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Papers (all papers are downloadable as pdf documents)

 

in press

Cai, Z. G., & Connell, L. (in press). 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., Cai, Z. G., & Holler, J. (in press). 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. (in press). 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.

 

Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (in press). 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.

 

Lynott, D., Kansai, H., Connell, L., & O'Brien, K. S. (in press). 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.

2012

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

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]
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.