Manuscripts:

*Equal contributions.

Constable, M.D., Becker, M.L., Oh, Y-I., & Knoblich, G. (2021) Affective compatibility with the self modulates the self-prioritisation effect. Cognition & Emotion, 35(2), 291-304. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2020.1839383 [PDF]

McPhee, A.M., Constable, M.D., Saccone, E.J., & Welsh, T.N. (2021) The influence of location and the presence of a co-actor on responses toward self-owned objects. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/cep0000232 [PDF]

Barton, T., Constable, M.D., Sparks, S., & Kritikos, A. (2020) Self-bias effect: movement initiation to self-owned property is speeded for both approach and avoidance actions. Psychological Research. doi: 10.1007/s00426-020-01325-0 [PDF]

Constable, M.D., & Knoblich, G.  (2020) Sticking together? Re-binding previous other-associated stimuli interferes with self-verification but not partner-verification. Acta Psychologica, 210(103167). doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103167  [PDF]

Strachan, J.W.A., Constable, M.D., & Knoblich, G. (2020) It goes with the territory: Ownership across spatial boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(8):789-797. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000742 [PDF]

Welsh, T.N., Reid, C., Manson, G., Constable, M.D., & Tremblay, L. (2020) Susceptibility to the fusion illusion is modulated during both action execution and action observation. Acta Psychologica, 204(103028). doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103028 [PDF]

Constable, M.D., Elekes, F., Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2019) Relevant for us? We-prioritisation in cognitive processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(12), 1549-1561. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000691[PDF]

Yoxon, E., Constable, M.D., & Welsh, T.N. (2019) Probing the time-course of facilitation and inhibition in gaze cueing of attention in an upper-limb reaching task. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 81(7), 2410-2423. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01821-5 [PDF]

Constable, M.D.*, Rajsic, J.*, Welsh, T.N., & Pratt, J. (2019) It is not in the details: Self-related shapes are rapidly classified but their features are not better remembered. Memory & Cognition, 47(6), 1145-1157. doi: 10.3758/s13421-019-00924-6 [PDF]

Constable, M.D., Welsh, T.N., Huffman, G., & Pratt, J. (2019) I before U: Temporal order judgements reveal bias for self-owned objects. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(3), 589-598. doi: 10.1177/1747021818762010 [PDF]

Constable, M.D., Pratt, J., & Welsh, T.N. (2018) Two minds don’t blink alike: The attentional blink does not occur in a joint context. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(1714). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01714 [PDF]

Roberts, J.W., Constable, M.D., Burgess, R., Lyons, J.L., & Welsh, T.N. (2018) The influence of intrapersonal sensorimotor experiences on the corticospinal responses during action observation. Social Neuroscience, 13(2), 246-256. doi:10.1080/17470919.2017.1289979 [PDF]

Constable, M.D., & Becker, S.I. (2017) Right Away: A late, right lateralized category effect complements an early, left-lateralized category effect in visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(5), 1611-1619. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1246-3 [PDF]

Constable, M.D., de Grosbois, J., Lung, T., Tremblay, L., Pratt, J., & Welsh, T.N. (2017) Eye movements may cause motor contagion effects. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24(3), 835-841. doi:10.3758/s13423-016-1177-4 [PDF]

Constable, M.D.,  Bayliss, A.P., Tipper, S.P., Spaniol, A.P., Pratt, J., & Welsh, T.N. (2016) Ownership status influences the degree of joint facilitatory behavior. Psychological Science, 27(10), 1371-1378. doi: 10.1177/0956797616661544 [PDF]

Roberts, J.W., Katayama, O., Lung, T., Constable, M.D., Elliot, D., Lyons, J.L., & Welsh, T.N. (2016). Training inhibition of motor contagion through sensorimotor experiences. Neuroscience Letters, 624, 42-46. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2016.04.063

Constable, M.D., Pratt, J., Gozli, D.G., & Welsh, T.N. (2015) Do you see what I see: Co-actor posture modulates visual processing in joint tasks. Visual Cognition, 23(6), 699-719. doi:10.1080/13506285.2015.1078426 [PDF]

McIntyre, J.C., Constable, M.D., & Barlow, F.K. (2015) How racial attitudes and social-evaluative concerns shape property appraisals. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45(6), 716-727. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2121 [PDF]

Constable, M.D., Kritikos, A., Lipp, O.V., & Bayliss, A.P. (2014) Object ownership and action: The influence of social context and choice on the physical manipulation of personal property. Experimental Brain Research, 232(12), 3749-3761.  doi: 10.1007/s00221-014-4063-1 [PDF]

Constable, M.D.*, Bayliss, A.P.*, Tipper, S.P., & Kritikos, A. (2013) Self-generated cognitive fluency as an alternative route to preference formation. Consciousness and Cognition, 22(1), 47 -52. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.11.006 [PDF]

Constable, M.D., Kritikos, A., & Bayliss, A.P. (2011) Grasping the concept of personal property. Cognition, 119(3), 430-437. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.007 [PDF]
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Tangen, J.M., Constable, M.D., Durrant, E., Teeter, C., Beston, B.R., & Kim, J.A. (2011) The role of interest and images in slideware presentations. Computers & Education, 56(3), 865-872. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2010.10.028

Abstracts:

Constable, M.D., & Strachan, J.W.A. (2021, March) The socially situated self: How the social environment shapes self-referential processing. Paper presented at the 63rd conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP @ Home). Ulm, Germany.

Strachan, J.W.A., Charbonneau, M., Curioni, A., & Constable, M.D. (2019, July) Active cultural transmission: Exploring the role of pedagogy in transmission and learning. Paper presented at the Joint Action Meeting. Genova, Italy.

Yoxon, E., Constable, M.D., & Welsh, T.N. (2019, July) ‘I get your point’: Gaze and finger pointing cues of other people activate different processing channels. Paper presented at the Joint Action Meeting. Genova, Italy.

Constable, M.D. & Knoblich, G. (2019, July) There is no ‘u’ in team: We-prioritisation does not extend to individual group members. Poster presented at the Joint Action Meeting. Genova, Italy.

Constable, M.D. & Knoblich, G. (2019, March) There is no ‘u’ in team: We-prioritisation does not extend to individual group members. Poster presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science. Paris, France.

Strachan, J.W.A., Constable, M.D., & Knoblich, G. (2018, October) Ownership Effects Across Territory Boundaries. Poster presented at the (Dis)Embodied Perception of the Self and Other Workshop. Porto, Portugal.

Constable, M.D., Elekes, F., Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2018, May) Does Me become We? We prioritisation in the cognitive system. Poster presented at the 1st MeeTo conference. Turin, Italy.

Constable, M.D. (2017, July) How the concept of ownership influences human interactions with objects and other people. Paper presented at the Joint Action Meeting. London, UK.

Constable, M.D., Bayliss, A.P., Tipper, S.P., Spaniol, A., Pratt, J., & Welsh, T.N. (2016, November) “Back off, get your own coffee!” The amount of facilitation during object passing is modulated by object ownership status. Poster presented at the Psychonmic Society’s 57th Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Constable, M.D., Huffman, G., Welsh, T.N., & Pratt, J. (2016, November) Affording Attention: Do tool ends differentially receive prioritised attention? Poster presented at the 24th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Roberts, J., Lyons, J., Constable, M., Welsh, T. (2016, October). “You say goodbye and I say hello”: Modulating interpersonal sensorimotor couplings following intrapersonal sensorimotor experience. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Yoxon, E., Constable, M.D., Welsh, T.N. (2016, October). “Where you look, I will follow”: Probing the time-course of facilitation and inhibition in gaze cueing of attention. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Constable, M.D., Lung, T., de Grosbois, J., Tremblay, L., Pratt, J., & Welsh, T.N. (2016, May). Eye follow you: Is the motor contagion effect and artifact of eye movements? Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete’s Beach, Florida, USA.

Constable, M.D., Welsh, T.N., & Pratt, J. (2015, November). I before U: Temporal order judgements reveal visual prior entry for self-owned objects. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society’s 56th Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA.

Constable, M.D., Pratt, J., Dumpfrey, R., & Welsh, T.N. (2015, July) Great minds don’t blink alike: The attentional blink in a joint context. Poster presented at the Joint Action Meeting. Budapest, Hungary.

Constable, M.D., & Becker, S.I. (2015, May). Right away! Early, lateralized color category effect revealed by first-saccade dynamics. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete’s Beach, Florida, USA.

Constable, M.D., & Welsh, T.N. (2015, May). With a little help from my friends: Ownership influences facilitatory joint action. Paper presented at The Southern Ontario Motor Behaviour Symposium. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Constable, M.D., Welsh, T.N., Gozli, D.G., & Pratt, J. (2015, March). Do you see what I see? Joint tasks modulate the expression of visual pathway biases. Poster presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Constable, M.D., Bayliss, A.P., Lipp, O.V., & Tipper, S.P. (2014, October). Helping you and helping me: Facilitatory joint action behaviour is dependent on social context. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology. London, Ontario, Canada.

Constable, M.D., Bayliss, A.P., Lipp, O.V., & Kritikos, A. (2013, April). Separating the effects of preference from ownership in hand-object interactions. Paper presented at the 40th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

Eres, R.S., Chant, A.E., Colman, H.A., Constable, M.D., Bayliss, A.P., & Kritikos, A. (2013, April). iPhone therefore iAttend: Ownership over iPhones moderates behavioral responses of visuo-spatial attention. Poster presented at the 40th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

Constable, M.D., Kritikos, A., & Bayliss, A.P. (2012,April). I care but only when you are there: Motor behaviour in object interaction is altered by the presence of an owner. Poster presented at the 39th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Constable, M.D., Kritikos, A., & Bayliss, A.P. (2012,April). I care but only when you are there: Motor behaviour in object interaction is altered by the presence of an owner. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Constable, M.D., Kritikos, A., & Bayliss, A.P. (2011, April) Yours or mine: Ownership in the visuomotor system. Paper presented at the 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. Auckland, New Zealand.

Tangen, J.M., Constable, M.D., & Kim, J.A. (2010, April). Death by bullet points? On interest and images in slideware presentations. Paper presented at the 37th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.