Bruno Laeng

Professor - Kognitiv- og nevropsykologi

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Visiting address Forskningsveien 3A Harald Schjelderups hus 0373 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1094 Blindern 0317 Oslo

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Academic Interests

Time, Rhythm
Ilusory perceptions
Mental Imagery, Mental Rotation
Visual Attention, Mental Effort
Color Vision
Synesthesia, Cross-modal Perception
Perception of Space, Stereopsis
Language and Space-Time, Category specificity
Face Perception (Identity, Emotions, Beauty)
Music and Emotions, Arousal
Eye Tracking, Pupillometry

Teaching

PSY4303B - Vision and the Brain

Higher education and employment history

Bruno Laeng is professor in Cognitive Neuropsychology. 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). He has previously held positions at the University of Bergen, University of Tromsø, University of Guelph (Canada), Harvard University (USA) and he has been a Clinical Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (USA). He is currently faculty member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (RITMO). In 2018 he has been called to be a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science (Humanities and Social Sciences Division). He has been previously on sabbatical leave and visiting scholar at Columbia University (New York), Sophia University and Senshu University, both in Tokyo (Japan) and with fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

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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
2002-2007 Professor in Psychology, University of Tromsø
1997-2002 Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Tromsø
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, Canada
1987-1993 PhD in Psychology (mentors: Dr. C.M. Butter, Ph.D., and Dr. Henry "Gus" Buchtel, Ph.D.), University of 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
“Dignita' di Stampa”, University of Rome, Laurea Summa Cum Laude, 1997
Appointments
Bruno Laeng is professor in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
Bruno Laeng is also Board Member of the the JSPS Alumni Club in Norway (ACN) for academic collaboration between Norway and Japan

Tags: Cognitive psychology, Neuroscience, Neuropsychology

Wainstein, Gabriel; Rojas-Líbano, Daniel; Medel, Vicente; Alnæs, Dag; Kolskår, Knut-Kristian & Endestad, Tor [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2021). The ascending arousal system promotes optimal performance through mesoscale network integration in a visuospatial attentional task. Network Neuroscience. doi: 10.1162/netn_a_00205.
Laeng, Bruno; Kuyateh, Sarjo & Kelkar, Tejaswinee (2021). Substituting facial movements in singers changes the sounds of musical intervals. Scientific Reports. ISSN 2045-2322. 11(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-01797-z. Full text in Research Archive
Bishop, Laura; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Laeng, Bruno; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum & Høffding, Simon (2021). Move like everyone is watching: Social context affects head motion and gaze in string quartet performance. Journal of New Music Research. ISSN 0929-8215. doi: 10.1080/09298215.2021.1977338. Show summary
Ensemble musicians engage with each other visually through glances and body motion. We conducted a case study to test how string quartet musicians would respond to playing conditions that were meant to discourage or promote visually communicative behaviour. A quartet performed in different seating configurations under rehearsal and concert conditions. Quantity of head motion was reduced when musicians’ gaze was constrained. Differences in gaze and body motion between musicians reflected their musical roles in the ensemble. Overall, our findings suggest that gaze and motion dynamics vary within and between performances in response to changing musical, situational and social factors.
Bishop, Laura; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum & Laeng, Bruno (2021). Musical and Bodily Predictors of Mental Effort in String Quartet Music: An Ecological Pupillometry Study of Performers and Listeners. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.653021. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Music performance can be cognitively and physically demanding. These demands vary across the course of a performance as the content of the music changes. More demanding passages require performers to focus their attention more intensity, or expend greater “mental effort.” To date, it remains unclear what effect different cognitive-motor demands have on performers' mental effort. It is likewise unclear how fluctuations in mental effort compare between performers and perceivers of the same music. We used pupillometry to examine the effects of different cognitive-motor demands on the mental effort used by performers and perceivers of classical string quartet music. We collected pupillometry, motion capture, and audio-video recordings of a string quartet as they performed a rehearsal and concert (for live audience) in our lab. We then collected pupillometry data from a remote sample of musically-trained listeners, who heard the audio recordings (without video) that we captured during the concert. We used a modelling approach to assess the effects of performers' bodily effort (head and arm motion; sound level; performers' ratings of technical difficulty), musical complexity (performers' ratings of harmonic complexity; a score-based measure of harmonic tension), and expressive difficulty (performers' ratings of expressive difficulty) on performers' and listeners' pupil diameters. Our results show stimulating effects of bodily effort and expressive difficulty on performers' pupil diameters, and stimulating effects of expressive difficulty on listeners' pupil diameters. We also observed negative effects of musical complexity on both performers and listeners, and negative effects of performers' bodily effort on listeners, which we suggest may reflect the complex relationships that these features share with other aspects of musical structure. Looking across the concert, we found that both of the quartet violinists (who exchanged places halfway through the concert) showed more dilated pupils during their turns as 1st violinist than when playing as 2nd violinist, suggesting that they experienced greater arousal when “leading” the quartet in the 1st violin role. This study shows how eye tracking and motion capture technologies can be used in combination in an ecological setting to investigate cognitive processing in music performance.
Laeng, Bruno; Garvija, Lara; Løseth, Guro Engvig; Eikemo, Marie; Ernst, Gernot & Leknes, Siri (2021). ‘Defrosting’ music chills with naltrexone: The role of endogenous opioids for the intensity of musical pleasure. Consciousness and Cognition. ISSN 1053-8100. 90. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103105.
Laeng, Bruno; Flaaten, Camilla Barthel; Walle, Kjersti Maehlum; Hochkeppler, Anne & Specht, Karsten (2021). “Mickey Mousing” in the Brain: Motion-Sound Synesthesia and the Subcortical Substrate of Audio-Visual Integration. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. ISSN 1662-5161. 15, p. 1–10. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.605166. Full text in Research Archive
Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta; Postma, Albert; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova & Laeng, Bruno (2021). More mental rotation time does not imply more mental effort: Pupillary diameters do not change with angular distance. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 148(105670). doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105670. Full text in Research Archive
Sulutvedt, Unni; Zavagno, Daniele; Lubell, Jamie; Leknes, Siri; de Rodez Benavent, Sigrid Aune & Laeng, Bruno (2021). Brightness perception changes related to pupil size. Vision Research. ISSN 0042-6989. 178. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.09.004.
Zelechowska, Agata; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Laeng, Bruno; Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2020). Who Moves to Music? Empathic Concern Predicts Spontaneous Movement Responses to Rhythm and Music. Music & Science. ISSN 2059-2043. 3. doi: 10.1177/2059204320974216. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Moving to music is a universal human phenomenon, and previous studies have shown that people move to music even when they try to stand still. However, are there individual differences when it comes to how much people spontaneously respond to music with body movement? This article reports on a motion capture study in which 34 participants were asked to stand in a neutral position while listening to short excerpts of rhythmic stimuli and electronic dance music. We explore whether personality and empathy measures, as well as different aspects of music-related behaviour and preferences, can predict the amount of spontaneous movement of the participants. Individual differences were measured using a set of questionnaires: Big Five Inventory, Interpersonal Reactivity Index, and Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire. Liking ratings for the stimuli were also collected. The regression analyses show that Empathic Concern is a significant predictor of the observed spontaneous movement. We also found a relationship between empathy and the participants’ self-reported tendency to move to music.
Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta; Postma, Albert; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova & Laeng, Bruno (2020). More mental rotation time does not imply more mental effort: Pupillary diameters do not change with angular distance. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 148. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105670. Full text in Research Archive
Wardhani, Intan; Mathot, Sebastiaan; Boehler, Niko & Laeng, Bruno (2020). Effects of nicotine on pupil size and performance during multiple-object tracking in non-nicotine users. International Journal of Psychophysiology. ISSN 0167-8760. 158, p. 45–55. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.09.005.
Endestad, Tor; Godøy, Rolf Inge; Sneve, Markus Handal; Hagen, Thomas; Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta & Laeng, Bruno (2020). Mental Effort When Playing, Listening, and Imagining Music in One Pianist’s Eyes and Brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. ISSN 1662-5161. 14. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.576888. Full text in Research Archive
Hovey, Daniel; Martens, Louise; Laeng, Bruno; Leknes, Siri & Westberg, Lars (2020). The effect of intranasal oxytocin on visual processing and salience of human faces. Translational Psychiatry. ISSN 2158-3188. 10(318), p. 1–9. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-00991-3. Full text in Research Archive
Aminihajibashi, Samira; Hagen, Thomas; Andreassen, Ole Andreas; Laeng, Bruno & Espeseth, Thomas (2020). The effects of cognitive abilities and task demands on tonic and phasic pupil sizes. Biological Psychology. ISSN 0301-0511. 156. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107945. Full text in Research Archive
Lobben, Marit; Bochynska, Agata; Tanggaard, Stine & Laeng, Bruno (2020). Classifiers in non-European languages and semantic impairments in western neurological patients have a common cognitive structure. Lingua. ISSN 0024-3841. 244C. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102929. Full text in Research Archive
Liu, Hang; Laeng, Bruno & Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi (2020). Does stereopsis improve face identification? A study using a virtual reality display with integrated eye-tracking and pupillometry. Acta Psychologica. ISSN 0001-6918. 210. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103142. Full text in Research Archive
Aminihajibashi, Samira; Hagen, Thomas; Laeng, Bruno & Espeseth, Thomas (2020). Pupillary and behavioral markers of alerting and orienting: An individual difference approach. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 143. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105597. Full text in Research Archive
Sato, Fumiaki; Laeng, Bruno; Nakauchi, Shigeki & Minami, Tetsuto (2020). Cueing the Necker cube: Pupil dilation reflects the viewing-from-above constraint in bistable perception. Journal of Vision. ISSN 1534-7362. 20(4). doi: 10.1167/jov.20.4.7. Full text in Research Archive
Zelechowska, Agata; Gonzalez-Sanchez, Victor E.; Laeng, Bruno & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2020). Headphones or Speakers? An Exploratory Study of Their Effects on Spontaneous Body Movement to Rhythmic Music. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 11(698). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00698. Full text in Research Archive
Pecchinenda, Anna; Monachesi, Bianca & Laeng, Bruno (2020). Fearful expressions of rapidly presented hybrid-faces modulate the lag 1 sparing in the attentional blink. Acta Psychologica. ISSN 0001-6918. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103124.
Akca, Merve; Laeng, Bruno & Godøy, Rolf Inge (2020). No Evidence for an Auditory Attentional Blink for Voices Regardless of Musical Expertise. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 10. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02935. Full text in Research Archive
Øvervoll, Morten; Schettino, Illaria; Suzuki, Hikaru; Okubo, Matia & Laeng, Bruno (2020). Filtered beauty in Oslo and Tokyo: A spatial frequency analysis of facial attractiveness. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 15(1). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227513. Full text in Research Archive
Mäki-Marttunen, Verónica; Hagen, Thomas; Laeng, Bruno & Espeseth, Thomas (2019). Distinct Neural Mechanisms Meet Challenges in Dynamic Visual Attention due to Either Load or Object Spacing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 0898-929X. 32(1), p. 65–84. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01469.
Skaansar, Jo Fougner; Laeng, Bruno & Danielsen, Anne (2019). Microtiming and Mental Effort. Onset Asynchronies in Musical Rhythm Modulate Pupil Size. Music Perception. ISSN 0730-7829. 37(2), p. 111–133. doi: 10.1525/mp.2019.37.2.111. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The present study tested two assumptions concerning the auditory processing of microtiming in musical grooves (i.e., repeating, movement-inducing rhythmic patterns): 1) Microtiming challenges the listener's internal framework of timing regularities, or meter, and demands cognitive effort. 2) Microtiming promotes a “groove” experience—a pleasant sense of wanting to move along with the music. Using professional jazz musicians and nonmusicians as participants, we hypothesized that microtiming asynchronies between bass and drums (varying from −80 to 80 ms) were related to a) an increase in “mental effort” (as indexed by pupillometry), and b) a decrease in the quality of sensorimotor synchronization (as indexed by reduced finger tapping stability). We found bass/drums-microtiming asynchronies to be positively related to pupil dilation and negatively related to tapping stability. In contrast, we found that steady timekeeping (presence of eighth note hi-hat in the grooves) decreased pupil size and increased tapping performance, though there were no conclusive differences in pupil response between musicians and nonmusicians. However, jazz musicians consistently tapped with higher stability than nonmusicians, reflecting an effect of rhythmic expertise. Except for the condition most closely resembling real music, participants preferred the on-the-grid grooves to displacements in microtiming and bass-succeeding-drums-conditions were preferred over the reverse.
Laeng, Bruno & Hofseth, Anders (2019). Where Are the Months? Mental Images of Circular Time in a Large Online Sample. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 10, p. 1–17. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02634. Full text in Research Archive
Suzuki, Yuta; Minami, Tetsuto; Laeng, Bruno & Nakauchi, Shigeki (2019). Colorful glares: Effects of colors on brightness illusions measured with pupillometry. Acta Psychologica. ISSN 0001-6918. 198, p. 1–10. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102882. Full text in Research Archive
Aminihajibashi, Samira; Hagen, Thomas; Foldal, Maja Dyhre; Laeng, Bruno & Espeseth, Thomas (2019). Individual differences in resting-state pupil size: Evidence for association between working memory capacity and pupil size variability. International Journal of Psychophysiology. ISSN 0167-8760. 140, p. 1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.03.007. Full text in Research Archive
Benavent, Sigrid Aune de Rodez; Nygaard, Gro Owren; Nilsen, Kristian Bernhard; Etholm, Lars; Sowa, Piotr & Gustavsen, Marte Wendel [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2019). Neurodegenerative interplay of cardiovascular autonomic dysregulation and the retina in early multiple sclerosis. Frontiers in Neurology. ISSN 1664-2295. 10, p. 1–9. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00507. Full text in Research Archive
Mæhlum Walle, Kjersti; Nordvik, Jan Egil; Becker, Frank; Espeseth, Thomas; Sneve, Markus Handal & Laeng, Bruno (2019). Unilateral neglect post stroke: Eye movement frequencies indicate directional hypokinesia while fixation distributions suggest compensational mechanism. Brain and Behavior. ISSN 2162-3279. 9:e01170(1). doi: 10.1002/brb3.1170. Full text in Research Archive
Prete, Giulia; Laeng, Bruno & Tommasi, Luca (2018). Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) over prefrontal cortex does not influence the evaluation of facial emotions. Social Neuroscience. ISSN 1747-0919. p. 1–5. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2018.1546226.
Mæhlum Walle, Kjersti; Nordvik, Jan Egil; Espeseth, Thomas; Becker, Frank & Laeng, Bruno (2018). Multiple object tracking and pupillometry reveal deficits in both selective and intensive attention in unilateral spatial neglect. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. ISSN 1380-3395. 49(3), p. 270–289. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2018.1536735.
Laeng, Bruno (2018). Swedenborg's Visionary Neuroanatomy. In Lillevold Vinje, Petrine (Eds.), Anthology - Anatomical Theatre. Uten Tittel. ISSN 978-82-93502-20-3. p. 42–52.
Sulutvedt, Unni; Mannix, Thea K. & Laeng, Bruno (2018). Gaze and the Eye Pupil Adjust to Imagined Size and Distance. Cognitive Science. ISSN 0364-0213. p. 1–18. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12684.
Hagen, Thomas; Espeseth, Thomas & Laeng, Bruno (2018). Chasing Animals With Split Attention: Are Animals Prioritized in Visual Tracking? i-Perception. ISSN 2041-6695. 9(5), p. 1–35. doi: 10.1177/2041669518795932. Full text in Research Archive
Mäki-Marttunen, Verónica; Hagen, Thomas; Aminihajibashi, Samira; Foldal, Maja Dyhre; Stavrinou, Maria & Halvorsen, Jens [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2018). Ocular signatures of proactive versus reactive cognitive control in young adults. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. ISSN 1530-7026. p. 1–15. doi: 10.3758/s13415-018-0621-5.
Laeng, Bruno; Kiambarua, Kenneth Gitiye; Hagen, Thomas; Bochynska, Agata; Lubell, James & Suzuki, Hikaru [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2018). The "face race lightness illusion": An effect of the eyes and pupils? PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 13:e0201603(8), p. 1–36. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201603. Full text in Research Archive
Løseth, Guro Engvig; Eikemo, Marie Helene; Isager, Peder Mortvedt; Holmgren, Jostein; Laeng, Bruno & Vindenes, Vigdis [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2018). Morphine reduced perceived anger from neutral and implicit emotional expressions. Psychoneuroendocrinology. ISSN 0306-4530. 91, p. 123–131. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.02.035. Full text in Research Archive
Laeng, Bruno; Færevaag, Fredrik Svartdal; Tanggaard, Stine & von Tetzchner, Stephen (2018). Pupillary Responses to Illusions of Brightness in Autism Spectrum Disorder. i-Perception. ISSN 2041-6695. 9(3), p. 1–11. doi: 10.1177/2041669518771716. Full text in Research Archive
Hagen, Thomas & Laeng, Bruno (2017). Animals Do Not Induce or Reduce Attentional Blinking, But They Are Reported More Accurately in a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Task. i-Perception. ISSN 2041-6695. 8(5), p. 1–25. doi: 10.1177/2041669517735542. Full text in Research Archive
Stocker, Kurt & Laeng, Bruno (2017). Analog and Digital Windowing of Attention in Language, Visual Perception, and the Brain. Cognitive Semantics. ISSN 2352-6408. 3, p. 158–181. doi: 10.1163/23526416-00302002.
Zavagno, Damiele; Tommasi, Luca & Laeng, Bruno (2017). The Eye Pupil’s Response to Static and Dynamic Illusions of Luminosity and Darkness. i-Perception. ISSN 2041-6695. July-August. doi: 10.1177/2041669517717754. Full text in Research Archive
Mæhlum Walle, Kjersti; Kyler, Hillary Lynn; Nordvik, Jan Egil; Becker, Frank & Laeng, Bruno (2017). Binocular rivalry after right-hemisphere stroke: Effects of attention impairment on perceptual dominance patterns. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 117, p. 84–96. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2017.06.007.
de Rodez Benavent, Sigrid Aune; Nygaard, Gro Owren; Harbo, Hanne Flinstad; Tønnesen, Siren; Sowa, Piotr & Landrø, Nils Inge [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2017). Fatigue and cognition: Pupillary responses to problem-solving in early multiple sclerosis patients. Brain and Behavior. ISSN 2162-3279. 7. doi: 10.1002/brb3.717. Full text in Research Archive
Chelnokova, Olga V; Laeng, Bruno; Løseth, Guro Engvig; Eikemo, Marie Helene; Willoch, Frode & Leknes, Siri (2016). The µ-Opioid System Promotes Visual Attention to Faces and Eyes. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. ISSN 1749-5016. 11(12), p. 1902–1909. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsw116.
Prete, Giulia; Laeng, Bruno & Tommasi, Luca (2016). Modulating adaptation to emotional faces by spatial frequency filtering. Psychological Research. ISSN 0340-0727. 82(2), p. 310–323. doi: 10.1007/s00426-016-0830-x.
D'Ascenzo, Stefania; Iani, Cristina; Guidotti, Roberto; Laeng, Bruno & Rubichi, Sandro (2016). Practice-induced and sequential modulations in the Simon task: evidence from pupil dilation. International Journal of Psychophysiology. ISSN 0167-8760. 110, p. 187–193. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.08.002.
Laeng, Bruno; Suegami, Takashi & Aminihajibashi, Samira (2016). Wine labels: an eye-tracking and pupillometry study. International Journal of Wine Business Research. ISSN 1751-1062. 28(4), p. 327–348. doi: 10.1108/IJWBR-03-2016-0009.
Laeng, Bruno; Eidet, Lise Mette; Sulutvedt, Unni & Panksepp, Jaak (2016). Music chills: The eye pupil as a mirror to music’s soul. Consciousness and Cognition. ISSN 1053-8100. 44, p. 161–178. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.07.009.
Miozzo, Michele & Laeng, Bruno (2016). Why Saturday could be both green and red in synesthesia. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. p. 1–19. doi: 10.1007/s10339-016-0769-2.
Martarelli, Corinna S.; Chiquet, Sandra; Laeng, Bruno & Mast, Fred W. (2016). Using space to represent categories: insights from gaze position. Psychological Research. ISSN 0340-0727. p. 1–9. doi: 10.1007/s00426-016-0781-2.
Hagen, Thomas & Laeng, Bruno (2016). The Change Detection Advantage for Animals: An Effect of Ancestral Priorities or Progeny of Experimental Design? i-Perception. ISSN 2041-6695. 7(3), p. 1–17. doi: 10.1177/2041669516651366. Full text in Research Archive
Prete, Giulia; Capotosto, Paolo; Zappasodi, Filippo; Laeng, Bruno & Tommasi, Luca (2015). The cerebral correlates of subliminal emotions: An eleoencephalographic study with emotional hybrid faces. European Journal of Neuroscience. ISSN 0953-816X. 42(11), p. 2952–2962. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13078.
Zak, Monika; Laeng, Bruno & Simon-Liedtke, Joschua Thomas (2015). Can the recognition of emotional expressions be enhanced by manipulating facial skin colour? In Pedersen, Marius & Thomas, Jean-Baptiste (Ed.), 2015 Colour and Visual Computing Symposium (CVCS). IEEE conference proceedings. ISSN 978-1-4799-1765-5. doi: 10.1109/CVCS.2015.7274897.
Nygaard, Gro Owren; de Rodez Benavent, Sigrid Aune; Harbo, Hanne Flinstad; Laeng, Bruno; Sowa, Piotr & Damangir, Soheil [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2015). Eye and hand motor interactions with the Symbol Digit Modalities Test in early multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. ISSN 2211-0348. 4(6), p. 585–589. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2015.08.003.
Bochynska, Agata & Laeng, Bruno (2015). Tracking down the path of memory: eye scanpaths facilitate retrieval of visuospatial information. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. 16, p. 159–163. doi: 10.1007/s10339-015-0690-0.
Okubo, Matia; Ishikawa, Kenta; Kobayashi, Akihiro; Laeng, Bruno & Tommasi, Luca (2015). Cool Guys and Warm Husbands: The Effect of Smiling on Male Facial Attractiveness for Short- and Long-Term Relationships. Evolutionary Psychology. ISSN 1474-7049. 13(3), p. 1–8. doi: 10.1177/1474704915600567.
Alnæs, Dag; Sneve, Markus Handal; Richard, Geneviéve´; Skåtun, Kristina Cecilie; Kaufmann, Tobias & Nordvik, Jan Egil [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2015). Functional connectivity indicates differential roles for the intraparietal sulcus and the superior parietal lobule in multiple object tracking. NeuroImage. ISSN 1053-8119. 123, p. 129–137. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.029.
Prete, Giulia; D'Ascenzo, Stefania; Laeng, Bruno; Fabri, Mara; Foschi, Nicoletta & Tommasi, Luca (2015). Conscious and unconscious processing of facial expressions: Evidence from two split-brain patients. Journal of Neuropsychology. ISSN 1748-6645. 9(1), p. 45–63. doi: 10.1111/jnp.12034.
Falasca, Nicola Walter; D'Ascenzo, Stefania; Di Domenico, A; Onofrij, Marco; Tommasi, Luca & Laeng, Bruno [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2015). Hemispheric lateralization in top-down attention during spatial relation processing: a Granger causal model approach. European Journal of Neuroscience. ISSN 0953-816X. doi: 10.1111/ejn.12846.
Prete, Giulia; Laeng, Bruno; Fabri, Mara; Foschi, Nicoletta & Tommasi, Luca (2015). Right hemisphere or valence hypothesis, or both? The processing of hybrid faces in the intact and callosotomized brain. Neuropsychologia. ISSN 0028-3932. 68, p. 94–106. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.002.
Simon, Thomas; Farup, Ivar & Laeng, Bruno (2015). Evaluating color deffciency simulation and daltonization methods through visual search and sample-to-match: SaMSEM and ViSDEM. In Eschbach, Reiner; Marcu, Gabriel G. & Rizzi, Alessandro (Ed.), Color Imaging XX: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications;. SPIE - The International Society for Optics and Photonics. ISSN 9781628414851. doi: 10.1117/12.2079504.
Valuch, Christian; Pflüger, Lena; Wallner, Bernard; Laeng, Bruno & Ansorge, Ulrich (2015). Using eye tracking to test for individual differences in attention to attractive faces. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 6(42). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00042.
Chelnokova, Olga V; Laeng, Bruno; Eikemo, Marie; Riegels, Jeppe Kjær; Løseth, Guro Engvig & Maurud, Hedda [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2014). Rewards of beauty: the opioid system mediates social motivation in humans. Molecular Psychiatry. ISSN 1359-4184. doi: 10.1038/mp.2014.1.
von Hofsten, Olov; von Hofsten, Claes; Sulutvedt, Unni; Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2014). Simulating newborn face perception. Journal of Vision. ISSN 1534-7362. 14:16(13). doi: 10.1167/14.13.16.
van der Ham, Ineke; Postma, Albert & Laeng, Bruno (2014). Lateralized perception: The role of attention in spatial relation processing. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. ISSN 0149-7634. 45, p. 142–148. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.05.006.
Sulutvedt, Unni & Laeng, Bruno (2014). The self prefers itself? Self-referential versus parental standards in face attractiveness. PeerJ. ISSN 2167-8359. 2014(1). doi: 10.7717/peerj.595.
Mikalsen, Åse Kristine Rognmo; Folstad, Ivar; Yoccoz, Nigel Gilles & Laeng, Bruno (2014). The spectacular human nose: An amplifier of individual quality? PeerJ. ISSN 2167-8359. 2014(1). doi: 10.7717/peerj.357. Full text in Research Archive
Suegami, Takashi; Aminihajibashi, Samira & Laeng, Bruno (2014). Another look at category effects on colour perception and their left hemispheric lateralisation: No evidence from a colour identification task. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. 15(2), p. 217–226. doi: 10.1007/s10339-013-0595-8.
Alnæs, Dag; Sneve, Markus Handal; Espeseth, Thomas; Endestad, Tor; van de Pavert, Steven & Laeng, Bruno (2014). Pupil size signals mental effort deployed during multiple object tracking and predicts brain activity in the dorsal attention network and the locus coeruleus. Journal of Vision. ISSN 1534-7362. 14(4), p. 1–20. doi: 10.1167/14.4.1.
Laeng, Bruno; Ilona, Bloem; D'Ascenzo, Stefania & Tommasi, Luca (2014). Scrutinizing visual images: The role of gaze in mental imagery and memory. Cognition. ISSN 0010-0277. 131, p. 263–283. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.01.003.
D'Ascenzo, Stefania; Tommasi, Luca & Laeng, Bruno (2014). Imagining sex and adapting to it: Different aftereffects after perceiving versus imagining faces. Vision Research. ISSN 0042-6989. 96, p. 45–52. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.01.002.
Laeng, Bruno & Sulutvedt, Unni (2014). The Eye Pupil Adjusts to Imaginary Light. Psychological Science. ISSN 0956-7976. 25(1), p. 188–197. doi: 10.1177/0956797613503556.
Prete, Giulia; Laeng, Bruno & Tommasi, Luca (2014). Lateralized hybrid faces: Evidence of a valence-specific bias in the processing of implicit emotions. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. ISSN 1357-650X. 19(4), p. 439–454. doi: 10.1080/1357650X.2013.862255.
Ellingsen, Dan Mikael; Wessberg, Johan; Chelnokova, Olga V; Olausson, Håkan; Laeng, Bruno & Leknes, Siri Graff (2014). In touch with your emotions: Oxytocin and touch change social impressions while others' facial expressions can alter touch. Psychoneuroendocrinology. ISSN 0306-4530. 39(1), p. 11–20. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.09.017.
Laeng, Bruno (2013). Representation of Spatial Relation. In Ochsner, Kevin & Kosslyn, Stephen M. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 1: Core Topics. Oxford University Press. ISSN 0199988692. p. 28–50. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988693.013.0003.
Franciotti, Raffaella; D'Ascenzo, Stefania; Di Domenico, A; Onofrj, Marco; Tommasi, Luca & Laeng, Bruno (2013). Focusing Narrowly or Broadly Attention When Judging Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Relations: A MEG Study. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 8(12), p. 1–11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083434.
Nijboer, Tanja & Laeng, Bruno (2013). Synesthesia, eye-movements, and pupillometry. In Simner, Julia & Hubbard, Edward (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia. Oxford University Press. ISSN 978-0-19-960332-9. p. 334–346. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199603329.013.0017.
Prete, Giulia; D'Ascenzo, Stefania; Laeng, Bruno; Fabri, Mara; Foschi, Nicoletta & Tommasi, Luca (2013). Conscious and unconscious processing of facial expressions: Evidence from two split-brain patients. Journal of Neuropsychology. ISSN 1748-6645. doi: 10.1111/jnp.12034.
Laeng, Bruno; Vermeer, Oddrun & Sulutvedt, Unni (2013). Is Beauty in the Face of the Beholder? PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 8(7). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068395.g001. Full text in Research Archive
Palumbo, Rocco; Laeng, Bruno & Tommasi, Luca (2013). Gender-specific aftereffects following adaptation to silhouettes of human bodies. Visual Cognition. ISSN 1350-6285. 21(1), p. 1–12. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2012.753970.
Laeng, Bruno; Sæther, Line; Holmlund, Terje; Wang, Catharina E.; Waterloo, Knut & Eisemann, Martin [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2013). Invisible emotional expressions influence social judgments and pupillary responses of both depressed and non-depressed individuals. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 4, p. 1–7. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00291. Full text in Research Archive
Olsen, Bernt Ivar; Laeng, Bruno; Kristiansen, Kari-Ann & Hartvigsen, Gunnar (2013). Size does matter: Women mentally rotate large objects faster than men. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. ISSN 0036-5564. 54(3), p. 196–204. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12043.
Suegami, Takashi & Laeng, Bruno (2013). A left cerebral hemisphere’s superiority in processing spatial-categorical information in a non-verbal semantic format. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 81(2), p. 294–302. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.10.012.
Leknes, Siri Graff; Wessberg, Johan; Ellingsen, Dan Mikael; Chelnokova, Olga V; Olausson, Håkan & Laeng, Bruno (2013). Oxytocin enhances pupil dilation and sensitivity to hidden emotional expressions. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. ISSN 1749-5016. 8(7), p. 741–749. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss062.
Laeng, Bruno & Endestad, Tor (2012). Bright illusions reduce the eye's pupil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. ISSN 0027-8424. 109(6), p. 2162–2167. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1118298109.
Laeng, Bruno; Sirois, Sylvain & Gredebäck, Gustaf (2012). Pupillometry: A Window to the Preconscious? Perspectives on Psychological Science. ISSN 1745-6916. 7(1), p. 18–27. doi: 10.1177/1745691611427305.
Gredebäck, Gustaf; Eriksson, Malin; Schmitow, Clara; Laeng, Bruno & Stenberg, Gunilla (2012). Individual Differences in Face Processing: Infants’ Scanning Patterns and Pupil Dilations are Influenced by the Distribution of Parental Leave. Infancy. ISSN 1525-0008. 17(1), p. 79–101. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00091.x.
Wu, Esther Xiu Wen; Laeng, Bruno & Magnussen, Svein (2012). Through the eyes of the own-race bias: Eye-tracking and pupillometry during face recognition. Social Neuroscience. ISSN 1747-0919. 7(2), p. 202–216. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2011.596946.
Tommasi, Luca & Laeng, Bruno (2012). Psychology of spatial cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. ISSN 1939-5078. 3(6), p. 565–580. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1198.
Olsen, Bernt Ivar; Laeng, Bruno; Kristiansen, Kari-Ann & Hartvigsen, Gunnar (2011). Spatial Tasks on a Large, High-Resolution, Tiled Display: A Male Inferiority in Performance with a Mental Rotation Task. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. 6781(1), p. 63–71. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-21741-8.
Chelnokova, Olga V & Laeng, Bruno (2011). Three-dimensional information in face recognition: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Vision. ISSN 1534-7362. 11(13). doi: 10.1167/11.13.27.
Michimata, Chikashi; Saneyoshi, Ayako; Okubo, Matia & Laeng, Bruno (2011). Effects of the global and local attention on the processing of categorical and coordinate spatial relations. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 77(2), p. 292–297. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.07.008.
Specht, Karsten & Laeng, Bruno (2011). An independent component analysis of fMRI data of grapheme-colour synaesthesia. Journal of Neuropsychology. ISSN 1748-6645. 5, p. 203–213. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-6653.2011.02008.x.
Laeng, Bruno; Okubo, Matia; Saneyoshi, Ayako & Michimata, Chikashi (2011). Processing Spatial Relations With Different Apertures of Attention. Cognitive Science. ISSN 0364-0213. 35(2), p. 297–329. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01139.x.
Laeng, Bruno; Ørbo, Marte; Holmlund, Terje & Miozzo, Michele (2011). Pupillary Stroop effects. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. 12(1), p. 13–21. doi: 10.1007/s10339-010-0370-z. Full text in Research Archive
Laeng, Bruno; Hugdahl, Kenneth & Specht, Karsten (2011). The neural correlate of colour distances revealed with competing synaesthetic and real colours. Cortex. ISSN 0010-9452. 47(3), p. 320–331. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.09.004.
Espeseth, Thomas; Sneve, Markus Handal; Rootwelt, Helge & Laeng, Bruno (2010). Nicotinic Receptor Gene CHRNA4 Interacts with Processing Load in Attention. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 5(12). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014407.
Hellige, Joseph B.; Laeng, Bruno & Michimata, Chikashi (2010). Processing asymmetries in the visual system. In Hugdahl, Kenneth & Westerhausen, René (Ed.), The two halves of the brain : information processing in the cerebral hemispheres. MIT Press. ISSN 978-0-262-01413-7. p. 379–415.
Okubo, Matia; Laeng, Bruno; Saneyoshi, Ayako & Michimata, Chikashi (2010). Exogenous attention differentially modulates the processing of categorical and coordinate spatial relations. Acta Psychologica. ISSN 0001-6918. 135(1), p. 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.04.004.
Laeng, Bruno; Profeti, Italo; Sæther, Line; Adolfsdottir, Steinunn; Lundervold, Astri & Vangberg, Torgil [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2010). Invisible expressions evoke core impressions. Emotion. ISSN 1528-3542. 10(4), p. 573–586. doi: 10.1037/a0018689.
Olsen, Bernt Ivar; Laeng, Bruno; Kristiansen, Kari-Ann & Hartvigsen, Gunnar (2009). Spatial Tasks on a Large, High-Resolution Tiled Display: Females Mentally Rotate Large Objects Faster Than Men. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. 5639, p. 233–242. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02728-4.
Laeng, Bruno (2009). Searching through synaesthetic colors. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. ISSN 1943-3921. 71(7), p. 1461–1467. doi: 10.3758/APP.71.7.1461.
Sæther, Line; Van Belle, Werner; Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim & Øvervoll, Morten (2009). Anchoring gaze when categorizing faces' sex: Evidence from eye-tracking data. Vision Research. ISSN 0042-6989. 49(23), p. 2870–2880. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.09.001. Show summary
Previous research has shown that during recognition of frontal views of faces, the preferred landing positions of eye fixations are either on the nose or the eye region. Can these findings generalize to other facial views and a simpler perceptual task? An eye-tracking experiment investigated categorization of the sex of faces seen in four views. The results revealed a strategy, preferred in all views, which consisted of focusing gaze within an ‘infraorbital region’ of the face. This region was fixated more in the first than in subsequent fixations. Males anchored gaze lower and more centrally than females.
Oelmann, Hella Irene & Laeng, Bruno (2009). The emotional meaning of harmonic intervals. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. 10(2), p. 113–131. doi: 10.1007/s10339-008-0217-z.
Sæther, Line & Laeng, Bruno (2008). On facial expertise: Processing strategies of twins' parents. Perception. ISSN 0301-0066. 37(8), p. 1227–1240. doi: 10.1068/p5833.
Laeng, Bruno (2008). Brain imaging - Making the unobservable observable? Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science. ISSN 0287-7651. 27(1), p. 65–70.
Oelmann, Hella & Laeng, Bruno (2008). The emotional meaning of harmonic intervals. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. doi: 10.1007/s10339-008-0217-z.
Laeng, Bruno; Waterloo, Knut ; Johnsen, Stein Harald; Bakke, Søren jacob; Låg, Torstein & Simonsen, Synnøve [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2007). The eyes remember it: Oculography and pupillometry during recollection in three amnesic patients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 0898-929X. 19(11), p. 1888–1904.
Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, T; Elden, Åke; Elden, A; Paulsen, Helle & Banerjee, A [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2007). Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic. Vision Research. ISSN 0042-6989. 47. doi: 10.1016/j/visres.2007.03.011.
Laeng, Bruno; Øvervoll, Morten & Steinsvik, OO (2007). Remembering 1500 pictures: The right hemisphere remembers better than the left. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 63. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.10.009.
Laeng, Bruno; Mathisen, R & Johnsen, Jan Are Kolset (2007). Why do blue-eyed men prefer women with the same eye color? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. ISSN 0340-5443. 61. doi: 10.1007/s00265-006-0266-1.
Laeng, Bruno & Falkenberg, L (2007). Women's pupillary responses to sexually significant others during the hormonal cycle. Hormones and Behavior. ISSN 0018-506X. 52, p. 520–530. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.07.013.
Laeng, Bruno; Waterloo, Knut; Johnsen, Stein Harald; Bakke, Søren Jacob & Låg, Torstein (2007). The eyes remember it: Oculography and pupillometry during recollection in three amnesic patients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 0898-929X. 19(11), p. 1888–1904. Show summary
Two patients (TC and SS) with lesions that included the hippocampal regions (predominantly on the left side) were severely impaired in their recall of simple, verbally stated facts. However, both patients remembered spatial information that was temporally associated with semantic information. Specifically, TC and SS could not recall explicitly the content of an episode, but their spontaneous oculomotor behavior showed that they retained some information about the event as their gaze automatically returned to the locations on the computer screen where visual information had been paired to verbally presented information. Thus, this spatial information is implicit, automatically retrieved, and eye-based, as when one patient (TC) was asked to point with the finger to the same positions he was impaired. In addition, in an old/new recognition task, TC and SS and an additional patient, OB, showed significant changes in eye pupil diameter when viewing novel visual stimuli compared to stimuli that they had previously seen, also when they (incorrectly) declared with confidence that an old item was new. The spared memory of these patients, despite severe amnesia for the learning episodes, is characterized by a re-enactment of previous eye fixations that were associated with each (forgotten) episode and physiological responses (as indexed by pupillometry) to previously seen stimuli. Such spared memory can be seen as a type of ‘‘snapshot’’ memory, which automatically processes eye-based spatial information and whose content remains implicit. Finally, we surmise on the basis of the neuroanatomical findings of these patients, that neural substrates in the spared (right) hemisphere might support both the eye fixations’ re-enactment and implicit visual pattern recognition
Laeng, Bruno & Falkenberg, Liv (2007). Women’s pupillary responses to sexually significant others during the hormonal cycle. Hormones and Behavior. ISSN 0018-506X. 52, p. 520–530. Show summary
Women's sexual preferences can change over the hormonal cycle, as several studies, based on responses to questionnaires, diaries, and ratings of photographs, have indicated increased sexual interests around the time of ovulation. However, fewer studies have measured changes in attention or interest to sexually significant stimuli in terms of physiological responses that are not under voluntary control and measure sexual interest indirectly (i.e., without mention of sexual feelings or activities). In the present study, we indexed changes in sexual interest in terms of changes in the eye pupil's size. Pupillary diameter is known to have a proportional relation to the observer's level of interest and attention to a visual stimulus as well as to physical pleasure. Fourteen women (7 being “pill” users) viewed photos on a computer screen while their pupil diameters were recorded using an infrared eye-tracking device. Three measures were taken for each participant during three time windows that estimated the ovulatory, luteal, and menstrual phase of the cycle. We found an increase in mean pupil diameter for sexually significant stimuli during the fertile phase and this pupillary change was also specific to pictures of the participants' actual sexual partners. Moreover, this effect was only seen for women who did not use oral contraceptives. These findings confirm that women's attention for sexually significant stimuli is higher during their fertile phase of the menstrual cycle, and that changes in sexual interest are implicitly measurable using pupillometry
Laeng, Bruno (2006). Constructional apraxia after left or right unilateral stroke. Neuropsychologia. ISSN 0028-3932. 44, p. 1595–1606.
Låg, Torstein; Hveem, Kari; Ruud, Kristin & Laeng, Bruno (2006). The visual basis of category effects in object identification: Evidence from the visual hemifield paradigm. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 60.
Postma, A; Huntjens, R; Meuwissen, M & Laeng, Bruno (2006). The time course of spatial memory processing in the two hemispheres. Neuropsychologia. ISSN 0028-3932. 44, p. 1914–1918.
Paulsen, Helle & Laeng, Bruno (2006). Pupillometry of grapheme-color synaesthesia. Cortex. ISSN 0010-9452. 42, p. 290–294.
Jäncke, L; Baumann, S; Koeneke, S; Meyer, M; Laeng, Bruno & Peters, M [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2006). Neural control of playing a reversed piano: empirical evidence for an unusual cortical organization of musical functions. NeuroReport. ISSN 0959-4965. 17.
Magnus, Ragnhild Elise & Laeng, Bruno (2006). Drawing on either side of the brain. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. ISSN 1357-650X. 11, p. 71–89.
Magnus, Ragnhild & Laeng, Bruno (2006). Drawing on either side of the brain. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. ISSN 1357-650X. 11, p. 71–89.
Laeng, Bruno (2006). Constructional apraxia after left or right unilateral stroke. Neuropsychologia. ISSN 0028-3932. 44, p. 1595–1606.
Jäncke, Lutz; Baumann, Simon; Koeneke, Susan; Meyer, Martin; Laeng, Bruno & Peters, Michael [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2006). Neural control of playing a reversed piano: Empirical evidence for an unusual cortical organisation of musical functions. NeuroReport. ISSN 0959-4965. 17, p. 447–451.
Laeng, Bruno; Låg, Torstein & Brennen, Tim (2005). Reduced Stroop interference for opponent colors may be due to input factors: Evidence from individual differences and a neural network simulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. ISSN 0096-1523. 31(3), p. 438–452.
Laeng, Bruno; Låg, Torstein & Brennen, Tim (2005). Reduced Stroop interference for opponent colors may be due to input factors: Evidence from individual differences and a neural network simulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. ISSN 0096-1523. 31, p. 438–52.
Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim; Dahl, Tove Irene; Låg, Torstein; Sagvolden, Terje & Svartdal, Frode [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2004). The northernmost cognitive science laboratory. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. 5, p. 57–62.
Laeng, Bruno; Svartdal, Frode & Oelmann, Hella (2004). Does color synaesthesia pose a paradox for early selection theories of attention? Psychological Science. ISSN 0956-7976. 15(4), p. 277–281.
Laeng, Bruno; Svartdal, Frode & Oelmann, Hella (2004). Does color synesthesia pose a paradox for early-selection theories of attention? Psychological Science. ISSN 0956-7976. 15, p. 277–281.
Laeng, Bruno; Svartdal, Frode & Oelmann, Hella (2004). Does color synaesthesia pose a paradox for early selection theories of attention? Psychological Science. ISSN 0956-7976. 15, p. 277–281.
Silvera, David Howard; Laeng, Bruno & Dahl, Tove Irene (2003). Training of doctoral students of psychology in the United States. European Psychologist. ISSN 1016-9040. 8(1), p. 48–53.
Laeng, Bruno; Chabris, Christopher F. & Kosslyn, Stephen M. (2003). Asymmetries in encoding spatial relations, The asymmetrical brain. MIT Press. ISSN 0-262-08309-4. p. 303–339.
Laeng, Bruno & Teodorescu, Dinu-Stefan (2003). Eye scanpaths during visual imagery reenact those of perception of the same visual scene. Cognitive Science. ISSN 0364-0213.
Laeng, Bruno; Zarrinpar, Amir & Kosslyn, Stephen M. (2003). Do separate processes identify objects as exemplars versus members of basic-level categories? Evidence from hemispheric specialization. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 53, p. 15–27.
Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim & Espeseth, Thomas (2002). Fast responses to neglected targets in visual search reflect pre-attentive processes: An exploration of response times in visual neglect. Neuropsychologia. ISSN 0028-3932. 40(1622).
Laeng, Bruno & Teodorescu, Dinu S. (2002). Eye scanpaths during visual imagery reenact those of perception of the same visual scene. Cognitive Science. ISSN 0364-0213. 26, p. 207–231.
Laeng, Bruno; Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto; Caltagirone, Carlo; Capasso, Rita & Miceli, Gabriele (2002). Rigid and non-rigid objects in canonical and non-canonical views: Hemisphere-specific effects on object identification. Cognitive Neuropsychology. ISSN 0264-3294. 19, p. 697–720.
Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim; Johannessen, Kristin; Holmen, Kirsti & Elvestad, Rolf (2002). MULTIPLE REFERENCE FRAMES IN NEGLECT? AN INVESTIGATION OF THE OBJECT-CENTRED FRAME AND THE DISSOCIATION BETWEEN “NEAR” AND “FAR” FROM THE BODY BY USE OF A MIRROR. Cortex. ISSN 0010-9452. 38, p. 511–528.
Laeng, Bruno & Caviness, Verne S. (2001). Prosopagnosia as a deficit in encoding curved surface. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 0898-929X. 13(5), p. 556–557.
Laeng, Bruno & Caviness, Verne (2001). Prosopagnosia as a deficit in encoding curved surface. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 0898-929X. 13, p. 556–557.
Laeng, Bruno & Rouw, Romke (2001). Canonical views of faces and the cerebral hemispheres. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. ISSN 1357-650X. 6, p. 193–224.
Laeng, Bruno; Kosslyn, Stephen M.; Caviness, Verne S. & Bates, Jennifer (1999). Can deficits in spatial indexing contribute to simultanagnosia? Cognitive Neuropsychology. ISSN 0264-3294. 16, p. 81–114.
Laeng, Bruno; Kosslyn, Stephen M.; Caviness, Verne & Bates, Jennifer (1999). Can deficits in spatial indexing contribute to simultanagnosia? Cognitive Neuropsychology. ISSN 0264-3294. 16, p. 81–114.
Laeng, Bruno & Park, Ariane (1999). Handedness effects on playing a reversed and normal keyboard. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. ISSN 1357-650X. 4, p. 363–377.
Laeng, Bruno; Shah, Jinesh & Kosslyn, Stephen M. (1999). Identifying objects in conventional and contorted poses: Contributions of hemisphere-specific mechanisms. Cognition. ISSN 0010-0277. 70, p. 53–85.
Laeng, Bruno; Buchtel, Henry Gus & Butter, Charles M. (1996). Tactile rod bisection: Hemispheric activation and sex differences. Neuropsychologia. ISSN 0028-3932. 34, p. 1115–1121.
Laeng, Bruno & Peters, Michael (1995). Cerebral lateralization for the processing of spatial coordinates and categories in left- and right-handers. Neuropsychologia. ISSN 0028-3932. 33, p. 421–439.
Peters, Michael; Laeng, Bruno; Latham, Kerry; Jackson, Marla; Zaiyouna, Raghad & Richardson, Chris (1995). A redrawn Vandenberg & Kuse mental rotation test: Different versions and factors that affect performance. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 28, p. 39–58.
Laeng, Bruno (1994). Lateralization of categorical and coordinate spatial functions. A study of unilateral stroke patients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 0898-929X. 6(3), p. 189–203.
Laeng, Bruno (1994). Lateralization of categorical and coordinate spatial functions. A study of unilateral stroke patients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 0898-929X. 6, p. 189–203.
Laeng, Bruno; Berridge, Kent & Butter, Charles M. (1991). Pleasantness of a sweet taste during hunger and satiety: Effects of gender and "sweet tooth. Appetite. ISSN 0195-6663. 14, p. 442–443.

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Spiech, Connor; Laeng, Bruno; Sioros, George; Danielsen, Anne & Endestad, Tor (2021). More Than Meter’s The Eye: Divergent Roles of Pickups and Syncopation in Groove.
Spiech, Connor; Laeng, Bruno; Sioros, George; Danielsen, Anne & Endestad, Tor (2021). More Than Meter’s The Eye: Divergent Roles of Pickups and Syncopation in Groove.
Laeng, Bruno & Alnæs, Dag (2019). Pupillometry. In Klein, Christoph & Ettinger, Ulrich (Ed.), Eye Movement Research. Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-030-20083-1. p. 449–502. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20085-5_11.
Minami, Tetsuto & Laeng, Bruno (2018). Brightness perception while looking up or down.
Laeng, Bruno (2018). The "face race lightness illusion": An effect of the eyes and pupils? .
Sato, Fumiyaki; Laeng, Bruno; Nakauchi, Shigeki & Minami, Tetsuto (2018). Pupil dilation reflects "Viewing from above bias" in the effort to control perception.
Suzuki, Yuta; Minami, Tetsuto; Laeng, Bruno & Nakauchi, Shigeki (2018). The differential effect of glowing appearance in the glare illusion: evidence from pupillometry.
Tørresen, Jim & Laeng, Bruno (2018). UiO/ROBIN – Toyohashi University of Technology/Japan seminar . Show summary
Seminar with collaborators from University of Technology, Japan: Shigeki Nakauchi <https://www.tut.ac.jp/english/schools/faculty/cs/169.html> og Tetsuto Minami <https://www.tut.ac.jp/english/schools/faculty/eiiris/573.html> and their students.
Mæhlum Walle, Kjersti; Kyler, Hillary Lynn; Nordvik, Jan Egil; Becker, Frank & Laeng, Bruno (2018). Corrigendum to "Binocular rivalry after right-hemisphere stroke: Effects of attention impairment on perceptual dominance patterns" [Brain Cogn. 117 (2017) 84–96]. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 123, p. 89–91. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2018.03.001.
Sato, Fumiyaki; Laeng, Bruno; Nakauchi, Shigeki & Minami, Tetsuto (2017). Pupil dilation during perception of the Necker cube reflects the viewing-from-above bias.
Jo, Skaansar; Laeng, Bruno & Anne, Danielsen (2017). Pupil response reflects processing of microtiming in musical grooves: a study of musicians and non-musicians .
Laeng, Bruno (2017). The pupil as a window to music's soul.
Bochynska, Agata & Laeng, Bruno (2015). Tracking down the path of memory. Eye scanpaths facilitate retrieval of visuospatial information.
Bochynska, Agata; Eifring, Halvor Bøyesen; Laeng, Bruno & Lobben, Marit (2015). The role of visual attention in the semantic processing of item, container and default numeral classifiers in Chinese.
Bochynska, Agata & Laeng, Bruno (2015). Re-enactment of eye movements’ sequences facilitates retrieval of visuospatial information.
Laeng, Bruno (2015). Blåtime. Arkitektur N. ISSN 1504-7628. 1, p. 82–89.
Bochynska, Agata & Laeng, Bruno (2014). The Sequence Matters. An Experimental Study of the Functional Role of Eye Movements in Long-term Visuospatial Memory.
Chelnokova, Olga V; Laeng, Bruno; Eikemo, Marie Helene; Riegels, Jeppe; Løseth, Guro & Maurud, Hedda [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2014). Rewards of beauty: The opioid system mediates social motivation in humans. Molecular Psychiatry. ISSN 1359-4184. 19(7), p. 746–747. doi: 10.1038/mp.2014.1.
Benavent, S.A. de Rodez; Nygaard, Gro Owren; Tønnesen, Siren; Celius, Elisabeth Gulowsen; Landro, N. I. & Laeng, Bruno (2013). Pupillometry indicates increased cognitive effort in response to easy cognitive tasks in newly diagnosed MS patients. Multiple Sclerosis. ISSN 1352-4585. 19(7), p. 988–989.
Chelnokova, Olga V; Laeng, Bruno; Riegels, Jeppe; Løseth, Guro Engvig; Eikemo, Marie Helene & Leknes, Siri Graff (2013). THE HUMAN OPIOID SYSTEM MEDIATES ATTENTION TO OTHERS' EYES. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 0898-929X. p. 216–216.
Laeng, Bruno (2012). Synaesthesia and neurology. European Journal of Neurology. ISSN 1351-5101. 19, p. 820–820.
Specht, Karsten & Laeng, Bruno (2011). An Independent Component Analysis of fMRI data of grapheme-color synaesthesia.
Olsen, Bernt Ivar; Laeng, Bruno; Kristiansen, Kari-Ann & Hartvigsen, Gunnar (2011). Spatial Tasks on a Large, High-Resolution, Tiled Display: A Male Inferiority in Performance with a Mental Rotation Task.
Espeseth, Thomas; van de Pavert, Steven; Jynge, Slije; Sneve, Markus Handal & Laeng, Bruno (2010). The pupil dilates as a function of attentional effort in multiple object tracking.
Sørensen, Lin; Adolfsdottir, Steinunn; Laeng, Bruno; Lundervold, Astri & Plessen, Kerstin J. (2010). Regulation of emotion in children with ADHD - a longitudinal study. Development of an Emotional Stroop Test.
Leknes, Siri Graff & Laeng, Bruno (2009). Social touch: investigating the role of oxytocin for interactions in the hedonic experience of touch and emotion. SFN Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Show summary
Touch is a key means of interpersonal communication. The hormone oxytocin has been closely linked with affectionate touch. In this preliminary study, we investigate how altering the emotional expression and identity of visually perceived human faces may affect the hedonic experience of soft stroking touch. Conversely, the effects of social touch upon face perception are investigated. Finally, this study uses intranasal oxytocin administration (40IU) to elucidate the role of this hormone for social touch. Images of angry, neutral and happy facial expressions were chosen from the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces database. In addition, two types of “hybrid” faces that showed anger or happiness only in the lowest spatial frequencies (1-6 cycles/image) and a neutral expression in the rest of the bandwidth (7-128 cycles/image) were used. Faces in the five emotion conditions were of the same 20 men and 20 women and were matched for luminance. Images were displayed in a pseudorandomised order for 3 sec and accompanied by touch (soft strokes of 3cm/sec to the forearm) or control stimulation (70Hz vibration presented once/sec to the dorsum of the hand). To avoid bias, the experimenter performing touch and vibration stimuli wore a silk glove and was hidden from view. The outcome measures of this double-blind, placebo-controlled within-subjects study were pupil diameter and subjective ratings of touch and face perception. Three main hypotheses were tested in this preliminary investigation. 1) Socially relevant seen emotion affects perception of social touch. 2) Pupil size reflects the pleasantness and subjective relevance of social touch. 3) Social touch and oxytocin affect perception of human face stimuli. The significance of preliminary findings was assessed with one-tailed, paired t-tests. As hypothesized, pilot data (N=9) showed an effect of socially relevant seen emotion on perception of touch pleasantness (but not touch intensity). When subjects viewed angry faces, touch pleasantness (6.0±0.4, mean±SD) was significantly lower than with neutral (6.2±0.4, p=0.033) or happy face stimuli (6.4±0.4, p=0.028). Overall, soft stroking was significantly more pleasant than the control stimulus (p=0.018) but both were equally intense (p=0.44) during oxytocin and placebo sessions (N=5). As expected, pupil size increased during pleasant, social touch relative to control stimulation (mean diameter difference 0.04±0.02 mm, p=0.032). Finally, there was a trend towards reduced ratings of perceived anger during social touch in the oxytocin session only (p=0.056; placebo session p=0.33), consistent with an anxiety-reducing effect of oxytocin and social touch.
Laeng, Bruno (2009). Processing coordinate and categorical spatial relations with different apertures of attention. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. 10, p. S144–S144.
Olsen, Bernt Ivar; Laeng, Bruno; Kristiansen, Kari-Ann & Hartvigsen, Gunnar (2009). Spatial Tasks on a Large, High-Resolution Tiled Display: Females Mentally Rotate Large Objects Faster Than Men.
Postma, A & Laeng, Bruno (2006). New insights in categorical and coordinate processing of spatial relations. Neuropsychologia. ISSN 0028-3932. 44, p. 1515–1518.
Halvorsen, Marianne; Wang, Catharina E.; Waterloo, Knut ; Eisemann, Martin ; Laeng, Bruno & Verplanken, Bas (2006). Depresjon og sårbarhets-prosjektet: Kognitiv unngåelse som sårbarhetsfaktor for tilbakevendende depresjon.
Laeng, Bruno; Specht, Karsten & Hugdahl, Kenneth (2006). A fMRI study of a grapheme-color synaesthete: The larger the color difference between ink and illusory colors, the more the visual areas are engaged.
Laeng, Bruno; Specht, Karsten & Hugdahl, Kenneth (2006). A fMRI study of a grapheme-colour synaesthete: The larger the colour difference between ink and illusory colours, the more the visual areas are engaged.
Øvervoll, Morten; Laeng, Bruno & Steinsvik, Oddmar Ole (2005). Learning 1500 pictures: memory for pictures is far from perfect, but the right hemisphere remembers better than the left.
Flaskerud, Ingvild & Laeng, Bruno (2000). Nordens Buddha. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1771. Historie. ISSN 0803-401X. 4, p. 62–70.
Flaskerud, Ingvild & Laeng, Bruno (2000). Nordens Buddha. Emanuel Swedenborg (1699-1771.
Zelechowska, Agata; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Laeng, Bruno & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2020). Irresistible Movement: The Role of Musical Sound, Individual Differences and Listening Context in Movement Responses to Music. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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Bright illusions reduce the eye’s pupil

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Where Are the Months? Mental Images of Circular Time in a Large Online Sample

‘Defrosting’ music chills with naltrexone: The role of endogenous opioids for the intensity of musical pleasure

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Substituting facial movements in singers changes the sounds of musical intervals

The Eye Pupil Adjusts to Imaginary Light

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Pupillometry: A Window to the Preconscious?

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Pupil size signals mental effort deployed during multiple object tracking and predicts brain activity in the dorsal attention network and the locus coeruleus

Oxytocin enhances pupil dilation and sensitivity to ‘hidden’ emotional expressions

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Conscious and unconscious processing of facial expressions: Evidence from two split-brain patients

Pupillary Responses to Illusions of Brightness in Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Mental Effort When Playing, Listening, and Imagining Music in One Pianist’s Eyes and Brain

Classifiers in non-European languages and semantic impairments in western neurological patients have a common cognitive structure

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“Mickey Mousing” in the Brain: Motion-Sound Synesthesia and the Subcortical Substrate of Audio-Visual Integration

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B. Laeng (2017). Things are really not like they seem to be, and not as we sense them either... Filosofisk supplement: Sansning 1/2017.

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Swedenborg's room

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B. Laeng (2014). Blauer Mittag / Blue Noon. In Kjetil Thorsen & Snøhetta (ed.), Living the Nordic Light- Annual Report 2013/14, Snøhetta. Zumtobel AG., pp. 295 - 203.

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