Prof Louise Connell
Biography
Professor Louise Connell is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, who specialises in interdisciplinary research in cognition and cognitive science. She has published widely on the nature of mental representations and concepts, and her current work investigates the role of sensorimotor experience and linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition, using a combination of methods from experimental psychology, corpus linguistics, data sciences, and computational modelling. She is also a strong proponent of open science practices.
Her research has been funded by the European Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, and the UK's Economic & Social Research Council. She currently holds a Science Foundation Ireland Public Service Fellowship.
A graduate of Dublin City University (BSc), University of Edinburgh (MSc) and University College Dublin (PhD), she held faculty positions in the UK at Northumbria University, University of Manchester, and Lancaster University, before moving to Maynooth University in 2021.
Research Interests
- Mental representation: how semantic memory and conceptual thought emerges from the interplay of linguistic distributional knowledge and simulation of sensorimotor and affective experience.
- Language and cognition: how language supports the complexity of human cognitive processing, and how this support varies by individual and age.
- Computational cognition: how insights from psychology (cognitive, experimental, and neuro), linguistics (psycho-, corpus, and computational), and artificial intelligence (machine learning, data sciences, and computational modelling) can inform an interdisciplinary psychological science.
Research Projects
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2024 | Connell, L.; Lynott, D. (2024) 'What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?'. Current Directions in Psychological Science, . [Link] [DOI] | |
2024 | Banks, B.; Connell, L. (2024) 'Access to Inner Language Enhances Memory for Events'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, . [Link] [DOI] | |
2024 | van Hoef, R.; Lynott, D.; Connell, L. (2024) 'Timed picture naming norms for 800 photographs of 200 objects in English'. Behavior Research Methods, . [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | Dymarska, A.; Connell, L.; Banks, B. (2023) 'More Is Not Necessarily Better: How Different Aspects of Sensorimotor Experience Affect Recognition Memory for Words'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, . [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | Banks, B.; Connell, L. (2023) 'Multi-dimensional sensorimotor grounding of concrete and abstract categories'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | van Hoef, R.; Connell, L.; Lynott, D. (2023) 'The effects of sensorimotor and linguistic information on the basic-level advantage'. Cognition, 241 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | Dymarska A.; Connell L.; Banks B. (2023) 'Weaker than you might imagine: Determining imageability effects on word recognition'. Journal of Memory and Language, 129 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | Lynott, D.; Corker, K.; Connell, L.; O'Brien, K. (2023) 'The effects of temperature on prosocial and antisocial behaviour: A review and meta-analysis'. British Journal of Social Psychology, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2022 | Banks B.; Connell L. (2022) 'Multi-dimensional sensorimotor grounding of concrete and abstract categories'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378 (1870). [Link] http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0366 | |
2022 | Dymarska, A; Connell, L; Banks, B (2022) 'Linguistic Bootstrapping Allows More Real-world Object Concepts to Be Held in Mind'. Collabra: Psychology, 8 (1). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.40171 | |
2022 | Wingfield C.; Connell L. (2022) 'Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition'. Language, Cognition And Neuroscience, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2022 | Wingfield C.; Connell L. (2022) 'Sensorimotor distance: A grounded measure of semantic similarity for 800 million concept pairs'. Behavior Research Methods, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2022 | Banks B; Connell L; (2022) 'Category production norms for 117 concrete and abstract categories'. Behavior Research Methods, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2021 | Banks B.; Wingfield C.; Connell L. (2021) 'Linguistic Distributional Knowledge and Sensorimotor Grounding both Contribute to Semantic Category Production'. Cognitive Science, 45 (10). [Link] [DOI] | |
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'. Behavior Research Methods, 52 (3). [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | 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, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Louise Connell; Dermot Lynott; Briony Banks; (2018) 'Interoception: The forgotten modality in perceptual grounding of abstract and concrete concepts'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Louise Connell; (2018) 'What have labels ever done for us? The linguistic shortcut in conceptual processing'. Language, Cognition And Neuroscience, . [DOI] | |
2017 | Dermot Lynott; Katherine S. Corker; Louise Connell; Kerry S. O'Brien; (2017) 'The effect of haptic and ambient temperature experience on prosocial behavior'. Archives Of Scientific Psychology, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Louise Connell; Dermot Lynott; (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, . [DOI] | |
2016 | Wagenmakers, E. -J.; Beek, Titia; Dijkhoff, Laura; Gronau, Quentin F.; (2016) 'Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988)'. Perspectives on Psychological Science, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Cai, Z.G.; Connell, L.; (2016) 'On magnitudes in memory: An internal clock account of space-time interaction'. Acta Psychologica, . [DOI] | |
2015 | Cai, Zhenguang G.; Connell, Louise; (2015) 'Space-time interdependence: Evidence against asymmetric mapping between time and space'. Cognition, . [DOI] | |
2014 | Katherine S. Corker; Dermot Lynott; Jessica Wortman; Louise Connell; M. Brent Donnellan; Richard E. Lucas; Kerry S. O'Brien; (2014) 'High quality direct replications matter: response to Williams (2014)'. Social psychology, . [DOI] | |
2014 | Louise Connell; Dermot Lynott; (2014) 'Principles of representation: Why you can't represent the same concept twice'. Topics in Cognitive Science, . [DOI] | |
2014 | Connell, Louise,Lynott, Dermot (2014) 'I see/hear what you mean: Semantic activation in visual word recognition depends on perceptual attention'. 143 (2). | |
2014 | Dermot Lynott; Katherine Corker; Jessica Wortman; Louise Connell; M. Brent Donnellan; Richard Lucas; Kerry S. O'Brien; (2014) 'Replication of Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth by Williams & Bargh (2008)'. Social psychology, . [DOI] | |
2013 | Adank, Patti; Stewart, Andrew J.; Connell, Louise; Wood, Jeffrey; (2013) 'Accent imitation positively affects language attitudes'. Frontiers in Psychology, . [DOI] | |
2013 | Dermot Lynott; Louise Connell; Judith Holler; (2013) 'The role of body and environment in cognition'. Frontiers in Psychology, . [DOI] | |
2013 | Haigh, Matthew; Stewart, Andrew J.; Connell, Louise; (2013) 'Reasoning as we read: Establishing the probability of causal conditionals'. Memory and Cognition, . [DOI] | |
2013 | Louise Connell; Dermot Lynott; (2013) 'Flexible and fast: Linguistic shortcut affects both shallow and deep conceptual processing'. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, . [DOI] | |
2013 | Connell, Louise; Cai, Zhenguang G.; Holler, Judith; (2013) 'Do you see what I'm singing? Visuospatial movement biases pitch perception'. Brain and Cognition, . [DOI] | |
2013 | Dermot Lynott; Louise Connell; (2013) 'Modality exclusivity norms for 400 nouns'. Behavior Research Methods, . [DOI] | |
2013 | Lynott, Dermot; Connell, Louise; (2013) 'Modality exclusivity norms for 400 nouns: The relationship between perceptual experience and surface word form'. Behavior Research Methods, . [DOI] | |
2013 | Cai, Zhenguang G.; Connell, Louise; Holler, Judith; (2013) 'Time does not flow without language: Spatial distance affects temporal duration regardless of movement or direction'. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, . [DOI] | |
2012 | Connell, Louise,Lynott, Dermot (2012) 'Strength of perceptual experience predicts word processing performance better than concreteness or imageability'. 125 (3):452-465. | |
2012 | Connell, Louise,Lynott, Dermot (2012) 'When does perception facilitate or interfere with conceptual processing? The effect of attentional modulation'. 3 . | |
2012 | Connell, Louise; Lynott, Dermot; Dreyer, Felix (2012) 'A Functional Role for Modality-Specific Perceptual Systems in Conceptual Representations'. PLoS ONE, . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033321 | |
2011 | Haigh, Matthew; Stewart, Andrew J.; Wood, Jeffrey S.; Connell, Louise; (2011) 'Conditional advice and inducements: Are readers sensitive to implicit speech acts during comprehension?'. Acta Psychologica, . [DOI] | |
2011 | Louwerse, Max; Connell, Louise; (2011) 'A Taste of Words: Linguistic Context and Perceptual Simulation Predict the Modality of Words'. Cognitive Science, . [DOI] | |
2011 | Louise Connell; Dermot Lynott; (2011) 'Modality switching costs emerge in concept creation as well as retrieval'. Cognitive Science, . [DOI] | |
2010 | Dermot Lynott, Louise Connell (2010) 'The effect of prosody on conceptual combination'. Cognitive Science, . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01119.x | |
2010 | Connell, Louise; Lynott, Dermot; (2010) 'Look but don't touch: Tactile disadvantage in processing modality-specific words'. Cognition, . [DOI] | |
2010 | Dermot Lynott; Louise Connell; (2010) 'Embodied conceptual combination'. Frontiers in Psychology, . [DOI] | |
2009 | Lynott, Dermot,Connell, Louise (2009) 'Modality exclusivity norms for 423 object properties'. 41 (2):558-564. | |
2009 | Louise Connell; Dermot Lynott; (2009) 'Is a bear white in the woods? Parallel representation of implied object color during language comprehension'. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, . https://doi.org/10.3758/pbr.16.3.573 | |
2007 | Connell, Louise; (2007) 'Representing object colour in language comprehension'. Cognition, . [DOI] | |
2006 | Connell, L; Keane, MT; (2006) 'A model of plausibility'. Cognitive Science, . [DOI] | |
2004 | Connell, L; Keane, MT; (2004) 'What plausibly affects plausibility? Concept coherence and distributional word coherence as factors influencing plausibility judgments'. Memory and Cognition, . [DOI] |