Department of Psychology

Francisco Arcediano received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Deusto University (Spain), under the supervision of Dr. Helena Matute. Concurrently, he was a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence program) in which he completed all the Ph.D. requirements but the dissertation. After completion of his Ph.D. in Psychology, he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship from the Basque Government and joined Dr. Ralph R. Miller's laboratory at the State University of New York at Binghamton. At SUNY-Binghamton he held the positions of research fellow, adjunct assistant professor, and research scientist. He moved to Auburn in 2002, with the intention of completing his graduate degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering. At Auburn University, he held the positions of visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and graduate research assistant and instructor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. He is an assistant professor of psychology at Auburn University since 2008.

Dr. Arcediano's research is focused in understanding the role of spatiotemporal contiguity, and temporal order in learning, and the mechanisms underlying temporal and spatial integration of acquired behaviors. In the long term, he is interested in the implementation of computational tools that would allow for the building and testing of the primitives of cognition, and the study of the conditions necessary for the development of higher-order cognition from the use of these primitives and their interactions. His ultimate goal is the implementation of a unified architecture of basic cognition, in which to study how (human and nonhuman) organisms interact with their environment, make sense of it, and adapt to it. An additional advantage of this approach is its potential implications for the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics.

• 2009, M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University expected May 2009
• 1998, Ph.D. in Psychology (Experimental), University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
• 1992, ABD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
• 1990, B.A. in Psychology, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

• Arcediano, F. (2008). Artificial Intelligence. In S. F. Davis & W. Buskist (Eds.). 21st Century Psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 485-494). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Escobar, M., & Arcediano, F. (2007). Aprendizaje Temporal [Temporal Learning]. In O. Pineño, H. Matute, &. M. A. Vadillo (Eds.), Psicología del Aprendizaje [Psychology of Learning] (pp. 205-225). Madrid: Abecedario.
• Escobar, M., Arcediano, F., & Miller, R. R. (2005). Disruption of latent inhibition by interpolation of irrelevant stimulation between preexposure and conditioning. Learning & Behavior, 33, 371-385.
• Arcediano, F., Escobar, M., & Miller, R. R. (2005). Bidirectional associations in humans and rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 301-318
• Arcediano, F., Escobar, M., Matute, H., & Miller, R. R. (2005). Competition between antecedent and subsequent stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 228-237.
• Escobar, M., Arcediano, F., Platt, T., & Miller, R. R. (2004). Interference and time: A brief review and an integration. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 15, 415-438.
• Arcediano, F., Escobar, M., & Miller, R. R. (2004). Is stimulus competition an acquisition deficit or a responding deficit? Psychonomic Bulletin, & Review, 11, 1105-1110.
• Savastano, H. I., Arcediano, F., Stout, S. C., & Miller, R. R. (2003). Interaction between preexposure and overshadowing: Further analysis of the extended comparator hypothesis. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, B, 56, 371-396.
• Escobar, M., Arcediano, F., & Miller, R. R. (2003). Latent inhibition in human adults without masking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 1028-1040.
• Arcediano, F., Escobar, M., & Miller, R. R. (2003). Temporal integration and temporal backward associations in human and nonhuman subjects. Learning & Behavior, 31, 242-256.
• Stout, S. C., Arcediano, F., Escobar, M., & Miller, R. R. (2003). Overshadowing as a function of trial number: Dynamics of first- and second-order comparator stimuli. Learning & Behavior, 31, 85-97.
• Escobar, M., Arcediano, F., & Miller, R. R. (2002). Latent inhibition and contextual associations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 28, 123-136.
• Arcediano, F., & Miller, R. R. (2002). Some constraints for models of timing: A temporal coding hypothesis perspective. Learning and Motivation, 33, 105-123.
• Miller, R. R., & Arcediano, F. (2001). Differentiating robotic behavior and artificial intelligence from animal behavior and biological intelligence: Testing structural accuracy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 1070-1071.
• Escobar, M., Arcediano, F., & Miller, R. R. (2001). Conditions favoring retroactive interference between antecedent events and between subsequent events. Psychonomic Bulletin, & Review, 8, 691-697.
• Arcediano, F., Escobar, M., & Matute, H. (2001). Reversal from blocking in humans after posttraining extinction of the blocking stimulus. Animal Learning & Behavior, 29, 354-366.
• Arcediano, F., Matute, H, & Miller, R. R. (1997). Blocking of Pavlovian conditioning in humans. Learning and Motivation, 28, 188-199.
• Matute, H., Arcediano, F., & Miller, R. R. (1996). Test question modulates cue competition between causes and between effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 182-196.
• Arcediano, F., Ortega, N., & Matute, H. (1996). A behavioural preparation for the study of human Pavlovian conditioning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49B, 270-283.
• Arcediano, F. & Matute, H. (1995). Libro de resúmenes VII congreso de la sociedad española de psicología comparada. Bilbao, Spain: University of Deusto.

• PSYC3520, Psychology of Learning