Schvaneveldt
Schvaneveldt is a surname of Dutch origin that appears in North American and other communities with Dutch heritage. In addition to its use as a family name, the term Schvaneveldt is associated with a notable concept in cognitive psychology related to semantic processing.
In psychology, the Schvaneveldt effect refers to findings from experiments on semantic priming conducted in the
The effect has been widely studied and has influenced theories of how semantic memory is organized and
See also semantic priming, lexical decision task, spreading activation.