Yr Athro Dominic Dwyer
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BSc PhD

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Animals, including humans, readily learn links between events that occur close together in time and space. The classic example from animal learning comes from Pavlov’s demonstration that dogs that were fed immediately after hearing a bell began to salivate in advance of the food when the bell was rung. This can be described in terms of the dogs learning an association between the mental representation of the bell, and the mental representation of food, such that hearing the bell activates the representation of food (and that in turn drives the relevant responses). One major strand of my research examines the mechanisms by which associations are formed and influence behaviour in both humans and other animals. This has included an exploration of some, seemingly unlikely, phenomena where associative learning may play a crucial role: for example in learning how to distinguish similar faces, how animals deal with problems of causation, or how people learn their likes and dislikes.

A second major strand of my research involves the assessment of hedonic responses in rodents. Animal models are of critical importance in investigating the underlying biological contributions to many human disorders such as depression or schizophrenia. To fully understand these animal models we require ways to assess how animals feel, as well as how they think. As it happens, a detailed examination of the way in which rodents drink is particularly informative with respect to how much they like what they are drinking (e.g. rats tend to produce few, but rather long, bouts of licks when they like the solution they are drinking but the length of the bouts decreases, while the number of bouts can increase, with less palatable solutions). Research in my lab is currently using this technique to investigate how animals learn to like and dislike particular foods and also how such hedonic processes are affected in animals models of human disorders, in particular schizophrenia, depression and dementia.

2025

Moon, A., Mawson, E., Gasalla, P., Wilkinson, L., Dwyer, D., Hall, J. and Thomas, K. 2025. Reduced gene dosage of the psychiatric risk gene Cacna1c is associated with impairments in hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activity in rats. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 26(12), article number: 5547. (10.3390/ijms26125547)
Navarro, V. M., Dwyer, D. M. and Honey, R. C. 2025. The spatiotemporal dynamics of conditioned behavior: first-order and higher-order conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 51(2), pp. 92-102. (10.1037/xan0000392)
Gasalla, P., Thomas, K. L., Wilkinson, L., Hall, J. and Dwyer, D. M. 2025. Reduced cacna1c expression produces anhedonic reactions to palatable sucrose in rats: No interactions with juvenile or adult stress. Genes, Brain and Behavior 24(2), article number: e70021. (10.1111/gbb.70021)

2024

George, D. N., Dwyer, D. M., Haselgrove, M. and Le Pelley, M. 2024. Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (10.1177/17470218241305622)
Navarro, V., Dwyer, D. M. and Honey, R. C. 2024. Variation in the effectiveness of reinforcement and nonreinforcement in generating different conditioned behaviors. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 211, article number: 107915. (10.1016/j.nlm.2024.107915)
Gasalla, P., Figueroa, J., Waldmann, M. R. and Dwyer, D. M. 2024. Beyond the information (not) given: Associative mechanisms vs representations of uncertainty in 3 extinction in laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of Comparative Psychology (10.1037/com0000380)

2023

Griesius, S. et al. 2023. A mild impairment in reversal learning in a bowl-digging substrate deterministic task but not other cognitive tests in the Dlg2+/- rat model of genetic risk for psychiatric disorder. Genes, Brain and Behavior 22(6), article number: e12865. (10.1111/gbb.12865)
López, M., Dwyer, D. M., Begega, A., Jove, C. and Alcorta, E. 2023. An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity. Behavioural Processes 213, article number: 104970. (10.1016/j.beproc.2023.104970)
Navarro, V. M., Dwyer, D. M. and Honey, R. C. 2023. Prediction error in models of adaptive behavior. Current Biology 33(19), pp. 4238-4243. (10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.043)
Rehn, S., Boakes, R. and Dwyer, D. 2023. Switching from sucrose to saccharin: Extended successive negative contrast is not maintained by hedonic changes.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 49(4), pp. 289-295. (10.1037/xan0000362)
Huenul, E., Salazar, L., Frias, D., Videka, M., Luna, D., Dwyer, D. M. and Figueroa, J. 2023. Effects of flavour variety on the intake and palatability of commercial feed in nursery pigs. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 10, article number: 1218198. (10.3389/fvets.2023.1218198)
Lopez, M., Dwyer, D., Gasalla, P., Begega, A. and Jove, C. 2023. Odor-taste pairings lead to the acquisition of negative hedonic qualities by the odor in aversion learning. Physiology & Behavior 269, article number: 114269. (10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114269)
Gasalla Canto, P., Manahan-Vaughan, D., Dwyer, D. M., Hall, J. and Méndez-Couz, M. 2023. Characterisation of the neural basis underlying appetitive extinction & renewal in a Cacna1c rats. Neuropharmacology 227, article number: 109444. (10.1016/j.neuropharm.2023.109444)
Burgess, K. V., Honey, R. C. and Dwyer, D. M. 2023. Instrumental responses and Pavlovian stimuli as temporal referents in a peak procedure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 76(2), pp. 248-256. (10.1177/17470218221090418)
Dwyer, D. and Heyes, C. 2023. Fearfulness: An important addition to the starter kit for distinctively human minds "Commentary". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46, article number: e62. (10.1017/S0140525X22001972)

2022

Sedgwick, K. S., Dwyer, D., Good, M. A. and Saito, T. 2022. The role of the Locus Coeruleus in depression in Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association 18(S7), article number: e062257. (10.1002/alz.062257)
Honey, R. C. and Dwyer, D. M. 2022. Higher-order conditioning: A critical review and computational model. Psychological Review 129(6), pp. 1338-1357. (10.1037/rev0000368)
Honey, R. C., Dwyer, D. M. and Iliescu, A. F. 2022. Associative change in Pavlovian conditioning: a re-appraisal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 48(4), pp. 281-294. (10.1037/xan0000318)
Sanchez, J., Dwyer, D. M., Honey, R. C. and Brugada, I. d. 2022. Perceptual learning after rapidly alternating exposure to taste compounds: Assessment with different indices of generalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology 48(3), pp. 169-178. (10.1037/xan0000333)
Griesius, S. et al. 2022. Reduced expression of the psychiatric risk gene DLG2 (PSD93) impairs hippocampal synaptic integration and plasticity. Neuropsychopharmacology 47, pp. 1367-1378. (10.1038/s41386-022-01277-6)
López, M. and Dwyer, D. M. 2022. Disgust. In: Vonk, J. and Shackelford, T. K. eds. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior.. Cham: Springer, (10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_243)
Waldron, S. et al. 2022. Behavioural and molecular characterisation of the Dlg2 haploinsufficiency rat model of genetic risk for psychiatric disorder. Genes, Brain and Behavior 21(4), article number: e12797. (10.1111/gbb.12797)
Grenville, E. and Dwyer, D. M. 2022. Face masks have emotion-dependent dissociable effects on accuracy and confidence in identifying facial expressions of emotion. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 7, article number: 15. (10.1186/s41235-022-00366-w)

2021

Harrison, D. J. et al. 2021. Placental endocrine insufficiency programs anxiety, deficits in cognition and atypical social behaviour in offspring. Human Molecular Genetics 30(19), pp. 1863-1880., article number: ddab154. (10.1093/hmg/ddab154)
Honey, R. C. and Dwyer, D. M. 2021. Higher-order conditioning: What is learnt and how it is expressed. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 15, article number: 726218. (10.3389/fnbeh.2021.726218)
Honey, R. C., Dwyer, D. M. and Iliescu, A. F. 2021. Elaboration of a model of Pavlovian learning and performance: HeiDI. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 46(3), pp. 170-184. (10.1037/xan0000239)
Figueroa, J., Luna, D., Salazar, L. C., Morales, P., Valdivia, C., Müller, M. and Dwyer, D. 2021. Effects of trial and error and social learning on flavour palatability in nursery pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 236, article number: 105265. (10.1016/j.applanim.2021.105265)

2020

Honey, R. C., Dwyer, D. M. and Iliescu, A. F. 2020. Individual variation in the vigor and form of Pavlovian conditioned responses: analysis of a model system. Learning and Motivation 72, article number: 101658. (10.1016/j.lmot.2020.101658)
Heyes, C., Chater, N. and Dwyer, D. 2020. Sinking in: the peripheral Baldwinisation of human cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24(11), pp. 884-899. (10.1016/j.tics.2020.08.006)
Honey, R. C., Dwyer, D. M. and Iliescu, A. F. 2020. HeiDI: A model for Pavlovian learning and performance with reciprocal associations. Psychological Review 127(5), pp. 829-852. (10.1037/rev0000196)
Iliescu, A. F., Dwyer, D. M. and Honey, R. C. 2020. Individual differences in the nature of conditioned behavior across a conditioned stimulus: adaptation and application of a model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 46(4), pp. 460-269. (10.1037/xan0000270)
Figueroa, J., Gasalla, P., Müller, M. and Dwyer, D. 2020. Socially conditioned flavor preferences with fluids: transfer with solid foods, palatability, and testing constraints. Physiology and Behavior 223, article number: 112976. (10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.112976)
Wright, R. L., Gilmour, G. and Dwyer, D. 2020. Wistar Kyoto Rats display anhedonia in consumption but retain some sensitivity to the anticipation of palatable solutions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 14, article number: 70. (10.3758/s13420-013-0110-1)

2019

Riordan, J. E. and Dwyer, D. 2019. Licking microstructure and hedonic changes after flavour preference learning in rats. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72(12), pp. 2717-2725. (10.1177/1747021819857052)
Lewis, L. R., Benn, A., Dwyer, D. and Robinson, E. S. J. 2019. Affective biases and their interaction with other reward-related deficits in 1 rodent models of psychiatric disorders. Behavioural Brain Research 372, article number: 112051. (10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112051)
Wills, A. J., Edmunds, C. E., Le Pelley, M., Milton, F., Newell, B. R., Dwyer, D. and Shanks, D. R. 2019. Dissociable learning processes, associative theory, and testimonial reviews: a comment on Smith and Church (2018). Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 26(6), pp. 1988-1993. (10.3758/s13423-019-01644-3)
Dwyer, D., Gasalla Canto, P. and Lopez, M. 2019. Partial reinforcement and conditioned taste aversion: No evidence for resistance to extinction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72(2), pp. 274-284. (10.1080/17470218.2017.1347191)
Matias, L., Dwyer, D. and Gasalla Canto, P. 2019. Conditioned hedonic responses elicited by contextual cues paired with nausea or with internal pain. Behavioral Neuroscience 133(1), pp. 86-97. (10.1037/bne0000291)
Uengoer, M., Dwyer, D. M., Koenig, S. and Pearce, J. M. 2019. A test for a difference in the associability of blocked and uninformative cues in human predictive learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72(2), pp. 222-237. (10.1080/17470218.2017.1345957)

2018

Iliescu, A. F., Hall, J., Wilkinson, L. S., Dwyer, D. M. and Honey, R. C. 2018. The nature of phenotypic variation in Pavlovian conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 44(4), pp. 358-369. (10.1037/xan0000177)
Dwyer, D. 2018. Associations and hallucinations in mice and men. Learning & Behavior 46(3), pp. 223-224. (10.3758/s13420-017-0309-7)
Clarkson, J. M., Dwyer, D. M., Flecknell, P. A., Leach, M. C. and Rowe, C. 2018. Handling method alters the hedonic value of reward in laboratory mice. Scientific Reports 8, article number: 2448. (10.1038/s41598-018-20716-3)
Dwyer, D. M., Figueroa, J., Gasalla, P. and López, M. 2018. Reward adaptation and the mechanisms of learning: contrast changes reward value in rats and drives learning. Psychological Science 29(2), pp. 219-227. (10.1177/0956797617729825)

2017

Dwyer, D., Gasalla Canto, P., Bura, S. and Lopez, M. 2017. Flavors paired with internal pain or with nausea elicit divergent types of hedonic responses. Behavioral Neuroscience 131(3), pp. 235-248. (10.1037/bne0000197)
Jones, S. P., Dwyer, D. M. and Lewis, M. B. 2017. The utility of multiple synthesized views in the recognition of unfamiliar faces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology 70(5), pp. 906-918. (10.1080/17470218.2016.1158302)
Gasalla, P., Soto, A., Dwyer, D. M. and López, M. 2017. Blocking of flavor-nausea learning by non-flavor cues: assessment through orofacial reactivity responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology 43(2), pp. 171-182. (10.1037/xan0000135)
Ahmed, J., Dwyer, D., Farr, T. D., Harrison, D., Dunnett, S. and Trueman, R. C. 2017. Lickometry: a novel and sensitive method for assessing functional deficits in rats after stroke. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 37(3), pp. 755-761. (10.1177/0271678X16684141)

2016

Gasalla Canto, P., Begega, A., Soto, A., Dwyer, D. M. and López, M. 2016. Functional brain networks underlying latent inhibition of conditioned disgust in rats. Behavioural Brain Research 315, pp. 36-44. (10.1016/j.bbr.2016.07.051)
McNamara, G. I., Davis, B. A., Dwyer, D. M., John, R. M. and Isles, A. R. 2016. Behavioural abnormalities in a novel mouse model for Silver Russell Syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics 25(24), pp. 5407-5417. (10.1093/hmg/ddw357)
Patitucci, E., Nelson, A. J. D., Dwyer, D. M. and Honey, R. C. 2016. The origins of individual differences in how learning is expressed in rats: a general-process perspective. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 42(4), pp. 313-324. (10.1037/xan0000116)
Beckers, T., De Houwer, J. and Dwyer, D. M. 2016. Reasoning versus association in animal cognition: current controversies and possible ways forward. Journal of Comparative Psychology 130(3), pp. 187-191. (10.1037/com0000024)
Dwyer, D. M. and Waldmann, M. R. 2016. Beyond the information (not) given: representations of stimulus absence in rats (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of Comparative Psychology 130(3), pp. 192-204. (10.1037/a0039733)
Frías, D., Tadich, T., Franco-Rosselló, R., Dwyer, D. M. and Figueroa, J. 2016. Consumption patterns: A proposed model for measurement of solution palatability in pigs. Journal of Animal Science 94(S3), pp. 103-105. (10.2527/jas.2015-9699)

2012

Honey, R. C., Mundy, M. E. and Dwyer, D. M. 2012. Remembering kith and kin is underpinned by rapid memory updating: Implications for exemplar theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 38(4), pp. 433-439. (10.1037/a0029518)
Dwyer, D. M., Burgess, K. and Honey, R. C. 2012. Avoidance but not aversion following sensory preconditioning with flavors: a challenge to stimulus substitution. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 38(4), pp. 359-368. (10.1037/a0029784)
Burgess, K. V., Dwyer, D. M. and Honey, R. C. 2012. Re-assessing causal accounts of learnt behavior in rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 38(2), pp. 148-156. (10.1037/a0027266)
Dwyer, D. M. 2012. Licking and liking: The assessment of hedonic responses in rodents. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 65(3), pp. 371-394. (10.1080/17470218.2011.652969)

2011

Dwyer, D. M., Lydall, E. S. and Gilmour, G. 2011. Haloperidol, but not clozapine, reduces the palatability and consumption of sucrose in rats [Abstract]. Behavioural Pharmacology 22(4), pp. E59-E59.
Dwyer, D. M. 2011. Lesions of the basolateral, but not central, amygdala impair flavour-taste learning based on fructose or quinine reinforcers. Behavioural Brain Research 220(2), pp. 349-353. (10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.007)
Dwyer, D. M., Lydall, E. S. and Hayward, A. J. 2011. Simultaneous contrast: Evidence from licking microstructure and cross-solution comparisons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 37(2), pp. 200-210. (10.1037/a0021458)
Dwyer, D. M., Haselgrove, M. and Jones, P. M. 2011. Cue interactions in flavor preference learning: A configural analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 37(1), pp. 41-57. (10.1037/a0021033)
Dwyer, D. M., Mundy, M. E. and Honey, R. C. 2011. The role of stimulus comparison in human perceptual learning: Effects of distractor placement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 37(3), pp. 300-307. (10.1037/a0023078)
Trueman, R. C., Harrison, D. J., Dwyer, D. M., Dunnett, S. B., Hoehn, M. and Farr, T. D. 2011. A critical re-Examination of the intraluminal filament MCAO model: impact of External Carotid Artery transection. Translational Stroke Research 2(4), pp. 651-661. (10.1007/s12975-011-0102-4)
Dwyer, D. M. and Burgess, K. V. 2011. Rational accounts of animal behaviour? Lessons from C. Lloyd Morgan's Canon. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 24(4), pp. 349-364.

2010

Dwyer, D. M. and Iordanova, M. D. 2010. The amygdala and flavour preference conditioning: Crossed lesions and inactivation. Physiology & Behavior 101(4), pp. 403-412. (10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.07.004)
Lydall, E. S., Gilmour, G. and Dwyer, D. M. 2010. Analysis of licking microstructure provides no evidence for a reduction in reward value following acute or sub-chronic phencyclidine administration. Psychopharmacology 209(2), pp. 153-162. (10.1007/s00213-010-1779-x)
Lydall, E. S., Gilmour, G. and Dwyer, D. M. 2010. Rats place greater value on rewards produced by high effort: an animal analogue of the 'effort justification' effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 46(6), pp. 1134-1137. (10.1016/j.jesp.2010.05.011)
Dwyer, D. M., Dunn, M. J., Rhodes, S. E. V. and Killcross, A. S. 2010. Lesions of the prelimbic prefrontal cortex prevent response conflict produced by action-outcome associations. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 63(3), pp. 417-424. (10.1080/17470210903411049)

2009

Dwyer, D. M., Starns, J. and Honey, R. C. 2009. "Causal reasoning" in rats: A reappraisal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 35(4), pp. 578-586. (10.1037/a0015007)
Dwyer, D. M. 2009. The effects of midazolam on the acquisition and expression of fructose- and maltodextrin-based flavour preferences. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 91(4), pp. 503-510. (10.1016/j.pbb.2008.09.001)
Dwyer, D. M., Pincham, H. L., Thein, T. and Harris, J. A. 2009. A learned flavor preference persists despite the extinction of conditioned hedonic reactions to the cue flavors. Learning & Behavior 37(4), pp. 305-310. (10.3758/LB.37.4.305)
Mundy, M. E., Honey, R. C., Downing, P. E., Wise, R. G., Graham, K. S. and Dwyer, D. M. 2009. Material-independent and material-specific activation in functional MRI after perceptual learning. NeuroReport 20(16), pp. 1397-1401. (10.1097/WNR.0b013e32832f81f4)
Dwyer, D. M. and Vladeanu, M. C. 2009. Perceptual learning in face processing: comparison facilitates face recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62(10), pp. 2055-2067. (10.1080/17470210802661736)
Dwyer, D. M., Le Pelley, M. E., George, D. N., Haselgrove, M. and Honey, R. C. 2009. Straw-men and selective citation are needed to argue that associative-link formation makes no contribution to human learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32(2), pp. 206-207. (10.1017/S0140525X09000946)
Dwyer, D. M., Mundy, M. E., Vladeanu, M. C. and Honey, R. C. 2009. Perceptual learning and acquired face familiarity: evidence from inversion, use of internal features, and generalization between viewpoints. Visual Cognition 17(3), pp. 334-355. (10.1080/13506280701757577)
Mundy, M. E., Honey, R. C. and Dwyer, D. M. 2009. Superior discrimination between similar stimuli after simultaneous exposure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62(1), pp. 18-25. (10.1080/17470210802240614)
Dwyer, D. M. 2009. Microstructural analysis of ingestive behaviour reveals no contribution of palatability to the incomplete extinction of a conditioned taste aversion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62(1), pp. 9-17. (10.1080/17470210802215152)

2008

Dwyer, D. M. and Quirk, R. H. 2008. Context conditional flavor preferences in the rat based on fructose and maltodextrin reinforcers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 34(2), pp. 294-302. (10.1037/0097-7403.34.2.294)
Dwyer, D. M. 2008. Perceptual Learning: Complete Transfer across Retinal Locations. Current Biology 18(24), pp. R1134-R1136. (10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.037)
Dwyer, D. M. 2008. Microstructural analysis of conditioned and unconditioned responses to maltodextrin. Learning & Behavior 36(2), pp. 149-158. (10.3758/LB.36.2.149)
Dwyer, D. M., Boakes, R. A. and Hayward, A. J. 2008. Reduced Palatability in Lithium- and Activity-Based, but Not in Amphetamine-Based, Taste Aversion Learning. Behavioral Neuroscience 122(5), pp. 1051-1060. (10.1037/a0012703)

2007

Mundy, M. E., Honey, R. C. and Dwyer, D. M. 2007. Simultaneous Presentation of Similar Stimuli Produces Perceptual Learning in Human Picture Processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 33(2), pp. 124-138. (10.1037/0097-7403.33.2.124)
Dwyer, D. M. and Honey, R. C. 2007. The effects of habituation training on compound conditioning are not reversed by an associative activation treatment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 33(2), pp. 185-190. (10.1037/0097-7403.33.2.185)
Dwyer, D. M., Jarratt, F. C. and Dick, K. 2007. Evaluative conditioning with foods as CSs and body shapes as USs: no evidence for sex differences, extinction, or overshadowing. Cognition & Emotion 21(2), pp. 281-299. (10.1080/02699930600551592)

2006

Dwyer, D. M. and Killcross, A. S. 2006. Lesions of the basolateral amygdala disrupt conditioning based on the retrieved representations of motivationally significant events. Journal of Neuroscience 26(32), pp. 8305-8309. (10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1647-06.2006)
Mundy, M. E., Dwyer, D. M. and Honey, R. C. 2006. Inhibitory associations contribute to perceptual learning in humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 32(2), pp. 178-184. (10.1037/0097-7403.32.2.178)

2005

Dwyer, D. M. 2005. Reinforcer devaluation in palatability-based learned flavor preferences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 31(4), pp. 487-492. (10.1037/0097-7403.31.4.487)

2004

Dwyer, D. M., Hodder, K. I. and Honey, R. C. 2004. Perceptual learning in humans: Roles of preexposure schedule, feedback, and discrimination assay. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 57(3), pp. 245-259. (10.1080/02724990344000114)

2003

Dwyer, D. M. 2003. Learning about cues in their absence: evidence from flavour preferences and aversions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 56(1), pp. 56-67. (10.1080/02724990244000160)

2002

Dwyer, D. M. and Clayton, N. S. 2002. A reply to the defenders of the faith. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6(3), pp. 109-111. (10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01857-X)
Dwyer, D. M. and Mackintosh, N. J. 2002. Alternating exposure to two compound flavors creates inhibitory associations between their unique features. Animal Learning & Behavior 30(3), pp. 201-207. (10.3758/BF03192829)

2001

Dwyer, D. M., Bennett, C. H. and Mackintosh, N. J. 2001. Evidence for inhibitory associations between the unique elements of two compound flavours. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 54(2), pp. 97-107. (10.1080/713932748)
Dwyer, D. M. 2001. Mediated conditioning and retrospective revaluation with LiCl then flavour pairings. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 54(2), pp. 145-165. (10.1080/02724990042000146)

2000

Dwyer, D. M. 2000. Formation of a novel preference and aversion by simultaneous activation of the representations of absent cues. Behavioural Processes 48(3), pp. 159-164. (10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00080-7)

1999

Dwyer, D. M. 1999. Retrospective revaluation or mediated conditioning? The effect of different reinforcers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 52(4), pp. 289-306. (10.1080/713932711)

1998

Dwyer, D. M., Mackintosh, N. J. and Boakes, R. A. 1998. Simultaneous activation of the representations of absent cues results in the formation of an excitatory association between them. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 24(2), pp. 163-171. (10.1037/0097-7403.24.2.163)
Killcross, A. S., Keirnan, M. J., Dwyer, D. M. and Westbrook, R. F. 1998. Loss of latent inhibition of contextual conditioning following non-reinforced context exposure in rats. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 51(1), pp. 75-90. (10.1080/713932668)
Killcross, A. S., Keirnan, M. J., Dwyer, D. M. and Westbrook, R. F. 1998. Effects of retention interval on latent inhibition and perceptual learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 51(1), pp. 59-74. (10.1080/713932665)

1997

Boakes, R. A. and Dwyer, D. M. 1997. Weight loss in rats produced by running: effects of prior experience and individual housing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 50(2), pp. 129-148. (10.1080/713932647)
Dwyer, D. M. and Boakes, R. A. 1997. Activity-based anorexia in rats as failure to adapt to a feeding schedule. Behavioral Neuroscience 111(1), pp. 195-205. (10.1037/0735-7044.111.1.195)

Pynciau ymchwil a phapurau cysylltiedig

Ymchwilio i risg genetig ac amgylcheddol mewn modelau o anhwylderau seiciatrig a niwroddirywiol. Rydym yn ymchwilio i'r aflonyddwch gwybyddol a hedonig a ddangosir gan fodelau anifeiliaid o risg ar gyfer anhwylderau seiciatrig. Mae hyn yn cwmpasu ystod o brosiectau a ariennir gan PhD ac UKRI (e.e. MRC - Ymchwilio i risg genetig ac amgylcheddol ar gyfer seicosis wedi'i gyfryngu trwy sianeli calsiwm foltedd Math L).

Wright, RL, Gilmour, G., & Dwyer, DM (2020) Mae Llygod mawr Wistar Kyoto yn arddangos anhedonia wrth eu bwyta ond yn cadw rhywfaint o sensitifrwydd i ddisgwyl atebion blasus. Ffiniau mewn Niwrowyddoniaeth Ymddygiadol, 14:70.

Lewis, LR, Benn, A., Dwyer, DM, & Robinson, EJ (2019). Rhagfarnau affeithiol a'u rhyngweithio â diffygion eraill sy'n gysylltiedig â gwobrau mewn modelau cnofilod o anhwylderau seiciatrig. Ymchwil Ymennydd Ymddygiadol, 372.

Ahmed, J., Dwyer, DM, Farr, TD, Harrison, D., Dunnett, SB, & Trueman, RC (2017). Lickometry: Dull newydd a sensitif ar gyfer asesu diffygion swyddogaethol mewn llygod mawr ar ôl strôc. Cyfnodolyn Llif y Gwaed a Metaboledd yr Ymennydd, 37(3), 755-761

McNamara, GI, Davis, BA, Dwyer, DM, John, RM, Ynysoedd, AR (2016). Annormaleddau ymddygiadol mewn model llygoden newydd ar gyfer Syndrom Silver Russell, Geneteg Moleciwlaidd Dynol, 25(24), 5407-5417. doi: 10.1093 / hmg / ddw357

Modelau cyfrifiadurol o ddysgu a chof. Rydym yn datblygu model cyfrifiadurol newydd o ddysgu a pherfformiad Pavlovian. Cyhoeddwyd y model canonaidd, HeiDI, mewn set o bapurau yn 2020, ac yn ddiweddar rydym wedi sicrhau cyllid gan y BBSRC i gefnogi ei ddatblygiad drwy ymchwil arbrofol ailadroddol (BB/T004339/1).

Mêl, RC, Dwyer, DM, & Iliescu, AF (2020). HeiDI: Model ar gyfer dysgu a pherfformiad Pavlovian gyda chysylltiadau cilyddol. Adolygiad Seicolegol (yn y wasg).

Mêl, RC, Dwyer, DM, & Iliescu, AF (2020). Ymhelaethu ar fodel o ddysgu a pherfformiad Pavlovian: HeiDI. Datblygiadau cyfredol mewn theori gysylltiol: Teyrnged i Allan Wagner. Cyfnodolyn Seicoleg Arbrofol: Dysgu a Gwybyddiaeth Anifeiliaid (yn y wasg).

Mêl, RC, Dwyer, DM, & Iliescu, AF (2020). Amrywiad unigol mewn egni a ffurf ymatebion cyflyru Pavlovian: Dadansoddiad o system fodel. Dysgu a Chymhelliant (yn y wasg).

Iliescu, AF, Dwyer, DM, & Honey, RC (2020). Gwahaniaethau unigol yn natur ymddygiad cyflyru ar draws ysgogiad cyflyru: Addasu a chymhwyso model. Cyfnodolyn Seicoleg Arbrofol: Dysgu a Gwybyddiaeth Anifeiliaid (yn y wasg).

Iliescu, AF, Hall, J., Wilkinson, LS, Dwyer, DM, & Honey, RC (2018). Natur amrywiad ffenotypig mewn cyflyru Pavlovian. Cyfnodolyn Seicoleg Arbrofol: Dysgu a Gwybyddiaeth Anifeiliaid, 44(4), 358-369.

Ymatebion hedonig mewn dysgu a lles anifeiliaid. Rydym yn ymchwilio i fynegiant ymatebion hedonig yng nghyd-destun dysgu (yn enwedig mewn perthynas â dysgu am fwydydd) a lles anifeiliaid (anifeiliaid labordy a ffermio). Mae hyn yn cwmpasu ystod o brosiectau PhD a chydweithredu rhyngwladol (e.e. Fondecyt Regular, Chile - Sensory specific satiety in pigs: Feed variety as a strategy to improve animals' performance and welfare in intensive farming).

Figueroa, J., Frias, D., Sola-Oriol, D., Tadich, T., Franco-Rossello, R., Nunez, V., & Dwyer, DM (2019). Palatability mewn moch, y pleser o fwyta. Cyfnodolyn Gwyddor Anifeiliaid, 97(5), 2165-2174.

Riordan, JE, a Dwyer, DM (2019). Licking microstructure and hedonic changes after flavor preference learning in rats. Cyfnodolyn Chwarterol Seicoleg Arbrofol, 72(12), 2717-2725.

López, M., Dwyer, DM, & Gasalla, P. (2019). Ymatebion hedonig cyflyru a ennir gan arwyddion cyd-destunol wedi'u paru â chyfog neu â phoen mewnol. Niwrowyddoniaeth Ymddygiadol, 133(1), 86-97.

Clarkson, JM, Dwyer, DM, Flecknell, PA, Leach, MC, & Rowe, C. (2018). Mae'r dull trin yn newid gwerth hedonig gwobr mewn llygod labordy. Adroddiadau Gwyddonol, 8. doi: 10.1038 / s41598-018-20716-3

Dwyer DM, Figueroa, J., Gasalla, P., & López M., (2018) Addasu gwobrwyo a mecanweithiau dysgu: Cyferbyniad yn newid gwerth gwobrwyo mewn llygod mawr ac yn gyrru dysgu. Gwyddoniaeth Seicolegol, 29(2), 219-227

Grŵp ymchwil

Emma Clark (Myfyrwraig PhD)

Cydweithwyr ymchwil

Bob Boakes (Prifysgol Sydney)

Jaime Figueroa (Prifysgol O'Higgins)

Patricia Gasalla (Seicoleg, Prifysgol Caerdydd)

Mark Good (Seicoleg, Prifysgol Caerdydd)

Jeremy Hall (Meddygaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd)

Rob Honey (Seicoleg, Prifysgol Caerdydd)

Matías López (Universidad de Oviedo)

Lawrence Wilkinson (Seicoleg a Meddygaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd)

I am the chair of the undergraduate exam boards.

Levels 1 and 2: I teach introductory lectures on statistics and biological psychology (PS1015 and PS2017). I also run cognitive practicals and give tutorials on social, perception, cognition and abnormal/clinical psychology (supporting PS2007, PS2003, PS2009, PS2018).

Level 3: I supervise projects on a variety of topics including face perception and the learning and expression of food preferences.

Thesis examination

I have examined both MSc and PhD theses both internally and externally (eg for the University of Sydney and the University of NSW).

Undergraduate education

In 1995, I received a BSc (Honours Class 1, Medal) in Psychology from the University of Sydney.

The title of my empirical thesis was Activity-Based Anorexia.

The title of my theoretical thesis was The nature of number and measurement in psychology.

I also studied Statistics, Mathematics, Law, Chemistry.

Postgraduate education

In 1999, I received my PhD from the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

My thesis title was Learning about absent stimuli. I was supervised by Professor N.J. Mackintosh.

Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau

2011: Delivered the 18th Experimental Psychology Society Prize Lecture
2000: Emanuel Miller Prize for the Philosophy of Science
1996: Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Packer Scholarship for graduate study.
1995: University Medal for Psychology
Dick Thomson Prize for Psychology
Australian Psychological Society Prize for Psychology Honours.

Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol

2012 to present: Reader, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
2007 to 2012: Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
2003 - 2007: Lecturer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
2002 - 2003: Research Associate, Cardiff University
1999 - 2002: Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Pwyllgorau ac adolygu

I am an associative editor for The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. I have reviewed for over 15 different journals (including Current Biology, The Journal of Neuroscience, The European Journal of Neuroscience) and am an associate of the BBS. Grant Reviewing: BBSRC, ESRC, and the City University of New York.

Mae fy niddordebau damcaniaethol yn amrywio ar draws y mecanweithiau cysylltiol a niwral sy'n sail i ddysgu, cof a dewis. Mae fy myfyrwyr ôl-raddedig yn cymryd rhan mewn amrywiaeth o brosiectau ac mae ganddynt fynediad at ystod eang o gyfleusterau ac adnoddau o'r radd flaenaf.

Mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn trafod y posibilrwydd o oruchwylio prosiectau ymchwil sy'n gysylltiedig ag unrhyw un o'm diddordebau damcaniaethol neu feysydd o arbenigedd empirig.

Os oes gennych ddiddordeb mewn gwneud cais am PhD, neu am ragor o wybodaeth am fy ymchwil ôl-raddedig, cysylltwch â mi yn uniongyrchol, neu gyflwyno cais ffurfiol.

Myfyrwyr (au) presennol

Katie Sedgewick: (dan oruchwyliaeth yr Athro John Aggleton a'r Athro Mark Good) Dechreuodd Katie ei hymchwil PhD yn 2019 yn archwilio ymddygiad gwybyddol a hetonig mewn modelau cnofilod o risg dementia.

Contact Details

DwyerDM@caerdydd.ac.uk
+44 29208 76285
Adeilad y Tŵr, Plas y Parc, Caerdydd, CF10 3AT

Themâu ymchwil

Arbenigeddau

Ymddygiad anifeiliaid
Niwrowyddoniaeth ymddygiadol
Dysgu, cymhelliant ac emosiwn

Yr Athro Dominic Dwyer (e/fe) BSc PhD