Awards of the Cognitive Science Conference

Marr Award

The Marr Award, named in honour of the late David Marr, is given annually to the best student paper at the Cognitive Science conference.
The Award is sponsored by The Cognitive Science Society.

A list of previous winners include:

2000- Eliana Colunga
2001-Sam Scott
2002-Sourabh Niyogi
2003-Chen Yu
2004-Florencia Reali
2005-Matthew Tong
2006-Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz
2007-David Landy
2008-Michael Frank
2009-Jennifer Misyak
2010-Hyowon Gweon

2010 Prizes

The winners of the 2010 Computational Modeling Prizes are:

Applied Cognition
Eldad Yechiam and Eyal Ert
Risk attitude in decision making: A clash of three approaches

Perception/Action
Celeste Kidd, Steven T. Piantadosi, and Richard N. Aslin
The Goldilocks Effect: Infants' preference for stimuli that are neither too predictable nor too surprising

Language
Yang Xu and Charles Kemp
Constructing spatial concepts from universal primitives

Higher-level cognition
Daniel Rasmussen and Chris Eliasmith
A neural model of rule generation in inductive reasoning

Winner of the 2010 Cognition and Student Learning Prize

Daniel Oppenheimer, Connor Diemand-Yauman, and Erikka Vaughan
Fortune Favors the Bold (and the Italicized): Effects of Disfluency on Educational
Outcomes