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Investigating the Prospective Relationship Between Weight Loss Behaviours and Sleep in Adolescents From the Growing Up in Ireland Cohort Open

Marie‐Christine Opitz, Sarah Cooney, Nora Trompeter, Sylvane Desrivières, Nadia Micali , et al. · 2025

Objective Despite common bio‐behavioural mechanisms underlying maladaptive sleep and eating, little is known about their temporal associations. The present study aimed to assess the longitudinal relationship between weight loss behaviours …

The influence of menopause symptoms on workplace mental health among Irish women: A preliminary study Open

William T. Smith, Sarah Cooney · 2025

Psychological menopause symptoms impact key workplace outcomes, while organisational support appears protective. These findings underscore the importance of menopause-informed policies in promoting the well-being, confidence, and retention…

The role of Appearance Comparison and Body Dissatisfaction in influencing Passability Judgements Across Body and Non-Body Apertures in VR Open

Akansha M. Naraindas, Pat Mulvaney, Richard Rogers, Deirbhle Fergus, Brendan Rooney , et al. · 2025

Body dissatisfaction, a core feature of body image disturbance (BID), is prevalent among women both with and without eating disorders. Recently, research has demonstrated that individuals with BIDs show alterations in the body schema, a se…

Differences in the relationships between interoceptive sensibility and self-objectification in women with high and low body dissatisfaction: A network analysis Open

Akansha M. Naraindas, Amy McInerney, Sonya S. Deschênes, Sarah Cooney · 2025

Body dissatisfaction is a normative experience with the potential to impact women’s mental and physical health. It is closely related to self-objectification, where the body is viewed as an object for aesthetic evaluation rather than for i…

Disturbances in Body-Based Mental and Motor Imagery in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa – A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies Open

Akansha M. Naraindas, Sarah Cooney · 2025

Imagining one’s body is crucial for how we perceive our appearance (i.e. imagining how we might appear to others), for imagining movement (motor imagery), navigation, and self-recognition. Mental body representations can be categorized int…

Experience in sports and music influences motor imagery: Insights from implicit and explicit measures Open

Judith Bek, Richard O'Farrell, Sarah Cooney · 2024

Experience in activities that utilise MI influences implicit MI, while formal training may have a stronger influence on explicit MI. Activity-specific effects on MI may reflect differences in kinesthetic and visual experience of the differ…

Differences in the relationships between Interoceptive Sensibility and Self-Objectification in women with high and low Body Dissatisfaction: A Network Analysis Open

Akansha M. Naraindas, Amy McInerney, Sonya S. Deschênes, Sarah Cooney · 2024

Purpose: Body dissatisfaction is a normative experience with the potential to impact women’s mental and physical health. It is closely related to self-objectification, where the body is viewed as an object for aesthetic evaluation rather t…

Experience in sports and music influences implicit motor imagery Open

Judith Bek, Richard O'Farrell, Sarah Cooney · 2024

Background. Motor imagery (MI) can be an effective strategy for learning and enhancing movement or as an alternative training modality when physical practice is compromised. Individual differences in MI ability are widely documented but th…

Developmental changes in the visual, haptic, and bimodal perception of geometric angles Open

Corinne A. Holmes, Sarah Cooney, P. Dempsey, Fiona N. Newell · 2024

Geometrical knowledge is typically taught to children through a combination of vision and repetitive drawing (i.e. haptics), yet our understanding of how different spatial senses contribute to geometric perception during childhood is poor.…

Beyond Gender: Interoceptive Sensibility as a Key Predictor of Body Image Disturbances Open

Akansha M. Naraindas, M. Conde Moreno, Sarah Cooney · 2023

Body image disturbance (BID) involves negative attitudes towards shape and weight and is associated with lower levels of interoceptive sensibility (IS) (the subjective perceptions of internal bodily states). This association is considered …

Body image disturbance, interoceptive sensibility and the body schema across female adulthood: a pre-registered study Open

Akansha M. Naraindas, Sarah Cooney · 2023

Introduction Body image disturbance (BID) typically involves explicit negative attitudes toward one’s shape and weight and is associated with altered interoceptive sensibility (the subjective perception of internal bodily states). This ass…

Beyond Gender: Interoceptive Sensibility as a Key Predictor of Body Image Disturbances Open

Akansha M. Naraindas, M. Conde Moreno, Sarah Cooney · 2023

Body image disturbance (BID) involves negative attitudes towards shape and weight and is associated with lower levels of interoception (awareness of and attention toward internal physiological states). This association is considered a risk…

Body image disturbance, interoceptive sensibility and the body schema across female adulthood: A pre-registered study Open

Akansha M. Naraindas, Sarah Cooney · 2023

Women with high levels of body image disturbance (BID) typically show altered processing of internal bodily signals (interoception) and also demonstrate disturbances in the body schema: an implicit sensorimotor representation of the body, …

Imagining LIMITS: Can ChatGPT radically re-imagine a new world? Open

Sarah Cooney · 2023

A major goal of the LIMITS community is to actively build a world that respects ecological limits by de-centering the idea of growth as progress, focusing on how technology can be used to create such a world and what technology will look l…

The CommYOUnity Data Project: Exploring Novice Evaluations of Urban Spaces Open

Sarah Cooney, Barath Raghavan · 2023

Self-reported vividness of tactile imagery for object properties and body regions: An exploratory study Open

Alan O’Dowd, Sarah Cooney, Fiona N. Newell · 2022

Mental imagery ability has been examined principally in the visual domain. Despite evidence for tactile mental representations in the absence of direct stimulation, this ability is poorly understood. We investigated tactile imagery for bot…

Alternative Pathways to Caring for Limits:The Case of Ecospirituality Open

Sarah Cooney, Vishal Sharma, Joshua D. Palmer, Neha Kumar, Barath Raghavan · 2022

Research in Computing Within Limits and the broader Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction community has shown the need to understand the values beyond the scientific rationality that motivates people to care for ecological limits. This pa…

Opening the Gate to Urban Repair: A Tool for Citizen-Led Design Open

Sarah Cooney, Barath Raghavan · 2022

City planning in the United States suffers from opaque and unresponsive processes---egalitarian in name but in reality controlled and mediated by city officials and powerful interests, not residents. We explore methods for placing city pla…

Holistic processing of faces and words predicts reading accuracy and speed in dyslexic readers Open

Nuala Brady, Kate Darmody, Fiona N. Newell, Sarah Cooney · 2021

We compared the performance of dyslexic and typical readers on two perceptual tasks, the Vanderbilt Holistic Face Processing Task and the Holistic Word Processing Task. Both yield a metric of holistic processing that captures the extent to…

Towards a Cognitive Theory of Cyber Deception Open

Edward A. Cranford, Cleotilde González, Palvi Aggarwal, Milind Tambe, Sarah Cooney , et al. · 2021

This work is an initial step toward developing a cognitive theory of cyber deception. While widely studied, the psychology of deception has largely focused on physical cues of deception. Given that present‐day communication among humans is…

Children’s spatial–numerical associations on horizontal, vertical, and sagittal axes Open

Sarah Cooney, Corinne A. Holmes, Fiona N. Newell · 2021

There is substantial evidence linking numerical magnitude to the physical properties of space. The most influential support for this connection comes from the SNARC effect (spatial-numerical association of response codes), in which respons…

The development of visuotactile congruency effects for sequences of events Open

Alan O’Dowd, Sarah Cooney, Francesca Sorgini, Eugene O' Rourke, Richard B. Reilly , et al. · 2021

Tactical Patterns for Grassroots Urban Repair Open

Sarah Cooney, Barath Raghavan · 2020

The process of revitalizing cities in the United States suffers from balky and unresponsive processes---de jure egalitarian but de facto controlled and mediated by city officials and powerful interests, not residents. We argue that, instea…

Toward Personalized Deceptive Signaling for Cyber Defense Using Cognitive Models Open

Edward A. Cranford, Cleotilde González, Palvi Aggarwal, Sarah Cooney, Milind Tambe , et al. · 2020

Recent research in cybersecurity has begun to develop active defense strategies using game‐theoretic optimization of the allocation of limited defenses combined with deceptive signaling. These algorithms assume rational human behavior. How…

Holistic Processing of Faces and Words Predicts Reading Accuracy and Speed in Dyslexic Readers Open

Nuala Brady, Kate Darmody, Fiona N. Newell, Sarah Cooney · 2020

We compared the performance of dyslexic and typical readers on two perceptual tasks, the Vanderbilt Holistic Face Processing Task and the Holistic Word Processing Task. Both yield a metric of holistic processing that captures the extent to…

Adaptive Cyber Deception: Cognitively Informed Signaling for Cyber Defense Open

Edward A. Cranford, Cleotilde González, Palvi Aggarwal, Sarah Cooney, Milind Tambe , et al. · 2020

This paper improves upon recent game-theoretic deceptive signaling schemes for cyber defense using the insights emerging from a cognitive model of human cognition. One particular defense allocation algorithm that uses a deceptive signaling…

Do synaesthesia and mental imagery tap into similar cross-modal processes? Open

Alan O’Dowd, Sarah Cooney, David P. McGovern, Fiona N. Newell · 2019

Synaesthesia has previously been linked with imagery abilities, although an understanding of a causal role for mental imagery in broader synaesthetic experiences remains elusive. This can be partly attributed to our relatively poor underst…

Developmental susceptibility to visuo spatial Illusions in vision and haptics Open

Sarah Cooney, Corinne A. Holmes, Fiona N. Newell · 2019

Raw data of response to 3 visuo spatial illusions across 3 modalities ( vision, haptic, bimodal) in children aged 6 -12.

Developmental susceptibility to visuo spatial Illusions in vision and haptics Open

Sarah Cooney, Corinne A. Holmes, Fiona N. Newell · 2019

Raw data of response to 3 visuo spatial illusions across 3 modalities ( vision, haptic, bimodal) in children aged 6 -12.

Conference Abstract Booklet: 2nd Student Medical Summit 2019 Open

Ned Quirke, Sarah Cooney, Sorcha Lynch, Eoin Downes, Talia Bin Yussuf · 2019

The following abstracts are those that were presented at the research competition of the Student Medical Summit held in University College Dublin on the 9th February 2019. For more information about the Student Medical Summit visit www.stu…

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