COMING SOON
Colonised Minds:
Narratives That Shape Psychology
- This book reveals the historical power structures that shape Western psychology, and examines how some ideas were allowed to flourish while others were suppressed, censored, or left behind.
Akira O'Connor
Memory researcher. Race Equality Charter Chair.
Londoner in Scotland, via Leeds and St Louis.
Publications
2024
- O'Connor AR & Robbins EE (2024). Colonised Minds: Narratives That Shape Psychology. Sage [publisher link]
2023
- Aitken, CBA Jentzsch I, O’Connor AR (2023). Towards a conflict account of déjà vu: The role of memory errors and memory expectation conflict in the experience of déjà vu. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 155, 15467 [doi] [pdf]
- Lamers James RG & O'Connor AR (2023). Impact of focus of attention on aiming performance in the first-person shooter videogame Aim Lab. PLoS ONE, 18(7), e0288937. [doi] [pdf]
- Harris CB & O'Connor AR (2023). On the same wavelength: The impact of other-generated cues on the reported retrieval processes and qualities of autobiographical memories. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12(1), 82-93. [doi] [pdf]
2022
- Persson BM, Ambrozova V, Duncan S, Wood ER, O'Connor AR & Ainge, JA (2022). Lateral entorhinal cortex lesions impair odor-context associative memory in male rats. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 100(4), 1030-1046. [doi] [pdf]
- O'Connor AR & Moulin CJA (Eds) (2022). Déjà vu and Other Dissociative States in Memory. Routledge [publisher link]
2021
- Ameen-Ali KE, Sivakumaran M, Eacott MJ, O’Connor AR, Ainge JA, & Easton A (2021). Perirhinal cortex and the recognition of relative familiarity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 182, 107439 [doi] [pdf]
- Wells CE, O’Connor AR & Moulin CJA (2021). Déjà vu experiences in anxiety. Memory, 29(7), 895-903 [doi] [pdf]
- Urquhart JA, Sivakumaran MH, Macfarlane JA & O’Connor AR (2021). fMRI evidence supporting the role of memory conflict in the déjà vu experience. Memory, 29(7), 921-932. [doi] [pdf]
- Moulin CJA, Bell N, Turunen M, Baharin A & O’Connor AR (2021). The the the the induction of jamais vu in the laboratory: Word alienation and semantic satiation. Memory, 29(7), 933-942. [doi] [pdf]
2020
- Kuruvilla M, O’Connor AR & Ainge JA (2020) Distance rather than location-based temporal judgements are more accurate during episodic recall in a real world task. Memory, 28(6)*, 783-794. [doi] [pdf]
- Aitken CB & O’Connor AR (2020). Converging on an understanding of the déjà vu experience. In A Cleary & B Schwartz (Eds) Memory Quirks: The Study of Odd Phenomena in Memory. New York: Routledge. [doi]
- Sweetman R, Hadfield A, O’Connor AR. (2020) Material culture, museums and memory: Experiments in visitor recall and memory. Visitor Studies, 23(1), 18-45. [doi] [pdf]
2018
- Liverakos K, McIntosh K, Moulin CJA & O’Connor AR (2018). How accurate are runners’ prospective predictions of their race times? PLoS ONE. [doi] [pdf]
- Sivakumaran MH, Mackenzie AK, Callan IR, Ainge JA & O’Connor AR (2018). The discrimination ratio derived from novel object recognition tasks as a measure of recognition memory sensitivity, not bias. Scientific Reports. [doi] [pdf]
- Urquhart JA & O’Connor AR (2018). Constructing and model-fitting receiver operator characteristics using continuous data. PsyArXiv. [doi] [pdf]
2017
- Jersakova R, Allen RJ, Booth J, Souchay C & O’Connor AR (2017). Understanding metacognitive confidence: Insights from judgment-of-learning justifications. Journal of Memory and Language, 97, 187-207. [doi] [pdf]
- Kempnich M, Urquhart, JA, O’Connor AR & Moulin CJA (2017). Evidence for the contribution of a threshold retrieval process to semantic memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(10), 2026-2047. [doi] [pdf with supplementary information]
- Rathbone CJ, O’Connor AR & Moulin CJA (2017) The tracks of my years: Personal significance contributes to the reminiscence bump. Memory and Cognition, 45(1), 137-150. [doi] [pdf]
2016
- Mill RD, O’Connor AR & Dobbins IG (2016). Pupil dilation during recognition memory: Isolating unexpected recognition from judgment uncertainty. Cognition, 154, 81-94. [doi] [pdf]
- Persson BM, Ainge JA & O’Connor AR (2016). Disambiguating past events: Accurate source memory for time and context depends on different retrieval processes. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 132, 40-48. [doi] [pdf]
- Jersakova R, Moulin CJA & O’Connor AR (2016). Investigating the role of assessment method on reports of déjà vu and tip-of-the-tongue states during standard recognition tests. PLoS ONE, 11(4), e0154334. [doi] [pdf]
- Noreen S, O’Connor AR & MacLeod MD (2016). Neural Correlates of Direct and Indirect Suppression of Autobiographical Memories. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:379. [doi] [pdf]
2015
- Mill RD, Cavin I & O’Connor AR (2015). Differentiating the functional contributions of resting connectivity networks to memory decision-making: fMRI support for multi-stage control processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 1617-1632. [doi] [pdf with supplementary information]
- Harris CB, O’Connor AR & Sutton J (2015). Cue generation or memory construction in direct and generative autobiographical memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 33, 204-216. [doi] [pdf]
- Jersakova R, O’Connor AR & Moulin CJA (2015). What’s new in déjà vu? In S Haque & E Sheppard (Eds) Culture and Cognition: A collection of critical essays. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. [doi] [pdf]
2014
- Urquhart JA & O’Connor AR (2014). The awareness of novelty for strangely familiar words: A laboratory analogue of the déjà vu experience. PeerJ. [doi] [pdf]
- Mill RD & O’Connor AR (2014). Question format shifts bias away from the emphasised response in tests of recognition memory. Consciousness & Cognition, 30, 91-104. [doi] [pdf]
2013
- O’Connor AR & Moulin CJA (2013). Déjà vu experiences in healthy subjects are unrelated to laboratory tests of recollection and familiarity for word stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:881. [doi] [pdf]
- Gradin V, Waiter G, O’Connor AR, Romaniuk L, Stickle C, Matthews K, Hall J, Steele D (2013). Salience network-midbrain dysconnectivity and blunted reward signals in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 211(2), 104-111. [doi] [pdf]
2012
- Jaeger A, Selmeczy D, O’Connor AR, Diaz M & Dobbins IG (2012). Prefrontal cortex contributions to controlled memory judgment: fMRI evidence from adolescents and young adults. Neuropsychologia, 50, 3745-3756. [doi] [pdf]
- O’Connor AR (2012) Book Review – Delete: The virtue of forgetting in the digital age. Memory Studies, 4, 504-506 [doi] [pdf]
- Illman NA, Moulin CJA, O’Connor AR, Chauvel P (2012). Déjà experiences in Epilepsy: Contributions from memory research. In A. Zeman et al. (Eds) Epilepsy and Memory The State of the Art*. Oxford University Press. [doi] [pdf]
- Han S, O’Connor AR, Eslick A & Dobbins IG (2012). The role of left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex during episodic decisions: Semantic elaboration or resolution of episodic interference? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(1), 223-234. [doi] [pdf]
2011
- O’Connor AR, Guhl EN, Cox JC & Dobbins IG (2011). Some memories are odder than others: Judgments of episodic oddity violate known decision rules. Journal of Memory and Language, 64(4), 299-315. [doi] [pdf]
2010
- O’Connor AR, Han S & Dobbins IG (2010). The inferior parietal lobule and recognition memory: Expectancy violation or successful retrieval? The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(8), 2924-2934. [doi] [pdf]
- O’Connor AR & Moulin CJA (2010). Recognition without identification, erroneous familiarity, and déjà vu. Current Psychiatry Reports, 12(3), 165-173. [doi] [pdf]
- O’Connor AR, Lever C & Moulin CJA (2010). Novel insights into false recollection: A model of déjà vécu. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 15, 118-144. [doi] [pdf]
2008
- O’Connor AR & Moulin CJA (2008). The persistence of erroneous familiarity in an epileptic male: Challenging perceptual theories of déjà vu activation. Brain and Cognition, 68, 144-147. [doi] [pdf]
- Barnier AJ, Cox RE, O’Connor AR, Coltheart M, Langdon R, Breen N, & Turner M (2008). Developing hypnotic analogues of clinical delusions: Mirrored-self misidentification. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13, 406-430. [doi] [pdf]
- O’Connor AR, Barnier AJ & Cox RE (2008). Déjà vu in the laboratory: A behavioral and experiential comparison of posthypnotic amnesia and posthypnotic familiarity. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(4), 425-450. [doi] [pdf]
- O’Connor AR, Moulin CJA & Cohen G (2008). Memory and consciousness. In G. Cohen, & M.A. Conway (Eds.), Memory in the Real World (3rd Edition). Hove: Psychology Press. [doi] [pdf]
- O’Connor AR (2008) Politics and peer review. The Psychologist, 21(9), 752. [pdf]
2006
- O’Connor AR, & Moulin CJA (2006). Normal patterns of déjà experience in a healthy, blind male: Challenging optical pathway delay theory. Brain and Cognition 62(3), 246-249. [doi] [pdf]
- Moulin CJA, Turunen M, Salter AJA, O’Connor AR, Conway MA, & Jones RW (2006). Recollective confabulation: Persistent déjà vecu in dementia. Helix Review Series, 2, 10-15.