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Citations
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5767
National Ranking
3120

Overview

William J. McIlvane is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistics and Probability, and Education.

Their scientific contributions address a variety of topics, including Behavioral and Psychological Studies, Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods, Early Childhood Education and Development, and Animal Nutrition and Physiology.

Recent publications featuring William J. McIlvane or highlighting their research interests include these papers:

  • "Acquisition and maintenance of delayed matching-to-sample in tufted capuchin monkeys," 2020, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • "An appreciation of Murray Sidman's science and his impact," 2020, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • "Appreciation of Joe Spradlin," 2020, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
  • "A Case History on Shaping Technique Development: Dynamic Stimulus Control Shaping," 2020, The Psychological Record
  • "Effective use of the blank comparison procedure in simple discrimination by infant capuchin monkeys: A methodological note," 2021, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Frequent co-authors in William J. McIlvane's collaborative work include:

  • Ana Leda de Faria Brino
  • Olavo de Faria Galvão
  • Deisy das Graças de Souza
  • Tamyres Roberta Colares Leal
  • Leandro Augusto de Almeida Costa

Publications commonly appear in the following venues, indicating the focus and dissemination of their work:

  • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • The Psychological Record
  • Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
  • Acta comportamentalia.

Best Publications

  • Equivalence classes in individuals with minimal verbal repertoires

    Deborah Carr;K. M. Wilkinson;Derek E. Blackman;W. J. McIlvane

  • Emergent simple discrimination established by indirect relation to differential consequences.

    Julio C. de Rose;Julio C. de Rose;William J. McIlvane;William J. McIlvane;William V. Dube;William V. Dube;Virginia C. Galpin;Virginia C. Galpin

  • CONTROLLING RELATIONS IN CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION AND MATCHING BY EXCLUSION

    William J. McIlvane;Joanne B. Kledaras;Lee C. Munson;Katherine A. J. King

  • REDUCTION OF STIMULUS OVERSELECTIVITY WITH NONVERBAL DIFFERENTIAL OBSERVING RESPONSES

    William V. Dube;William J. McIlvane

  • State of the Science in Autism: Report to the National Institutes of Health.

    Marie M. Bristol;Donald J. Cohen;E. Jane Costello;Martha Denckla

  • Stimulus control topography coherence theory: Foundations and extensions

    William J. McIlvane;William V. Dube

  • Teaching Generative Reading Via Recombination of Minimal Textual Units: A Legacy of Verbal Behavior to Children in Brazil

    Deisy G. de Souza;Júlio César Coelho de Rose;Thais C. Faleiros;Renato Bortoloti

  • Complex Stimulus Control and Equivalence

    Robert Stromer;William J. McIlvane;Richard W. Serna

  • Stimulus class formation and stimulus-reinforcer relations.

    William V. Dube;William J. McIlvane;William J. McIlvane;Russell W. Maguire;Russell W. Maguire;Harry A. Mackay;Harry A. Mackay

  • Conditional relations with compound abstract stimuli using a go/no-go procedure

    Paula Debert;Maria Amelia Matos;William J. McIlvane

  • Stimulus class membership established via stimulus-reinforcer relations.

    William V. Dube;William J. McIlvane;Harry A. Mackay;Lawrence T. Stoddard

  • Acquisition of matching - to - sample performances in severe retardation: learning by exclusion.

    W. J. McILVANE;T. Stoddard

  • Assessing control by elements of complex stimuli in delayed matching to sample.

    Robert Stromer;William J. Mcilvane;William V. Dube;Harry A. Mackay

  • Methods for Studying Symbolic Behavior and Category Formation: Contributions of Stimulus Equivalence Research

    Krista M. Wilkinson;Krista M. Wilkinson;William J. McIlvane

  • Blank comparison analysis of emergent symbolic mapping by young children

    Krista M. Wilkinson;William J. McIlvane

  • Stimulus control shaping and stimulus control topographies

    William J. McIlvane;William V. Dube

  • Generalized Identity Matching-To-Sample In Cebus Apella

    Romariz Da Silva Barros;Olavo De Faria Galvão;William J. McIlvane

  • Exclusion vs. Selection Training of Auditory-Visual Conditional Relations.

    C Ferrari;J C de Rose;W J McIlvane

  • The Search for Stimulus Equivalence in Nonverbal Organisms

    William V. Dube;William J. McIlvane;Thomas D. Callahan;Lawrence T. Stoddard

  • CONSTRUCTED‐RESPONSE MATCHING TO SAMPLE AND SPELLING INSTRUCTION

    William V. Dube;Stephen J. McDonald;William J. McIlvane;Harry A. Mackay

Frequent Co-Authors

William V. Dube
William V. Dube University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Krista M. Wilkinson
Krista M. Wilkinson Pennsylvania State University
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles
Marian Sigman
Marian Sigman University of California, Los Angeles
Kennon A. Lattal
Kennon A. Lattal West Virginia University
Michael F. Cataldo
Michael F. Cataldo Kennedy Krieger Institute
Nancy J. Minshew
Nancy J. Minshew University of Pittsburgh
Donald J. Cohen
Donald J. Cohen Yale University
Helena C. Kraemer
Helena C. Kraemer Stanford University
Martha B. Denckla
Martha B. Denckla Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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