Neil O'Connor
British/Australian psychologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Neil O'Connor was an experimental psychologist, born in Geraldton, Western Australia. He died in 1997 after a traffic incident. Education He studied Philosophy and Experimental Psychology in Oxford and served in India in the Second World War. He became interested in studying the extent to with learning disabled individuals could still learn when studying for a PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry . With Jack Tizard he conducted groundbreaking experiments that showed that these individuals could indeed learn and be employed. This work led to greater awareness of the barriers created by residential care.
Neil O'Connor's Published Works
Published Works
- Psychological Experiments With Autistic Children (1970) (488)
- Functional asymmetry in the reading of Braille. (1971) (186)
- Remembering of words by psychotic and subnormal children. (1967) (171)
- Idiot savant calendrical calculators: rules and regularities (1986) (133)
- Seeing and hearing and space and time (1978) (130)
- An exceptional musical memory. (1985) (108)
- A short scale for rating paranoid schizophrenia. (1959) (77)
- Two autistic savant readers (1994) (74)
- Logico-affective States and Nonverbal Language (1985) (74)
- Idiot savant calendrical calculators: maths or memory? (1984) (66)
- Visual and graphic abilities of the idiot savant artist (1987) (65)
- THE SELECTIVE VISUAL ATTENTION OF PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN (1967) (61)
- Intelligence and musical improvisation (1989) (60)
- Talents and preoccupations in idiots-savants (1991) (58)
- The Spatial or Temporal Organization of Short-Term Memory (1973) (58)
- Low intelligence and special abilities. (1988) (56)
- Spatial representations in mathematically and in artistically gifted children. (1986) (54)
- Speech and thought in severe subnormality. (1965) (54)
- Location and Distance Estimates by Blind and Sighted Children (1975) (52)
- The memory structure of autistic idiot-savant mnemonists. (1989) (52)
- Seeing and hearing and space and space and time (1972) (52)
- Factors and primes: a specific numerical ability (1990) (51)
- Language, cognitive deficits, and retardation (1975) (45)
- Discrimination and reversal learning in imbeciles. (1959) (44)
- Musical inventiveness of five idiots-savants (1987) (43)
- The recall of digits by normal, deaf and autistic children. (1975) (43)
- Art and accuracy: the drawing ability of idiot-savants. (1990) (42)
- Right and Left Handed Reading of Braille (1971) (40)
- Measures of the Occipital Alpha Rhythm in Normal, Subnormal and Autistic Children (1968) (40)
- The social problem of mental deficiency (1956) (40)
- Visual memory and motor programmes: their use by idiot-savant artists and controls. (1987) (40)
- Spatial Coding in Normal, Autistic and Blind Children (1971) (39)
- Recognition of shapes by normal and subnormal children. (1961) (36)
- A specific linguistic ability. (1991) (35)
- The evidence for the permanently disturbing effects of mother child separation (1956) (35)
- Modality-specific spatial coordinates (1975) (35)
- EFFECTS OF SENSORY INPUT AND SENSORY DOMINANCE ON SEVERELY DISTURBED, AUTISTIC CHILDREN AND ON SUBNORMAL CONTROLS. (1964) (35)
- The recognition failure and graphic success of idiot-savant artists. (1990) (33)
- The Response and Self‐Generated Behaviour of Severely Disturbed Children and Severely Subnormal Controls (1963) (33)
- Autistic Conditions in Early Childhood: A Survey in Middlesex (1967) (32)
- Neuropsychology and linguistic talent (1994) (30)
- The 1988 Jansson memorial lecture. The performance of the 'idiot-savant': implicit and explicit. (1989) (28)
- VISUAL IMPERCEPTION IN PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN (1965) (28)
- Cognitive deficits in children. (1971) (27)
- Visual and stereognostic shape recognition in normal children and mongol and non-mongol imbeciles. (1961) (26)
- Backward and Forward Recall by Deaf and Hearing Children (1976) (25)
- Shorter Articles and Notes: Reaction Times to Auditory and Visual Stimulation in Schizophrenic and Normal Subjects (1959) (25)
- Ordering in recognition memory after ambiguous initial or recognition displays. (1973) (24)
- Two types of conditioning in psychotics and normals. (1959) (23)
- The idiot savant: flawed genius or clever Hans? (1983) (22)
- Perceptual and motor discrimination in psychotic and normal children. (1967) (21)
- The occupational adaptation of high-grade mental defectives. (1952) (21)
- SHORT TERM MEMORY IN NORMAL AND SUBNORMAL CHILDREN. (1964) (20)
- The response of chronic schizophrenics to incentives. (1960) (20)
- Do young calendrical calculators improve with age? (1992) (19)
- The rote and concept learning of imbeciles. (1958) (19)
- PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF NORMALS AND INSTITUTIONALISED MENTAL DEFECTIVES TO REPEATED STIMULI (1961) (19)
- Some effects of incentives on the performance of imbeciles on a repetitive task. (1955) (19)
- Recall in normals and subnormals of like mental age. (1963) (19)
- Recent Soviet Psychology (1963) (19)
- Short-term memory for the order of pictures and syllables by deaf and hearing children. (1973) (18)
- Visual Analogies of Verbal Operations (1965) (18)
- Like and cross modality responses in normal and subnormal children (1960) (17)
- Input Restriction and Immediate Memory Decay in Normal and Subnormal Children (1965) (17)
- Incentives with paranoid and non-paranoid schizophrenics in a workshop. (1959) (16)
- Shape perception and reproduction in normal children and mongol and non-mongol imbeciles. (1961) (15)
- Crossmodal transfer in normal, subnormal and autistic children (1964) (15)
- SENSORY DOMINANCE IN AUTISTIC IMBECILE CHILDREN AND CONTROLS. (1965) (15)
- A Survey of Patients in Twelve Mental Deficiency Institutions (1954) (15)
- The employability of high-grade mental defectives. (1950) (15)
- Shorter Articles and Notes: Like and Cross Modality Recognition in Subnormal Children (1961) (14)
- The Effect of Goal-Setting and Encouragement on the Performance of Imbecile Men (1955) (14)
- Measures of Distance and Motility in Psychotic Children and Severely Subnormal Controls (1964) (14)
- The abilities of adolescent and adult high-grade male defectives. (1950) (14)
- Some effects of incentives on the performance of imbeciles. (1954) (13)
- Methods of evaluating the group psychotherapy of unstable defective delinquents. (1955) (11)
- The role of general ability and specific talents in information processing (1983) (10)
- Measurable effects of group psychotherapy with defective delinquents. (1954) (10)
- A note on the basal level of skin conductance and Binet I.Q. (1956) (10)
- Why and how people of limited intelligence become calendrical calculators (2001) (9)
- Perceptual, Motor, and Decision Speeds in Specifically and Generally Gifted Children (1980) (8)
- Imbecility and color blindness. (1957) (8)
- A Crespi effect in male imbeciles. (1958) (8)
- Speech and Thought in Severe Subnormality. An Experimental Study (1964) (8)
- The Prediction of Psychological Stability and Anxiety-Aggressiveness from a Battery of Tests Administered to a Group of High Grade Male Mental Defectives (1952) (7)
- Body-sway suggestibility in paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics (1959) (7)
- Reminiscence and work decrement in catatonic and paranoid schizophrenics. (1957) (7)
- Children's judgements of duration. (1971) (7)
- Inter- and intra-modal transfer in children with modality specific and general handicaps. (1971) (6)
- Peripheral and central handicap and encoding. (1983) (6)
- Sensory Dominance in Autistic Children and Subnormal Controls (1963) (6)
- Present-day Russian psychology : a symposium by seven authors (1966) (5)
- Intelligence differences and conceptual judgement (1979) (5)
- NEUROTICISM AND EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY IN HIGH-GRADE MALE DEFECTIVES (1951) (4)
- Defectives working in the community. (1954) (4)
- Seeing, Speaking and Ordering (1975) (3)
- The reordering of three-term series problems by blind and sighted children. (1972) (3)
- Speech and Thought in the Retarded (1972) (3)
- Lability in schizophrenia. (1959) (2)
- Coding Strategies of Normal and Handicapped Children (1981) (2)
- Medical Research Council Developmental Psychology Unit (1975) (2)
- Intelligence and Learning: Specific and General Handicap (1981) (2)
- The Psychopathology of Cognitive Deficit (1976) (2)
- The response of chronic schizophrenics to verbal signals (1960) (1)
- PROBLEM SOLVING AND MENTAL DEFECT (1959) (1)
- British applied psychology of subnormality. (1981) (1)
- Naming and classifying: Intelligence and frequency effects (1982) (1)
- Review of Restoration of function after brain injury. (1965) (1)
- performance of the 'idiot-savant' : implicit explicit* (1989) (1)
- The Occupational Success of FeebleMinded Adolescents. (1953) (1)
- The Feeble-minded (1954) (0)
- Book Review: The Mentally Retarded Child (1964) (0)
- 2. Psychological studies in subnormality (1973) (0)
- Unexplored potential of the mentally handicapped. (1961) (0)
- Selective attention and perception (1984) (0)
- Cognitive Processes and Language Ability in the Severely Retarded (1975) (0)
- The Comparative Judgements of Generally and Specifically Gifted Children (1982) (0)
- Exceptional language development in Down syndrome: Foreword by Neil O'Connor (1995) (0)
- TALENT AND INTELLIGENCE (1990) (0)
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