Education
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967 and has been on the faculties of Stony Brook University (1967-1977), New Mexico State University, (1977–2000), and Arizona State University (2000-2010).
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967 and has been on the faculties of Stony Brook University (1967-1977), New Mexico State University, (1977–2000), and Arizona State University (2000-2010).
In 1971 Schvaneveldt co-wrote with David East. 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 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.