Dr Marie Poirier

Information:
Dr. Marie Poirier
Specialism:
Cognitive Psychology - Human Memory
Teaching:
Undergraduate: PS1003 Cognitive Approaches to Mind and Behaviour (module leader)
PS1002 Specialist background (module leader)
PS3001 Honours Projects in Psychology (module leader)
PS3004 Memory: Trends and Issues (module leader)
Postgraduate: PSM511 Contemporary Issues in Psychological Research
Location:
Social Sciences Building, Room D408
Tel:
020 7040 4011
Fax:
020 7040 8580
Email:
m.poirier@city.ac.uk
Web page:
Memory Research Unit
Office Hours:
Tues: 9-10am, Thurs: 1-2pm other times by appointment
Administration:
Departmental Finance Committee & Senate Research Committee

Marie's research interests are in the area of human memory. Previous publications have mainly been in the area of memory over the short term. Current interests include memory over the short term, the role of memory in evaluating past experiences, and the determinants of successful retrieval - as well as memory in special populations. She has collaborations in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia and her research has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council (UK).


Originally from Quebec, Canada, Marie obtained her PhD in 1989 from Laval University. She was a lecturer at Sherbrooke University (Canada) and then at Laval University where she became the director of the Cognitive Psychology Research Laboratory. She moved to City in 2001, where she teaches in cognitive psychology, memory, and research methods; she has set up and directs the Memory Research Unit.  


Selected publications:


Martin, J.S., Poirier, M., Bowler, D. (In Press). Impaired temporal reproduction performance in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 


Aldrovandi, S., Poirier, M., Heussen, D., & Ayton, P. (2009). Memory strategies mediate the relationships between memory and judgment. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2457-2462). Cognitive Science Society.


Fortin, C., Champage, J., & Poirier, M. (2007) Temporal order in memory and interval timing: An interference analysis. Acta Psychologica, 126, 18-33.


Poirier, M., Saint-Aubin, J., Musselwhite, K., Mohanadas, T., & Mahammed, G. (2007) Visual Similarity Effects on Short-term Memory for Order: The case of verbally labeled pictorial stimuli.  Memory & Cognition, 13, 711-723


Morin, C., Poirier, M., Fortin, C., & Hulme, C. (2006). Word-frequency and the mixed-list paradox in immediate and delayed serial recall. Psychonomic Bulleting & Review, 13, 724-729


Neath, I, Brown, G.D.A., Poirier, M., & Fortin. C. (2005) Short-term / Working Memory: Where Do We Stand? Memory, 13, 225-235.


Poirier, M & Schweickert, R. & Oliver, J. (2005) Silent Reading Rate and Memory Span. Memory, 13, 380 - 387.


Turcotte, J., Gagnon, S. & Poirier, M. (2005) The Effect of Old Age on Learning of Supra-Span Sequences. Psychology & Aging, Vol. 21  


Saint-Aubin, J., Ouellette, D. & Poirier, M. (2005). Semantic similarity and immediate serial recall: Is there an effect on all trials? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 171-177.


Saint-Aubin, J. & Poirier, M. (2005). Word frequency effects in immediate serial recall: Item familiarity and item co-occurrence have the same effect. Memory, 13, 325-332.

Books & Chapters


Poirier, M. & Martin, J. (2008) Working Memory and Immediate Memory in Autism Spectrum Disorders. In, J. Boucher & D. M. Bowler (Eds.)  Memory in Autism: Theory and Evidence. Cambridge: CUP


Neath, I., Brown, G. D. A., Poirier, M., & Fortin, C. (Eds.) (2005). Short-term/Working Memory: The second Quebec conference on short-term/working memory. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.