Dominic Guitard
Biographic Data
| ID | 2752056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Guitard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Guitard |
| SIGNATURE | GUITARD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4658-3585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From stork to baby
Long-term representational costs of overloading working memory
Can learning too much information at once impair long-term retention of its meaning? Emerging evidence suggests that encoding too many items into working memory (WM) limits subsequent long-term memory (LTM) retrieval of their details and gist. These findings highlight a boundary condition for theories positing relatively automatic gist encoding. But how expansive is this boundary? Experiment 1 shows that it extends to older adults, despite their …
Minerva Ops
Bilingualism and individual differences in short-term ordered serial recall
In two experiments, we examined whether individual differences in bilingual language proficiency predict immediate serial recall in a language-specific manner. A total of 96 French-English bilinguals completed an immediate serial recall task involving 40 lists of 6 words, followed by the LexTALE lexical decision task in both French and English to index lexical knowledge continuously. Experiment 1 used visually presented word lists and included bo…
An embedded computational framework of memory
Human memory is reconstructive and thus fundamentally imperfect. One of its critical flaws is false recall—the erroneous recollection of unstudied items. Despite its significant implications, false recall poses a challenge for existing computational models of serial recall, which struggle to provide item-specific predictions. Across six experiments, each involving 100 young adults, we address this issue using the Embedded Computational Framework …
Similar phonemes create interference in the serial recall task
The mechanisms underlying forgetting have been central to theorising about verbal short-term and working memory, and the importance of interference as opposed to decay continues to be vigorously debated. Here, we present two experiments to evaluate the nature and locus of phonological interference as a source of forgetting in serial recall. In these experiments, we replicate studies showing that repetition of phonemes across items impairs recall …
An embedded computational framework of memory
A model of recall called the Embedded Computational Framework of Memory (eCFM) is presented. • The eCFM integrates semantic word representations with an instance-based memory model. • The model successfully accounts for the influence of semantic information across a range of recall phenomena. • New predictions for list composition, presentation rate, order error, and false recall were derived from eCFM and tested. • The model captured all main fi…
Give me enough time to rehearse
Valence and concreteness in item recognition
Stimulus duration and recognition memory
Attentional subsetting theory (Caplan, 2023) posits that only a small subset of item features are attended in episodic recognition tasks. This explained a pivotal finding for the development of recognition models: the near-null list-strength effect, where encoding strength influences recognition similarly in mixed-strength lists and pure-strength lists. Most research uses spaced repetition to manipulate encoding strength. However, the origin of t…
Can synchronised tones facilitate immediate memory for printed lists
In verbal list recall, adding features redundant with the ones to be recalled theoretically could assist recall, by providing additional retrieval cues, or it could impede recall, by draining attention away from the features to be recalled. We examined young adults' immediate memory of lists of printed digits when these lists were sometimes accompanied by synchronised, concurrent tones, one per digit. Unlike most previous irrelevant-sound effects…
Backward recall and foreknowledge of recall direction
When participants must recall a sequence of items in reverse order just after their presentation, inconsistent findings have been observed relative to when participants must recall a sequence in their presentation order. Recently, the Encoding-Retrieval Matching Hypothesis (ERM) has been developed to account for these inconsistencies. Within the ERM hypothesis, foreknowledge of recall direction plays an important role. In two experiments, we test…
Tradeoffs between item and order information in short-term memory
Phonological similarity in the serial recall task hinders item recall, not just order
The phonological similarity effect in short-term memory (STM) is the finding that serial recall of lists of similar sounding items is poorer than that of dissimilar sounding items. This is traditionally argued to be due to a detrimental effect on memory for the order of the words in the list and not on memory for the words themselves. Models that propose forgetting from STM is due to interference must invoke an additional compensatory process whe…
Working memory limits severely constrain long-term retention
A model of the production effect over the short-term
A round Bouba is easier to remember than a curved Kiki
The word length effect in backward recall
In immediate serial recall, it is well known that participants are better at recalling short rather than long words. This benchmark memory effect, known as word length effect, has been observed numerous times in forward recall. However, in backward recall, when participants are required to recall items in the reverse order, contradictory findings have been reported. For instance, in some studies, the word length effect was abolished in backward r…
Phonological similarity in the serial recall task hinders item recall, not just order
The phonological similarity effect in short-term memory (STM) is the finding that serial recall of lists of similar sounding items is poorer than that of dissimilar sounding items. This is traditionally argued to be due to a detrimental effect on memory for the order of the words in the list and not on memory for the words themselves. Models that propose forgetting from STM is due to interference must invoke an additional compensatory process whe…
A round Bouba is easier to remember than a curved Kiki
The word length effect in backward recall
In immediate serial recall, it is well known that participants are better at recalling short rather than long words. This benchmark memory effect, known as word length effect, has been observed numerous times in forward recall. However, in backward recall, when participants are required to recall items in the reverse order, contradictory findings have been reported. For instance, in some studies, the word length effect was abolished in backward r…
Working memory limits severely constrain long-term retention
A model of the production effect over the short-term
Backward recall and foreknowledge of recall direction
When participants must recall a sequence of items in reverse order just after their presentation, inconsistent findings have been observed relative to when participants must recall a sequence in their presentation order. Recently, the Encoding-Retrieval Matching Hypothesis (ERM) has been developed to account for these inconsistencies. Within the ERM hypothesis, foreknowledge of recall direction plays an important role. In two experiments, we test…
Tradeoffs between item and order information in short-term memory
Phonological similarity in the serial recall task hinders item recall, not just order
The phonological similarity effect in short-term memory (STM) is the finding that serial recall of lists of similar sounding items is poorer than that of dissimilar sounding items. This is traditionally argued to be due to a detrimental effect on memory for the order of the words in the list and not on memory for the words themselves. Models that propose forgetting from STM is due to interference must invoke an additional compensatory process whe…
Can synchronised tones facilitate immediate memory for printed lists
In verbal list recall, adding features redundant with the ones to be recalled theoretically could assist recall, by providing additional retrieval cues, or it could impede recall, by draining attention away from the features to be recalled. We examined young adults' immediate memory of lists of printed digits when these lists were sometimes accompanied by synchronised, concurrent tones, one per digit. Unlike most previous irrelevant-sound effects…
Give me enough time to rehearse
Valence and concreteness in item recognition
Stimulus duration and recognition memory
Attentional subsetting theory (Caplan, 2023) posits that only a small subset of item features are attended in episodic recognition tasks. This explained a pivotal finding for the development of recognition models: the near-null list-strength effect, where encoding strength influences recognition similarly in mixed-strength lists and pure-strength lists. Most research uses spaced repetition to manipulate encoding strength. However, the origin of t…
An embedded computational framework of memory
Human memory is reconstructive and thus fundamentally imperfect. One of its critical flaws is false recall—the erroneous recollection of unstudied items. Despite its significant implications, false recall poses a challenge for existing computational models of serial recall, which struggle to provide item-specific predictions. Across six experiments, each involving 100 young adults, we address this issue using the Embedded Computational Framework …
Similar phonemes create interference in the serial recall task
The mechanisms underlying forgetting have been central to theorising about verbal short-term and working memory, and the importance of interference as opposed to decay continues to be vigorously debated. Here, we present two experiments to evaluate the nature and locus of phonological interference as a source of forgetting in serial recall. In these experiments, we replicate studies showing that repetition of phonemes across items impairs recall …
An embedded computational framework of memory
A model of recall called the Embedded Computational Framework of Memory (eCFM) is presented. • The eCFM integrates semantic word representations with an instance-based memory model. • The model successfully accounts for the influence of semantic information across a range of recall phenomena. • New predictions for list composition, presentation rate, order error, and false recall were derived from eCFM and tested. • The model captured all main fi…
From stork to baby
Long-term representational costs of overloading working memory
Can learning too much information at once impair long-term retention of its meaning? Emerging evidence suggests that encoding too many items into working memory (WM) limits subsequent long-term memory (LTM) retrieval of their details and gist. These findings highlight a boundary condition for theories positing relatively automatic gist encoding. But how expansive is this boundary? Experiment 1 shows that it extends to older adults, despite their …
Minerva Ops
Bilingualism and individual differences in short-term ordered serial recall
In two experiments, we examined whether individual differences in bilingual language proficiency predict immediate serial recall in a language-specific manner. A total of 96 French-English bilinguals completed an immediate serial recall task involving 40 lists of 6 words, followed by the LexTALE lexical decision task in both French and English to index lexical knowledge continuously. Experiment 1 used visually presented word lists and included bo…
Cognitive psychology (14 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Recall (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Working memory (7 works) · Free recall (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (6 works)