Neil O’Connor

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Neil O’Connor is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil O’Connor has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Neil O’Connor's work include Cognitive Abilities and Testing (4 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (4 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (3 papers). Neil O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive Abilities and Testing (4 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (4 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (3 papers). Neil O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Australia. Neil O’Connor's co-authors include Beate Hermelin, J. P. Das, Morton P. Friedman, Richard Cowan, Chris Frith, Neil Smith, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli, Mike Anderson, Wolf Wolfensberger and Raymond Cunningham and has published in prestigious journals such as The British Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Neil O’Connor

17 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Psychological Experiments With Autistic Children

1970 529 citations Beate Hermelin, Neil O’Connor Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Neil O’Connor United Kingdom	12	781	668	223	162	157	18	1.2k
Herman H. Spitz United States	18	395 0.5×	313 0.5×	374 1.7×	94 0.6×	106 0.7×	90	1.0k
Linda J. Lombardino United States	21	1.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.9×	181 0.8×	86 0.5×	125 0.8×	65	2.0k
Robert H. Wozniak United States	16	488 0.6×	436 0.7×	162 0.7×	335 2.1×	128 0.8×	43	1.2k
Eugene S. Gollin United States	19	509 0.7×	390 0.6×	235 1.1×	49 0.3×	67 0.4×	51	1.1k
J. Gavin Bremner United Kingdom	23	789 1.0×	949 1.4×	569 2.6×	106 0.7×	44 0.3×	74	1.8k
Benson Schaeffer United States	12	514 0.7×	718 1.1×	85 0.4×	192 1.2×	136 0.9×	20	1.1k
John W. Donahoe United States	16	570 0.7×	869 1.3×	113 0.5×	101 0.6×	79 0.5×	57	1.5k
Walter F. McKeever United States	29	1.9k 2.4×	537 0.8×	544 2.4×	45 0.3×	55 0.4×	72	2.3k
Zohar Eviatar Israel	25	1.2k 1.5×	1.1k 1.6×	409 1.8×	89 0.5×	69 0.4×	86	2.0k
Luca Ronconi Italy	23	1.3k 1.6×	574 0.9×	210 0.9×	68 0.4×	159 1.0×	73	1.6k

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18 of 18 papers shown

O’Connor, Neil, Raymond Cunningham, & Vinny Cahill. (2007). Self-Adapting Context Definition. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 336–339. 11 indexed citations

Cowan, Richard, et al.. (2002). The skills and methods of calendrical savants. Intelligence. 31(1). 51–65. 10 indexed citations

Cowan, Richard, et al.. (2001). Why and how people of limited intelligence become calendrical calculators. Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje. 24(1). 53–65. 8 indexed citations

O’Connor, Neil, et al.. (2000). Calendrical calculation and intelligence11Tragically, Neil O'Connor died during the writing of this paper. We miss his intellectual leadership and unfailing good humor.. Intelligence. 28(1). 31–48. 16 indexed citations

Anderson, Mike, Neil O’Connor, & Beate Hermelin. (1998). A specific calculating ability. Intelligence. 26(4). 383–403. 17 indexed citations

O’Connor, Neil, Neil Smith, Chris Frith, & Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli. (1994). Neuropsychology and linguistic talent. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 8(2). 95–107. 29 indexed citations

O’Connor, Neil & Beate Hermelin. (1991). Talents and preoccupations in idiots-savants. Psychological Medicine. 21(4). 959–964. 44 indexed citations

O’Connor, Neil & Beate Hermelin. (1990). The Recognition Failure and Graphic Success of Idiot‐Savant Artists. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 31(2). 203–215. 29 indexed citations

Hermelin, Beate & Neil O’Connor. (1990). Art and Accuracy: The Drawing Ability of Idiot‐Savants. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 31(2). 217–228. 28 indexed citations

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Friedman, Morton P., J. P. Das, & Neil O’Connor. (1981). Intelligence and Learning. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 328 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Neil & Beate Hermelin. (1978). Seeing and hearing and space and time. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 101 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Neil. (1976). The Psychopathology of Cognitive Deficit. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 128(1). 36–43. 1 indexed citations

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Hermelin, Beate & Neil O’Connor. (1970). Psychological Experiments With Autistic Children. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 529 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hermelin, Beate & Neil O’Connor. (1968). Measures of the Occipital Alpha Rhythm in Normal, Subnormal and Autistic Children. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 114(510). 603–610. 28 indexed citations

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Wolfensberger, Wolf & Neil O’Connor. (1967). RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE LATENCY, AMPLITUDE AND DURATION SCORES AS MEASURES OF AROUSAL AND HABITUATION IN NORMAL AND RETARDED ADULTS¹. Psychophysiology. 3(4). 345–350. 10 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Neil. (1966). Present-day Russian psychology : a symposium by seven authors. Pergamon Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Neil. (1965). Speech and Thought in Severe Subnormality. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 30(2). 68–68. 24 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Neil. (1965). Review of Restoration of function after brain injury.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 35(5). 959–960. 1 indexed citations

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