Louise Connell

Biographic Data

ID4268100
NAMELouise Connell
GIVEN NAMESLouise
FAMILY NAMEConnell
SIGNATURECONNELL L
AFFILIATIONSLancaster University
ORCID0000-0002-5291-5267
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • What we mean when we say semantic

    Open AccessJamie Reilly, Cory Shain et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2025

    Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual knowledge galvanized a new era of research undertaken by numerous fields, each with their own idiosyncratic methods and terminology. For example, “concept” has different meanings in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. As such, many fundamental constructs used to delineate…

  • Free word association is driven by local response chaining of linguistic and sensorimotor relationships

    Open AccessAgata Dymarska, Louise ConnellARTICLECognition2025

    Word associates are commonly collected and employed in cognitive and clinical research, yet the precise reasons why a particular word is activated as an associate for a given cue remain unclear. We examined the source of responses in a word association task using linguistic and sensorimotor relationships between words as measures of relatedness, in order to assess whether responses are more likely to be driven by the cue or by preceding associate…

  • Weaker than you might imagine

    Open AccessAgata Dymarska, Louise Connell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Memory and Language2023

    Imageability – the ease of generating a mental image for a word – has been commonly used as a predictor of word recognition but its effects are highly variable across the literature, raising questions about the robustness and stability of the construct. We compared six existing imageability norms in their ability to predict RT and accuracy in lexical decision and word naming across thousands of words. Results showed that, when lexical and sensori…

  • The effects of sensorimotor and linguistic information on the basic-level advantage

    Open AccessRens van Hoef, Louise Connell et al.ARTICLECognition2023

    The basic-level advantage is one of the best-known effects in human categorisation. Traditional accounts argue that basic-level categories present a maximally informative or entry level into a taxonomic organisation of concepts in semantic memory. However, these explanations are not fully compatible with most recent views on the structure of the conceptual system such as linguistic-simulation accounts, which emphasise the dual role of sensorimoto…

  • The Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms

    Open AccessDermot Lynott, Louise Connell et al.ARTICLEBehavior Research Methods2020

    Sensorimotor information plays a fundamental role in cognition. However, the existing materials that measure the sensorimotor basis of word meanings and concepts have been restricted in terms of their sample size and breadth of sensorimotor experience. Here we present norms of sensorimotor strength for 39,707 concepts across six perceptual modalities (touch, hearing, smell, taste, vision, and interoception) and five action effectors (mouth/throat…

  • Mechanisms of change of a novel weight loss programme provided by a third sector organisation

    Open AccessNaoimh E McMahon, Shelina Visram et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    There is an urgent need to establish robust interventions that can support people who are overweight and obese to achieve a healthy weight and maintain this change. Third sector organisations may be a feasible alternative to private and public sector weight loss programmes. We have presented findings from one example of a novel community-based weight loss programme and identified how the programme components resulted in change amongst the partici…

  • Commentary and Rejoinder on

    Lawrence E Williams, Katherine S Corker et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology2014Cited by: 1

  • Replication of "Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth" by

    Open AccessDermot Lynott, Katherine S Corker et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology2014Cited by: 10References: 12

    We report the results of three high-powered, independent replications of Study 2 from Williams and Bargh (2008) . Participants evaluated hot or cold instant therapeutic packs before choosing a reward for participation that was framed as a prosocial (i.e., treat for a friend) or self-interested reward (i.e., treat for the self). Williams and Bargh predicted that evaluating the hot pack would lead to a higher probability of making a prosocial choic…