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Drawing on either side of the brainRagnhild Magnus
University of Troms, Norway
Laterality 11:71-89. 2006..g., depth and shading). These perceptual processes may thus play an important role in the ability to draw realistic depictions of objects...- Identifying objects in conventional and contorted poses: contributions of hemisphere-specific mechanismsB Laeng
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Cognition 70:53-85. 1999.... - The eyes remember it: oculography and pupillometry during recollection in three amnesic patientsBruno Laeng
University of Tromsø, Norway
J Cogn Neurosci 19:1888-904. 2007..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... - Women's pupillary responses to sexually significant others during the hormonal cycleBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Horm Behav 52:520-30. 2007..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... - Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the ArcticBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Vision Res 47:1595-607. 2007.... - Remembering 1500 pictures: the right hemisphere remembers better than the leftBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Brain Cogn 63:136-44. 2007..These results, obtained with participants with intact brains, large number of stimuli, and long retention delays, are consistent with previously described hemispheric differences in the memory of split-brain patients... - Constructional apraxia after left or right unilateral strokeBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway
Neuropsychologia 44:1595-606. 2006..In addition, past evidence is reviewed in the light of this new cognitive neuroscience account... - Reduced Stroop interference for opponent colors may be due to input factors: evidence from individual differences and a neural network simulationBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Huginbakken 32, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 31:438-52. 2005..L. McClelland's, 1990, model) showed that only a distributed trichromatic input layer was able to simulate these findings. Thus, sensory input from the color system needs to be incorporated into current accounts of the Stroop effect... - Does color synesthesia pose a paradox for early-selection theories of attention?Bruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Psychol Sci 15:277-81. 2004..M.'s synesthesia does not occur preattentively, but rather is within the focus of attention. We conclude that synesthesia is a genuine perceptual phenomenon that can have substantial influence on visual processing... - Prosopagnosia as a deficit in encoding curved surfaceB Laeng
Harvard University, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 13:556-76. 2001..In turn, this points to the importance (necessity) for the normal visual system of such curved and volumetric information in the identification of human faces... - Do separate processes identify objects as exemplars versus members of basic-level categories? Evidence from hemispheric specializationBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Brain Cogn 53:15-27. 2003.... - Fast responses to neglected targets in visual search reflect pre-attentive processes: an exploration of response times in visual neglectBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, University of Tromsø, Asgårdveien 9, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Neuropsychologia 40:1622-36. 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 mirrorBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway
Cortex 38:511-28. 2002..Finally, AE's performance was worse for 'far' than 'near' locations, when the cubes were physically located near his body (i.e., within "grasping" space) but seen in the mirror... - Of frames and mirrors: reflections on neglect. a reply to McCarthy (2002)Bruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Troms, Norway
Cortex 39:541-53. 2003 
Searching through synaesthetic colorsBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 1094 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
Atten Percept Psychophys 71:1461-7. 2009..Control participants who performed searches for the same symbols (which were colored according to the synaesthetic colors) showed search functions very similar to those shown by the synaesthetes for the physically achromatic symbols...- Anchoring gaze when categorizing faces' sex: evidence from eye-tracking dataLine Saether
University Library, Department of Psychology and Law, University of Tromsø, Norway
Vision Res 49:2870-80. 2009..This region was fixated more in the first than in subsequent fixations. Males anchored gaze lower and more centrally than females... 
Pupillary Stroop effectsBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 1094 Blindern, 0317, Oslo, Norway
Cogn Process 12:13-21. 2011....- Processing spatial relations with different apertures of attentionBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 1094 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
Cogn Sci 35:297-329. 2011.... - Pupillometry of grapheme-color synaesthesiaHelle Gaare Paulsen
Department of Psychology, University of Troms, Troms, Norway
Cortex 42:290-4. 2006..The results show that the physiological measure of pupillary diameter can be used as a marker of the synaesthetic experience... - Through the eyes of the own-race bias: eye-tracking and pupillometry during face recognitionEsther Xiu Wen Wu
Center for the Study of Human Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Soc Neurosci 7:202-16. 2012..Moreover, pupillary diameters were larger when viewing other-race than own-race faces, suggesting a greater cognitive effort when encoding other-race faces... - Invisible expressions evoke core impressionsBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
Emotion 10:573-86. 2010.... - The emotional meaning of harmonic intervalsHella Oelmann
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Cogn Process 10:113-31. 2009..e., the main intervals of the tunes) and respective chords for each melody were also presented aurally and participants' ratings showed similar emotional profiles for these when compared to those of the melodies themselves... - Three-dimensional information in face recognition: an eye-tracking studyOlga Chelnokova
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
J Vis 11:27. 2011..Taken together, these findings support the conclusion that face recognition across viewpoint transformation is facilitated by the addition of stereoscopic depth cues... - On facial expertise: processing strategies of twins' parentsLine Saether
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Perception 37:1227-40. 2008..We conclude that the facial expertise of twins' parents is idiosyncratic to their own children and not based on an enhanced general facial expertise... - The visual basis of category effects in object identification: evidence from the visual hemifield paradigmTorstein Låg
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Brain Cogn 60:1-10. 2006..This advantage was considerably larger with blurred images than with clear. These results are compatible with the global shape hypothesis and converge with evidence using other paradigms... - Nicotinic receptor gene CHRNA4 interacts with processing load in attentionThomas Espeseth
Department of Psychology, Center for the Study of Human Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
PLoS ONE 5:e14407. 2010..Pharmacological studies suggest that cholinergic neurotransmission mediates increases in attentional effort in response to high processing load during attention demanding tasks [1]... - The neural correlate of colour distances revealed with competing synaesthetic and real coloursBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
Cortex 47:320-31. 2011..Thus, two colour attributes (one that is wavelength-dependent and one that is illusory) can be bound to the same stimulus position and simultaneously engage the colour areas in proportion to their similarity in colour space... - Bright illusions reduce the eye's pupilBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:2162-7. 2012..Thus, the pupillary physiological response reflects the subjective perception of light and supports the idea that the brain's visual circuitry is shaped by visual experience with images and their possible sources... - New insights in categorical and coordinate processing of spatial relationsAlbert Postma
Neuropsychologia 44:1515-8. 2006 - The time course of spatial memory processing in the two hemispheresAlbert Postma
Psychological Laboratory, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Neuropsychologia 44:1914-8. 2006..These results suggest that categorical spatial coding might be the default manner in which spatial information is remembered over time. Finally, the left hemisphere may play an important role for such a categorical spatial coding...