Roger W. Schvaneveldt Explained

Roger W. Schvaneveldt (born April 11, 1941 in Logan, Utah) is an American experimental psychologist with a focus on basic and applied research in cognitive psychology. He earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison 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.^[1] He developed Pathfinder Network Scaling with Francis T. (Frank) Durso and others, editing a widely cited book on it in 1990,^{[2] [3]} and has also published on expertise, implicit learning, aviation psychology, and on discovery in biomedical informatics with Trevor Cohen and others.

Schvaneveldt is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Psychonomic Society, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Selected publications

• D.E.. Meyer. R.W.. Schvaneveldt . 1971. Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words: Evidence of a dependence between retrieval operations. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 90. 2. 227–234. 10.1037/h0031564. 5134329.
  • • D.E.. Meyer. R.W.. Schvaneveldt . 1976. Meaning, memory structure, and mental processes. Science. 90. 4234. 10.1126/science.1257753. 27–33. 1257753. 1976Sci...192...27M.
    • R.W.. Schvaneveldt . F.T.. Durso. T.E.. Goldsmith. T.J.. Breen. N.M.. Cooke. R.G.. Tucker. J.C.. DeMaio. 1985. Measuring the structure of expertise. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 23. 6. 699–728. 10.1016/s0020-7373(85)80064-x.
• Gomez. R.L.. Schvaneveldt. R.W.. What is learned from artificial grammars? Transfer tests of simple association. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 1994. 20. 2. 396–410. 10.1037/0278-7393.20.2.396.
• Schvaneveldt. R.W.. Gomez. R.L.. Attention and probabilistic sequence learning. Psychological Research. 1998. 61. 3. 175–180. 10.1007/s004260050023. 143214301.
• Schvaneveldt. R.W.. Beringer. D.B.. Lamonica. J.. Priority and organization of information accessed by pilots in various phases of flight. International Journal of Aviation Psychology. 2001. 11. 3. 253–280. 10.1207/s15327108ijap1103_02. 109210326.
  • T.. Cohen. R.W.. Schvaneveldt . D.. Widdows. 2010. Reflective random indexing and indirect inference: A scalable method for discovery of implicit connections. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 43 . 2. 240–256 . 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.09.003. 19761870.

See also

• Implicit stereotype, see paper with Meyer from 1971 ("Facilitation")
• Lexical decision task, 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

Further reading

• https://research-collective.com/PFWeb/Roger/Papers.htm, Roger Schvaneveldt

Notes and References

1. Face (and Nose) Priming for Book: The Malleability of Semantic Memory . Coane . Jennifer H. . Balota . David A. . Experimental Psychology . 2011 . 58 . 1 . 62–70 . 10.1027/1618-3169/a000068. 3010492 . 20494866.
2. Methodology Neither New Nor Improved . Arabie . Phipps . PsycCRITIQUES . 38 . 1 . January 1993 . 66–67. the first complete presentation of the theory and application of Pathfinder networks. . 10.1037/032962.
3. Dunning . Ted . Accurate methods for the statistics of surprise and coincidence . Computational Linguistics . 19 . 1 . 1993 . 61–74 . recent and very innovative work. .