Academic interests
- Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
- Ongoing empirical projects focus on basic mechanisms of visual information processing, attention and memory, and the applied aspects of cognition studied in the context of eyewitness testimony.
- Additional professional interests include art and pictorial perception, and the application of visual science to design and visual communication.
Higher education and employment history
- Professor of cognitive psychology, University of Oslo 1990 - present; adjunct professor of cognitive psychology, University of Tromsø1995-2005; Alexander-von-Humbolt post.doc. research fellow, University of Freiburg, Germany 1978.
- Visiting scientist during several periods 1990-2010 at the University of Freiburg, Germany, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and University of Padua, Italy.
Awards and honors
- Recipient of The Norwegian Research Council’s award for excellence in research (Møbius) 2001.
- Recepient of The Fritjof Nansen Award for excellence in research, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2007.
- Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
- Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science (USA).
- Fellow of the Center of Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and director of the international “Everyday Memory” group, 2003-2004.
Cooperation
Research collaborations anno 2010 with research groups at the University of Regensburg, Germany, University of California, Davis, USA, and University of Padua, Italy