ANDREI GOREA

Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception

C.N.R.S & Paris Descartes University

Centre Biomédical des Saints Pères

45 rue des Saints Pères

75270 Paris cedex 06

(33-1) 4286 4313 (office & lab) 6 rue Lapeyrère

(33-1) 4286 3322 (FAX) 75018 Paris

E-mail: andrei.gorea@parisdescartes.fr (33-1) 4262 2740

Employment chronology

· 1978-1982 Research Associate at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research - France)

· 1982-1991 Senior Scientist CNRS

· 1991-date Director of Research, CNRS

Education

· 1973-1975 BA and MA degrees in Clinical Psychology: Univ. Paris VII; Equivalent of MA at Ecole Pratique d'Hautes Etudes en Psychologie Expérimentale, Paris

· 1975-1978 Advanced studies (DEA) and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (supervisor: Claude Bonnet): Univ. Paris V (Ph.D. dissertation in 1978)

· 1986 Thèse de Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences Naturelles (Neurosciences; supervisor Prof. Y. Galifret): Univ. Paris VI (dissertation in 1986)

Theses

· MA: Le codage mnémonique des textes chargés affectivement

· Ph.D.: Aspects dynamiques et stationnaires dans le codage des fréquences spatiales

· Thèse d'Etat: Le codage visuel des constituants élémentaires de l'image: approche psychophysique

Scientific experience: post-doctoral and travel fellowships

· Complete adaptation to patterned stimuli: a necessary and sufficient condition for Weber's law for contrast, UMIST, Manchester, U.K. (coll. avec Dr. J.J. Kulikowski; 1978)

· Detection of complex spatio-temporal patterns, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (coll. avec B. Rogowitz; 1979)

· Interactions orientationnelles entre des réseaux stationnaires et en mouvement, Laboratorio di Neurofiziologia del CNR, Pisa, ITALIE (coll. avec Dr. A. Fiorentini et Prof. L. Maffei; 1980)

· Temporal integration factors in fovea and periphery, Smith-Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciences, San Francisco, USA (coll. avec Dr. C.W. Tyler; 1981-1982)

· Perception of ordered visual stimuli, Montréal University, Montreal, CANADA (coll. avec Prof. P. Cavanagh; 1985 & 1986)

· Attentive/Preattentive visual processing and Form and Surface Attributes in Motion Perception, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA (coll. avec Drs. B. Julesz et T.V. Papathomas; 1986-1987)

· Analogy between motion and texture perception, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA (coll. avec Dr. T.V. Papathomas; 1989)

· Modelling Texture Segregation in terms of GeneralizedContrast, Lab. of Vision Research, Rutgers University, NJ, USA (coll. avec Dr. T.V. Papathomas; 1991)

· Temporal integration characteristics in symmetry perception, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco CA, USA (coll. avec Dr. C.W. Tyler; 1994)

· Modeling Texture Segregation and Attentional Processes, Lab. of Vision Research, Rutgers University, NJ, USA (coll. avec Dr. T.V. Papathomas; 1995 & 1996)

· Modeling Texture Segregation in terms of Local-Global Contrasts, Lab. of Vision Research, Rutgers University, NJ, USA (coll. avec Dr. T.V. Papathomas; 1997 & 1998)

· Motion perception and binocular rivalry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, (coll. With Prof. R. Blake; 1998-1999)

Research Grants (principal investigator or collaborator)

· La surface spatio-temporelle de la sensibilité visuelle, CCETT, # GSA92545 (1980-1981; 78 000 FF)

· Détection, Reconnaissance et Excentricité Rétinienne, CNRS (with C. Bonnet & A. Lévy-Schoen); # 955130 (1982-1984; 85 000 FF);

· Contribution des attributs de couleur et d'orientation à la perception visuelle du mouvement, DRET, Ministère de la Défense (with J. Lorenceau & J.-D. Bagot); # 88/114 (1988-1990; 500 000 FF);

· Interactions dynamiques dans le traitement visuel: contraintes architecturales et temporelles dans les systèmes naturels et artificiels, Ministère de la Recherche et de la Technologie (with K. O'Regan, A. Jacobs, S. Thorpe, M. Imbert & J. P. Haton; 1989-1991; 600 000 FF);

· Interactions entre couleur et luminance dans la perception du mouvement, DRET, Ministère de la Défense (with J.-D. Bagot); # 91/074 (1991-1993; 560 000 FF);

· The role of visual attributes in the perception of texture and motion, N.S.F. (with T.V. Papathomas & B. Julesz Rutgers Univ., USA; 1991-1993);

· The role of color and orientation in texture segregation, O.N.R. (with T.V. Papathomas & B. Julesz Rutgers Univ., USA; 1991-1992);

· Neural Pathways and Mechanisms for Motion Perception: Psychophysics, Physiology, and Computational Modeling, McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive sciences (T.V. Papathomas, B. Julesz, A. Gorea, C. Chubb & R. Siegel 1994-1996; $63 000);

· Motion Blur, DRET, Ministère de la Défense (with S. Hammett); # 95/1195 (1996-1998; 200 000 FF);

· Attention et Perception Visuelle, DRET, French Ministry of Defense (with J.-D. Bagot); # 94/047 (1996-1998; 600 000 FF);

· Psychophysique de la Prise de Décision Visuelle, French-Israeli Scientific and Technical Cooperation Program « Arc-en ciel » (with Dov Sagi, Weizmann Institute of Science; 2000-2001; 50 000 FF);

· Rôle de l’Attention et Processus de Décision dans la Mémoire Sensorielle à court terme : Comparaison entre Vision et Audition, Cognitique – French Ministry of Research (with L. Demany, C. Semal, D. Sagi & M. Allard; 2000-2001; 350 000 FF).

· Interactions décisionnelles visuo-motrices, Bonus Qualité Recherche, Paris 5 (with Cardoso-Leite P., Lorenzi C., Mamassian P., Waszak F., Vidal, P.-P.; 2006-2008; 21 000 €);

· Integrated psychophysical approach to the perception-action dissociation, ANR (with Cardoso-Leite P., Lorenzi C., Mamassian P., Waszak F., Wexler, M., Chauvin A., Coello Y., Lafargue G. & Madelain L.; 2007-2011; 360 000 €);

· Visual Memory (Royal Society Travel Grant ; with Joshua Solomon ; 12 k£);

· Modulation of Perceived Duration by Contextual (motion) and Dopaminergic Factors: An Integrated Psychophysical, Functional Imaging, Electrophysiological, and Psychopharmacological approach (ANR blanc; with J. Coull, P. Pouget, M. Missal, B. Degos; 2013-2016; 375 k€).

Scientific activities of general interest

· Associate Editor of Spatial Vision now Seeing and Perceiving

· Associate Editor of Perception and iPerception

· Editorial Advisory Board Open Neuroscience Journal

Organization of scientific events

· Main organizer of the 1^st French-British Conference on Visual Perception (AVA-GDR-Vision), 17-18 Dec. 2010

· Main organizer of the 26th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Paris, France, September 1-5, 2003

- Co-organizer of the symposium on Attention & Decision (26th ECVP 2003, Paris, France)

· Co-organiser of the 24th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Kusadasi, Turquie, 26-30 August, 2001.

· Organizer of the symposium on Seen vs. Unseen : New issues in the psychophysics of decision (22^nd European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italie, August 22-26, 1999).

· Coordinator of the symposium on High Level Vision (17th European Conference on Visual Perception, Eindhoven, Pays Bas, September 4-8, 1994).

· Co-organizer of the conference Linking Psychophysics, Neurophysiology & Computational Vision: Stereopsis, Motion, Texture and Attention (Rutgers Univ., USA, April 30-May 1st, 1993).

· Co-organizer for ECVP 1990 of the following three symposia:

- Tacit Assumptions in Vision Research (with Prof. M. Imbert);

- Visual pyramids and Neural Networks (with Dr. E. Bienenstock);

- Visual Cortical Processing: From Perception to Memory (with Dr. Y. Frégnac).

· Organizer of the 13th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Paris, France, September 4-7, 1990.

· Coordinator of the symposium on Visual Cortex. High Level Vision (12th European Conference on Visual Perception, Israel, September 17-22, 1989).

TEACHING Activities

· Assistant professor in "General Psychology" René Descartes Univ. (1975-1976 & 1978-1979)

· Assistant professor in "Visual Psychophysics" Paris I Univ. (1979-1981)

· Research fellow, Smith-Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciences (1981-1982) and AT&T Bell Labs (1986-1987)

· Associate professor for Advanced studies (DEA) in "Cognitive Processes": Motion Perception, René Descartes Univ. (1988-1989); Advanced studies (DEA) in "Cognitive Sciences": Motion Perception and Texture Segregation, EHESS (1991-1993)

· Undergraduate course on the History of Vision Research (1997)

· M.A. supervisor, René Descartes Univ. (1981, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996-1998; 2002-2005)

· Advanced studies (DEA) supervisor, René Descartes Univ. (1989-1990, 1991-1992)

In charge with the module Visual perception, CogMaster (ENS, EHESS, U. Paris 5; 2004-2015); Courses M2: Motion perception, Texture perception, Low level visual mechanisms, Mid-level vision, Gestalt, Sensory & decisional processes, Attention & Visual search, General principles, CogMaster (ENS, EHESS, U. Paris 5)

· Ph.D. supervisor, Paris 5 Univ. (1991-; students: Eric Castet, Bruno Delord, Christel Agonie, Pedro Cardoso-Leite, Florent Caetta)

· Post-doc supervisor Steve Hammett (1996-1997); Florian Waszak 2002-2003:; Christophe Tandonnet (2007-2009:); I-Fan Lin (2009-2010); Jihyun Kim (2013-2014); Daniel Linares (2014-2016); Matteo Lisi (2015-2016).

Other RESPONSIBILITIES

· Director of Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (2014-present)

· Associate Director of Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (2006-2013)

· Elected member of the Saints Pères Biomedical Scientific Committee (2008-)

· Elected member of the IFR Scientific Committee, Saints Pères (2008-)

· Head Auditory & Vision Psychophysics Group, LPP (2006-present )

· Head Vision group (1990-2006)

· Member of the Scientific Committee of the Cognitive Science Master program (ENS, Paris 5 & EHESS; 2003- )

· Elected member of the Psychology Department Counsel of Paris Descartes University (1996-2000)

· Elected member of the CogniSeine Scientific Committee (1996-1998)

· Treasurer of the Association Groupe Regard (1988-2015)