Dr Richard O'Connor's Outputs (12)

Mechanisms underpinning the gestural facilitation of second language word learning: an investigation through speeded and un-speeded tasks (2024)
Thesis
Minton-Branfoot, E. (2024). Mechanisms underpinning the gestural facilitation of second language word learning: an investigation through speeded and un-speeded tasks. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4913290

Vocabulary learning is one of the many challenges faced by second language learners, particularly when full immersion is not available. Iconic gesture cues have been found to provide benefits in such learning. However, the full extent of the gesture... Read More about Mechanisms underpinning the gestural facilitation of second language word learning: an investigation through speeded and un-speeded tasks.

Social intuition: behavioral and neurobiological considerations (2024)
Journal Article
Jellema, T., Macinska, S. T., O’Connor, R. J., & Skodova, T. (2024). Social intuition: behavioral and neurobiological considerations. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1336363. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1336363

Social intuition is instrumental in bringing about successful human interactions, yet its behavioral and neural underpinnings are still poorly understood. We focus in this article on the automatic, involuntary, nature of social intuition, rather than... Read More about Social intuition: behavioral and neurobiological considerations.

Rethinking egocentric bias: A computer mouse-tracking study of adult belief processing (2023)
Journal Article
O'Connor, R. J., Lucas, A., & Riggs, K. J. (2024). Rethinking egocentric bias: A computer mouse-tracking study of adult belief processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(2), 307-327. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001485

Several theories of belief processing assume that processing another's false belief requires overcoming an egocentric bias toward one's current knowledge. The current evidence in support of this claim, however, is limited. In order to investigate the... Read More about Rethinking egocentric bias: A computer mouse-tracking study of adult belief processing.

The effect of survival processing on memory for pictures depends on how memory is tested (2023)
Journal Article
Dewhurst, S. A., Anderson, R. J., O’Connor, R. J., & Dean, G. (in press). The effect of survival processing on memory for pictures depends on how memory is tested. Memory, https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2171436

Two experiments investigated the effects of survival processing on memory for pictures of objects. In experiment 1, participants were presented with 32 pictures of common objects and rated them for their relevance to a survival scenario, a moving hom... Read More about The effect of survival processing on memory for pictures depends on how memory is tested.

Decision times in orthographic processing: a cross-linguistic study (2023)
Journal Article
Mauti, M., Marinelli, C. V., O’Connor, R. J., Zoccolotti, P., & Martelli, M. (2023). Decision times in orthographic processing: a cross-linguistic study. Experimental Brain Research, 241, 585–599. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06542-0

Reading comparisons across transparent and opaque orthographies indicate critical differences that may reveal the mechanisms involved in orthographic decoding across orthographies. Here, we address the role of criterion and speed of processing in acc... Read More about Decision times in orthographic processing: a cross-linguistic study.

Autistic Adults Show Similar Performance and Sensitivity to Social Cues on a Visual Perspective Taking Task as Non-autistic Adults (2022)
Journal Article
O’Connor, R. J., Plant, J. L., & Riggs, K. J. (in press). Autistic Adults Show Similar Performance and Sensitivity to Social Cues on a Visual Perspective Taking Task as Non-autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05480-8

Autistic and non-autistic adults completed a visual perspective taking (VPT) task, reporting an object’s location from an actor’s perspective, or their own. On half the trials the actor looked at and reached for the object, and on half did not. Accur... Read More about Autistic Adults Show Similar Performance and Sensitivity to Social Cues on a Visual Perspective Taking Task as Non-autistic Adults.

Stroop interference is a composite phenomenon: Evidence from distinct developmental trajectories of its components (2019)
Journal Article
Ferrand, L., Ducrot, S., Chausse, P., Maïonchi‐Pino, N., O’Connor, R. J., Parris, B. A., Perret, P., Riggs, K. J., & Augustinova, M. (2020). Stroop interference is a composite phenomenon: Evidence from distinct developmental trajectories of its components. Developmental Science, 23(2), Article e12899. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12899

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Only one previous developmental study of Stroop task performance (Schiller, 1966) has controlled for differences in processing speed that exist both within and between age groups. Therefore, the question of whether the... Read More about Stroop interference is a composite phenomenon: Evidence from distinct developmental trajectories of its components.

Adult Fast-Mapping Memory Research Is Based on a Misinterpretation of Developmental-Word-Learning Data (2019)
Journal Article
O'Connor, R., & Riggs, K. J. (2019). Adult Fast-Mapping Memory Research Is Based on a Misinterpretation of Developmental-Word-Learning Data. Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society, 28(6), 528-533. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419858426

© The Author(s) 2019. Fast mapping is often used to refer to children’s remarkable ability to learn the meanings of new words with minimal exposure and in ambiguous contexts. It is one thing to claim that children are capable of learning words this w... Read More about Adult Fast-Mapping Memory Research Is Based on a Misinterpretation of Developmental-Word-Learning Data.

Why would a special FM process exist in adults, when it does not appear to exist in children? (2019)
Journal Article
O’Connor, R. J., Lindsay, S., Mather, E., & Riggs, K. J. (2019). Why would a special FM process exist in adults, when it does not appear to exist in children?. Cognitive neuroscience, 10(4), 221-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2019.1574260

Cooper Greve, and Henson (this issue)  caution restraint before accepting that a fast mapping (FM) process exists in adults. We welcome this, but would also add that the original rationale for studying FM in adults is not currently supported by devel... Read More about Why would a special FM process exist in adults, when it does not appear to exist in children?.

Automatic visual-spatial perspective taking in alcohol-dependence: A study with happy emotional faces (2018)
Journal Article
Cox, S., Maurage, P., O'Connor, R., Chandler, C., & Riggs, K. (2018). Automatic visual-spatial perspective taking in alcohol-dependence: A study with happy emotional faces. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 190, 42-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.05.025

Background: Understanding the world from another’s perspective is an important and potentially automatic human process which is crucial for efficient social interactions. However, whilst deficits have been repeatedly described for various interperson... Read More about Automatic visual-spatial perspective taking in alcohol-dependence: A study with happy emotional faces.

Understanding the effects of one’s actions upon hidden objects and the development of search behaviour in 7-month-old infants (2014)
Journal Article
O'Connor, R. J., & Russell, J. (2015). Understanding the effects of one’s actions upon hidden objects and the development of search behaviour in 7-month-old infants. Developmental Science, 18(5), 824-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12265

Infants' understanding of how their actions affect the visibility of hidden objects may be a crucial aspect of the development of search behaviour. To investigate this possibility, 7-month-old infants took part in a two-day training study. At the sta... Read More about Understanding the effects of one’s actions upon hidden objects and the development of search behaviour in 7-month-old infants.

Event-related potential evidence for separable automatic and controlled retrieval processes in proactive interference (2012)
Journal Article
Li, M. K., Bergström, Z. M., O'Connor, R. J., Li, M. K.-H., & Simons, J. S. (2012). Event-related potential evidence for separable automatic and controlled retrieval processes in proactive interference. Brain research, 1455, 90-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2012.03.043

Interference between competing memories is a major source of retrieval failure, yet, surprisingly little is known about how competitive memory activation arises in the brain. One possibility is that interference during episodic retrieval might be pro... Read More about Event-related potential evidence for separable automatic and controlled retrieval processes in proactive interference.