J. Kevin O'Regan

John Kevin O'Regan is director of the "Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception" at the Université René Descartes, Paris 5 (CNRS). He was the last director of the "Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale" (Laboratory of Experimental Psychology) before its dissolution in 2006.

After studying theoretical physics at Sussex and Cambridge Universities, he moved to Paris in 1975 to work in experimental psychology at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

Following his Ph. D. on eye movements in reading he showed the existence of an optimal position for the eye to fixate in images and words. His interest in the problem of the perceived stability of the visual world led him to question established notions of the nature of visual perception, and to discover, with collaborators, the phenomenon of change blindness.

His current work involves exploring the empirical consequences of a new sensorimotor approach to vision and sensation in general. He is particularly interested in the problem of the nature of phenomenal stream of consciousness, which he addresses experimentally in relation to sensory substitution, and theoretically in relation to color perception. He is interested in applying this work to robotics.

His work about phenomal states exemplifying conscious conception of themselves has been used within R.A.Wilson externalist framework to ongoing research and debate within the study of consciousness (, ISBN 978-0521544948, introducing the clunky acronym TESEE: Temporally Extended, Scaffolded, and Embodied and Embedded).

Bibliography

*Perception and Consciousness - A Sensorimotor Approach (in collaboration with Alva Noe, Oxford University Press, (October 2005),ISBN 978-0195156119)

References

* [http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/TopPage/CV.html Kevin O'Regan, CURRICULUM VITAE]
* [http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/TopPage/publikevlatest.html Complete Publication list]

External links

* [http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/ Web Site]
* [http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/Mudsplash/Nature_Supp_Inf/Movies/Movie_List.html GIF Demonstrations for "Change blindness as a result of mudsplashes"]