N O'Connor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4536392 |
|---|---|
| NOME | N O'Connor |
| PRENOMES | N |
| SOBRENOME | O'Connor |
| ASSINATURA | CONNOR N O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1952 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The efficacy and safety of nutritional supplement use in a representative sample of adults in the North/South Ireland Food Consumption Survey
Objective To describe the current use of nutritional supplements and their contribution to micronutrient intakes in a representative sample of Irish adults, to evaluate the impact of supplement use on the adequacy of micronutrient intakes and to assess the risk to supplement users of exceeding tolerable upper intake levels (UL). Study design and subjects Food intake data were collected in 1379 (662 male and 717 female) randomly selected Irish adu…
The memory structure of autistic idiot-savant mnemonists
The memory organization of six autistic mnemonists was investigated in two experiments. The first of these provided some evidence that the material of special interest to the subjects, in the present instance bus numbers, was stored in memory in a categorized form. The second study showed that though the idiot-savant mnemonists did not differ from controls in the level of their general memory performance, the factor structure of a number of memor…
Visual memory and motor programmes
Artistically gifted children of normal intelligence and idiot-savant artists as well as two groups of IQ-matched controls were tested for their perception of and recognition memory for shapes. They were also tested for their capacity to graphically reproduce the shapes on sight (copying) or from memory. The material consisted of designs of two levels of complexity and structure.Results showed that while IQ was the determining factor in matching a…
Spatial Representations in Mathematically and in Artistically Gifted Children
Mathematically and artistically gifted children and two IQ-matched control groups were compared for their abilities to carry out several types of visual-spatial tasks. One type of task was verbally presented and required a verbally formulated answer, while another was presented visually and the answer involved a choice of one of several visually presented alternatives. Two other types of problem were investigated, and these were respectively conc…
The Reordering of Three‐term Series Problems by Blind and Sighted Children
The experiment compared strategies used by blind and sighted children in attempts to solve two forms of the three‐term series problem. Order of magnitude and temporal order were congruent in one, while in the other they were not. Results showed that both groups of children used a sequential rather than a logical order as a guide in answering questions, and that there was no indication that sighted children used a strategy of spatial coding. Strat…
Children's Judgements of Duration
The ability of young children to distinguish a short from a long duration signal was investigated. The findings were: (1) Though children do not tend to orientate spontaneously towards a temporal stimulus dimension, such orientation increases with specific instructions. (2) The difference between the ability to make non‐temporal as compared with temporal judgements is more marked when visual than when auditory stimuli are given. (3) Duration of l…
Remembering of Words by Psychotic and Subnormal Children
It was predicted that recall of structured and unstructured verbal material would differ less in a group of psychotic children than in subnormal controls. This hypothesis was confirmed. In addition, psychotic children had better recall scores than the controls
Effects of Sensory Input and Sensory Dominance on Severely Disturbed, Autistic Children and on Subnormal Controls
Sensory dominance in children differs with age, development and experience and may be a diagnostic differential in the case of autistic children. This hypothesis was explored in three experiments with autistic children, one concerned with sensory dominance, one with sense discrimination learning and one with the dynamics of this learning process. Imbecile children of the same performance I.Q. were used as controls. The experiments showed that psy…
Recall in normals and subnormals of like mental age
Recognition of Shapes by Normal and Subnormal Children
Normal and subnormal children, matched for mental age, were compared on visual and stereognostic shape recognition. While some subjects were required to explore and recognize the items in the same sensory modality, others had to recognize them in the opposite modality from the one in which they were initially presented. No differences between the conditions were observed in normal children. The imbeciles obtained results similar to those of the n…
The response of chronic schizophrenics to incentives
Lability in Schizophrenia
Paranoid and non‐paranoid schizophrenics and a control group of normal males were matched for age and compared on three measures of lability. Lability was first measured in terms of the ratio of trials to condition and to extinguish or the ratio of trials to extinguish and recondition. Secondly, it was measured in terms of latencies of response before and after extinction, and thirdly in terms of response pressure before and after extinction. The…
Incentives With Paranoid and Non‐paranoid Schizophrenics in a Workshop
Discrimination and reversal learning in imbeciles
Two types of conditioning in psychotics and normals
Communication in a Mental Hospital Population
Reminiscence and Work Decrement in Catatonic and Paranoid Schizophrenics
Organization of a Hospital Workshop for Chronic Psychotic Patients
The part that regular and useful work can play in preventing deterioration in patients who are obliged to spend long years in mental hospitals has long been recognized. Nevertheless, it has required the exer
Changing Population of Mental Hospitals
A number of publications in recent years have pointed out that, as a result of alterations in the laws relating to the care of the insane, of new methods of treatment, and of the changing public attitude to mental illness, important changes have occurred during the last 25 years in the type of patient admitted to hospital, and in the average length of stay. Fitzgerald (1954), Norris (1952), and Harris and Norris (1954) dealt with different aspect…
The Prediction of Psychological Stability and Anxiety-Aggressiveness from a Battery of Tests Administered to a Group of High Grade Male Mental Defectives
Discrimination and reversal learning in imbeciles
The memory structure of autistic idiot-savant mnemonists
The memory organization of six autistic mnemonists was investigated in two experiments. The first of these provided some evidence that the material of special interest to the subjects, in the present instance bus numbers, was stored in memory in a categorized form. The second study showed that though the idiot-savant mnemonists did not differ from controls in the level of their general memory performance, the factor structure of a number of memor…
Spatial Representations in Mathematically and in Artistically Gifted Children
Mathematically and artistically gifted children and two IQ-matched control groups were compared for their abilities to carry out several types of visual-spatial tasks. One type of task was verbally presented and required a verbally formulated answer, while another was presented visually and the answer involved a choice of one of several visually presented alternatives. Two other types of problem were investigated, and these were respectively conc…
Visual memory and motor programmes
Artistically gifted children of normal intelligence and idiot-savant artists as well as two groups of IQ-matched controls were tested for their perception of and recognition memory for shapes. They were also tested for their capacity to graphically reproduce the shapes on sight (copying) or from memory. The material consisted of designs of two levels of complexity and structure.Results showed that while IQ was the determining factor in matching a…
Remembering of Words by Psychotic and Subnormal Children
It was predicted that recall of structured and unstructured verbal material would differ less in a group of psychotic children than in subnormal controls. This hypothesis was confirmed. In addition, psychotic children had better recall scores than the controls
The Prediction of Psychological Stability and Anxiety-Aggressiveness from a Battery of Tests Administered to a Group of High Grade Male Mental Defectives
Changing Population of Mental Hospitals
A number of publications in recent years have pointed out that, as a result of alterations in the laws relating to the care of the insane, of new methods of treatment, and of the changing public attitude to mental illness, important changes have occurred during the last 25 years in the type of patient admitted to hospital, and in the average length of stay. Fitzgerald (1954), Norris (1952), and Harris and Norris (1954) dealt with different aspect…
Organization of a Hospital Workshop for Chronic Psychotic Patients
The part that regular and useful work can play in preventing deterioration in patients who are obliged to spend long years in mental hospitals has long been recognized. Nevertheless, it has required the exer
Communication in a Mental Hospital Population
Reminiscence and Work Decrement in Catatonic and Paranoid Schizophrenics
Lability in Schizophrenia
Paranoid and non‐paranoid schizophrenics and a control group of normal males were matched for age and compared on three measures of lability. Lability was first measured in terms of the ratio of trials to condition and to extinguish or the ratio of trials to extinguish and recondition. Secondly, it was measured in terms of latencies of response before and after extinction, and thirdly in terms of response pressure before and after extinction. The…
Incentives With Paranoid and Non‐paranoid Schizophrenics in a Workshop
Discrimination and reversal learning in imbeciles
Two types of conditioning in psychotics and normals
The response of chronic schizophrenics to incentives
Recognition of Shapes by Normal and Subnormal Children
Normal and subnormal children, matched for mental age, were compared on visual and stereognostic shape recognition. While some subjects were required to explore and recognize the items in the same sensory modality, others had to recognize them in the opposite modality from the one in which they were initially presented. No differences between the conditions were observed in normal children. The imbeciles obtained results similar to those of the n…
Recall in normals and subnormals of like mental age
Effects of Sensory Input and Sensory Dominance on Severely Disturbed, Autistic Children and on Subnormal Controls
Sensory dominance in children differs with age, development and experience and may be a diagnostic differential in the case of autistic children. This hypothesis was explored in three experiments with autistic children, one concerned with sensory dominance, one with sense discrimination learning and one with the dynamics of this learning process. Imbecile children of the same performance I.Q. were used as controls. The experiments showed that psy…
Remembering of Words by Psychotic and Subnormal Children
It was predicted that recall of structured and unstructured verbal material would differ less in a group of psychotic children than in subnormal controls. This hypothesis was confirmed. In addition, psychotic children had better recall scores than the controls
Children's Judgements of Duration
The ability of young children to distinguish a short from a long duration signal was investigated. The findings were: (1) Though children do not tend to orientate spontaneously towards a temporal stimulus dimension, such orientation increases with specific instructions. (2) The difference between the ability to make non‐temporal as compared with temporal judgements is more marked when visual than when auditory stimuli are given. (3) Duration of l…
The Reordering of Three‐term Series Problems by Blind and Sighted Children
The experiment compared strategies used by blind and sighted children in attempts to solve two forms of the three‐term series problem. Order of magnitude and temporal order were congruent in one, while in the other they were not. Results showed that both groups of children used a sequential rather than a logical order as a guide in answering questions, and that there was no indication that sighted children used a strategy of spatial coding. Strat…
Spatial Representations in Mathematically and in Artistically Gifted Children
Mathematically and artistically gifted children and two IQ-matched control groups were compared for their abilities to carry out several types of visual-spatial tasks. One type of task was verbally presented and required a verbally formulated answer, while another was presented visually and the answer involved a choice of one of several visually presented alternatives. Two other types of problem were investigated, and these were respectively conc…
Visual memory and motor programmes
Artistically gifted children of normal intelligence and idiot-savant artists as well as two groups of IQ-matched controls were tested for their perception of and recognition memory for shapes. They were also tested for their capacity to graphically reproduce the shapes on sight (copying) or from memory. The material consisted of designs of two levels of complexity and structure.Results showed that while IQ was the determining factor in matching a…
The memory structure of autistic idiot-savant mnemonists
The memory organization of six autistic mnemonists was investigated in two experiments. The first of these provided some evidence that the material of special interest to the subjects, in the present instance bus numbers, was stored in memory in a categorized form. The second study showed that though the idiot-savant mnemonists did not differ from controls in the level of their general memory performance, the factor structure of a number of memor…
The efficacy and safety of nutritional supplement use in a representative sample of adults in the North/South Ireland Food Consumption Survey
Objective To describe the current use of nutritional supplements and their contribution to micronutrient intakes in a representative sample of Irish adults, to evaluate the impact of supplement use on the adequacy of micronutrient intakes and to assess the risk to supplement users of exceeding tolerable upper intake levels (UL). Study design and subjects Food intake data were collected in 1379 (662 male and 717 female) randomly selected Irish adu…
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