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James E. Witnauer

  

 

Contact Info:
(585) 395-2286
jwitnaue@brockport.edu
Holmes room 123
Education

State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, BA in Psychology 2005
State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, MS in Psychology 2007
State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, PhD in Psychology

Research Interests:
  • Computational models of cognition
  • Associative learning
  • Pavlovian conditioning
Publications:

Witnauer, J. E., & Miller, R. R. (2007). Degraded contingency revisited: Posttraining extinction of a cover stimulus attenuates a target cue's behavioral control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33, 240-250.

Amundson, J. A., Witnauer, J. E., Pineno, O., & Miller, R. R. (2008). An inhibitory-like within-compound association attenuates overshadowing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, 133-143.

Witnauer, J. E., Urcelay, G. P., & Miller, R. R. (2008). Reduced blocking as a result of increasing the number of blocking cues. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 651-655.

Witnauer, J. E., & Miller, R. R. (2009). Contrasting overexpectation and extinction. Behavioral Processes, 81, 322-327.

Witnauer, J. E., Urcelay, G. P., & Miller, R. R. (2009).  A one-system theory that is not propositional.  Behavior and Brain Sciences, 32, 228-229.

Witnauer, J. E., & Miller, R. R. (in press). Within-compound associations in cue interactions. In N. A. Schmajuk (Ed.), Computational Models of Conditioning.

Witnauer, J. E., & Miller, R. R. (in press). Some determinants of second-order conditioning. Learning & Behavior.

Awards:

American Psychological Association - CARE Imprinting Award 2008
Binghamton University - Dissertation Year Fellowship 2009-10
Binghamton University – Excellence in Graduate Research 2009-10

Courses:
  • Biopsychology
  • Sensation and Perception
  • Psychology of Learning
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