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Biografiske data

- 2006: Adjunct Professor (Professor II), Institute of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- 2003- present: Full Professor in Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway
- 1997-2002: Associate Professor (førsteamanuensis) in Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway.
- 1994-1997: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology (Mentor: Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ph.D.), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- 1993-1994: Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology (Mentor: Michael Peters, Ph.D.), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
- 1987-1993 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Psychology. (Mentors: Charles M. Butter, Ph.D.; Henry A. "Gus" Buchtel, Ph.D.)
- 1980-1986 Universita' La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, Laurea in Psicologia.

Verv

-Editorial Board of Acta Psychologica, Oxford: Elsevier.
-Guest Editor for Neuropsychologia special issue > See Contents and List of Contributors
-Advisory Editor of Cognitive Processing, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Forskningsinteresser

Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Attention, Spatial Vision, Perception and Memory of Objects & Faces, Psychology of the Arts
Synaesthesia
Evolutionary psychology

Publikasjoner

Laeng, B., Waterloo, K., Johnsen, S.H., Bakke, S.J., Låg, T., Simonsen, S.S., and Høgsæt, J. (2007). The eyes remember it: Oculography and pupillometry during recollection in three amnesic patients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19:11, 1888-1904. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., and Falkenberg, L. (2007). Women’s pupillary responses to sexually significant others during the hormonal cycle. Hormones and Behavior, 52, 520-530. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Brennen, T., Elden, Å., Paulsen, H.G., Banerjee, A., and Lipton (2007). Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic. Vision Research, 47, 1595-1607. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Øvervoll, M., and Steinsvik, O.O. (2007). Remembering 1500 pictures: The right hemisphere remembers better than the left. Brain & Cognition, 63, 105-113. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Mathisen, R., and Johnsen, J.A. (2007). Why do blue-eyed men prefer women with the same eye color? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology., 61, 371-382. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B. (2006). Constructional apraxia after left or right unilateral stroke. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1595-1606. (Download PDF)

Postma, A., and Laeng, B. (2006). New insights in categorical and coordinate processing of spatial relations. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1515-1518. (Download PDF)

Postma, A., Huntjens,R.J.C., Meuwissen, M., and Laeng, B. (2006). The time course of spatial memory processing in the two hemispheres. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1914-1918.(Download PDF)

Paulsen, H.G., and Laeng, B (2006). Pupillometry of grapheme-color synaesthesia. Cortex, 42, 290-294. (Download PDF)

Jäncke, L., Baumann, S., Koeneke, S., Meyer, M., Laeng, B., Peters, M., and Lutz, K. (2006). Neural control of playing a reversed piano: Empirical evidence for an unusual cortical organisation of musical functions. NeuroReport., 13, 1579-1583. (Download PDF)

Låg, T., Hveem, K., Ruud, K.P.E., and Laeng, B (2006). The visual basis of category effects in object identification: Evidence from the visual hemifield paradigm. Brain and Cognition, 60, 1-10. (Download PDF)

Magnus, R., and Laeng, B. (2006). Drawing on either side of the brain. Laterality. 11, 71-89. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Låg, T., and Brennen, T. (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, 31, 438-452. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Brennen, T., Dahl, T., Låg, T., Sagvolden, T., Svartdal, F., Sæther, L., Wiking, S., and Øvervoll, M. (2004). The Northernmost Cognitive Science Laboratory. Cognitive Processing, 5, 57-62. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Svartdal, F., and Oelmann, H. (2004). Does color synaesthesia pose a paradox for early selection theories of attention? Psychological Science, 15(4), 277-281. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Zarrinpar, A., and Kosslyn, S.M. (2003). Do separate processes identify objects as exemplars versus members of basic-level categories? Evidence from hemispheric specialization. Brain & Cognition, 53, 15-27. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., and Brennen, T. (2003). Of frames and mirrors: Reflections on neglect. A reply to McCarthy. Cortex, 39, 541-553. (Download PDF)

Silvera, D.H., Laeng, B., and Dahl, T.I. (2003). The training of doctoral students of psychology in the United States. European Psychologist, 8, 48-53.(Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Chabris, C.F., and Kosslyn, S.M. (2003). Asymmetries in encoding spatial relations. In K. Hugdahl and R. Davidson (Eds.), The Asymmetrical Brain., Chapter 9, pp. 303-339. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Carlesimo, G.A., Caltagirone, C., Capasso, R., and Miceli, G. (2002). Rigid and non-rigid objects in canonical and non-canonical views: Hemisphere-specific effects on object identification. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 19, 697-720. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Brennen, T., and Espeseth, T. (2002). Fast responses to neglected targets in visual search reflect pre-attentive processes: An exploration of response times in visual neglect. Neuropsychologia, 40, 1622-1636. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., and Teodorescu, D.-S. (2002). Eye scanpaths during visual imagery reenact those of perception of the same visual scene. Cognitive Science, 26, 207-231. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Brennen, T., Johannessen, K., Holmen, K., and Elvestad, R. (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, 38, 511-528. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., and Caviness, V. (2001). Prosopagnosia as a deficit in encoding curved surface. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13:5, 556-557. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., and Rouw, R. (2001). Canonical views of faces and the cerebral hemispheres. Laterality, 6(3), 193-224. (Download PDF)

Flaskerud, I., and Laeng, B. (2000). Nordens Buddha. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1771). Historie, 4, pp. 62-70. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., and Park, A. (1999). Handedness effects on playing a reversed and normal keyboard. Laterality, 4, 363-377. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Shah, J., and Kosslyn, S.M. (1999). Identifying objects in conventional and contorted poses: Contributions of hemisphere-specific mechanisms. Cognition, 70, 53-85. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Kosslyn, S.M., Caviness, V., and Bates, J. (1999). Can deficits in spatial indexing contribute to simultanagnosia? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 81-114. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Peters, M., and McCabe, R. (1998). Memory for locations within regions: Spatial biases and visual hemifields differences. Memory & Cognition, 26, 97-107. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Buchtel, H.A., and Butter, C.M. (1996). Tactile rod bisection: Hemispheric activation and sex differences. Neuropsychologia, 34:11, 1115-1121. (Download PDF)

Peters, M., Chisholm, P., and Laeng, B. (1995). Do engineering students show sex differences on a spatial ability test, and do such differences relate to performance in academic subjects? Journal of Engineering Education, 84, 69-73.

Laeng, B., and Peters, M. (1995). Cerebral lateralization for the processing of spatial coordinates and categories in left- and right-handers. Neuropsychologia, 33, 421-439. (Download PDF)

Peters, M., Laeng, B., Latham, K., Johnson, M., Zaiyouna, R., and Richardson, C. (1995). A redrawn Vandenberg & Kuse mental rotation test: Different versions and factors that affect performance. Brain & Cognition, 28, 39-58.
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Laeng, B. (1994). Lateralization of categorical and coordinate spatial functions. A study of unilateral stroke patients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 6:3, 189-203. (Download PDF)

Laeng, B., Berridge, K.C., and Butter, C.M. (1993). Pleasantness of a sweet taste during hunger and satiety: Effects of gender and "sweet tooth". Appetite, 21, 247-254. (Download PDF)

Butter, C.M., and Laeng, B. (1991). Neuropsychology: Inclusive or exclusive? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14:3, 442-443.

Laeng, B. (1990). Le Icone. Uno studio psicologico dell'arte sacra. Roma: Bulzoni, pp. 188.