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J. Kevin O'Regan

J. Kevin O'Regan

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
54
Citations
20830
World Ranking
4496
National Ranking
31

J. Kevin O'Regan publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 142 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

J. Kevin O'Regan D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where J. Kevin O'Regan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

J. Kevin O'Regan is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work addresses multiple subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Their main research topics cover areas such as Child and Animal Learning Development, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms, Action Observation and Synchronization, and Embodied and Extended Cognition.

J. Kevin O'Regan has published in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America A
  • Child Development
  • Adaptive Behavior

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on sensory processes, infant development, and perception. Selected recent works include:

  • Detection of sensorimotor contingencies in infants before the age of 1 year: A comprehensive review, 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • 6-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Contingency in a Variant of the Mobile Paradigm With Proximal Stimulation Studied at Fine Temporal Resolution in the Laboratory, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Can perception be extended to a "feel of north"? Tests of automaticity with the NaviEar, 2022, Adaptive Behavior
  • Sensory representation of surface reflectances: assessments with hyperspectral images, 2023, Journal of the Optical Society of America A
  • Tactile training facilitates infants' ability to reach to targets on the body, 2023, Child Development

Collaboration is an evident aspect of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include Jacqueline Fagard, Christoph Witzel, Lisa Jacquey, Annika Lübbert, and Sylvain Hanneton.

Best Publications

  • A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness

    J. Kevin O'Regan;Alva Noë

  • To See or not to See: The Need for Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes

    Ronald A. Rensink;J. Kevin O'Regan;James J. Clark

  • Solving the "real" mysteries of visual perception: The world as an outside memory.

    J. Kevin O'Regan

  • Change-Blindness As a Result of 'Mudsplashes'

    J. Kevin O'Regan;Ronald A. Rensink;James J. Clark

  • Picture Changes During Blinks: Looking Without Seeing and Seeing Without Looking

    J. Kevin O'Regan;Heiner Deubel;James J. Clark;Ronald A. Rensink

  • On the role of competing word units in visual word recognition: the neighborhood frequency effect.

    Jonathan Grainger;J. Kevin O’regan;Arthur M. Jacobs;Juan Segui

  • Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell: Understanding the feel of consciousness

    J. Kevin O'Regan

  • On the failure to detect changes in scenes across brief interruptions.

    Ronald A. Rensink;J. Kevin O'Regan;James J. Clark

  • Optimal viewing position effect in word recognition: A challenge to current theory.

    J. K. O'Regan;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Learning to perceive with a visuo-auditory substitution system: localisation and object recognition with 'the vOICe'.

    Malika Auvray;Sylvain Hanneton;J Kevin O'Regan

  • Eye-movement strategy and tactics in word recognition and reading.

    J. Kevin O'Regan;Ariane Lévy-Schoen

  • Fixation location effects on fixation durations during reading : an inverted optimal viewing position effect

    Françoise Vitu;George W McConkie;Paul Kerr;J.Kevin O'Regan

  • Mindless reading: eye-movement characteristics are similar in scanning letter strings and reading texts.

    Françoise Vitu;J. Kevin O’Regan;Albrecht W. Inhoff;Richard Topolski

  • What it is like to see: A sensorimotor theory of perceptual experience

    J. Kevin O'Regan;Alva noë

  • Convenient fixation location within isolated words of different length and structure.

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  • Is there a systematic location for the pseudo-fovea in patients with central scotoma?

    Jean-Eric Guez;Jean-François Le Gargasson;Florence Rigaudiere;J. Kevin O'Regan

  • Optimal landing position in reading isolated words and continuous text

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  • Is there something out there?: Inferring space from sensorimotor dependencies

    D. Philipona;J. K. O'Regan;J.-P. Nadal

  • Reducing the influence of non-target stimuli on saccade accuracy: predictability and latency effects.

    Christian Coëffé;J. Kevin O'regan

  • Visual Grouping and the Focusing of Attention Induce Gamma-band Oscillations at Different Frequencies in Human Magnetoencephalogram Signals

    Juan R. Vidal;Maximilien Chaumon;J. Kevin O'Regan;Catherine Tallon-Baudry

  • Some results on translation invariance in the human visual system

    T A Nazir;J K O'Regan

  • Expectations Increase the Benefit Derived from Parafoveal Visual Information in Reading Words Aloud.

    James L. McClelland;J. K. O'Regan

  • Eye movement control during reading: a simulation of some word-targeting strategies.

    Ronan G. Reilly;J. Kevin O'Regan

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur M. Jacobs
Arthur M. Jacobs Freie Universität Berlin
Ronald A. Rensink
Ronald A. Rensink University of British Columbia
Jonathan Grainger
Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University
Gianluca Baldassarre
Gianluca Baldassarre National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Patrizia Fattori
Patrizia Fattori University of Bologna
Catherine Tallon-Baudry
Catherine Tallon-Baudry École Normale Supérieure
Heiner Deubel
Heiner Deubel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Albrecht W. Inhoff
Albrecht W. Inhoff Binghamton University
Tatjana A. Nazir
Tatjana A. Nazir Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Ned Block
Ned Block New York University

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