Kevin O’Regan
Profile – Kevin O’Regan
Kevin O’Regan is ex-Director of the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS, Université Paris Descartes. After early work on eye movements in reading, he was led to question established notions of the nature of visual perception, and to discover, with collaborators, the phenomenon of ‘change blindness’. In 2011 he published a book with Oxford University Press, Why red doesn’t sound like a bell: Understanding the feel of consciousness. In 2013 he obtained a five-year Advanced ERC grant to explore his ‘sensorimotor’ approach to consciousness in relation to sensory substitution, pain, colour and space perception, developmental psychology, and robotics.
More biographical information
Personal website including research interests and change blindness demos
Publications
His selected bibliography, divided by topic
Citations on Google Scholar
Selected publications relevant to consciousness
Foglia, L., and O’Regan, J. K. (2015). A new imagery debate: Enactive and sensorimotor accounts. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(1), 181–196. Paywall-protected journal record here.
O’Regan, J. K. (1992). Solving the ‘real’ mysteries of visual perception: The world as an outside memory. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 46, 461–488. Paywall-protected journal record here. Direct PDF download (preprint) here.
O’Regan, J. K. (2011). Why red doesn’t sound like a bell: Understanding the feel of consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press. Google Books preview here.
O’Regan, J. K., and Noë, A. (2001). A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 939–1031 (incl. commentaries and authors’ response). Paywall-protected journal record here. Direct PDF download (final version, incl. commentaries and response) here.
O’Regan, J. K., Rensink, R. A., and Clark, J. J. (1999). Change-blindness as a result of ‘mudsplashes’. Nature, 398, 34. Paywall-protected journal record here. Direct PDF download (final version) here.
Video
The sensorimotor approach to understanding ‘feel’ in humans and robots. SoftBank Robotics Europe, June 2014
Why things feel the way they do. Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Krakow, August 2014
How to make a robot that feels. TSC Tucson, March 2013