Psychology

Profile

Background

Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, The University of Connecticut, 1996. MSc in Mathematics and MA in Philosophy, Eotvos University, Budapest. 1996 - present; Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth, UK Appointments before 1996: Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Connecticut, US. Deputy Director of Computing Department, Institute for Hydraulic Planning, Budapest, Hungary. Lecturing in Mathematics and Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary

Teaching Responsibilities

Unit coordinator of:

Year 3 level: Consciousness: Contemporary research and theory

Year 3 level: Consciousness: New directions in research and theory

I am also involved in teaching MSc Research Method.

Departmental ERASMUS co-ordinator

Research

Perceptual control of action in intentional contexts

Application of biological strategies in robotics (e.g., chemical searching)

Exploratory learning in display control tasks

Biased random walk analysis of motor learning tasks

Mathematical models and philosophical issues in psychology

Pictorial space and culture

Memberships

The International Society for Ecological Psychology.
The Advisory committee of U.S. Einstein Institute

Board of Trustees of CLAWAR (CLimbing And Walking Robots) Association

Adjunct member of Learning, Technology and Assessment team, College of Nursing, University of Arizona, US

Research Grants

ESRC grants on driver's gaze control (R00429834662 & T026271360).

ESRC grant on exploratory learning of visual rotation (R000223090).

Korean Government Grant in Support of Sabbatical leave in 2009

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2000

Kadar, E. E., & Turvey, M. T.  (1997).  Process-based functionalism instead of structural functionalism is needed. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20(3). 533. (Continued commentary with reply)

Kadar, E. E., Shaw, R. E., & Turvey, M. T.  (1997).  Path space integrals for modelling experimental measurements of cerebellar functioning.  Behavioural and Brain Sciences. 20(2). 265. (Target article includining all commentaries)

Kadar. E. E., & Effken, J. (1994).  Heideggerian meditations on a possible ontology for ecological psychology. Ecological Psychology, 6(4), 297-341. (Abstract) (pdf)

Shaw, R. E., Kadar, E. E., & Kinsella-Shaw, J. (1994).  Modelling systems with intentional dynamics: A lesson from quantum mechanics. In K. Pribram (Ed.), Origins: Brain and Self-organisation (pp. 53-101).  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates Inc.

Kadar, E. E., Schmidt, R. C., & Turvey, M. T. (1993).  Constants underlying frequency changes in biological rhythmic movements. Biological Cybernetics, 68, 421-430. (Abstract)

Shaw, R. E., Kadar, E. E., Sim, M., & Repperger, D. W. (1992).  The intentional spring:  A strategy for modelling systems that learn to perform intentional acts. Journal of Motor Behaviour, 24, 3-28.

Recent Presentations

Kadar, E.E. (2011). Hokusai’s articulation of pictorial space by creative use of various traditions. AAS/ICAS. March 31-Apr 3. Hawaii. US.

Kadar, E.E., Fisher, P. C., & Gurvinder, G.S., (2010). Overcoming time constraints on odour source localisation. CLAWAR 2010. August 31-September 3. Nagoya, Japan.

Kadar, E.E., & Kim-Gyoon., N. (2010). Haunted by Zeno: Paradoxes in control of lcomotion. The 11th European Workshop of Ecological Psychology EWEP-11 Frejus (France). June 9-12.

Kadar, E.E., Pasztor, A., Megellai G., & Costall, A.  (2008). Global strategies in the negotiation of a triple bend at high speed:  Analysis of gaze patterns. The10th European Workshop of Ecological Psychology (EWEP-10). Madeira (Portugal): 5-8 November 2008.

Kadar, E.E. , & Koszeghy, A. (2008). Invariant functions of driving through a gate of variable size. The 10th European Workshop of Ecological Psychology (EWEP-10). Madeira (Portugal): 5-8 November 2008.

Kadar, E. E. (2007). Paintings as Architectural Space: “Guided Tours” by Cezanne and Hokusai.  ICEPA XIV. July, Yokohama, Japan.

Kadar, E. E., Palatinus, Z. , & Costall, A.  (2007). A handedness bias in learning to adjust hand movement to visual rotation.  ICEPA XIV. July, Yokohama, Japan.

Kadar, E. E., & Virk, G. S. & Lytridis, (2007).  In search of principles of odour source localisation. C. CLAWAR 2007. July. Singapore.

Kadar, E. E. (2004).  Field theoretical principles in perceptual control of action and interface design. Int. Workshop on Man-Machine Symbiotic Systems (IWMMS2004). National Institute of Informatics. Japan, November, 2004