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Professor Thomas Ormerod

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. Published

    HCI and Creative Problem-Solving at Lancaster

    Ormerod, T., Ball, L., Dix, A. & Sas, C., 2007, BCS-HCI '07 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers. BCS, p. 191-192 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  2. Published

    How the detection of insurance fraud succeeds and fails.

    Morley, N. J., Ball, L. J. & Ormerod, T. C., 04/2006, In: Psychology, Crime and Law. 12, 2, p. 163-180 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Sleep promotes analogical transfer in problem solving

    Monaghan, P., Sio, U. N., Lau, S. W., Woo, H. K., Linkenauger, S. A. & Ormerod, T. C., 10/2015, In: Cognition. 143, p. 25-30 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    As useful as a bicycle to a fish: exploration versus constraint in creativity

    McKnight, L., Ormerod, T. C., Sas, C. & Dix, A., 2006, p. 291-291. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  5. Published

    Spatial and contextual factors in human performance on the travelling salesperson problem.

    McGregor, J. N., Ormerod, T. C. & Chronicle, E. P., 1999, In: Perception. 28, p. 1417-1427 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Child witnesses and victims with Autism Spectrum Disorder: drawing to support episodic remembering

    Mattison, M., Dando, C. & Ormerod, T., 8/03/2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  7. Published

    Convex-hull or crossing-avoidance? : solution heuristics in the travelling salesperson problem.

    MacGregor, J. N., Chronicle, E. P. & Ormerod, T. C., 03/2004, In: Memory and Cognition. 32, 2, p. 260-270 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    A comparison of heuristic and human performance on open versions of the traveling salesperson problem.

    MacGregor, J. N., Chronicle, E. P. & Ormerod, T., 2006, In: Journal of Problem Solving. 1, 1, p. 33-43 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    A model of human performance on the traveling salesperson problem.

    MacGregor, J. N., Ormerod, T. C. & Chronicle, E., 2000, In: Memory and Cognition. 28, 7, p. 1183-1190 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Evaluating the importance of the convex hull in solving the Euclidean version of the traveling salesperson problem: Reply to Lee and Vickers (2000).

    MacGregor, J. N., Ormerod, T. C. & Chronicle, E., 2000, In: Perception and Psychophysics. 62, 7, p. 1501-1503 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Human performance on the traveling salesman problem.

    MacGregor, J. N. & Ormerod, T. C., 1996, In: Perception and Psychophysics. 58, 4, p. 527-539 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Towards anomaly comprehension: using structural compression to navigate profiling call-trees

    Lin, S., Taiani, F., Ormerod, T. C. & Ball, L. J., 2010, SOFTVIS '10 Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Software visualization . NEW YORK: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, p. 103-112 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  13. Published

    The evaluation of desperado: a computerised tool to aid design reuse

    Lambell, N. J., Ball, L. J. & Ormerod, T., 2000, PEOPLE AND COMPUTERS XIV - USABILITY OR ELSE!. McDonald, S., Waern, Y. & Cockton, G. (eds.). Godalming: Springer Verlag London Ltd, p. 437-453 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  14. Published

    Spatial representation and processing in the congenitally blind.

    Fleming, P., Ball, L. J., Collins, A. F. & Ormerod, T. C., 2004, Madrid: UNED Press, 12 p.

    Research output: Working paper

  15. Published

    Sentence memorability reveals the mental representations involved in processing spatial descriptions

    Fleming, P., Ball, L. J., Ormerod, T. C. & Collins, A. F., 2011, In: Thinking and Reasoning. 17, 1, p. 30-56 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Why bad ideas are a good idea

    Dix, A., Sas, C., Gomes da Silva, P., McKnight, L., Ormerod, T. & Twidale, M., 03/2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  17. Published

    Effects of the change temporal order technique on eyewitness memory.

    Dando, C. J. & Ormerod, T. C., 2009, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Taatgen, N. & van Rijn, H. (eds.). p. 2644-2649 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  18. Published

    When help becomes hindrance: Unexpected errors of omission and commission in eyewitness memory resulting from change temporal order at retrieval?

    Dando, C., Ormerod, T., Wilcock, R. & Milne, R., 12/2011, In: Cognition. 121, 3, p. 416-421 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Helping to sort the liars from the truth-tellers: the gradual revelation of information during investigative interviews

    Dando, C., Bull, R., Ormerod, T. & Sandham, A., 02/2015, In: Legal and Criminological Psychology. 20, 1, p. 114-128 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    When insight just won’t come: The failure of visual cues in the nine-dot problem.

    Chronicle, E. P., Ormerod, T. C. & MacGregor, J. N., 2001, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Series a Human Experimental Psychology. 54 A, 3, p. 903-919 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    What makes an insight problem? The roles of heuristics, goal conception and solution recoding in knowledge-lean problems.

    Chronicle, E. P., MacGregor, J. N. & Ormerod, T. C., 01/2004, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 30, 1, p. 14-27 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    It looks easy! Heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems.

    Chronicle, E. P., MacGregor, J. N., Ormerod, T. C. & Burr, A., 2006, In: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology . 39, 4, p. 783 -800

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Pseudodiagnosticity misdiagnosed?

    Bond, R., Ormerod, T. & Ball, L., 26/07/2013.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Speech

  24. Published

    A Negative Effect of Evaluation Upon Analogical Problem Solving.

    Bearman, C., Ormerod, T. C. & Ball, L. J., 08/2003. 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paper

  25. Published

    An Exploration of Real-World Analogical Problem Solving in Novices.

    Bearman, C., Ball, L. J. & Ormerod, T. C., 2002. 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Other

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