Roger W. Schvaneveldt
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Roger W. Schvaneveldt (born April 11, 1941 in
Logan, Utah Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2020 United States Census, 2020 census recorded the population at 52,778. Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Ca ...
) is an American experimental psychologist with a focus on basic and applied research in
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. He earned a PhD from the
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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
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in
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with Trevor Cohen and others. Schvaneveldt is a
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of the
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, the
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, the Psychonomic Society, and the Association for Psychological Science.


Selected publications

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See also

* Implicit stereotype, see paper with Meyer from 1971 ("Facilitation") *
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 ...
, see papers from 1971 and 1973 * Word superiority effect, see paper from 1982 * Random indexing, see paper with Cohen from 2009 and 2010 * Indirect tests of memory


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Roger Schvaneveldt {{DEFAULTSORT:Schvaneveldt, Roger W 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