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Howard Crosby Warren Medal
The Howard Crosby Warren Award was endowed to recognize individuals who have
made outstanding contributions to the field
of Experimental Psychology during the previous five years.
THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGISTS
Awards
The Howard Crosby Warren Medal to
Henry L. Roediger, III.
Washington University
2008
"for his creative experimental investigations of false memory and its underlying processes that have led to a new understanding of human memory"
at Indiana University, this 12th day of April, 2008.
READ AT AWARD PRESENTATION: "Roediger’s experiments, conducted primarily with Kathleen McDermott but also with other collaborators, have pursued James Deese’s
early but largely ignored discovery of interesting verbal intrusions in human recall. His work has become a central thrust in the study of false memory--
one of the most exciting and important new areas of research in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the last 30 years. The Deese-Roediger-McDermott
(DRM) paradigm provides a powerful experimental tool for studying human memory. Using it, researchers can, on demand and under tight laboratory control,
lead healthy adults to recall with clarity items and events that never happened. Further, under typical conditions of the DRM paradigm, students recall
non-presented items at a rate similar to presented items and also claim not only to know that these items were presented but also to vividly remember their moment
of presentation. This research has led to large numbers of scientific articles (including several citation classics) books and book chapters, in which Roediger
and others have further explicated the phenomenon, explored its neural substrates, related it to other memory phenomena including recovered memories, and connected
it with amnesias and other neuropsychological conditions in human adults."
Recent winners:
2008 Henry L. Roediger, III
2007 Larry R. Squire
2006 Randy Gallistel
2005 John Anderson
2004 Herb Terrace
2003 Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Norman Anderson
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award was endowed to recognize
individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Experimental
Psychology over the course of their lifetimes.
THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGISTS
The Norman A. Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award to
University of California-Irvine
"For a lifetime of scientific work illuminating the mechanisms by which events that occur after learning influence the consolidation and storage of memory"
at Indiana University, this 12th day of April, 2008.
READ AT AWARD PRESENTATION*: "James McGaugh pioneered animal and human research investigating memory consolidation and the mechanisms that regulate it.
In early work he found that drugs and electrical stimulation of the brain induce permanent retrograde amnesia. These early studies provided strong support for the
consolidation hypothesis of memory first proposed half a century before. In other early studies, he pioneered in discovering that stimulant drugs (including GABAergic
antagonists and amphetamine) administered to rats and mice shortly after training produced enhancement of memory. This research stimulated the use of posttraining
drug administration to investigate the roles of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators in enabling or modulating memory consolidation. These studies led to the novel
hypothesis that learning experiences activate endogenous processes that serve to regulate the consolidation of experience. Studies in his laboratory subsequently
discovered that memory consolidation is modulated by adrenal stress hormones (epinephrine and corticosterone or cortisol in humans) that are normally released by
emotional arousal. Studies using microinfusions of drugs and hormones directly into specific brain regions revealed that stress hormone effects on memory consolidation
are mediated through influences involving noradrenergic activation within the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala. The studies also revealed that the basolateral
amygdala influences memory consolidation through its projections to other brain regions involved in processing recent experiences, including the hippocampus, caudate
nucleus, and various cortical regions. For his nearly 50 years of cumulative scientific work, The Normal A. Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 recognizes
James L. McGaugh."
*Jim McGaugh is recovering from aggressive chemotherapy for cancerous melanoma and regretfully could not attend the meeting.
His acceptance remarks were recorded and played on an audio-CD.
Recent winners:
2008 James L. McGaugh
2007 James T. Townsend
2006 Douglas Hintzman
2005 Karl Pribram
2004 R. Duncan Luce
2003 Bennet Murdock Jr.
The Early Investigator Award
THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGISTS Presents The Early Investigator Award to Elizabeth Brannon Duke University 2008 "for her contribution to our understanding of the non-verbal numerical abilities of monkeys and
human infants at the cognitive and neurological level" at Indiana University, this 12th day of April, 2008. READ AT AWARD PRESENTATION: "Elizabeth Brannon has made major contributions to our
understanding of the non-verbal numerical abilities of monkeys and human infants at both the
cognitive and neurological levels. In an elegant and ingenious series of experiments she showed
that non-verbal animals, millions of years older than Homo sapiens, could represent numerosity.
In a similar manner, she has documented a developmental trajectory of numerical ability in
human infants long before they learn to count. Liz has also done pioneering work that has
identified neural mechanisms that control numerical discrimination in rhesus macaques and
human infants."
Recent winners
2008 Elizabeth Brannon
2007 Joshua Tenenbaum
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