2025 Award Recipients

Distinguished Career Award

David Poeppel, New York University, USA

Early Career Award

Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, New York University, USA

Dissertation Award

Jacob Momsen, Yale University School of Medicine, USA.

Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards

Ana Chavez, Baylor College of Medicine
Mel Mallard, Washington University in St. Louis

Postdoctoral Merit Awards

Florence Bouhali, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, CRPN
Jerry Tang, University of Texas at Austin

Honorable Mention

Ja Young Choi, Northwestern University
Ryan Henderson, Boston University
Iris Nowenstein, University of Iceland, National University Hospital of Iceland
Melody Schwenk, Gallaudet University
Ryan Staples, Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University Medical Center
Patrick C. Trettenbrein, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany and University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Travel Awards

Lamees Al-Hassan, Arizona State University
Marianne Azar, New York University
Isabel Olmos Pastor, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL)
Ryan Henderson, Boston University
Safiya Inchyna, UAB, Department of Neurosurgery
Moramay Ramos Flores, Institute of Neurobiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Cesar Rosales, University of Florida
Katherine Trice, Northeastern University
Srijita Das, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
Jinglei Ren, Yale University and University of Connecticut
Marjolein Mues, Vanderbilt University
Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova, University of Maryland
Joaquin Ordoñez, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Lydia Wiernik, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and University of Göttingen

2024 Award Recipients

Distinguished Career Award

Manuel Carreiras, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

Early Career Award

Adolfo M. García, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), University of California, San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin; Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Dissertation Award

Katharina Menn, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards

Xue Gong, UC Berkeley, USA
Aoife Reardon, University of Queensland, Australia

Postdoctoral Merit Awards

Honorable Mention

Marianne Casilio, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, Stanford University, USA
Yanlin Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Xuan Yang, University of South Carolina, USA

Travel Awards

Mohammad Aldabbagh, Boston University, USA
Katherine Andrade, University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University, USA
Olivia Bizimungu, McGill University, Canada
Nicole Carvalho, Boston University, USA
Will Chih-Chao Chang, University of California, Irvine, USA
Annette Glotfelty, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Jackie Kim, Boston University, USA
Alex Krauska, University of Maryland, USA
Jill Kries, Stanford University, USA
Keng-Yu Lin, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Jessie Liu, University of California San Francisco, USA
Yuhan Lu, East China Normal University, China
Abigail Oppong, University of Cambridge, UK
Katherine Sendek, University of California, Davis, USA
Kathryn Snyder, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Maya Taliaferro, New York University, USA
Thivina Thanabalan, University of South Australia, Australia
Catalina Torres, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Hasini Weerathunge, University of Michigan, USA
Sarah J. Woods, University of Utah, USA

2023 Award Recipients

Distinguished Career Award

Nina Dronkers, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Davis

Early Career Award

Maaike Vandermosten, KU Leuven

Dissertation Award

Shailee Jain, University of Texas at Austin

Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards

Kathryn Snyder, UTHSC, USA
Zaid Zada, Princeton University, USA

Postdoctoral Merit Awards

Honorable Mention

Maya Inbar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jiahui Lu, Beijing Normal University, China
Chiara Luna Rivolta, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), Spain
Terri L. Scott, UCSF, USA
Lin Wang, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA

Travel Awards

Katherine Andrade, San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego, USA
Eleonora Judith Beier, University of California, Davis, USA
Ilina Bhaya-Grossman, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Tifani Biro, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Olivia Bizimungu, McGill University, Canada
Christina Blomquist, University of Maryland – College Park, USA
Cristina Cano Melle, Jaume I University, Spain
Isaac Falconer, Boston University, USA
Xuancu Hong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Maya Inbar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jessie R. Liu, University of California San Francisco, USA
Jordi Martorell, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), Spain
Aline-Priscillia Messi, New York University, USA
Arielle Moore, Boston University, USA
Hongbin Qing, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Juliana Ronderos, Boston University, USA
Ashley Symons, University of London, United Kingdom
María José Torres-Prioris, University of Malaga, Spain
Agata Wolna, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Leyao Yu, New York University, USA

2022 Award Recipients

Distinguished Career Award

Cathy Price, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

Early Career Award

Michael Artur Skeide, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Dissertation Award

Jin Wang, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University; Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Brain and Language Dissertation Article

Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards

Sivan Jossinger, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Timothy Trammel, University of California, Davis, USA

Postdoctoral Merit Awards

Heather Kabakoff, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Sara Sanchez-Alonso, Haskins Laboratories, USA

Honorable Mention

Cristina Cano Melle, Jaume I University, Spain
Andrew DeMarco, Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, USA
Kiefer Forseth, Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School, USA
Victoria Hodgson, University of Cambridge, UK
Sahil Luthra, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joan Orpella, New York University, USA
Brennan Terhune-Cotte, San Diego State University / University of California, San Diego, USA
Leyao Yu, New York University School of Engineering, USA

Travel Awards

Karen Arellano, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain
Nilgoun Bahar, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Catherine Chen, UC Berkeley, USA
Phoebe Chen, New York University, USA
Stéphanie Deschamps,McGill University, Canada
Veronica Diveică, Bangor University, UK
Donald Dunagan, The University of Georgia, USA
Regan Harle, University College London, UK
Viktor Kewenig, University College London, UK
Amanda LeBel, University of California Berkeley, USA
Jacie McHaney, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Victoria Ogunniyi, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Victoria Poulton, University of Cambridge, UK
M. Blake Rafferty, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
Deena Schwen Blackett, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Serena Song, Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehab, USA
Jacquelyn Stochel, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Brennan Terhune-Cotter, San Diego State University / University of California, San Diego, USA
Athena Willis, Gallaudet University, USA

2021 Award Recipients

Distinguished Career Award

Peter Hagoort, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University, The Netherlands

Early Career Award

Adeen Flinker, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, NYU

Dissertation Award

Sahil Luthra, University of Connecticut, Brain and Language Dissertation Article

Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards

Alice Hodapp, University of Potsdam, Germany
Samer Nour Eddine, Tufts University, USA

Postdoctoral Merit Awards

Galit Agmon, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Natalie Hetherington, University of South Carolina, USA

Honorable Mention

Melis Çetinçelik, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Junhua Ding, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Isaac Falconer, Boston University, USA
Guilherme Freches, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Andrea Gajardo-Vidal, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, UK
Iliana I. Karipidis, Stanford University, USA
Reza Rajimehr, University of Cambridge, UK
Xinyi Yang, University of Toronto, Canada

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, New York University, 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 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