Peter Urcuioli
Purdue University
Peter Urcuioli is Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University where he has been on the faculty since 1981. A student of Tony Nevin (undergraduate) and Vern Honig (graduate), he has a long-standing interest in stimulus control and discrimination learning and has contributed to a wide variety of topics in animal learning and cognition, including discriminative control by response-produced cues, coding processes in animal memory, associative processes in the differential outcomes paradigm, the Simon effect, identifying the functional stimuli in animal research, and emergent stimulus relations. His recent and highly original work on the categorization of arbitrarily related stimuli and stimulus class formation in pigeons highlights the role that basic reinforcement and stimulus control processes play in yielding emergent relations in non-language-capable animals. Peter has served on many editorial boards and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. His research has been supported since 1983 by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.