J. Kevin O’Regan

Retired research director – Hosted

I am retired, but am continuing to work at the BabyLab financed by two European grants. Whereas my past research has concerned a variety of topics from eye movements, vision, change blindness to consciousness, recently I have started doing work on tool use by babies, and on how babies learn to understand the structure of the world and their bodies.

Selected Publications

– O’Regan, J. K. (2011). Why red doesn’t sound like a bell: Understanding the feel of consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, USA.

– Esseily, R., Rat-Fischer, L., Somogyi, E., O’Regan, K. J., & Fagard, J. (2015). Humour production may enhance observational learning of a new tool-use action in 18-month-old infants. Cognition and Emotion, 0(0), 1–9.

– Fagard, J., Rat-Fischer, L., & O’Regan, J. K. (2014). The emergence of use of a rake-like tool: a longitudinal study in human infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 5.

– Somogyi, E., Jacquey, L., Heed, T., Hoffmann, M., Lockman, J. J., Granjon, L., … O’Regan, J. K. 2017. Which limb is it? Responses to vibrotactile stimulation in early infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psycholog