Glushko Dissertation Prize

Kelsey Allen – 2021 PhD thesis “Learning to act with objects, relations and physics” from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Carolyn Baer – 2020 PhD thesis “Developing a sense of certainty” from University of British Columbia

Judy Sein Kim – 2020 PhD thesis “’Visual’ knowledge in the absence of visual experience” from Johns Hopkins University

Sebastian Musslick – 2021 PhD thesis “On the rational bounds of cognitive control” from Princeton University

Tim Sainburg – 2021 PhD thesis “Temporal organization in vocal communication: sequential structure, perceptual integration, and neural foundations” from University of California, San Diego

Esti Blanco-Elorrieta – 2020 PhD thesis “Towards an ecologically valid neurobiology of bilingualism”, from New York University: précis

Laura Gwilliams – 2020 PhD thesis “Towards a mechanistic account of speech comprehension in the human brain” from New York University: précis

Andrew Lampinen – 2020 PhD thesis “A computational framework for learning and transforming task representations” from Stanford University: précis

Shari Liu – 2020 PhD thesis “Nature and origins of intuitive psychology in human infants” from Harvard University: précis

Vencislav Popov – 2020 PhD thesis “Resource depletion and recovery in human memory” from Carnegie Mellon University: précis

James Whittington – 2020 PhD thesis “A Bayesian account of learning and generalising representations in the brain” from University of Oxford: précis

Damián Blasi – 2018 PhD thesis “Linguistic Diversity Through Data,” from Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, précis

Stephen Ferrigno – 2018 PhD thesis “The Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of Human Thought,” from University of Rochester, précis

Shipra Kanjlia – 2018 PhD thesis “Preservation and Plasticity in the Neural Basis of Numerical Thinking in Blindness,” from Johns Hopkins University, précis

Falk Lieder – 2018 PhD thesis “Beyond Bounded Rationality: Reverse-Engineering and Enhancing Human Intelligence,” from University of California, Berkeley, précis

Sebastian Michelmann – 2018 PhD thesis “Temporal Dynamics and Mechanisms of Oscillatory Pattern Reinstatement in Human Episodic Memory,” from University of Birmingham, précis

Laurel Perkins – 2019 PhD thesis “How Grammars Grow: Argument Structure and the Acquisition of Non-basic Syntax,” from University of Maryland, précis

Leor Zmigrod – 2019 PhD thesis “The Cognitive Underpinnings of Ideological Thinking,” from University of Cambridge, précis

Kirsten Adam – 2018 PhD thesis “Characterizing the limits of visual working memory,” from University of Chicago, précis

Max Kleiman-Weiner – 2018 PhD thesis “Computational foundations of human social intelligence,” from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, précis

Martin Maier – 2018 PhD thesis “Language, meaning, and visual perception: Event-related potentials reveal top-down influences on early visual processing,” from Humboldt University, précis

Jean-Paul Noel – 2018 PhD thesis “Leveraging multisensory neurons, circuits, brains, and bodies to study consciousness: From the outside-in and the inside-out,” from Vanderbilt University, précis

Katharine Tillman – 2017 PhD thesis “Constructing the concept of time: Roles of language, perception, and culture,” from University of California, San Diego, précis

Melody Dye – 2017 PhD thesis “Bridging Levels of Analysis: Learning, Information Theory, and the Lexicon ” from Indiana University, précis

Chaz Firestone – 2017 PhD thesis “Cognition Does Not Affect Perception” from Yale University, précis

Sagi Jaffe-Dax – 2016 PhD thesis  “Neural Basis and Computational Account for Dyslexia” from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, précis

Eric Schulz – 2017 PhD thesis “Towards a Unifying Theory of Generalization” from University College London, précis

Michelle Spierings – 2016 PhD thesis “The Music of Language: Exploring Grammar, Prosody and Rhythm Perception” from Leiden University, précis

Alexandra Carstensen – 2016 PhD thesis “Universals and variation in language and thought: Concepts, communication, and semantic structure” from University of California, Berkeley, précis

Judith Ellen Fan, 2016 PhD thesis “Role of cognitive actions in learning” from Princeton University, précis

Julian Jara-Ettinger, 2016 PhD thesis “The inner life of goals: Costs, rewards, and commonsense psychology” from MIT, précis

Samuel G. B. Johnson,  2016 PhD thesis “Cognition as sense-making” from Yale University, précis

Dave F. Kleinschmidt,  2016 PhD thesis “Perception in a variable but structured world: The case of speech perception” from University of Rochester, précis

Lang Chen, PhD thesis “White matter connectivity explains category-specific brain activation and impairment: A neurocomputational model of semantic cognition” from University of Wisconsin – Madison, précis

Isabelle Dautriche, PhD thesis “Weaving an ambiguous lexicon” from University of Paris Descartes and Ecole Normale Supérieure, précis

Jan Engelmann, PhD thesis “An empirical investigation of the evolutionary and ontogenetic roots of trust” from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, précis

Philip Pärnamets, PhD thesis “Observing and influencing preferences in time” from Lund University, précis

Andrew Saxe, PhD thesis “Deep linear neural networks: A theory of learning in the brain and mind” from Stanford University, précis

Harm Brouwer – 2014 PhD thesis “The Electrophysiology of Language Comprehension: A Neurocomputational Model” from University of Groningen, précis

Da Cheong (Jena) Hwang – 2014 PhD thesis “Identification and Representation of Caused Motion Constructions” from University of Colorado, précis

Brenden Lake – 2014 PhD thesis “Towards more human-like concept learning in machines: Compositionality, causality, and learning-to-learn” from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, précis

Jessica Sullivan – 2014 PhD thesis “The Roles of Inference and Associative Learning in the Construction of Mappings Between Number Words and Numerical Magnitudes” from University of California – San Diego, précis

Samuel Gershman – 2013 PhD thesis “Memory Modification in the Brain: Computational and Experimental Investigations” from Princeton University, précis

Celeste Kidd – 2013 PhD thesis “Rational Approaches to Learning and Development” from University of Rochester, précis

Victoria Leong – 2013 PhD thesis “Speech Rhythm Cognition : A Multi-Disciplinary Account” from University of Cambridge, précis

Ian Lyons – 2012 PhD thesis “A Sense of Order: Ordinality and the meaning of symbolic numbers” from University of Chicago, précis

Takao Sasaki – 2013 PhD thesis “Psychology Of A Superorganism” from Arizona State University, précis

Douglas Knox Bemis – 2012 PhD thesis “Simple Composition During Language Processing: An MEG Investigation” from New York University, précis

Neil Cohn – 2012 PhD thesis “Structure, Meaning, and Constituency in Visual Narrative Comprehension” from Tufts University, précis

George Kachergis – 2012 PhD thesis “Mechanisms for Cross-Situational Learning of Word-Referent Mappings: Empirical and Modeling Evidence” from Indiana University,précis

Andrew Lovett – 2012 PhD thesis “Spatial Routines for Sketches: A Framework for Modeling Spatial Problem Solving” from Northwestern University, précis

Liad Mudrik – 2011 PhD thesis “Processing Visual Context Violations: The Roles of Attention and Awareness” from Tel Aviv University, précis

Timothy F. Brady – 2011 PhD thesis “Structured Representations in Visual Working Memory” from MIT – précis

Jennifer L. Culbertson – 2010 PhD thesis “Learning Biases, Regularization, and the Emergence of Typological Universals in Syntax” from Johns Hopkins University- précis

Nazbanou Nozari – 2011 PhD thesis “Is Comprehension Necessary for Error Detection? A Conflict-based Account of Monitoring in Speech Production” from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign- précis

Steven T. Piantadosi – 2011 PhD thesis “Learning and the language of thought” from MIT-précis

Rachel Wu – 2011 PhD thesis “Learning (to Learn) from Spatial Attention Cues During Infancy” from Birkbeck, University of London – précis

Vera Demberg-Winterfors – 2010 PhD thesis “A Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence Processing” from The University of Edinburgh – précis

Michael Frank – 2010 PhD thesis “Early Word Learning Through Communicative Inference” from MIT- précis

Chi-Tat Law – 2009 PhD thesis “Mechanisms of learning a visual motion discrimination task” from University of Pennsylvania- précis

Eric Mandelbaum – 2010 PhD thesis “The Architecture of Belief: An Essay on the Unbearable Automaticity of Believing” from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – précis

Edward Vul – 2010 PhD thesis “Sampling in human cognition” from MIT – précis