Staff Details
Administrative Positions:
1.Executive Vice-Dean, Maynooth International Engineering College,Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, PR China
2.Associate Vice-President for International Affairs (Asia), MaynoothUniversity, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Academic Positions: Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Email:ronan.reilly@mu.ie
Ronan earned his primary and PhD degrees in the fields of psychology and computer science at University College Dublin and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Ronan has been a university teacher for almost 30 years and has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level in a range of institutions both in Ireland and internationally. He has also been responsible for setting up several successful taught master’s programmes and was responsible for overseeing the introduction of the taught components of the Maynooth University PhD programmes.
Research Project
Ronan’s research interests are primarily in the areas of cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Since his PhD, he has been interested in studying language understanding and reading. His background in both psychology and computer science has allowed him to exploit computational modelling as a tool for theory development.
Scientific treatise
BOOKS
Horsely, M., Eliot, M., Knight, B.A., Reilly, R. (Eds.) (2014). Current trends in eye tracking research. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
Reilly, R., & Sharkey, N. (Eds.) (1993). Connectionist approaches to natural language processing. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Reilly, R. (Ed.) (1987). Communication failure in dialogue and discourse. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Forsythe, A., Williams, T., & Reilly, R.G. (2017). What paint can tell us:a fractal analysis of neurological degeneration in seven artists. Neuropsychology, 31(1). [IF: 3.286]
Street, N., Forsythe, A.M., Reilly, R.G., Taylor, R., Helmy, M. (2016). A complex story: Universal preference vs. individual differences shaping aesthetic response to fractal patterns. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. [IF: 3.209]
Kasisopa, B., Reilly, R. G., Luksaneeyanawin, S., & Burnham, D.(2016). Child readers’ eye movements in reading Thai. VisionResearch, doi:10.1016/j.visres.2015.07. [IF: 1.971]
Reid, A., Burnham, D., Kasisopa, B., Reilly, R., Attina, V., XuRattanasone, N. & Best, C. (2015). Perceptual Assimilation of Lexical Tone: The Role of Language Experience and Visual Information. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77, 571-91. [IF: 1.863]
Ratanasone, N.X., Burnham, D., Reilly, R.G. (2013). Tone and vowel enhancement in Cantonese infant-directed speech at 3,6,9, and 12months of age. Journal of Phonetics, 41, 332-343. [IF: 1.598]
Kasisopa, B., Reilly, R.G., Lucksaneeyanawin, S., & Burnham, D.(2013). Eye movements while reading an unspaced writing system: the case of Thai. Vision Research, 86, 71-80. [IF: 1.971]
Aranyanak, I. & Reilly, R. G. (2012). A system for tracking braille readers using a Wii Remote and a refreshable braille display. Behaviour Research Methods. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0235-8.[IF: 3.623]
Reilly, R. & Radach, R. (2012). The dynamics of reading in non-Roman writing systems. Reading & Writing, 25, 939-950. [IF: 1.489]
Tang, S., Reilly, R.G., Vorstius, C. (2012). EyeMap: A software system for visualizing and analyzing eye movement data in reading. Behaviour Research Methods, 44, 420-448. [IF: 3.623]
Reilly, R. G., Aranyanak, I., Yu, L., Yan, G., Tang, S. (2011). Eye movement control in reading Thai and Chinese. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 9, 35-44.
Radach, R., Huestegge, L. & Reilly, R.G. (2008). The role of top-down factors in local eye movement control during reading.Psychological Research, 72, 675-688. [IF: 2.681]
Bergin. S, Reilly. R. (2006). Predicting introductory programming performance: a multi-institutional multivariate study. Computer Science Education, 16, 303-323. [IF: 2.13]
Reilly, R.G., & Radach, R. (2006). Some empirical tests of an interactive activation model of eye movement control in reading. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 7, 34-55. [IF: 1.581]
Lehtimaki, T., & Reilly, R.G. (2005). Improving eye movement control in young readers. Artificial Intelligence Review, 24, 477-488. [IF: 2.627]
Setola, P., & Reilly, R.G. (2005). Words in the brain’s language: An experimental investigation. Brain and Language, 94, 251-259.[IF: 2.439]
Sas, C., O'Hare, G.M.P., Reilly, R.G. (2005). Virtual environment trajectory analysis: a basis for navigational assistance and scene adaptivity. Future Generation Computer Systems, 21, 1157-1166.[IF: 3.997]
Sas, C., Reilly, R., O'Hare, G., Marian, I. and Mangina, E. (2003). Modelling User Navigation. WSEAS Transactions on Systems. 3(2),582-588.Reilly, R.G. (2002). The relationship between object manipulation and language development in Broca's area: A connectionist simulation of Greenfield’s hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25,145-153. [IF: 20.771]
Reilly, R.G. (1999). A case study of transient dyslexia. Brain and Language, 70, 336-346. [IF: 2.439]
Reilly, R.G., & O’Regan, J.K, (1998), Eye movement control during reading: A simulation of some word-targetting strategies. Vision Research, 38, 303-317. [IF: 1.971]
Reilly, R.G., Kechadi, M-T, Kuznetsov, Y., Timoshenko, E., Dawson, K.(1998). Using recurrent neural networks to predict aspects of 3-Dstructure of folded copolymer sequences, Il Nuovo Cimento, 20D,2565-2573. [IF: 0.60]
Reilly, R. (1995). Sandy ideas and coloured days: The computational implications of embodiment. Artificial Intelligence Review, 9,305-322. [IF: 2.627]
Reilly, R. (1992). A connectionist technique for on-line parsing. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 3, 37-45. [IF: 0.647]
Mac Aogáin, E. & Reilly, R. (1990). Discourse theory and interface design: The case of pointing with a mouse. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 32, 591-602. [IF: 2.863]
Reilly, R. (1989). On the relationship between connectionism and cognitive science. Irish Journal of Psychology, 10, 163-187.[IF: 0.30]
Reilly, R., & Mac Aogáin, E. (1988). Ill-formed input and miscommunication in natural-language keyboard dialogue: An exploratory study. Computers in Human Behavior, 4, 275-283.[IF: 2.694]
Reilly, R. (1988). Sentence representations and anaphor processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 17, 297-316. [IF: 0.66]
Reilly, R. (1987). Ill-formedness and miscommunication in person-machine dialogue. Information and Software Technology, 29,69-74. [IF: 1.569]
Reilly, R., & Cullen, P. (1987). A computer program for the human simulation of an intelligent person-machine interface. Current Psychological Research & Reviews, 6, 155-158.Reilly, R. (1985). Control processing versus information processing in models of reading. Journal of Research in Reading, 8, 3-19.[IF: 1.25]
Egan, O., & Reilly, R. (1981). Traffic density and scholastic achievement. Irish Journal of Education, 15, 70-78.
OTHER REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Reilly, R.G. (2014). SE Asian writing systems: a challenge to current models of visual information processing in reading. In Winskel, H. &Padakannaya, P. (Eds.), South and Southeast Asian psycholinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Reilly, R.G. (2012). Learning in artificial neural networks. In Seel, N.M.(Ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Learning (p. 644). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
Radach, R., Reilly, R. & Inhoff, A.W. (2006). Models of oculomotor control in reading: towards a theoretical foundation of current debates. In van Gompel, R., Fischer, M., Murray, W. & Hill, R. Eye movements: A window on mind and brain. Elsevier: Oxford.
Reilly, R.G. & Radach, R. (2002). Foundations of an interactive activation model of eye movement control in reading. In J. Hyönä, R.Radach, & H. Deubel (Eds.), The mind’s eye: cognitive and applied aspects of eye movement research. Elsevier: The Netherlands.
Reilly, R.G. (2001). Collaborative cell assemblies: Building blocks of cortical computation. In S. Wermter, J. Austin, & D. Willshaw (Eds.), Emergent neural computational architectures based on neuroscience. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
Sas, C., Reilly, R.G., O'Hare , G.M.P. (2001). Virtual Reality in Surgery: Between Satisfaction and Stress. In A. Riegler, M.F. Peschl, K.Edlinger, G. Fleck, & W. Feigl (Eds.), Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications (pp99-111). Peter Lang. ISBN 3-631-38345-2.
Reilly, R.G. (2000). Evolution of symbolisation: Signposts to a bridge between connectionist and hybrid symbolic systems. In S. Wermter & R. Sun (Eds.) Hybrid Neural Systems. Germany: Springer.
Reilly, R. (1993). A connectionist framework for modelling eye-movement control in reading. In G. d'Ydewalle & J. Van Rensbergen (Eds.), Perception and cognition: Advances in eye-movement research. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Reilly, R. (1991). Miscommunication at the person-machine interface. In J. Weimann, N. Coupland, & H. Giles (Eds.), Handbook of miscommunication and problematic talk. (pp. 283-300). Multilingual Matters.
Reilly, R. (1989). An ATN-based grammar for the structural analysis of dialogue. In N. E. Sharkey (Ed.), Models of cognition: A Review of cognitive science. Hillsdale, NJ: Ablex.
Reilly, R. (1986). Some problems with information-processing models of reading. In V. Greaney (Ed.), Dimensions of reading. Dublin: Educational Company.
