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CLarkson, Jasmine M., Dwyer, Dominic M., Flecknell, Paul, Leach, Matthew C. and Rowe, Candy 2018. Handling method alters the hedonic value of reward in laboratory mice. Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-20716-3

Dwyer, Dominic, Gasalla Canto, Patricia, Figueroa, Jaime and Lopez, Matias 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

Dwyer, Dominic, Gasalla Canto, Patricia and Lopez, Matias 2018. Partial reinforcement and conditioned taste aversion: No evidence for resistance to extinction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 10.1080/17470218.2017.1347191 Item availability restricted.

Iliescu, Adela F., Hall, Jeremy, Wilkinson, Lawrence, Dwyer, Dominic and Honey, Robert C. 2018. The nature of phenotypic variation in Pavlovian conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition

Dwyer, Dominic 2017. Associations and hallucinations in mice and men. Learning & Behavior Item availability restricted.

Dwyer, Dominic, Gasalla Canto, Patricia, Bura, Stefana and Lopez, Matias 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 Item availability restricted.

Ahmed, Jewel, Dwyer, Dominic, Farr, Tracy D, Harrison, David, Dunnett, Stephen and Trueman, Rebecca 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

Gasalla Canto, Patricia, Soto, Alberto, Dwyer, Dominic and Lopez, Matias 2017. Blocking of flavor-nausea learning by non-flavor cues: Assessment through orofacial reactivity responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology

Jones, Scott P., Dwyer, Dominic and Lewis, Michael Bevan 2017. The utility of multiple synthesised views in the recognition of unfamiliar faces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology 70 (5) , pp. 906-918. 10.1080/17470218.2016.1158302

Gasalla Canto, Patricia, Begega, Azucena, Soto, Alberto, Dwyer, Dominic M. and López, Matías 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, Grainne, Davis, Brittany A, Dwyer, Dominic M, John, Rosalind Margaret and Isles, Anthony Roger 2016. Behavioural abnormalities in novel mouse model for Silver Russell Syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics 25 (24) , pp. 5407-5417. 10.1093/hmg/ddw357

Frías, D., Tadich, T., Franco-Rosselló, R., Dwyer, Dominic 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

Patitucci, E., Nelson, Andrew John Dudley, Dwyer, Dominic M. and Honey, Robert Colin 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

Dwyer, Dominic M. and Waldmann, Michael 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

Beckers, Tom, De Houwer, Jan and Dwyer, Dominic 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

Figueroa, Jaime, Solà-Oriol, David, Manteca, Xavier, Pérez, José Francisco and Dwyer, Dominic M. 2015. Anhedonia in pigs? Effects of social stress and restraint stress on sucrose preference. Physiology & Behavior 151 , pp. 509-515. 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.08.027

Davies, Jennifer R., Humby, Trevor, Dwyer, Dominic M., Garfield, Alastair S., Furby, Hannah, Wilkinson, Lawrence Stephen, Wells, Timothy and Isles, Anthony Roger 2015. Calorie seeking, but not hedonic response, contributes to hyperphagia in a mouse model for Prader-Willi syndrome. European Journal of Neuroscience 42 (4) , pp. 2105-2113. 10.1111/ejn.12972

Guzmán-Pino, Sergio A., Solà-Oriol, David, Figueroa, Jaime, Dwyer, Dominic M. and Pérez, José F. 2015. Effect of a long-term exposure to concentrated sucrose and maltodextrin solutions on the preference, appetence, feed intake and growth performance of post-weaned piglets. Physiology & Behavior 141 , pp. 85-91. 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.01.009

Jones, Scott P., Dwyer, Dominic M. and Lewis, Michael Bevan 2015. Learning faces: similar comparator faces do not improve performance. PLoS ONE 10 (1) , e0116707. 10.1371/journal.pone.0116707

Mundy, Matthew Edward, Downing, Paul E., Honey, Robert Colin, Singh, Krish Devi, Graham, Kim Samantha and Dwyer, Dominic M. 2014. Brain correlates of experience-dependent changes in stimulus discrimination based on the amount and schedule of exposure. PLoS ONE 9 (6) , e101011. 10.1371/journal.pone.0101011

Neill, Joanna C., Harte, Michael K., Haddad, Peter M., Lydall, Emma S. and Dwyer, Dominic M. 2014. Acute and chronic effects of NMDA receptor antagonists in rodents, relevance to negative symptoms of schizophrenia: A translational link to humans. European Neuropsychopharmacology 24 (5) , pp. 822-835. 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2013.09.011

Wright, Rebecca L., Gilmour, Gary and Dwyer, Dominic M. 2013. Microstructural analysis of negative anticipatory contrast: A reconsideration of the devaluation account. Learning & Behavior 41 (4) , pp. 353-359. 10.3758/s13420-013-0110-1

Dwyer, Dominic M., Gasalla, Patricia and López, Matías 2013. Nonreinforced flavor exposure attenuates the effects of conditioned taste aversion on both flavor consumption and cue palatability. Learning & Behavior 41 (4) , pp. 390-401. 10.3758/s13420-013-0114-x

Mundy, Matthew Edward, Downing, Paul E., Dwyer, Dominic M., Honey, Robert Colin and Graham, Kim Samantha 2013. A critical role for the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex in perceptual learning of scenes and faces: complementary findings from amnesia and fMRI. Journal of Neuroscience 33 (25) , pp. 10490-10502. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2958-12.2013

Jones, Scott Phillip and Dwyer, Dominic M. 2013. Perceptual learning with complex visual stimuli is based on location, rather than content, of discriminating features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 39 (2) , pp. 152-165. 10.1037/a0031509

Lin, Tzu-Ching Esther, Dumigan, Natasha, Dwyer, Dominic M., Good, Mark Andrew and Honey, Robert Colin 2013. Assessing the encoding specificity of associations with sensory preconditioning procedures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 39 (1) , pp. 67-75. 10.1037/a0030662

Honey, Robert Colin, Mundy, Matthew Edward and Dwyer, Dominic 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, Dominic M., Burgess, Katy V. and Honey, Robert Colin 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, Katy V., Dwyer, Dominic M. and Honey, Robert Colin 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, Dominic 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

Dwyer, Dominic M., Lydall, Emma Sian and Gilmour, Gary 2011. Haloperidol, but not clozapine, reduces the palatability and consumption of sucrose in rats [Abstract]. Behavioural Pharmacology 22 (4) , E59-E59.

Dwyer, Dominic 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, Dominic M., Lydall, Emma Sian and Hayward, Andrew James 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, Dominic M., Haselgrove, Mark and Jones, Peter Michael 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, Dominic M., Mundy, Matthew Edward and Honey, Robert Colin 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

Dwyer, Dominic M. and Burgess, Katy V. 2011. Rational Accounts of Animal Behaviour? Lessons from C. Lloyd Morgan's Canon. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 24 (4) , pp. 349-364.

Trueman, Rebecca C., Harrison, David John, Dwyer, Dominic M., Dunnett, Stephen Bruce, Hoehn, Mathias and Farr, Tracy 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, Dominic M. and Iordanova, Mihaela 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, Emma Sian, Gilmour, Gary and Dwyer, Dominic 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, Emma Sian, Gilmour, Gary and Dwyer, Dominic 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, Dominic M., Dunn, Michael J., Rhodes, Sarah Elizabeth Valeda and Killcross, Andrew Simon 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

Dwyer, Dominic M., Starns, J. and Honey, Robert Colin 2009. "Causal reasoning" in rats: A reappraisal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 35 (4) , pp. 578-586. 10.1037/a0015007

Dwyer, Dominic 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, Dominic M., Pincham, Hannah L., Thein, Thida and Harris, Justin 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, Matthew Edward, Honey, Robert Colin, Downing, Paul E., Wise, Richard Geoffrey, Graham, Kim Samantha and Dwyer, Dominic 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, Dominic M. and Vladeanu, Matei Catalin 2009. Perceptual learning in face processing: comparison facilitates face recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62 (10) , pp. 2055-2067. 10.1080/17470210802661736

Dwyer, Dominic M., Le Pelley, Michael Edward, George, David Noel, Haselgrove, Mark and Honey, Robert Colin 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 (02) , pp. 206-207. 10.1017/S0140525X09000946

Dwyer, Dominic 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

Dwyer, Dominic M., Mundy, Matthew Edward, Vladeanu, Matei Catalin and Honey, Robert Colin 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, Matthew Edward, Honey, Robert Colin and Dwyer, Dominic M. 2009. Superior discrimination between similar stimuli after simultaneous exposure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62 (1) , pp. 18-25. 10.1080/17470210802240614

Dwyer, Dominic M. and Quirk, Rachel 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, Dominic M. 2008. Perceptual Learning: Complete Transfer across Retinal Locations. Current Biology 18 (24) , R1134-R1136. 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.037

Dwyer, Dominic 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, Dominic 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

Mundy, Matthew Edward, Honey, Robert Colin and Dwyer, Dominic 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, Dominic M. and Honey, Robert Colin 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, Dominic M., Jarratt, Frances Charlotte and Dick, Kristie 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

Dwyer, Dominic M. and Killcross, Andrew Simon 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, Matthew Edward, Dwyer, Dominic M. and Honey, Robert Colin 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

Dwyer, Dominic 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

Dwyer, Dominic M., Hodder, Kathryn I. and Honey, Robert Colin 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

Dwyer, Dominic 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

Dwyer, Dominic M. and Clayton, Nicola 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, Dominic 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

Dwyer, Dominic 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, Dominic 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

Dwyer, Dominic 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

Dwyer, Dominic 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

Dwyer, Dominic 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, Andrew Simon, Keirnan, M. J., Dwyer, Dominic 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, Andrew Simon, Keirnan, M. J., Dwyer, Dominic 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

Boakes, R. A. and Dwyer, Dominic 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, Dominic 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