Roger W. Schvaneveldt (born April 11, 1941 in

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) is an American

experimental psychologist Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, in ...

with a focus on basic and applied research in

cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...

. He earned a PhD from the

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in 1967 and has been on the faculties of

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(1967–77),

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(1977–2000), and

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(2000–10). In 1971, Schvaneveldt co-wrote with David E. Meyer the seminal article on

semantic priming Priming is a phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention. The priming effect refers to the positive or negative effect of a rapidly presented stimulus (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

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implicit learning Implicit learning is the learning of complex information in an unintentional manner, without awareness of what has been learned. According to Frensch and Rünger (2003) the general definition of implicit learning is still subject to some controver ...

, aviation psychology, and on

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biomedical informatics Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic hea ...

with Trevor Cohen and others. Schvaneveldt is a

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of the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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Selected publications

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