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Peter F. Delaney, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Department of Psychology
296 Eberhart Building
PO Box 26170
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC  27402-6170

WEB: http://www.uncg.edu/~p_delane/
PHONE: (336) 256-0010
EMAIL: p_delane@uncg.edu
OFFICE:  278 Eberhart

Education and Professional Experience

  • 1990-1994: Carnegie-Mellon University, B.S. Cognitive Science, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 1994-1997: Florida State University, M.S. Cognitive and Behavioral Science, Tallahassee, FL

  • 1997-2000: Florida State University, Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, Tallahassee, FL

  • 2000-2005: Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

  • 2005-2009:  Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

  • 2009-:  Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

Experimental, Theoretical and Scholarly Work

Book

Silvia, P., Delaney, P. F., & Marcovitch, S. M. (2009).  What psychology majors could (and should) be doing:  An informal guide to research experience and professional skills.  APA Books.

Articles and Chapters

Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2010).  Item-specific encoding produces an additional benefit of directed forgetting: Evidence from intrusion errors.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 36, 1346-1354.

Delaney, P. F., Sahakyan, L., Kelley, C. M., & Zimmerman, C. (2010).  Remembering to forget:  The amnesic effect of daydreams.  Psychological Science, 21, 1036-1042.

Delaney, P. F., Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L., & Spirgel, A. S. (2010).  Spacing and testing effects: A deeply critical, lengthy, and at times discursive review of the literature.  Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 53, 63-147.

Delaney, P. F., & Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L. (2009).  Rehearsal strategies can enlarge or diminish the spacing effect: Pure versus mixed lists and encoding strategy.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 35, 1148-1161.

Delaney, P. F., Nghiem, K., & Waldum, E. R. (2009).  The selective directed forgetting effect: Can people forget only part of a text?  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1542-1550.

Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Goodmon, L. B. (2008).  "Oh, honey, I already forgot that": Strategic control of directed forgetting in older and younger adults.  Psychology & Aging, 23, 621-633.

Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Waldum, E. R. (2008).  Intentional forgetting is easier after two "shots" than one.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34, 408-414.

Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L, & Delaney, P. F. (2008).  Rote rehearsal and spacing effects in the free recall of pure and mixed lists.  Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 35-47.

Delaney, P. F., & Sahakyan, L. (2007).  Unexpected costs of high working memory capacity following directed forgetting and context change manipulations.  Memory & Cognition, 35, 1074-1082.

Delaney, P. F. (2006).  Dialectical thought.  In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Development (Vol. 1, pp. 323-324).  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.

Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2005). Encoding strategy changes and spacing in free recall.   Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 120-130.

Knowles, M. E., & Delaney, P. F. (2005). Lasting reductions in illegal moves following increasing their cost:  Evidence from river-crossing problems.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31, 670-682.

Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2005).  Directed forgetting in incidental learning and recognition testing:  Support for a two-factor account.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31, 789-801.

Delaney, P. F., Ericsson, K. A., & Knowles, M. E. (2004).  Immediate and sustained effects of planning in problem solving.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30, 1219-1234.

Ericsson, K. A., Delaney, P. F., Weaver, G. A., & Mahadevan, S. (2004). Uncovering the structure of a memorist's superior "basic" memory capacity.  Cognitive Psychology, 49, 191-237.

Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Kelley, C. M. (2004).  Self-evaluation as a moderating factor in strategy change in directed forgetting benefits.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 131-136.

Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2003). Can encoding differences explain the benefits of directed forgetting in the list-method paradigm? Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 195-201.

Ericsson, K. A., & Delaney, P. F. (1999). Long-term working memory as an alternative to capacity models of working memory in everyday skilled performance. In A. Miyake & P. Shah (Eds.), Models of Working Memory (pp. 257-297). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Delaney, P. F., Reder, L. M., Staszewski, J. J., & Ritter, F. E. (1998). The power law of practice applies by strategy within task. Psychological Science, 9, 1-7.

Ericsson, K. A., & Delaney, P. F. (1998). Working memory and expert performance. In R. H. Logie & K. J. Gilhooly (Eds.), Working Memory and Thinking (pp. 93-114). Hove, UK: Psychology Press Ltd.

Austin, J., & Delaney, P. F. (1998). Protocol analysis as a tool for behavior analysts. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior*, 15, 41-56.

Delaney, P. F., & Austin, J. (1998). Evidence for a behavioral interpretation of memory: Acquisition and remembering strategies examined. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior*, 15, 75-91.

*:  Denotes a paper whose primary audience was behavior analysts and not cognitive psychologists.

Conference presentations

Delaney, P. F., Spirgel, A. S., & Toppino, T. C. (2010, November).  A deeper analysis of "deep" encoding in the spacing and list-strength effects.  Paper to be presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, November 18-21.
 
Delaney, P. F., Sahakyan, L., Kelley, C. M., & Zimmerman, C. (2009, November).  When minds wander to distant times and places, we can forget the present.  Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, November 13-16.
 
Foster, N. L., Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2009, November).  Revisiting the similarity paradox in retroactive interference.  Poster to be presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, November 13-16.
 
Delaney, P. F., Sahakyan, L., Kelley, C. M., & Zimmerman, C. (2009, March).  The power of daydreams:  Mental travel in space and time causes forgetting.  Paper presented at the North Carolina Cognition Conference, Durham, NC, March 29.
 
LeRoux, A. L., Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2008, November).  Soft constraints in problem-solving rule breaking:  Transfer of "cautiousness" revisited.  Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, November 13-16.
 
Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L., & Delaney, P. F. (2008, November).  The spacing effect in pure lists:  Now you see it, now it's gone.  Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, November 13-16.
 
Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Goodmon, L. B. (2008, April).  Oh, honey, I already forgot that:  Strategic control of directed forgetting in older and younger adults.  Paper presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 10-13.
 
Delaney, P. F., & Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L. (2008, March).  Rehearsals and repetitions:  What gets rehearsed in spacing studies?  Paper presented at the North Carolina Cognition Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2.
 
Hynes, J. C., & Delaney, P. F. (2008, May).  The midlist primacy effect in spacing designs.  Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL, May 22-25.
 
Delaney, P. F., & Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L. (2007, November).  The zero-sum tradeoff and scallop effects in spacing designs.  Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November 15-18.
 
Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Waldum, E. R. (2007, November).  Intentional forgetting is easier after two "shots" than one.  Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November 15-18.
 
Kelley, C. M., Zimmerman, C., Delaney, P. F., & Sahakyan, L. (2007, November).  Does traveling backward in time induce forgetting of the present?  Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November 15-18.
 
Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L., Delaney, P. F., & Rikers, R. M. J. P. (2007, November).  Encoding strategy and the testing effect in free recall.  Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November 15-18.
 
Delaney, P. F., & Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L. (2006, November).  What can spacing studies tell us about the purpose of rehearsal?  Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX, November 16-19.
 
Delaney, P. F. (2006, March).  Using rehearse-aloud protocols to understand spacing effects.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March .
 
Delaney, P. F. (2006, February).  The impact of specific study strategies on spacing effects.  Paper presented at the North Carolina Cognition Conference, Greensboro, NC, February .
 
Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2005, November).  Spacing and list-strength effects following instructions to rehearse.  Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON, November 10-13.
 
Knowles, M. E. & Delaney, P. F. (2004, November).  Why some problems are harder:  Analysis of illegal moves.  Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, November 18-21.

Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2004, November).  Directed forgetting in recognition testing and incidental learning.  Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, November 18-21.

Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2003, November).  Effects of encoding strategies on spacing effects in free recall.  Poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada, November 6-9.

Delaney, P. F., & Sahakyan, L. (2003, November).  The role of working memory and context in forgetting.  Poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada, November 6-9.

Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2003, June).  The spacing effect in unmixed lists:  Effects of encoding strategy.  Poster presented at the 15th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, May 29 - June 1.

Jones, K., & Delaney, P. F. (2003, March).  Directed forgetting of emotion words.  Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 26-29.

Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. (2002, November).  Retroactive interference on long-term memory for planned solutions.  Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO, November 21-24.

Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Kelley, C. M. (2002, November).  Self-generated feedback and strategy change in directed forgetting benefits.  Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO, November 21-24.

Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2001, November). The role of encoding strategies in directed forgetting benefits. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, November 15-18.

Delaney, P. F. (2001, April). Forgetting, retroactive interference, and plans in the water jugs task. Paper presented at the 2001 Florida Conference on Cognition, Perception, Sensation, Language and Action, Gainesville, FL, March 31 - April 1.

Delaney, P. F., & Ericsson, K. A. (2000, November). Can novices store plans during problem-solving in long-term working memory? Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, November 13-18.

Delaney, P. F., Ericsson, K. A., Weaver, G. E., & Mahadevan, S. (1999, June). Accounts of the memorist Rajan's superior memory performance: Comparing three theoretical proposals. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO, June 3-6.

Feddon, J. S., Delaney, P. F., & Anderson, J. R. (1998, July). ACT-Rajan: An ACT-R Model of an Expert Memorist. Paper presented at 5th Annual ACT Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, July 18-20.

Ericsson, K. A., & Delaney, P. F. (1997, July). Long-term working memory as an alternative to capacity models of working memory in everyday skilled performance. Paper presented at Models of Working Memory, Boulder, CO, July 10-13.

Delaney, P. F. (1997, May). Active behaviors in "storage" of information. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL, May 24-28.

Ericsson, K. A., Delaney, P. F., Weaver, G. E., & Mahadevan, S. (1997, March). The memorist Rajan's memory for digits and other symbols: Extensive practice and/or talent? Paper presented at the 1997 Florida Cognitive Conference, Pensacola, FL, March 14-15.

Ericsson, K. A., Delaney, P. F., Weaver, G. E., & Mahadevan, S. (1996, November). The memorist Rajan's memory for digits and other symbols: Extensive practice and/or great talent? Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, November 1-3.

Delaney, P. F., & Austin, J. (1996, May). Deliberate practice and expert performance research. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, San Francisco, CA, May 24-28.

Delaney, P. F., & Ericsson, K. A. (1996, March). Planning in problem solving: Preliminary results and conclusions. Poster presented at the 1996 Florida Cognitive Conference, Tallahassee, FL, March 22-24.

Invited Lectures

Delaney, P. F. (2007, October).  Automatic and strategic causes of the spacing effect.  Invited Talk, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
 
Delaney, P. F. (2006, July).  Recent developments in the study of expertise.  Invited Talk, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.

 

External Funding, Recognition and Honors

External Funding

BCS-0938539               R. Singh (PI)                  8/1/09 - 7/31/11
NSF
Title:  EAGER:  The Mind of the Blind on the Web
I read the proposal and provided input on the cognitive psychology aspects of the work.  I am participating in data analysis and co-authoring a manuscript based on the pilot studies and am actively working with the team to develop new projects on related topics.
Role:  Consultant

1 RO3 AG23823-01    L. Sahakyan (PI)            7/1/04 - 7/1/06
NIH/NIA
Title:  Contextual changes and aging.
This project involves experiments on human memory and aging as applied to memory for medical instructions.  I co-wrote the proposal and co-designed these studies, which were based on pilot data collected in Delaney & Sahakyan (2007).
Role: co-PI

Editorial Boards

  • Consulting Editor, Memory & Cognition, Editor: B. Ross  - 01/08 - 01/09
  • Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory & Cognition, - 01/09 - present.

Recognition and Honors

  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty Teaching Award Nominee, University of Florida, 2002, 2003
  • Psi Chi Teaching Award Nominee, University of Florida, 2001
  • Certificate of Completion, ACT-R Workshop.  Carnegie-Mellon University, 1998.
  • Sigma Xi Fisher Award / First Runner Up.  Competition for published research by graduate students at Florida State University, 1997
  • Outstanding Instructor Award, Florida State University, 1998
  • Phi Eta Sigma Teacher of the Year, Florida State University, 1998
  • Thomas J. Watson Scholar / National Merit Scholar, IBM Corporation, 1990-1994

Service Activities

External Service

  • Editorial Board, Memory & Cognition, 2008-2009

  • Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 2009-present

  • External Reviewer, Cognitive Science Conference, 2008, 2009

  • Program Chair, North Carolina Cognitive Conference (NCCC), 2006

  • External Reviewer, National Science Foundation (one proposal), 2004

  • Program Chair, 14th Florida Conference on Cognition, Language, Action, Sensation and Perception (CLASP), 2001

Ad-Hoc Reviewing:

  • American Journal of Psychology

  • Behavior Research Instruments, Methods and Computers

  • British Journal of Psychology

  • Cambridge University Press Books

  • Cognition & Emotion

  • Cognitive Psychology

  • Design Studies

  • European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

  • Experimental Psychology

  • Interacting With Computers

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition

  • Journal of Intelligent Systems

  • Journal of Memory and Language

  • Memory

  • Memory & Cognition

  • Psychological Science

  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

  • Sage Publications Books

Departmental, College, and University Service: University of Florida

  • University Scholars Program Committee, 2004-2005

  • Graduation Marshall, 2002

  • Chair and Coordinator, Cognitive Forum Lecture Series, 2002

  • Judge, University Graduate Student Forum Paper Competition, 2002

  • Judge, University Graduate Student Forum Paper Competition, 2001

Departmental, College, and University Service: UNC Greensboro

  • UNCG Faculty Senate (Senator Representing Arts & Sciences, 2010-)

  • Cognitive Area Head, Psychology Department (2010-)

  • Director of Computer Technology (DCT), Psychology Department (2010-)

  • Board of Directors, Center for Critical Inquiry/MERGE (2009-)

  • Member, UNCG Graduate Studies Committee (2008)

  • Judge, Social Sciences Division, UNCG Research Day (2008)

  • University Undergraduate Recruitment Phone-a-thon (2007, 2009)

  • Chair, Psychology Web Committee (2005-2009)

  • Chair, Psychology Colloquium Committee (2006-2009)

  • Member, Clinical Search Committee (2006)

  • Judge, PSY 311 Undergraduate Poster Competition (2005, 2009, 2010)

 

 

Postgraduate Students Supervised

Past

  • Martin E. Knowles, M.S., Ph.D., University of Florida [now at Eli Lilly, Inc.]
  • Khanh Nghiem, M.S., University of Florida [obtained Ph.D in counseling at Florida]
  • Keith Alfano, Ph.D., University of Florida [now User Experience Researcher at Microsoft, Inc.]

Current

  • Arie Spirgel - working on Ph.D. in cognitive psychology
  • Andrew LeRoux - working on M.A. in cognitive psychology
  • Namrata Godbole - working on M.A. in cognitive psychology

UNCG Undergraduate Theses/Awardees Supervised

Undergraduate Research Grant Awardees

  • Krycya Flores-Rojas (2007)

  • Jenna Haddock (2010)

Honors Theses Supervised

  • Krycya Flores-Rojas (2007) - The Sleeper Effect in Context

  • Jennifer C. Hynes (2009) - The Midlist Primacy Effect:  Massive Rehearsal Redistribution in a Spacing Design

  • Elizabeth Lancaster (2009) - Memory for Words Using Rehearsal

  • Anna Parisi (2010) - The Effects of Spacing and Difficulty on the Transition from Calculation to Retrieval

  • Latasha Holden (2010) - How Long Should Study Sessions Be Spaced Apart?  An Evaluation of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity With Spacing Effects

 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

  • General Psychology (up to 300 students)

  • Honors Introductory Psychology (very small)

  • Social Psychology (up to 200 students)

  • Cognitive Psychology (up to 150 students)

  • Cognition and Consciousness (Learning & Memory) (up to 50 students)

  • Thinking and Reasoning (up to 25 students)

  • Psychology of Art, Creativity and Expertise (up to 100 students)

  • Directed Research, Directed Reading, and Honors Thesis (up to 15 students at once)

Graduate

  • Gratuate-Level Seminar in Memory & Belief

  • Graduate-Level Protocol Analysis Seminar

  • Graduate-Level Seminar in Human Problem Solving

  • Graduate-Level Seminar in Expert Performance

  • Graduate Teaching Practicum

Professional Memberships

  • Member, Psychonomic Society

  • Member, Association for Psychological Science (APS)
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