sentences:  He was the last director of the "Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale" (Laboratory of Experimental Psychology) before its dissolution in 2006.After studying theoretical physics at the University of Sussex and the University of Cambridge, O'Regan moved to Paris in 1975 to work in experimental psychology at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).Following his Ph.D. on eye movements in reading he showed the existence of an optimal position for the eye to fixate in images and words.