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Papers (all papers are downloadable as pdf documents)

 

2020

Lynott, D., Connell, L., Brysbaert, M., Brand, J., & Carney, J. (2020). The Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms: Multidimensional measures of perceptual and action strength for 40,000 English words.. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.

2019

Connell, L. (2019). What have labels ever done for us? The linguistic shortcut in conceptual processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34, 1308-1318.

 

Lynott, D., Walsh, M., McEnery, T., Connell, L., Cross, L., & O'Brien, K. (2019). Are you what you read? Predicting implicit attitudes to immigration based on linguistic distributional cues from newspaper readership; a pre-registered study. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, article 842.

2018

Connell, L., Lynott, D., & Banks, B. (2018). Interoception: The forgotten modality in perceptual grounding of abstract and concrete concepts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373, 1-9.

2017

Lynott, D., Corker, K. S., Connell, L., & O'Brien, K. S. (2017). The effect of haptic and ambient temperature experience on prosocial behavior. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 5, 10-18.

2016

Cai, Z. G., & Connell, L. (2016). On magnitudes in memory: An internal clock account of the effect of space on time. Acta Psychologica, 168, 1-11.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2016). Do we know what we're simulating? Information loss on transferring unconscious perceptual simulation to conscious imagery. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 1218-1232.

 

Wagenmakers, E.-J., Beek, T., Dijkhoff, L., Gronau, Q. F., Acosta, A., Adams, R. B., Jr., Albohn, D. N., Allard, E. S., Benning, S. D., Blouin-Hudon, E.-M., Bulnes, L. C., Caldwell, T. L., Calin- Jageman, R. J., Capaldi, C. A., Carfagno, N. S., Chasten, K. T., Cleeremans, A., Connell, L., DeCicco, J. M., Dijkstra, K., Fischer, A. H., Foroni, F., Hess, U., Holmes, K. J., Jones, J. L. H., Klein, O., Koch, C., Korb, S., Lewinski, P., Liao, J. D., Lund, S., Lupianez, J., Lynott, D., Nance, C. N., Oosterwijk, S., Ozdogru, A. A., Pacheco-Unguetti, A. P., Pearson, B., Powis, C., Riding, S., Roberts, T.-A., Rumiati, R. I., Senden, M., Shea-Shumsky, N. B., Sobocko, K., Soto, J. A., Steiner, T. G., Talarico, J. M., van Allen, Z. M., Vandekerckhove, M., Wainwright, B., Wayand, J. F., Zeelenberg, R., Zetzer, E. E., Zwaan, R. A. (2016). Registered replication report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 917-928.

2015

Cai, Z. G., & Connell, L. (2015). Space-time interdependence: Evidence against asymmetric mapping between time and space. Cognition, 136, 268-281.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2015). Embodied semantic effects in visual word recognition. In Y. Coello, & M. Fischer (Eds.), Foundations of Embodied Cognition (Vol. 2): Conceptual and Interactive Embodiment (pp. 71-89). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

2014

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2014). I see/hear what you mean: semantic activation in visual word recognition depends on perceptual attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 527-533.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2014). Principles of representation: Why you can't represent the same concept twice. Topics in Cognitive Science, 6, 390-406.

 

Corker, K. S., Lynott, D., Wortman, J., Connell, L., Donnellan, M. B., Lucas, R. E., & O'Brien, K. S. (2014). High quality direct replications matter: Response to Williams (2014). Social Psychology.

 

Lynott, D., Corker, K. S., Wortman, J., Connell, L., Donnellan, M. B., Lucas, R. E., & O'Brien, K. S. (2014). Replication of "Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth" by Williams & Bargh (2008). Social Psychology, 45, 216-222.

2013

Adank, P., Stewart, A. J., Connell, L., & Wood, J. (2013). Accent imitation positively affects language attitudes. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(280), 1-10.

 

Cai, Z. G., Connell, L., & Holler, J. (2013). Time does not flow without language: Spatial distance affects temporal duration regardless of movement or direction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 973-980.

 

Connell, L., Cai, Z. H., & Holler, J. (2013). Do you see what I'm singing? Visuospatial movement biases pitch perception. Brain and Cognition, 81, 124-130.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2013). Flexible and fast: Linguistic shortcut affects both shallow and deep conceptual processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 542-550.

 

Haigh, M., Stewart, A. J., & Connell, L. (2013). Reasoning as we read: Establishing the probability of non-basic conditionals. Memory & Cognition, 41, 152-158.

 

Lynott, D., & Connell, L. (2013). Modality exclusivity norms for 400 nouns: The relationship between perceptual experience and surface word form. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 516-526.
  [download norms]  [Larger set of norms available here]

 

Lynott, D., Connell, L., & Holler, J. (2013). The role of body and environment in cognition. Frontiers in Psychology 4:465. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00465.

2012

Cai, Z. G., & Connell, L. (2012). Space-time interdependence and sensory modalities: Time affects space in the hand but not in the eye. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2012). Strength of perceptual experience predicts word processing performance better than concreteness or imageability. Cognition, 125, 452-465.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2012). When does perception facilitate or interfere with conceptual processing? The effect of attentional modulation.. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(474), 1-3.

 

Connell, L., Lynott, D., & Dreyer, F. (2012). A functional role for modality-specific perceptual systems in conceptual representations. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e33321.

 

Connell, L., Cai, Z. G., & Holler, J. (2012). Do you see what I'm singing? Visuospatial movement biases pitch perception. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2012). Strength of perceptual experience predicts word processing performance better than concreteness or imageability. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2012). Flexible shortcuts: Linguistic distributional information affects both shallow and deep conceptual processing. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

 

Lynott, D., Kansai, H., Connell, L., & O'Brien, K. S. (2012). Modelling the IAT: Implicit Association Test reflects shallow linguistic environment and not deep personal attitudes. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

2011

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2011). Modality switching costs emerge in concept creation as well as retrieval. Cognitive Science, 35, 763-778.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2011). Interpretation and representation: Testing the embodied oonceptual combination (ECCo) theory. In B. Kokinov, A. Karmiloff-Smith, N. J. Nersessian & (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Cognitive Science, paper 144. Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University Press.

 

Connell, L., Lynott, D., & Dreyer, F. (2011). Touching with the mind's hand: Tactile and proprioceptive stimulation facilitates conceptual size judgements. In B. Kokinov, A. Karmiloff-Smith, N. J. Nersessian & (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Cognitive Science, paper 123. Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University Press.

 

Haigh, M., Stewart, A. J., Wood, J. S., & Connell, L. (2011). Conditional advice and inducements: are readers sensitive to implicit speech acts during comprehension? Acta Psychologica, 136, 419-424.

 

Haigh, M., Wood, J. S., Connell, L., & Stewart, A. J. (2011). Comprehending advice and inducements: Evidence from conditionals and conjunctions In B. Kokinov, A. Karmiloff-Smith, N. J. Nersessian & (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Cognitive Science, paper 146. Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University Press.

 

Louwerse, M. M., & Connell, L. (2011). A taste of words: Linguistic context and perceptual simulation predict the modality of words. Cognitive Science, 35, 381-398.

2010

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2010). Look but don't touch: Tactile disadvantage in processing modality-specific words. Cognition, 115, 1-9.

 

Lynott, D., & Connell, L. (2010). Embodied conceptual combination. Frontiers in Psychology, 1(212), 1-14.

 

Lynott, D., & Connell, L. (2010). The effect of prosody on conceptual combination. Cognitive Science, 34, 1107-1123.

2009 Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2009). Is a bear white in the woods? Parallel representation of implied object color during language comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 573-577.

 

Lynott, D., & Connell, L. (2009). Modality exclusivity norms for 423 object properties. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 558-564.
  [download norms]  [Larger set of norms available here]

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2009). Hard to put your finger on it: Haptic modality disadvantage in conceptual processing. To appear in N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 762-767). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2009). What's big and fluffy but can't be seen? Selective unimodal processing of bimodal property words. To appear in N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1465-1470). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2007 Connell, L. (2007). Representing object colour in language comprehension. Cognition, 102, 476-485.
Connell, L., Rayne, L., & Lynott, D. (2007). Time flew by: Reading about movement of different speeds distorts people's perceptions of time. In S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A. Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference. London, UK: Taylor & Francis.
2006 Connell, L., & Keane, M. T. (2006). A model of plausibility. Cognitive Science, 30, 95-120.
Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2006). Is a bear white in the woods? Effects of implied perceptual information on Stroop color-naming. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1139-1144). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Lynott, D., & Connell, L.(2006). How many rooms in an octopus apartment? Effects of prosody on conceptual combination. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1747-1752). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2005 Connell, L. (2005). Colour and stability in embodied representations. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 482-487). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Connell, L., & Keane, M. T. (2005). Broadening plausibility: A sensitivity analysis of PAM. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 476-481). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Lynott, D., & Connell, L.(2005). Effects of prosody on conceptual combination. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp.1361-1366). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2004 Connell, L., & Keane, M. T. (2004). What plausibly affects plausibility? Concept-coherence &distributional word-coherence as factors influencing plausibilityjudgements. Memory & Cognition, 32 , 185-197.
Connell, L. (2004). Making the implausible plausible. In K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner, T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 244-249). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Connell, L. (2004). A cognitive theory and model of plausibility. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. University College Dublin.
2003 Connell, L., & Keane, M. T. (2003). PAM: A cognitive model of plausibility. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 264-269). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Connell, L., & Keane, M. T. (2003). The knowledge-fitting theory of plausibility. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, (pp. 40-45).
2002 Connell, L., & Keane, M. T. (2002). The roots of plausibility: The role of coherence and distributional knowledge in plausibility judgements. In W. D. Gray & C. D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 998). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2001 Connell, L., & Ramscar, M. J. A. (2001). Using distributional measures to model typicality in categorization. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 226-231). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Connell, L., & Ramscar, M. J. A. (2001). Modeling canonical and contextual typicality using distributional measures. In L. Chen & Y. Zhou (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, (pp. 329-333). USTC Press: Beijing, China.
2000 Connell, L. (2000). Categories, concepts and co-occurrence: Modelling categorisation effects with LSA. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis. University of Edinburgh.