January 22, 2002
Academy Honors 14 for Major Contributions to Science
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has selected 14 individuals to receive awards honoring their outstanding scientific achievements. The awards will be presented on April 29 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., during the Academy's 139th annual meeting. Awards and recipients are:
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Troland Research Awards -- a sum of $50,000 given annually to each of two recipients to support their research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology -- go to David J. Heeger, associate professor, department of psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., and to John K. Kruschke, professor, department of psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Heeger was chosen "for his groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the relation between perceptual experience and neural activity in visual cortex, using neuroimaging and computational methods." Kruschke was chosen "for deep insights and empirical evaluations concerning concept formation and attention in learning and rigorous formalization of the underlying psychological principles in connectionist frameworks." The awards were established by a bequest from Leonard T. Troland and have been presented since 1984.
For more information, contact: awards@nas.edu
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