CURRICULUM VITAE
James H. Neely
August 24, 2013
Telephone: Office‑‑(518) 442‑5013 Email: JN562@.ALBANY.EDU
Fax--‑‑‑(518) 442‑4867 Married: Camille Bushell; 15-yr-old daughter, Maria
EDUCATION
1967‑71. University of Missouri, Kansas City, B.A., Psychology, May, 1971.
1971‑75. Yale University, Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, December, 1975.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
1971. Student Research Award, University of Missouri, Kansas City.
1971. Departmental Honors in Psychology, University of Missouri, Kansas City.
1971‑74. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
1987. Fellow of American Psychological Association, Division 3.
1988. Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Psychology.
1988. Charter Fellow of American Psychological Society.
1991. Two papers selected as citation classics by the Institute for Scientific Information.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1976‑78. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina.
1978‑83. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University.
1983‑88. Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University.
1988‑ Professor, Department of Psychology, SUNY‑Albany.
1988‑94. Director, Cognitive Psychology Program, SUNY‑Albany.
1989‑94. Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, SUNY‑Albany.
(Department changed to a program)
1995. Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University (sabbatical, salary paid by UAlbany)
1995- Professor, Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program, SUNY‑Albany.
1996-97 Director, Cognitive Psychology Program, SUNY‑Albany.
1996-98. Adjunct Research Professor, University of Western Australia.
2002-04 Director, Cognitive Psychology Program, SUNY‑Albany.
2004-05 Vice-Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Council.
2005-06 Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Council.
2006- Director, Cognitive Psychology Program, SUNY‑Albany.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Psychonomic Society.
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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION SERVICE
1990‑1991. APA‑‑Division 3 Program Committee (Chair, 1991)
1991. Chair, APA Science Weekend Committee for the Life Span Learning & Cognition Program
1991‑92. American Psychological Society Poster Reviewer
1994‑99. Member of Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society
1994‑95. Member of Membership Committee, Psychonomic Society
EDITORIAL BOARDS AND EDITORSHIPS
1977‑93. Memory & Cognition
1981‑95. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
1994‑95. Journal of Memory and Language
1994‑95. Associate Editor, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
1996‑2000. Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
2003-2010. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
2004- Journal of Memory and Language
2012- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
AD HOC REVIEWING FOR JOURNALS
Applied Cognitive Psychology; Canadian Journal of Psychology; Child Development; Cognition; Cognitive Psychology; Current Directions in Psychological Science; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Memory and Language; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Perceptual and Motor Skills; Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior; Psychological Bulletin; Psychological Review; Psychological Science; Psychology and Aging; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Guest Editor for a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Memory; Current Directions in Psychological Science, Psychological Science; Nature Science Letters.
AD HOC REVIEWING FOR GRANTING AGENCIES
Air Force Office of Scientific Research; Canadian Medical Research Council;
Israel Science Foundation; National Institute of Education: Basic Cognitive Skills and
Reading Program; National Institutes for Mental Health: Cognition, Emotion, & Personality Program; National Science Foundation: Memory & Cognitive Processes Program;
National Science Foundation: Information Science & Technology Program;
Veterans Administration Internal Grants Program
EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR PH.D. THESES:
McMaster University, Dec. 1982; Dalhousie University, Dec. 1984;
University of Alberta, Aug. 1990; McMaster University, Aug. 1992.
GRANT AND AWARD PANELS
1987, 2002. American Psychological Association Early Career Award
1989 NIMH, Psychobiology and Behavior Panel (Ad hoc member, 1 panel)
2004-05. APA Division 3 Awards Committee (Chair)
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COMMITTEE WORK AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES
University of South Carolina
Introduced two new undergraduate courses: Psycholinguistics and Introduction to Learning
Wrote unsolicited Ph. D. core‑course proposal adopted by Experimental Area
Experimental Area Graduate Student Advising Committee (Chairman)
Experimental Area Graduate Admissions Committee
Departmental Subject‑Pool Co‑Ordinator
College of Humanities & Social Sciences Advisory Committee on Computer Services
Chair of 2 Master’s thesis Committees and Chair of 1 Ph.D. thesis Committee
Purdue University
Departmental Advisory Committee
Member of Purdue Linguistics Group
Departmental Colloquium Series Committee (Member and Chairperson)
Member of Departmental Human Subjects Committee
Member of Departmental X‑R grant review panel
Co‑ordinator of Cognitive Psychology and of Learning and Memory Colloquia Series
Science Fair Judge
Chair of Artificial Intelligence Faculty Search Committee
Member of Departmental Admissions and Awards Committee
Member of University Superior Students Committee
Cognitive Psychology Area Co‑ordinator
Member of Cognitive Faculty Search Committee
Served on 5 Master’s thesis Committees (Chair of 4) and 6 Ph.D. thesis committees (Chair of 1)
Member of School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Education Operational
Plan for Research Committee
SUNY‑Albany
Director, Cognitive Psychology Program and Member of Departmental Executive Committee (16 years)
Member of Department of Psychology Graduate Committee (24 years)
Departmental Committees for Tenure and Promotions Cases (13 as chair, 10 as member)
Departmental Faculty Search Committees (5 as chair, 4 as member)
Departmental Curriculum Committee (2 years)
Departmental Awards Committee (13 years)
Ad Hoc Committee on our required undergraduate statistics course being taught by Mathematics
Ad hoc committee on Faculty work load (chair)
Member of Departmental Subject Pool Committee
Chair of 5 Master’s thesis Committees and Member of 25 Ph.D. thesis committees (Chair of 5)
Member of Committee for Proposed Department of Linguistics/Cognitive Science
Member of Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for Linguistics/Cognitive Science
Co‑ordinator of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Seminar
Participated in Upstate New York Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (4 years)
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Faculty Council (3 years , 1 year Vice Chair, 1 year Chair )
CAS Faculty Council Committees on Faculty Development (3 years) and Nominations (1 year)
CAS Tenure and Promotions Committee (3 years)
Ad hoc Committee on revamping Research Methods course (member)
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TEACHING INTERESTS
Human Learning and Memory (graduate and undergraduate); Visual Attention (graduate)
Cognitive Psychology (graduate and undergraduate); Statistics (undergraduate)
Experimental Methods (undergraduate, graduate); Psycholinguistics (undergraduate)
Psychology of Reading (graduate and undergraduate)
MASTER'S THESES DIRECTED
Balota, D.A. Test‑expectancy and semantic‑organization effects in recall and
recognition, December, 1977. (published in Memory & Cognition, 1981)
Duchek, J.M. Word‑frequency and levels‑of‑processing effects in episodic and
semantic memory, May, 1979. (published in Memory & Cognition, 1989) (After
I went to Purdue, Dr. Randall Engle served as Committee Chair in my absence.)
Blaxton, T. A. Inhibitory semantic priming effects as evidenced in the Freedman‑
Loftus paradigm, May, 1982. (published in Memory & Cognition, 1983)
Durgunoglu A. Episodic and semantic priming effects in episodic and semantic
memory, December, 1982. (published in Journal of Memory and Language, 1985)
Keefe, D. E. The roles of pre‑ and post‑lexical processes in lexical decision
and pronunciation tasks, May, 1988. (one paper based on this thesis was
published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and
Cognition, 1989, and another paper was published in Memory & Cognition, 1990)
Rajaram, S. Masked repetition priming for high‑ and low‑frequency words and nonwords
in lexical decision and episodic recognition tasks, August, 1988. (published in
Journal of Memory and Language, 1992)
Campbell, K. C. The nature of the codes responsible for repetition blindness,
December, 1989.
Crawley, E. J. Auditory backward recognition masking of target duration: The effects
of Target/Mask Similarity and ISI, December 1992. (I took over as major adviser
after Howard J. Kallman left the university. He supervised the data collection and I
supervised the writing of the thesis. published in Acta Psychologica, 1994)
Sloat, J. Backward and mediated priming: A test of Neely and Keefe's hybrid
prospective/retrospective theory of semantic priming. December, 1992.
Tse, C-S. Assessing activation without source monitoring in the DRM false memory paradigm.
September, 2004. (published in Journal of Memory and Language, 2005)
Burnham, B. R. A capture of visual-spatial attention from a static color/shape discontinuity.
October, 2004. (This student published his quals paper as a sole-authored review paper in
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2007.)
Cho, K. Null Category-Length and Target-Lure Relatedness Effects in Episodic Recognition: A
Constraint on Item-noise Interference Models. May, 2011. (published online, January 2013,
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology)
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PH.D. THESES DIRECTED
Durgunoglu, A. Additional tests of the interactive‑compensatory model of
semantic context effects in word recognition, December, 1986 (published in
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1988)
Kahan, T. A. Positive and negative priming from masked words: Fuzzy memories of center-
surround theory. May, 1998 (published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, and Cognition, 2000). This article won one of APA’s 2001 Young Investigator Awards for Experimental Psychology.
Hutchison, K. A. Effects of association strength and set size on positive and negative semantic priming. December, 2001 (published in Memory & Cognition, 2003).
Johnson, J. D. Conjunction errors in recognition memory: Evidence for recall-to-reject
processing. September, 2003.
Burnham, B. R. Reduced working memory capacity leads to attentional capture by an irrelevant
color singleton during inefficient visual search. May, 2007 (published in Acta Psychologica,
2010)
Tse, Chi-Shing. Semantic similarity effects in speeded recency judgments. September, 2007
(published in Memory, 2010).
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED
Faculty Research Award, University of South Carolina, $2,100 for Summer 1976.
Faculty Research Award, University of South Carolina, $2,600 for Summer 1977.
The utilization of semantic context in the processing of ambiguous words: An experiment
to test a two‑factor theory of attention, Purdue Research Foundation Faculty XL Grant, $2,850 for Summer 1979.
Semantic priming and fact retrieval, Purdue Research Foundation Faculty XR Grant, $9,120, supported dissertation research of one graduate student for 2 years, Awarded Feb., 1980.
Inhibition from semantically related primes, Purdue Research Foundation Faculty XR Grant, $13,200, supports dissertation research of one graduate student for 2 years, Awarded Feb., 1983.
Priming effects in semantic and episodic memory, co-PI with H. L. Roediger, III, National Institutes of Health (NICHHD), $57,583 direct cost, Dec., 1980‑Jan., 1983.
Priming effects in semantic and episodic memory, co-PI with H. L. Roediger, III, National Institutes of Health (NICHHD), $82,904 direct cost, Feb. 1983‑Feb. 1985.
Retrieval blocks and facilitatory priming effects in word‑fragment completion: The roles of conscious recollection and memory without awareness, Purdue Research Foundation Faculty XL Grant, $3,750 for Summer, 1985.
Priming effects in semantic and episodic memory, co-PI with H.L. Roediger, III, The National Institutes of Health (NICHHD), $223,391 direct‑cost, Sept., 1985‑Sept., 1988.
English Lexicon Project, David Balota (PI), subcontract for data collection site, National Science
Foundation, $14,200 direct costs, January 2001-January 2004.
Collaborative Research: Construction and utility of a large-scale semantic priming database, Keith Hutchison (PI), subcontract for data collection site, National Science Foundation, $20,000 direct costs, August 2006-August 2009.
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REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES [The first number in brackets at the end of each article is the
total number of citations for that article listed on http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/ on 8/24/13.
The second number is the number of citations that article received since 9/17/2012, the last time citations
were examined. As of 8/24/13, the total number of citations to all articles was 7789 (including conference
papers, the citations for which are not provided here) and the h index is 31. The total number of citations
between 9/17/12 and 8/24/13 was 922. The numbers highlighted in yellow come from ISI’s Web of Science,
which yielded values 15% or more higher than Google’s values for that specific article.]
1. Neely, J.H., & Wagner, A.R. (1974). Attenuation of blocking with shifts in reward: The involvement of schedule‑generated contextual cues. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 102, 751‑763. [52, 1]
2. Neely, J.H. (1976). Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory: Evidence for facilitatory and inhibitory processes. Memory & Cognition, 4, 648‑654. [318, 11]
This paper was selected as a Citations Classic, Commentary in Current Contents/Social and
Behavioral Sciences 23(20):10, 20 May 1991 and in Current Contents/Arts and Humanities 13(21):22, 27 May, 1991.
This paper has been reprinted in Experimenting with the Mind: Readings in Cognitive
Psychology, L. Komatsu (Ed.), Brooks/Cole, 1994.
3. Neely, J.H. (1977). Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory: Roles of inhibitionless spreading activation and limited‑capacity attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 106, 226‑254. [2115, 200]
This paper was selected as a Citations Classic, see Commentary cited for Neely (1976) above. It
was also identified as one of the top 500 most cited 1950-2004 cognitive psychology articles.
This paper has been reprinted in Volume 1 of The International Library of Critical Writings in Psychology: The Psychology of Attention, edited by G. Underwood, and published by New York University Press, 1994.
This, paper has been translated into Japanese in Oka, N. (1996). Semantic Memory. In Y. Hakoda (Ed.), Eminent studies in human memory. Tokyo: Seishin Shobo.
This paper was reprinted in Attention, edited by R. W. Proctor & Lenore E. Read, and
published by SAGE Publications, June 2009.
4. Neely, J.H. (1977). The effects of visual and verbal satiation in a lexical decision task. American Journal of Psychology, 90, 447‑459. [22, 1]
5. Balota, D.A., & Neely, J.H. (1980). Test‑expectancy and word‑frequency effects in recall and recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 576‑587. [126, 10]
6. Neely, J.H., & Balota, D.A. (1981). Test‑expectancy and semantic‑organization effects in recall and recognition. Memory & Cognition, 9, 283‑300. [45, 7]