Jan Lauwereyns
Full name: Johan Marc José Lauwereyns
Activities and Interests
- Cognitive neuroscience
Keywords: attention, bias, gaze, doubt, movement, decision making, behavioral analysis, neural circuits, neurodynamics, cognitive processing, perceptual organization, the intrinsic attraction of information, the power of poison;
Influenced by: René Descartes, Robert Burton, J. W. von Goethe, Charles Sherrington, William James, Kitaro Nishida, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone Weil, Gilles Deleuze, Okihide Hikosaka, R.H.S. Carpenter, Andy Clark - Lyrical investigations
Keywords: attention, experiment, gaze, parallax, the literary space of consciousness, the multiplicity of languages, night and the imagination, splash, ethics and the reflex arc, mosquito, a monkey of no fortune, the headless little viper, 静;
Influenced by: Hans Faverey, Wallace Stevens, Paul Celan, Kenkō, Gertrude Stein, Zbigniew Herbert, Miroslav Holub, Jorge Luis Borges, Kenzaburo Oe, J.M. Coetzee, Lyn Hejinian, Michael Palmer, Kiwao Nomura
Employment
- January 2010 – …
Professor
International Education Center, Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan - January 2009 – January 2010
Associate Professor
School of Psychology,Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand - January 2005 – December 2008
Senior Lecturer
School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand - February 2003 – December 2004
Lecturer
School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand - March 2002 – January 2003
Visiting Fellow
National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A. - April 2001 – February 2002
Instructor
Juntendo University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan - October 1998 – March 2001
Research Fellow
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Juntendo University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan - October 1994 – September 1998
Research Assistant
Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Education
- October 1994 – February 1998
Ph.D in Psychology
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Doctoral degree received: 23 February 1998
Thesis: “The intentionality of visual selective attention”
Supervisor: Géry d’Ydewalle - October 1989 – July 1994
M.Sc. in Psychology
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Master’s degree received: July 1994
Thesis: “The efficiency of knowledge extraction via eye movement recording as a solution to the problem of implicit knowledge”
Supervisor: Géry d’Ydewalle
Biographical Note
Born in Berchem (Antwerp), Belgium, 13 May 1969
Married to Shizuka Sakurai Lauwereyns
Daughter: Nanami Lauwereyns
Son: Shinsei Lauwereyns
Links
Author pages
- De Bezige Bij
- Druksel
- DWB
- The MIT Press
- The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog
- Poetry International
- Wikipedia
Online Poems (English)
- Blackmail Press
- E-Ratio
- Other Voices
- Our Changing World (item 4; radio interview + reading)
- Poetry International
- Radiobooks (audio recording of “Song of the Lake”)
- Swoon (video interpretation of ‘Birds Talked to Her’)
- Swoon (video interpretation of ‘Notes from Noise’)
- Tokyo Poetry Festival 2008 (video recording; English and Japanese)
- Word for Word
Online Poems (Dutch)
- Addertje zonder kop (video-opname op Poetry International, Rotterdam; lezing met Inuo Taguchi en Yasuhiro Yotsumoto)
- DWB (essays, vertalingen en gedichten)
- De contrabas
- Gierik & NVT
- Het moment
- Ooteoote
- Parlan.doc
- Poetry International (video-opname ‘Meesteres van het toeval’)
- Poëziecentrum (voorstelling gedichtendagessay; video; deel 3 in het Japans)
- Radioboeken (geluidsopname van ‘Lied van het meer’)
- Raster
- Revolver (essay)
- Revolver (met Arnoud van Adrichem)
- Ruth Joos (interview en lezing op Radio Klara)
- website van Paul Bogaert (duogedichten met Paul Bogaert)
- yang (essay)
Jan Lauwereyns (copyright Pieter Vandermeer, Poetry International)
