Dr Catherine G. O'Hanlon

Lecturer in Developmental and Neurodevelopmental Psychology
Ph.D. (Essex), BSc Hons (Essex), C.Psychol. Photograph of Dr Catherine G. O'Hanlon.

Contact

Email: cao15@aber.ac.uk
Office: Penbryn 5, Room 0.14
Phone: +44 (0)1970 62 8764

Responsibilities

Year 1 Tutor
Director of Undergraduate Admissions
Psychology Ethics Committee

Teaching Areas

Catherine O’Hanlon’s main teaching interests are in Developmental Psychology and First Language Acquisition. Catherine is module convenor for Individual Differences and Lifespan Development (PS20520), Psychology Systematic Critical Review (PS31520), and contributes to Psychology’s dissertation module for single and joint honours students (PS33140 & PS34140).



Research

Dr O’Hanlon’s research interests are in learning and development in toddlers and children with and without developmental disorders, particularly in the domains of language and social cognition. Catherine also has expertise in sound perception at the level of the cochlea in the inner ear.

Biography

Dr O’Hanlon completed her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Essex in May 2006. She was appointed Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University in August 2006, where she worked for five years, at first within the Division of Psychology (2006-2007), then within the Institute of Neuroscience (2007-2011). Catherine joined the Psychology Department at Aberystwyth University in March 2012.

Staff Publications

Plack, C.J., Oxenham, A.J., Simonson, A., O’Hanlon, C.G., Drga, V., Arifianto, D. (2008). Estimates of compression at low and high frequencies using masking additivity in normal and impaired ears. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(6), 4321-4330.

O’Hanlon, C.G., & Roberson, D. (2007). What constrains the learning of shape terms? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 97, 138-148.

O’Hanlon, C.G., & Roberson, D. (2006). Learning in context: Attentional and linguistic constraints on children’s color term learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94, 274-300

Roberson, D., & O’Hanlon, C.G. (2005). How Culture might constrain colour categories. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 505-506.

Plack, C.J., & O’Hanlon, C.G. (2003). Forward masking additivity and auditory compression at low and high frequencies. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 4, 405-415.

Book Chapters

Plack, C.J., O’Hanlon, C.G., & Drga, V. (2005). Additivity of masking and auditory compression. In D. Pressnitzer, A. de Cheveigné, S. McAdams, and L. Collet, Auditory signal processing, Physiology, psychophysics, and models. New York: Springer-Verlag.