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James E. Witnauer, Ph.D

Associate Professor

(585) 395-2286
jwitnaue@brockport.edu
Office: Holmes Hall 133

Education

• PhD, Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
• M.S., Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
• B.A., Psychology, State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Areas of Specialty

Courses

• Psychology of Learning
• Biopsychology
• Graduate Biopsychology
• Sensation and Perception
• Psychology Statistics
• Academic Planning Seminar

Research Interests

• Computational models of cognition
• Associative learning
• Pavlovian conditioning

• Awards/Recognitions
  • American Psychological Association - CARE Imprinting Award 2008
  • Binghamton University - Dissertation Year Fellowship 2009-10
  • Binghamton University – Excellence in Graduate Research 2009-10
  • SUNY Brockport – Discretional Salary Increase 2010-11

  Grants

  • Faculty sponsor of Wojick, B. (2011). Performance Factors in Associative Learning. The Brockport Foundation Summer Research Program.
  • Faculty sponsor of Hutchings, R. (2013). Conditioned Inhibition in Human Associative Learning. The Brockport Research Foundation Summer Research Program.
• Recent Publications

  *Indicates student coauthor

  • Witnauer, J. E., *Rhodes, J. L., *Kysor, S., & *Narasiwodeyar, S. (2018). Sometimes competing retrieval predicts the selective role of within-compound associations in retrospective revaluation. Behavioural Processes.
  • Gravetter, F. J., Wallnau, L. B., Forzano, L. B., & Witnauer, J. E. (2020). Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (10e). Cengage.
  • *Benicasco, J., Witnauer, J., *Kopunek, K. (2020). Two blocking cues counteract in human contingency learning. Learning and Motivation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2020.101641
  • Ratcliff, J. J., Tombari, J., Miller, A., *Brand, P., Witnauer, J. (2020). Factors Promoting Posttraumatic Growth in Sexual Minority Adults Following Adolescent Bullying Experiences. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520961867
  • Murphy, R. A., Witnauer, J. E., Castiello, S., Tsvetkov, A., Li, A., Alcaide, D. M., Miller, R. R. (in press). More frequent, shorter trials enhance acquisition in a training session: There is a free lunch! Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  • Castiello, S., Miller, R., Witnauer, J., Alcaide, D., Fung, E., Pitliya, R., Morrissey, D., Murphy, R. (in press). Trials without stimuli increase judgments of contingency, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  • Witnauer, J. E., *Hutchings, R., & Miller, R. R. (2017). Comparing models of associative learning based on their fit to data. Behavioural Processes.
  • Miller, R. R. & Witnauer, J. E. (2015). Retrospective revaluation: The phenomenon and its theoretical implications. Behavioural Processes.
  • Witnauer, J. E., *Wojick, B. M., Pollack, C., & Milller, R. R. (2012). Performance factors in associative learning: Assessment of Sometimes Competing Retrieval. Learning & Behavior.
  • 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. (2010). Within-compound associations in cue interactions. In N. A. Schmajuk (Ed.), Computational Models of Conditioning.
  • Witnauer, J. E., & Miller, R. R. (2011). Some determinants of second-order conditioning. Learning & Behavior, 39, 12-26.
  • Laborda, M. A., Witnauer, J. E., & Miller, R. R. (2011). Weaker AAC than ABC renewal effects: The role of context associations. Learning & Behavior, 39, 46-56.
  • Witnauer, J. E. & Miller, R. R. (2011). The role of within-compound associations in learning about absent cues. Learning & Behavior, 39, 146-162.
  • Jozefowiez, J., Witnauer, J. E., & Miller, R. R. (2011). Two components of responding in Pavlovian lick suppression. Learning & Behavior, 39, 138-145.
  • Jozefowiez, J., Witnauer, J., Miller, R. R. (2012). The temporal pattern of responding in conditioned bar-press suppression: The role of the context switch and training mode. Behavioural Processes,89(3), 239-243.
  • Miguez, G., Witnauer, J., Miller, R. R. (2012). The role of contextual associations in producing the partial reinforcement acquisition deficit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 38(1), 40-51.
  • Witnauer, J., Miller, R. R. (2012). Associative status of the training context determines the effectiveness of compound extinction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 38(1), 52-65.
  • Urcelay, G. P., Witnauer, J. E., & Miller, R. R. (December 2012). The dual role of the context in postpeak performance decrements resulting from extended training. Learning & Behavior, 40, 476-493.
  • Witnauer, J. E. & Miller, R. R. (August 2012). Conditioned suppression is an inverted-U function of footshock intensity. Learning & Behavior, 41, 94-106.
  • Witnauer, J. E., *Wojick, B. M., Pollack, C., & Milller, R. R. (September 2012). Performance factors in associative learning: Assessment of Sometimes Competing Retrieval. Learning & Behavior, 40, 347-366.

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