Robert R. Hoffman earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of Cincinnati, where he was awarded McMicken Scholar, Psi Chi, and Delta Tau Kappa Honors. After a postdoctoral associateship at the Center for Research on Human Learning at the University of Minnesota, Hoffman joined the faculty of Adelphi University. There, he received awards for outstanding research and service, and also served as Chair of the Institutional Review Board and the University Grants Officer. He joined the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition of the University of West Florida in 1999, as a Research Associate.