Past Award Recipients
2020 Award Recipients
Distinguished Career Award
Karen Emmorey, Distinguished Professor, San Diego State University, California, USA
Early Career Award
Gesa Hartwigsen, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Dissertation Award
Laura Gwilliams, University of Michigan, USA
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Mara De Rosa, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
Ye Zhang, University College London, UK
Postdoctoral Merit Awards
Enes Avcu, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, USA
Gabriel Cler, University of Oxford, UK
Honorable Mention
Nicole Eichert, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
Guilherme Blazquez Freches, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Sigfus Kristinsson, University of South Carolina, USA
Chia-Wen Lo, University of Michigan, USA
Suhail Matar, Department of Psychology, New York University, USA
Muge Ozker Sertel, Department of Neurology, New York University Langone Health, USA
Tim Sainburg, University of California, San Diego, USA
Martin Schrimpf, MIT, USA
2019 Award Recipients
Distinguished Career Award
Jeffrey Binder, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Early Career Awards
Jonathan Brennan, University of Michigan, USA
Vitória Piai, Radboud University, Donders Centre for Cognition and Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Nikki Janssen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Charlotte Wiltshire, University of Oxford, UK
Postdoctoral Merit Awards
Muge Ozker Sertel, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Oscar Woolnough, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Honorable Mention
Salomi Asaridou, University of California, Irvine, USA
Rachel Romeo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Ekaterina Stupina, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Alex Teghipco, University of California, Irvine, USA
Benedikt Zoefel, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
Andrey Zyryanov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Travel Awards
Jose Aguasvivas, University of Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain
Nicolás Araneda Hinrichs, University of Concepción, Chile
Melissa Baker, City University of New York, USA
Jocelyn Caballero, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Nicole Dickerson, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Shirley Dumassais, Concordia University, Canada
Xiaoxia Feng, Beijing Normal University, China
Dimitrios S. Kasselimis, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece
Sigfus Kristinsson, University of South Carolina, USA
Kelly Michaelis, Georgetown University, USA
Alberto Osa Garcia, Université de Montréal, Canada
Lorelei Phillip Johnson, University of South Carolina, USA
Sarah Phillips, New York University, USA
Elizabeth Valles Capetillo, Instituto de Neurobiología in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Rachel Elizabeth Weissler, University of Michigan, USA
2018 Award Recipients
Distinguished Career Award
Steven L. Small, University of California, Irvine
Early Career Awards
Bharath Chandrasekaran, The University of Texas at Austin
Pascale Tremblay, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Abstract Merit Awards
M. Florencia Assaneo, New York University, USA
Florence Bouhali, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Emilie McKinnon, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Travis White-Schwoch, Northwestern University, USA
Honorable Mention
Lisa Bruckert, Stanford University, USA
Seyedehrezvan Farahibozorg, University of Cambridge and University of Oxford, UK
Sivan Jossinger, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Han Gyol Yi, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Travel Awards
Beatriz Barragan, Arizona State University, USA
Mahsa Barzy, University of Kent, UK
Jennifer Chesters, Oxford University, UK
Jessica de Leon, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Heather Dial, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Giulia Elli, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Andrea Gajardo Vidal, University College London, UK
Sandra Gisbert-Muñoz, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Brenda Guerrero, Texas A&M International University, USA
Laura Gwilliams, New York University, USA
Jungna Kim, CUNY, USA
Jixing Li, Cornell University, USA
Diego Lorca-Puls, University College London, UK
Barbara Marebwa, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Suhail Matar, New York University, USA
Meghan McGarry, San Diego State University, USA
Andrea Olguin, University of Cambridge, UK
Lorelei Phillip, University of South Carolina, USA
Alexandra Reyes, Texas A&M International University, USA
Marybel Robledo Gonzalez, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USA
Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, San Diego State University, USA
Neelima Wagley, University of Michigan, USA
Bradley White, Gallaudet University, USA
2017 Award Recipients
Early Career Awards
Carolyn McGettigan, University of London
Jason Yeatman, University of Washington
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, New York University, USA
Kiefer Forseth, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, USA
Postdoctoral Abstract Merit Awards
Claudia Männel, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Leipzig, Germany
Dorian Pustina, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Travel Awards
Jane Aristia, University of Lille, France
Jose Ceballos, University of Washington, USA
Kulpreet Cheema, University of Alberta, Canada
Linda Drijvers, Donders Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Giulia Elli, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Danielle Fahey, University of South Carolina, USA
Xiaoping Fang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Emilia Fló Rama, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Rachida Ganga, Utrecht Institute of Language, The Netherlands
Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Jixing Li, Cornell University, USA
Linda Lönnqvist, University of Helsinki, Finland
Laura Morett, University of Alabama, USA
Emma Nguyen, University of Connecticut, USA
Andrea Olguin, University of Cambridge, UK
Claudia Peñaloza, Boston University, USA
Yanina Prystauka, University of Connecticut, USA
Rachel Romeo, Harvard University & MIT, USA
Roy Seo, University of Washington, USA
Christine Tseng, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Robert Wiley, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Marina Zhukova, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Naama Zur, University of Haifa, Israel
2016 Award Recipients
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Caroline Beelen, Parenting and Special Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
Dave Kleinschmidt, University of Rochester, USA
Postdoctoral Abstract Merit Awards
Anne Kosem, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Netherlands
Matthew Nelson, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U992, and NeuroSpin Research Center
Travel Awards
Florencia Assaneo, New York University, USA
Elena Barbieri, Northwestern University, USA
Alexander Billig, Western University, Canada
Richard Binney, Temple University, USA
Idan Blank, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Faith Chiu, University College London, UK
Dawoon Choi, University of British Columbia, Canada
Shruti Dave, University of California, Davis, USA
Junhua Ding, Beijing Normal University, China
Laura Gwilliams, New York University, USA
Viviana Haase, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
Paul Hoffman, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Lela Ivaz, BCBL, Spain
Sladjana Lukic, Northwestern University, USA
Barbara Marebwa, University of South Carolina, USA
Anne Mickan, Radboud University, Netherlands
Maxime Montembeault, University of Montreal, Canada
Lorelei Phillip, University of South Carolina, USA
Amy Price, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Katarzyna Rączy, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Miguel Santos, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Brielle Stark, University of South Carolina, USA
Yingying Tan, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
David Thornton, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
Maya Yablonski, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2015 Award Recipients
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Fatemeh Geranmayeh, Imperial College, London, UK
Judy Kim, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Postdoctoral Abstract Merit Awards
Frank Eisner, Radboud University, the Netherlands
Sergey Kornilov, Yale University, USA
Travel Awards
Josefine Andin, Linköping University, Sweden
Esti Blanco-Florrieta, New York University, USA
Lukasz Bola, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Dorian Pustina, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2014 Award Recipients
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Mirjam de Jonge, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sara Pillay, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Postdoctoral Abstract Merit Awards
Tristan Davenport, University of California, San Diego, USA
Benjamin Wilson, Newcastle University, UK
Travel Awards
Mariana Aparicio Betancourt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Alexandra Basilakos, University of South Carolina, USA
Gangyi Feng, South China Normal University, China
Andrea Gajardo Vidal, University College London, UK
Amanda Garcia, University of Florida, USA
Carolina Gattei, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ece Kocagoncu, University of Cambridge, UK
Diego Lorca Puls, University College London, UK
Paul Metzner, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Anna Simmonds, Imperial College London, UK
Susann Ullrich, Humboldt University, Germany
Brianna L. Yamasaki, University of Washington, USA
2013 Award Recipients
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Anna Beres, Bangor University, UK
Sung-Joo Lim, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Alicia Rawling, Centre for Clinical Research, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
Postdoctoral Abstract Merit Awards
Adeen Flinker, New York University, US
Tineke M. Snijders, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Travel Awards
Anna Beres, Bangor University, UK
Teon Brooks, New York University, US
Emily Connally, University of Oxford, UK
Isabelle Deschamps, Université Laval, Canada
Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
Alona Fyshe, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Sharon Geva, University College London, UK
Ajay Halai, University of Manchester, UK
Amanda Jaimes Bautista, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía de México, Mexico
Fernanda Loureiro, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil
Catherine Norise, University of Pennsylvania, US
Ōiwi Parker Jones, University College London, UK
Angel Ramirez-Sarmiento, University of Delaware, US
Aurora I. Ramos Nuñez, University of Houston,US
Laura Skipper, Temple University, US
Bethany Sussman, Indiana University, US
Maryse Thomas, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Rubén Torres Agustín, University of Mexico, Mexico
Jorge Valdes Kroff, University of Pennsylvania, US
Khaing Win, University of Pennsylvania, US
2012 Award Recipients
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Adeen Flinker, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Dale Maddox, University of California, Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences
Postdoctoral Abstract Merit Awards
Karine Marcotte, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, Canada
Corey McMillan, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Neurology
Travel Awards
Wing Yee Chow, University of Maryland
Emily Connally, University of Oxford
Samantha Cooper, University College London
Larissa Cuénoud, University College London
Elisabeth Fonteneau, University of Cambridge
Anna Holt, University of California, Irvine
Robert Hurley, Northwestern University
Saloni Krishnan, University of London
Juliane Mühlhaus, RWTH Aachen University
Oiwi Parker Jones, University of Oxford
Jack Rogers, University of Oxford
Lesley Sand, University of Maryland
Hernando Santamaría, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Laura Skipper, Temple University
Kenneth Vaden, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
Jane Warren, University College London
Dave Warren, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Jason Yeatman, Stanford University
Caicai Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Camila Zugarramurdi, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2011 SNL Award Recipients
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Elisabeth Karuza, The University of Rochester, NY, US
Hannah Snyder, University of Colorado at Boulder, US
Postdoctoral Abstract Merit Awards
Siyuan Liu, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Michael Wolmetz, Johns Hopkins University, MD, US
Travel Awards
Teon Brooks, New York University, US
Brea Chouinard, University of Alberta, Canada
Kimiko Domoto-Reilly, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, US
Sarah Grace Hudspeth, University of South Carolina, US
Nina Hsu, University of Pennsylvania, US
Shinae Kang, University of California, Berkeley, US
Mikel Lizarazu, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), Spain
Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Northwestern University, US
Takenobu Murakami, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Main, Germany
Tepring Piquado, University of California, Irvine, US
Rubén Torres, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Jean Mary Zarate, New York University, US