CURRICULUM VITAE

John Kevin O'Regan, born 24 May, 1948. American citizen. Permanently resident in Paris, France since 1971. Divorced, two children.

Languages: English, French, and German.
 
 

Academic career

1968: BSc in Mathematical Physics, Sussex University, England.

1968-71: Research towards PhD with B.D. Josephson (Nobel Prize) in solid state physics at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England.

1972: Changed subject of PhD to eye movements in reading. Director Jacques Mehler, Paris. Entered Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as "Stagiaire de Recherche".

1973: Promoted "Attaché de Recherche".

1975: PhD from Cambridge ("Constraints on Eye Movements in Reading").

1975-1976: One year's visit at LNR group, Psychology Dept, UCSD, USA (Donald Norman).

1978: Invited for 4 short visits to Institute for Perception Research (Phillips, Eindhoven, Holland) for work with H. Bouma and D. Bouhuis.

1978: Invited for 4 months to Center for Human Information Processing, UCSD, USA for work with J. McClelland.

1979: Promoted "Chargé de Recherche".

1981: Invited for 4 months as consultant to Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., USA for work with J. Johnston (S. Sternberg's group).

1981: Left laboratory of Jacques Mehler and moved to Groupe Regard (also part of CNRS), to work with Ariane Lévy-Schoen.

1986: Promoted "Directeur de Recherche II".

1988: 3 month invited visit to Psychology Department, University of Melbourne (V. Holmes).

1989-92: Invited for regular approx 2-week visits/semester to Institut for Perception Research, Eindhoven, as scientific consultant.

1994-97: Invited for regular approx. 1-month visits/year to Nissan Cambridge Basic Research, Cambridge, Mass., as visiting scientist.

1995-99: Invited for regular approx 1-month visits/year to Max Planck Institut für Psychologische Forschung, Munich, as visiting scientist.

1991-98: Director of Relais d'Information sur les Sciences Cognitives

2001: Promoted "Directeur de Recherche I".
 
 

PUBLICATION LIST

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

de Bardies, B., & O'Regan, J.K. What children do in spite of the hypotheses of adults. Nature, 1973, 246, 531-534.

O'Regan, J.K., L'utilisation d'un petit ordinateur dans l'étude des mouvements oculaires. Informatique et Sciences Humaines, 1974, 22, 7-12.

O'Regan, J.K. A new horizontal eye movement calibration method. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 1978, 10, 393-397.

O'Regan, J.K., & Lévy-Schoen, A., Les mouvements des yeux au cours de la lecture. L'Année Psychologique, 1978, 78, 459-492.

O'Regan, J.K., Eye guidance in reading: evidence for the linguistic control hypothesis. Perception and Psychophysics, 1979, 25, 6, 501-509.

O'Regan, J.K., The control of saccade size and fixation duration in reading: the limits of linguistic control. Perception and Psychophysics, 1980, 28, 112-117.

Kapoula, Z., O'Regan, J.K. & Lévy-Schoen, A. Etude du mode de régulation de la durée de fixation dans une tache de lecture simplifiée. Psychologie Française, 1981, 26, 102-109.

McClelland, J.M., & O'Regan, J.K. Expectations increase the benefit derived from parafoveal visual information in reading words aloud. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 1981,7,3,634-644.

McClelland, J.M., & O'Regan, J.K., On visual and contextual factors in reading: a reply to Rayner and Slowiaczek. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 1981,7,3,652-657.

Holmes, V., & O'Regan, J.K., Effects of syntactic structure on eye fixations during reading. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1981,20,417-430.

O'Regan, J.K., Lévy-Schoen, A., Jacobs, A. The effect of visibility on eye movement parameters in reading. Perception & Psychophysics, 1983, 34,457- 464.

O'Regan, J.K., Lévy-Schoen, A. Integrating visual information from successive fixations: Does trans-saccadic fusion exist? Vision Research, 1983, 23, 765-768.

O'Regan, J.K., Lévy-Schoen, A., Pynte, J., & Brugaillère, Convenient fixation location within isolated words of different length and structure. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception & Performance, 1984,10,2,250-257.

O'Regan, J.K., Retinal versus extraretinal influences in flash localization during saccades. Perception & Psychophysics, 1984, 36, 1-14.

Coeffé, C., Humbert, R., Jacobs, A.M, & O'Regan, J.K. L'analyse des mouvements oculaires en temps réel. Informatique et Sciences Humaines. 1985, 65, 67-72.

O'Regan, J.K., Pynte, J., & Coeffé, C. Comment le regard explore un mot isolé. Bulletin de Psychologie, 1986, 39, 429-432.

O'Regan, J.K. Compte rendu de la Troisième Conférence Européenne sur les mouvements des yeux. Bulletin de la Société d'optique Physiologique, 1987.

Coeffé, C. & O'Regan, J.K. Reducing the influence of non-target stimuli on saccade accuracy: predictability and latency effects. Vision Research, 1987, 27, 227-240.

Jacobs, A.M. & O'Regan, J.K. Spatial and/or temporal adjustments of scanning behavior to visibility changes. Acta Psychologica, 1987, 65, 133-146.

O'Regan, J.K. & Humbert, R. Estimating psychometric functions in forced choice situations: Significant biases found in threshold and slope esimations when small samples are used. Perception & Psychophysics, 1989, 46, 434-442.

Lévy-Schoen, A., & O'Regan, J.K. Le regard et la lecture. La recherche, 1989, 211, 744-753.

Grainger, J., O'Regan, J.K., Jacobs, A.M., & Segui, J. On the role of competing word units in visual word recognition: The neighborhood frequency effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 1989, 45, 3, 189-195.

O'Regan, J.K. Vers une nouvelle théorie du guidage des mouvements oculaires dans la lecture. Bulletin de Psychologie, 1989, 90, 544-548.

Vitu, F. & O'Regan, J.K. Le rôle du prétraitement périphérique dans la lecture de textes. Journal de Médecine Nucléaire et Biophysique, 1989, 13, 359-366.

Vitu, F., O'Regan, J.K. & Mittau, M. Optimal landing position in reading isolated words and continuous text. Perception & Psychophysics, 1990, 47, 583-600.

Nazir, T.A. & O'Regan, J.K. Some results on translation invariance in the human visual system. Spatial Vision, 1990, 5, 81-100.

Nazir, T.A., O'Regan, J.K., & Jacobs, A.M. On words and their letters. Bulletin of the Psychonomics Society, 1991, 29, 171-174.

Grainger, J., O'Regan, J.K., Jacobs, A.M., & Segui, J. Neighborhood frequency effects on letter visibility in visual word recognition. Perception & Psychophysics, 1992, 51, 49-56.

O'Regan, J.K. Solving the 'real' mysteries of visual perception: The world as an outside memory. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1992, 46, 461-488.

O'Regan, J.K. Understanding visual search and reading using the concept of stimulus "grain". IPO Annual Progress Report, 1992, 26, 96-108.

O'Regan, J.K. & Jacobs, A.M. Optimal viewing position effect in word recognition: A challenge to current theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception & Performance, 1992, 18, 185-197.

Holmes, V.M. & O'Regan, J.K. Reading derivationally affixed french words. Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992, 7, 163-192.

Grainger, J. & O'Regan, J.K. A psychophysical investigation of language priming effects in two english-french bilinguals. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 1992, 4, 323-339.

O'Regan, J.K., & Pynte, J. Regard et lecture. Courrier du CNRS, 107, 1993.

Inhoff, A.W., Topolski, R. , Vitu F. & O'Regan, J.K. Attention demands during reading and the occurrence of brief (express) fixations. Perception & Psychophysics, 1993, 54, 814-823.

Guez, J-E., Le Gargasson, J-F., Rigaudière, F., & O'Regan, J.K. Is there a systematic location for the pseudo-fovea in patients with central scotoma? Vision Research, 1993, 33, 1271-1280.

Vitu, F. O'Regan, J.K., Inhoff, A.W. & Topolski, R. Mindless reading: Eye movement characterstics are similar in scanning strings and reading texts. Perception & Psychophysics, 1995, 57, 352-364.

Guez, J-E., Marchal, P., Le Gargasson, J-F., Grall, Y. & O'Regan, J.K. Eye fixations near corners: evidence for a center of gravity calculation based on contrast rather than luminance or curvature. Vision Research, 34, 1625-1636, 1994.

O'Regan, J.K. The world as an outside memory -- no strong internal metric means no problem of visual acuity. Commentary in Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 1994,17, 270-271.

Vitu, F. & O'Regan, J.K. A first step towards a new theory of eye movements in reading. Target article submitted to Behavioural and Brain Sciences.

Vitu, F., McConkie, G.W., Kerr, P.W., & O'Regan, J.K. There is an optimal viewing position effect during text reading: a warning for language processing studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Learning, Memory & Cognition (submitted).

Ninio, J., & O'Regan, J.K. The half-Zollner illusion. Perception (1996) vol 25, pp. 77-94.

Rensink, R.A., O'Regan J.K., & Clark, J.J. To see or not to see: the need for attention to perceive changes in scenes. Psychological Science, 8:368-373. 1997

Reilly, R.G. & O'Regan, J.K., Eye movement control during reading: A simulation of some word-targetting strategies. Vision Research, 1998, 38, 303-317.

Nazir, T.A., Jacobs, A.M., & O'Regan, J.K. Letter legibility and visual word recognition. Memory & Cognition, 1998, 26 (4), 810-821.

O'Regan, J.K., No evidence for neural filling in -- Vision as an illusion -- Pinning down "enaction". Commentary on Pessoa, Thompson & Noë, "Finding out about filling in". Brain and Behaviour Science, 21,6, 1998.

Clark, J.J. and O'Regan, J.K., Word Ambiguity and the Optimal Viewing Position in Reading, Vision Research, 1998, 39, 4, 843-857.

O'Regan, J.K., Rensink, R.A. & Clark, J.J. Change-blindness as a result of "mudsplashes". Nature, 1999, 398, 34.

Ninio, J. & O'Regan, J.K. Characterization of the misalignment and misangulation components in the Poggendorff and corner-Poggendorff illusions. Perception, 1999, 28, 8, 949-964.

O'Regan, J.K., Deubel, H., Clark J.J. & Rensink, R..A. Picture changes during blinks: looking without seeing and seeing without looking. Visual Cognition, 2000, 7, (1/2/3) , 191-212.

Rensink, R.A., O'Regan, J.K. & Clark, J.J. On the failure to detect changes in scenes across brief interruptions.  Visual Cognition, 2000, 7, (1/2/3) , 127-146.

Gautier, V.,  O'Regan J.K. & Le Gargasson, J.-F. 'The-skipping' revisited in French : programming saccades to skip the article 'les'. Vision Research, under revision.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
 
 

O'Regan, J.K., Moment-to-moment control of eye saccades as a function of textual parameters in reading. In: P.A. Kolers, M. Wrolstad & H. Bouma (Eds.), The processing of visible language. International Reading Association, 1978.

Lévy-Schoen, A., & O'Regan, J.K., The control of eye movements in reading. In: P.A. Kolers, M. Wrolstad & H. Bouma (Eds.), The processing of visible language. International Reading Association, 1978.

O'Regan, J.K., The convenient viewing position hypothesis. In: D.F. Fisher, R.A. Monty, & J.W. Senders, Eye Movements: Cognition and Visual Perception. L. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, 1981.

O'Regan, J.K. Elementary perceptual and eye movement control processes in reading. In K. Rayner (Ed.), Eye movements in reading: perceptual and language processes. New York, Academic Press, 1983, pp 121-139.

O'Regan, J.K. & Lévy-Schoen, A. Modélisation de la lisibilité de typographies: effets du "grain" et de la distance de lecture. In: J. André (Ed.), La manipulation de documents. INRIA, IRISA, Rennes, 1983, 101-110.

O'Regan, J.K. How the eye scans isolated words. In A.G. Gale & F. Johnson (Eds.) Theoretical and applied aspects of eye movement research. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1984, 159-168.

Lévy-Schoen, A., O'Regan, J.K., Jacobs, A.M., & Coeffé, C. The relation between visibility span and eye movements in various scanning tasks. In A.G. Gale & F. Johnson (Eds.) Theoretical and applied aspects of eye movement research. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1984, 133-142.

Lévy-Schoen, A. & O'Regan, J.K. Les effets d'un défaut d'accommodation sur le champ de vision et les mouvements des yeux dans la lecture. In 3ème Symposium International sur la Presbytie, Paris, Essilor International, 1985, 153-166.

Holmes, V.M. & O'Regan, J.K. Decomposing french words. In J.K. O'Regan & A. Lévy-Schoen (Eds.) Eye Movements: from Physiology to Cognition, Amsterdam, North Holland, 1986, 459-466.

Lévy-Schoen, A. & O'Regan, J.K. The effects of improper accommodation on the field of vision and eye movements while reading. In L. Stark & G. Obrecht (Eds.) Presbyopia - Recent research and reviews from the the 3rd International Symposium. Professional Press Books, Fairchild Publications, New York, 1987, 178-184.

O'Regan, J.K. & Lévy-Schoen, A., Eye movement strategy and tactics in word recognition and reading. In M. Coltheart (Ed.) Attention and Performance XII: The Psychology of Reading. Hillsdale, N.J., Erlbaum, 1987, 363-383.

Vitu, F. & O'Regan, J.K. Optimal landing position in words of different length and frequency. In G. Lüer & U. Lass (Eds.) Fourth European Conference on eye movements, Vol. 1: Proceedings. Göttingen, Hogrefe, 1987, 35-39.

Vitu, F. & O'Regan, J.K. Effect of parafoveal preprocessing and reading rhythm on optimal landing position in words of different length and frequency. In: G. Lüer, U. Lass, & J. Shallo-Hoffmann (Eds.), Eye Movement Research: Physiological and Psychological Aspects. C.J. Hogrefe, Göttingen. 1988, 286-292.

O'Regan, J.K. Visual acuity, lexical structure, and eye movements in word recognition. In B.A.G. Elsendoorn & H. Bouma, (Eds.) Working Models of Human Perception. Academic Press, London, 1989, 261-292.

Vitu, F. & O'Regan, J.K. Eye movements in reading: Optimal landing position and usefulness of peripheral preview. In D. Brogan (Ed.), The First International Conference on visual search Proceedings. Taylor and Francis, Ltd., London, 1990, 133-140.

Thorpe, S., O'Regan, J.K., & Pouget, A. Humans fail in XOR pattern recognition problems. In L. Personnaz & G. Dreyfus (Eds.), Neural Networks, from Models to Applications. IDSET, Paris, 1989, pp. 12-25.

O'Regan, J.K. Sehschärfe und Augenbewegungen bei der Worterkennung und beim Lesen. In H. Mühlendyck, (Ed.) Augenbewegung und visuelle Wahrnehmung. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, 1990.

O'Regan, J.K. Eye movements and reading. In E. Kowler (Ed.), Eye movements and their role in visual and cognitive processes. (Vol. 4 of Reviews of Oculomotor Research). Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990, 395-453.

Vitu, F. & O'Regan, J.K. Is there an optimal landing position in words during reading of texts? In: R. Schmid & D. Zambarbieri (Eds.) Oculomotor Control and Cognitive Processes. Elsevier, 1991, 341-351.

O'Regan, J.K. Facteurs sensoriels et moteurs dans la lecture: La position optimale de regard. In: P. Lecocq (Ed.) La Lecture. Processus, apprentissage, troubles. Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1992.

O'Regan, J.K. Optimal viewing position in words and the strategy-tactics theory of eye movements in reading. In: K. Rayner (Ed.) Eye movements and visual cognition: Scene perception and reading. Springer Verlag, New York, 1992, pp.333-354.

Vitu, F. & O'Regan, J.K. A challenge to current theories of eye movements during reading. In J. Findlay, R.W. Kentridge, & R. Walker (Eds.), Eye movement research: Mechanisms, Processes and applications. Elsevier. Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 381-392

O'Regan, J.K., Vitu, F., Radach, R., & Kerr, P.W. Effects of local processing and oculomotor factors in eye movement guidance in reading. In J. Ygge & G. Lennerstrand (Eds.) Eye Movements in Reading. Oxford, Pergamon Press. pp 329-348, 1994.

O'Regan, J.K., Bismuth, N. (1996), Legibility of Perceptually-Tuned Grayscale Fonts. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Proceedings ICIP-96 (Ed. P. Delogne), Vol 1, 537-540

J.K. O'Regan. Les vrais mysteres de la vision. Boucart, Hennaff & Belin (eds) La vision: aspects perceptifs et cognitifs. Edition SOLAL Neuropsychologie. 1998

H. Deubel, J. K. O'Regan, R. Radach. Attention, information processing, and eye movement control. In A. Kennedy, R. Radach, D. Heller & J. Pynte (Eds.) Reading as a perceptual process. In press, 2000.

O'Regan, J.K. Thoughts on change blindness. In:L. R. Harris & M. Jenkin (Eds.) Vision and Attention. Springer Verlag, in press, 2000.
 
 
 

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS APPEARING IN JOURNALS
 
 

Lévy-Schoen, A., & O'Regan, J.K., Comment voit-on en bougeant les yeux? Expériences sur l'intégration des images rétiniennes successives (Résumé). Psychologie Française, 1979, 25, 76-77.

Jacobs, A.M., Lévy-Schoen, A., & O'Regan, J.K. A model of letter-in- string visibility: implications for reading. Perception, 1982, 11, (Abstract).

Jacobs, A.M., O'Regan, J.K. & Lévy-Schoen, A. Does discriminability of letters in peripheral vision determine ocular scanning behaviour? Perception, 1984, A41 (Abstract).

O'Regan, J.K., Lévy-Schoen, A., Jacobs, A., & Coeffé, C. Do acuity and lateral masking scale with the cortical magnification factor? Perception, 1984, A44 (Abstract).

Vitu, F. & O'Regan, J.K. Eye movements in reading: the "optimal landing position" in words. Perception, 1988, 17, 387-388 (Abstract).

Gautier, V., O'Regan, J.K., Rigaudière, F., Grall, Y. & Le Gargasson, J.F. "The-skipping" effect in reading revisted with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope. ARVO 1998 (Abstract)

O'Regan, J.K. Detecting scene changes: an overview and a framework for recent findings" Perception, 27(suppl.): 36. [ECVP 1998; Oxford, England.]

.. there are some others...
 
 
 

BOOKS, THESES
 
 

O'Regan, J.K., Constraints on eye movements in reading. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1975.

O'Regan, J.K. & Lévy-Schoen, A. (Eds.) Eye Movements: from Physiology to Cognition. Amsterdam, North Holland, 1987, 678pp.
 
 
 
 

REPORTS
 
 

O'Regan, J.K. (Ed.) Forum for Theories of Neural and Cognitive Processes. Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, 1971. ronéo, 37 pp.

Lévy-Schoen A. & O'Regan, J.K. Bilan de la RCP 577: Oculomotricité et perception du monde". 1980, 42 pp.

O'Regan, J.K., Lévy-Schoen, A., Humbert, A.M., Jacobs, A., Coeffé, C. La lisibilité des textes à l'écran en fonction des espacements utilisés. Projet d'étude présenté au CCETT le 19 juin 1984. 12 pp.

O'Regan, J.K. (Groupe Regard). Effets d'une mauvaise mise au point sur le comportement de lecture. Rapport pour Essilor. Décembre, 1984. 35 pp.

O'Regan, J.K. L'Informatique aujourd'hui et demain. Rapport effectué pour l'agence Futuribles. 1984. 35 pp.

O'Regan, J.K. La lisibilité de textes à l'écran en fonction des espaces inter-mots, inter-lettres, inter-lignes, et de la matrices typographique. Etude faite sous contrat avec le CCETT. Groupe Regard, 1986, 36 pp.