Guy Van Orden

Professor, Director of Research, and Director of the Center for Cognition, Action and Perception (CAP) | Brain-Body Interaction
4130 Q EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
513-556-3904
guy.van.orden@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Guy Van Orden received his PhD in Psychology from University of California San Diego in 1984. Following postdoctoral positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories (1983-1984) and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (1985-1987) he joined the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University where he directed the Graduate Program in Cognitive Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience (1992-1996). Since then, Dr. Van Orden has held visiting positions at the University of Amsterdam, University of Connecticut, and Catholic University, Eichstätt, Germany. He served as guest editor for Ecological Psychology and currently serves on the editorial boards of Philosophical Psychology and The Mental Lexicon. From 2001-2005 he served as the Director of the program in Perception, Action & Cognition at the National Science Foundation. He has also served on review and advisory panels for the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, European Science Foundation, and European Commission; and he is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Research Interests

A vast investment has been made to discover the components of mind or brain using sophisticated brain imaging. Dr. Van Orden's work is complementary. He seeks to understand how components of mind interact and how the mind interacts with the body--real time coordination of the brain and body. Remarkably there are universal patterns for these interactions, and they are of the same nature as previously observed interactions among molecules and cells in living tissue, for example. Thus lawful behavior characterizes how the components of mind and the components of the body interact at all scales at which we may observe such interactions. These lawful interactions develop in cognition and behavior by adolescence and deviations from the developed pattern can indicate dynamical diseases, mental illness, and deficits due to aging.  

Peer Reviewed Publications

. pdf files of selected publications at http://homepages.uc.edu/~vanordg/guy.html.