معرفی
Dr Dominic Guitard is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, appointed in 2022. He teaches undergraduate modules on thinking, emotion and consciousness, as well as applied cognitive science, and contributes to the MSc research-project supervision programme.
Education
- 2018–2021: PhD in Psychology, Université de Moncton
- 2016–2018: MA in Psychology, Université de Moncton
- 2013–2016: BA in Psychology, Université de Moncton
Research Interests
Dr Guitard’s research lies at the intersection of memory, attention and language. Using tightly-controlled experiments and computational modelling, he investigates how people learn, maintain and retrieve item versus order information in short-term and working memory. Key factors examined include attention allocation, semantic knowledge, emotion, lexical properties, irrelevant information and dual-task demands. His theoretical goal is a unified account of memory, attention, learning and language; his applied goal is to inform educational practices and cognitive technologies.
Publication Trends
Across more than 60 peer-reviewed articles, Dr Guitard has steadily advanced understanding of serial recall, recognition memory and working-memory limitations. Recent work (2024–2025) clusters around four themes: (1) computational frameworks predicting veridical and false recall; (2) the interplay between working-memory capacity and long-term retention across the lifespan; (3) phonological and semantic influences on order memory; and (4) methodological factors such as stimulus duration, presentation modality and set size.
Collaborations & Funding
He collaborates extensively with leading laboratories in the USA (e.g., University of Missouri, University of Illinois), Canada (Université de Moncton, University of Manitoba), the UK and Australia, and was supported by an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021–2022).
Supervision & Mentoring
- Current PhD supervision: Helena Leach
- Personal tutor and contributor to MSc research-project module (PST723)
- Available for further postgraduate supervision
Editorial & Service Roles
Dr Guitard serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for over a dozen international journals, including Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Memory & Cognition, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology and Cognition.
