Dr Louise Connell

Senior Lecturer

Research Overview

My research interests surround cognitive science and embodied cognition. Specifically, I'm interested in how mental representations and conceptual thought are grounded and how we access and use these representations in language. Some recent work has examined how modality-specific language (describing what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell) is processed, how information about space and time is represented, how people combine concepts into new entities, and how statistical information from language influences our conceptual processing.

For more information, see my website and the Embodied Cognition Lab.

Space-time interdependence: evidence against asymmetric mapping between time and space
Cai, Z.G., Connell, L. 03/2015 In: Cognition. 136, p. 268-281. 14 p.
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The role of body and environment in cognition
Lynott, D., Connell, L., Holler, J. 08/2014 Frontiers. 267 p. Electronic ISBN: 9782889192625.
Book

Principles of representation: why you can't represent the same concept twice
Connell, L., Lynott, D. 07/2014 In: Topics in Cognitive Science. 6, 3, p. 390-406. 17 p.
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I see/hear what you mean: semantic activation in visual word recognition depends on perceptual attention
Connell, L., Lynott, D. 04/2014 In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 143, 2, p. 527-533. 7 p.
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Commentary and rejoinder on Lynott et al. (2014)
Williams, L.E., Corker, K.S., Lynott, D., Wortman, J., Connell, L., Donnellan, M.B., Lucas, R.E., O'Brien, K.S. 2014 In: Social Psychology. 45, 4, p. 321-326. 6 p.
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Replication of “Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth” by Williams & Bargh (2008)
Lynott, D., Corker, K., Wortman, J., Connell, L., Donnellan, M.B., Lucas, R., O'Brien, K.S. 2014 In: Social Psychology. 45, 3, p. 216-222. 7 p.
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Time does not flow without language: spatial distance affects temporal duration regardless of movement or direction
Cai, Z.G., Connell, L., Holler, J. 10/2013 In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 20, 5, p. 973-980. 8 p.
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The role of body and environment in cognition
Lynott, D., Connell, L., Holler, J. 22/07/2013 In: Frontiers in Psychology. 4, 3 p.
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Flexible and fast: linguistic shortcut affects both shallow and deep conceptual processing
Connell, L., Lynott, D. 06/2013 In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 20, 3, p. 542-550. 9 p.
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Modality exclusivity norms for 400 nouns: the relationship between perceptual experience and surface word form
Lynott, D., Connell, L. 06/2013 In: Behavior Research Methods. 45, 2, p. 516-526. 11 p.
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Accent imitation positively affects language attitudes
Adank, P., Stewart, A.J., Connell, L., Wood, J. 21/05/2013 In: Frontiers in Psychology. 4, 10 p.
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Do you see what I'm singing?: visuospatial movement biases pitch perception
Connell, L., Cai, Z.G., Holler, J. 02/2013 In: Brain and Cognition. 81, 1, p. 124-130. 7 p.
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Reasoning as we read: establishing the probability of causal conditionals
Haigh, M., Stewart, A.J., Connell, L. 01/2013 In: Memory and Cognition. 41, 1, p. 152-158. 7 p.
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Strength of perceptual experience predicts word processing performance better than concreteness or imageability
Connell, L., Lynott, D. 12/2012 In: Cognition. 125, 3, p. 452-465. 14 p.
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When does perception facilitate or interfere with conceptual processing?: the effect of attentional modulation
Connell, L., Lynott, D. 2/11/2012 In: Frontiers in Psychology. 3
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A functional role for modality-specific perceptual systems in conceptual representations
Connell, L., Lynott, D., Dreyer, F. 13/03/2012 In: PLoS ONE. 7, 3, 7 p.
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Modelling the IAT: Implicit Association Test reflects shallow linguistic environment and not deep personal attitudes
Lynott, D., Connell, L., O'Brien, K.S., Kansal, H. 2012 In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX p. 1948-1953. 6 p.
Conference contribution

Modality switching costs emerge in concept creation as well as retrieval
Connell, L., Lynott, D. 05/2011 In: Cognitive Science. 35, 4, p. 763-778. 16 p.
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A taste of words: linguistic context and perceptual simulation predict the modality of words
Louwerse, M., Connell, L. 03/2011 In: Cognitive Science. 35, 2, p. 381-398. 18 p.
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Conditional advice and inducements: are readers sensitive to implicit speech acts during comprehension?
Haigh, M., Stewart, A.J., Wood, J.S., Connell, L. 03/2011 In: Acta Psychologica. 136, 3, p. 419-424. 6 p.
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Embodied conceptual combination
Lynott, D., Connell, L. 25/11/2010 In: Frontiers in Psychology. 1
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The effect of prosody on conceptual combination
Lynott, D., Connell, L. 08/2010 In: Cognitive Science. 34, 6, p. 1107-1123. 17 p.
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Look but don't touch: tactile disadvantage in processing modality-specific words
Connell, L., Lynott, D. 04/2010 In: Cognition. 115, 1, p. 1-9. 9 p.
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Is a bear white in the woods?: parallel representation of implied object color during language comprehension
Connell, L., Lynott, D. 1/06/2009 In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 16, 3, p. 573-577. 5 p.
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Modality exclusivity norms for 423 object properties
Lynott, D., Connell, L. 05/2009 In: Behavior Research Methods. 41, 2, p. 558-564. 7 p.
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Representing object colour in language comprehension
Connell, L. 03/2007 In: Cognition. 102, 3, p. 476-485. 10 p.
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A model of plausibility
Connell, L., Keane, M.T. 2/01/2006 In: Cognitive Science. 30, 1, p. 95-120. 26 p.
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What plausibly affects plausibility?: concept coherence and distributional word coherence as factors influencing plausibility judgments
Connell, L., Keane, M.T. 03/2004 In: Memory and Cognition. 32, 2, p. 185-197. 13 p.
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