 Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
- 1994-1997 1) Postdoctoral fellow, Psychology (mentor: Dr. S.M. Kosslyn, Ph.D.), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.;
- 2) Harvard Medical School Postgraduate in Neurophthalmology, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- 1993-1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology (mentor: Dr. M. Peters, Ph.D.), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- 1987-1993 PhD in Psychology (mentors: Dr. C.M. Butter, Ph.D., and Dr. Henry "Gus" Buchtel, Ph.D.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
Awards
- Called as member of Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi (The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters), 2018

- Teaching Award from Department of Psychology, The University of Tromsø, 2003
- Young Researcher Award at The University of Tromsø, 2000
Laurea Summa Cum Laude con Dignita' di Stampa, Universita' La Sapienza (University of Rome), Rome, Italy, 1987
Appointments
- Bruno Laeng is professor in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
- Bruno Laeng was Board Member until 2022 of the the JSPS Alumni Club in Norway (ACN) for academic collaboration between Norway and Japan









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