User:Robert P. O'Shea

I am Robert P. O'Shea, a researcher, author, and compulsive tinkerer with other people's prose. I work at Leipzig University, Germany. Robert P. O'Shea is my real name.

I have made more than 5,000 edits to more than 1,300 pages in all parts of Wikipedia. I have created, or made major revisions to, 90 pages, of which 82 still exist (see below). I have also made substantial or significant changes to 50 pages (also see below).

Initial entries and major revisions I have authored include:


 * 1) 2AFC
 * 2) Adelbert Ames, Jr.
 * 3) Aerial perspective
 * 4) Arthur König
 * 5) Australasian Experimental Psychology Society (now called Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology)
 * 6) Autokinetic effect
 * 7) Binocular rivalry
 * 8) Binocular vision
 * 9) Celeste McCollough
 * 10) Convergence micropsia
 * 11) Cyanopsia
 * 12) David Rubinoff, and Dave Rubinoff, Rubinoff, Rubinoff and his Orchestra, and Rubinoff Orchestra
 * 13) Eloise (Barry Ryan song) (now called Eloise (Paul Ryan song))
 * 14) Emission theory (vision)
 * 15) Endaural phenomena
 * 16) Entopic
 * 17) Equilateral Triathlon
 * 18) Erich Schröger
 * 19) Ernst Leitz II
 * 20) Farm tools (disambiguation)
 * 21) Fergus W. Campbell
 * 22) Ganglion cell
 * 23) Giant retinal ganglion cells
 * 24) Glenn A. Fry
 * 25) Grating
 * 26) Gustav Adolf Wohlgemuth
 * 27) H. Carl Haywood
 * 28) Half-life of knowledge
 * 29) Haploscope
 * 30) Harvey J. Howard
 * 31) Howler (examination)
 * 32) Ian P. Howard
 * 33) Ibn Sahl
 * 34) Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler
 * 35) Illusions of self-motion
 * 36) Induced movement
 * 37) Instrument myopia (still under construction)
 * 38) Irradiation illusion
 * 39) Jeremy Hinton
 * 40) Johannes Theodor Müller, along with redirect and entry in disambiguation page for Johannes Müller
 * 41) John Graham Kerr
 * 42) Kenneth N. Ogle
 * 43) Kurt Koffka Medal, along with four redirects
 * 44) Law of specific nerve energies (major revision)
 * 45) Lilac chaser
 * 46) Loess curve
 * 47) Lowess
 * 48) Loxene
 * 49) Mary O'Neill (disambiguation)
 * 50) McCollough effect
 * 51) Meridian (perimetry, visual field)
 * 52) Michael Bach (vision scientist)
 * 53) Michael von Grünau
 * 54) Monocular rivalry
 * 55) Motion aftereffect
 * 56) Motion induced blindness
 * 57) Mylestom, New South Wales
 * 58) Neglect
 * 59) Neurotree (also Academic family tree as a redirect)
 * 60) Ogle
 * 61) Pacman (original article disappeared when it was moved to a redirect)
 * 62) Pattern glare (stub)
 * 63) Phosphene
 * 64) Piece of My Heart (disambiguation)
 * 65) Pinocchio illusion
 * 66) Post-micturition convulsion syndrome (now overwritten by a later article)
 * 67) Progressive lenses
 * 68) Purkinje images
 * 69) Receptive field
 * 70) Refraction error
 * 71) Sea legs
 * 72) Self-motion
 * 73) Semir Zeki
 * 74) StatView
 * 75) Stereopsis
 * 76) Stomach stapling (now called Vertical banded gastroplasty surgery)
 * 77) Ternus illusion
 * 78) Tetris effect
 * 79) Troxler (Disambiguation)
 * 80) Troxler's fading
 * 81) Two-body problem (disambiguation) (replaced by list of articles at Two-body problem)
 * 82) Urte
 * 83) Verdell Smith (boxer) (now Verdell Smith)
 * 84) Verdelle Smith (Disambiguation)
 * 85) Verdelle Smith (Singer)
 * 86) Wagon-wheel effect
 * 87) Wike's law of low odd primes
 * 88) WriteNow
 * 89) Zograscope (also diagonal mirror, optical pillar machine, and optical diagonal machine as redirects)
 * 1) Zograscope (also diagonal mirror, optical pillar machine, and optical diagonal machine as redirects)

Substantial revisions I have made include:


 * 1) Ames Room
 * 2) Anticrepuscular rays
 * 3) Atmospheric optics (the introductory part)
 * 4) Autostereogram
 * 5) Barry Ryan (singer)
 * 6) Breaststroke
 * 7) Far point
 * 8) Gerald Westheimer
 * 9) Horopter
 * 10) Hyperalgesia
 * 11) Michael Corballis
 * 12) Philosophische Studien with redirect for Psychologische Studien
 * 13) Psychophysics (the introductory part)
 * 14) Richie Poulton (Early life, University education and career, and Personal life)
 * 15) Schultüte (also Zuckertüte as a redirect)
 * 16) Transcranial Doppler
 * 17) University of Queensland (Foundation of the university)
 * 18) Valentino Braitenberg
 * 19) Watercolor illusion
 * 20) Wu Lien-teh (Personal life)

Significant revisions I have made include:


 * 1) AMP Limited (History section, and AMP Banking as a redirect)
 * 2) Angus Young (mainly Early life)
 * 3) Anne Treisman
 * 4) Aurora
 * 5) Bad Dürrenberg (History section)
 * 6) Café wall illusion (contribution of Münsterberg, 1894, 1897)
 * 7) Cape Raoul
 * 8) Carl Bergmann (anatomist)
 * 9) Cathy Freeman
 * 10) Colin Blakemore
 * 11) Dynamic assessment
 * 12) Empiricism (the early history)
 * 13) G. Stanley Hall
 * 14) Gustav Fechner
 * 15) Jack Pettigrew
 * 16) Julian Hochberg
 * 17) Pick-up sticks
 * 18) Pioneer River (mainly Pioneer Valley section)
 * 19) Random dot stereogram (mainly Illustrative example)
 * 20) Retinal ganglion cell
 * 21) Rhyl Hinwood
 * 22) Sonic Healthcare (mainly History section)
 * 23) Spicks and Specks (TV series)
 * 24) Split-brain (to information about JW)
 * 25) Sprite (lightning)
 * 26) The Kangaroo Chronicles (the Movie section)
 * 27) Thunder
 * 28) Shepard tone (the Examples)
 * 29) Wilhelm Wundt
 * 30) William Forgan Smith (with redirect from Forgan-Smith)