Prof Akira O'Connor

Prof Akira O'Connor

Professor

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2073
Email
aro2@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

I was state educated at comprehensive schools in Stanmore (NW London) and Watford before obtaining a BSc (Psychology), MSc (Health Psychology) and PhD (supervised by Prof. Chris Moulin) from the University of Leeds.ÌýAfter my PhD, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Washington University in St Louis, where I worked in Prof. Ian Dobbins' lab.ÌýI have held a lecturing position at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø since 2010.Ìý

Research areas

I am interested in cognitive and neural bases of episodic memory judgments. I use cognitive experimental and quantitative data methods as well as fMRI and fcMRI to investigate the way in which we make decisions about our memories. Research themes include sensations of memory (e.g. déjà vu, déjà vécu), memory-expectation conflict (i.e. how we respond to discrepancies between memory and expectation), and the interaction between functional connectivity and task-evoked activation in fMRI studies of memory.

PhD supervision

  • FedericoÌýDe Filippi
  • NancyÌýZheng

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Kempnich, M., Urquhart, J., O'Connor, A. R. & Moulin, C., 1 Oct 2017, In: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 70, 10, p. 2026-2047 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Mill, R. D., O'Connor, A. R. & Dobbins, I., Sept 2016, In: Cognition. 154, p. 81-94

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Jersakova, R., Moulin, C. & O'Connor, A. R., 21 Apr 2016, In: PLoS One. 11, 4, e0154334.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Mill, R. D., Cavin, I. & O'Connor, A. R., 29 Jun 2015, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27, 8, p. 1617-1632

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Mill, R. D. & O'Connor, A. R., Nov 2014, In: Consciousness and Cognition. 30, p. 91-104 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Urquhart, J. & O'Connor, A. R., 11 Nov 2014, In: PeerJ. 20 p., e666.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • O'Connor, A. R., Guhl, E., Cox, J. & Dobbins, I., May 2011, In: Journal of Memory and Language. 64, 4, p. 299-315 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    O'Connor, A. R., Han, S. & Dobbins, I. G., 24 Feb 2010, In: The Journal of Neuroscience. 30, 8, p. 2924-2934 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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