Roger W. Schvaneveldt (born April 11, 1941 in
Logan, Utah
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) is an American
experimental psychologist with a focus on basic and applied research in
cognitive psychology
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Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, whi ...
. He earned a PhD from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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in 1967 and has been on the faculties of
Stony Brook University (1967–77),
New Mexico State University (1977–2000), and
Arizona State University (2000–10).
In 1971, Schvaneveldt co-wrote with
David E. Meyer the seminal article on
semantic priming. He developed
Pathfinder Network Scaling with
Francis T. (Frank) Durso and others, editing a widely cited book on it in 1990,
[.] and has also published on
expertise,
implicit learning, aviation psychology, and on
discovery
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* Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence
Discovery, The Discovery ...
in
biomedical informatics
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...
with
Trevor Cohen and others.
Schvaneveldt is a
fellow
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of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, the
American Psychological Association
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, the
Psychonomic Society, and the
Association for Psychological Science.
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See also
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Implicit stereotype, see paper with Meyer from 1971 ("Facilitation")
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Lexical decision task The lexical decision task (LDT) is a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments. The basic procedure involves measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords.
Although versions of the task had been used ...
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Word superiority effect, see paper from 1982
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Random indexing, see paper with Cohen from 2009 and 2010
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Indirect tests of memory
References
Further reading
Roger Schvaneveldt
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Living people
1941 births
Experimental psychologists
Writers from Logan, Utah
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Stony Brook University faculty
Arizona State University faculty
New Mexico State University faculty