Patrick Cavanagh has a BEng from McGill University, and a PhD in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has worked on memory and vision research, beginning at the Université de Montréal where he created the Laboratory of Perception. He went on to co-found the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard University where he taught for 20 years and later created the Centre of Attention and Vision at the Université Paris Descartes. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Glendon College in Toronto, a member of CVR at York University, and a Research Professor at Dartmouth College. Cavanagh has pioneered new directions in the areas of spatial and temporal resolution of visual attention. He discovered a distorted perception of position caused by movement and has presented a new theory of position perception based in the cortical and subcortical areas of attention and eye movement control. Cavanagh has also opened new research that uses the properties of art to reveal the functioning of the visual brain.