2013
Dr. Natalie Brito, Georgetown University: Influence of Early Environmental Variation on Memory Development: Examining Bilingualism during Infancy. Mentor: Dr. Rachel Barr
Honorable Mentions
Dr. Braden Purcell, Vanderbilt University: Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Decision Making. Mentors: Dr.Thomas J. Palmeri & Dr.Jeffrey D. Schall
Dr. Jacqueline Barker, Yale University: The Formation and Expression of Addiction-related Behaviors: Cortico-limbic-striatal Circuitry in Flexible Reward Seeking. Mentor: Dr. Jane Taylor
Dr. Lauren Richmond, Washington University in St. Louis: Combining Working Memory Training and Non-invasive Brain Stimulation to Enhance the Effects of Training and Transfer. Mentor: Dr. Ingrid Olson
2012
Dr. Gloria Luong, University of California, at Irvine: The Role of Goals and Emotion Regulation: Age Differences in Affective Responses to a Negative Social Interaction. Mentor: Dr. Susan Charles.
Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky, UCLA: A Dynamic Circuit: Interactions between the Amygdala, Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex Control Context-Sensitive Fear and Extinction. Mentor: Dr. Michael S. Fanselow.
Honorable Mentions
Dr. Joelle LeMoult, University of Miami: The Effects of Rumination on Psychological and Biological Responses to Stress. Mentor: Dr. Jutta Joormann.
Dr. Michael Scullin, Washington University: Sleep, Memory and Aging. Mentor: Dr. Mark McDaniel.
2011
Joonkoo Park, University of Michigan, Dissertation: Experiential Effects on the Neural Substrates of Visual Word and Number Processing; Mentor: Thad Polk.
Jennifer Marie Tomlinson, Stony Brook University, Dissertation: Perceived Partner Idealization: Is there an Optimal Level? Mentor: Arthur Aron
Honorable Mentions
Jeri Little, University of California, Los Angeles, Dissertation: Optimizing Multiple-Choice Tests as Learning Events; Mentors: Elizabeth Bjork, Robert Bjork
Catherine Hartley, New York University, Dissertation: Individual Differences in the Expression and Control of Conditioned Fear; Mentor: Elizabeth Phelps
2010
Lisa R. Starr, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dissertation: Mechanisms of Anxiety-Depression Co-Occurrence; Mentor: Joanne Davila.
Honorable Mentions
Amanda C. Brandone, University of Michigan, Dissertation: The Development of Intention Understanding in the First Year of Life: An Exploration of Infants' Understanding of Successful vs. Failed Intentional Actions; Mentors: Susan A. Gelman and Henry M. Wellman.
Brenda J. Salley, Virginia Tech, Dissertation: Relating Infants' Social Attention to their Emerging Language Skills; Mentor: Robin Panneton.
2009
David M. Frost, Graduate Center, City University of New York. Dissertation: Stigma, Intimacy, and Well-being: A Personality and Social Structures Approach. Mentor: Suzanne Ouellette.
Shannon Gourley, Yale University. Dissertation: Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of a Glucocorticoid-Induced Animal Model of Chronic Depression. Mentor: Jane Taylor.
Christopher Honey, Indiana University. Dissertation: Fluctuations and Flows in Large-Scale Brain Networks. Mentor: Olaf Sporns.
Tarika Daftary Kapur, John Jay College, City University of New York. Dissertation: The Effects of Pre- and Post-Venire Publicity on Juror Decision-Making. Mentor: Maureen O'Connor.
Honorable Mentions
Hyein Chang, University of Michigan. Dissertation: Children's Attentional and Behavioral Persistance and the Development of Externalizing Behavior Problems. Mentor: Sheryl Olson.
Edward Orehek, University of Maryland. Dissertation: The Role of Epistemic Motivation in the Link Between Arousal and Focus of Attention. Mentor: Arie W. Kruglanski.
2008
Vicente Martinez, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dissertation: A Repeated Amphetamine Model of Impaired Attention in Schizophrenia; Mentor: Dr. Martin Friedrich Sarter
Tatiana Pollo, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; Dissertation: The Nature of Young Children’s Spellings; Mentor: Dr. Rebecca Treiman
Jason Reiss, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.; Dissertation: Object Substitution Masking: What is the Neural Fate of the Unreportable Target? Mentor: Jim Hoffman
2007
Emily Amanatullah
"Negotiating Gender Role Stereotypes: The Influence of Gender Role Stereotypes on Perceivers' Evaluations and Target's Behaviors in Value Claiming Negotiations and Situation Moderation by Representation Role"
Mentor: Michael Morris
Columbia Business School
Katherine H. Karlsgodt
"Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Verbal Working Memory in Schizophrenia"
Mentor: Tyrone D. Cannon
University of California, Los Angeles
2006
Christopher Summerfield
"Cognitive Control During Episodic Memory Encoding"
Mentor: Jennifer Mangels, Columbia University
Nicole Avena (Honorable Mention)
"Evidence of Sugar Addiction in Rats: Links to Drug Abuse and Eating Disorders"
Mentor: Bart Hoebel, Princeton University
2005
Jennifer Quinn
"Dorsal Hippocampus Involvement in Fear Conditioning to Discrete Auditory Stimuli"
Mentor: Michael Fanselow
University of California, Los Angeles
Anne-Noel Samaha
"Effects of Rate of Drug Delivery on Brain and Behavior: Implications for Addiction"
Mentor: Terry Robinson
University of Michigan
Jessica Tracy
"Is There a Universally Recognized Pride Expression?"
Mentor: Richard Robins
University of California, Davis
2004
Adam Brickman
"Neuropsychological Functioning and Neuromorphometry in Non-Kraepelinian and Kraepelinian Schizophrenia"
Mentor: Joan Borod
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Neuropsychology Subprogram at Queens College
Shayna Rosenbaum
"Investigations of Remote Memory for Topographical and Autobiographical Information: Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Amnesic Patients"
Mentor: Morris Moscovitch
University of Toronto
2003
Evan Palmer
"Spatiotemporal Relatability in the Perception of Dynamically Occluded Objects"
Mentor: Philip Kellman
University of California, Los Angeles
Reginald B. Adams, Jr. (Honorable Mention)
"The Function of Perceived Gaze Direction in Emotion and Person Perception"
Mentor: Robert E. Kleck
Dartmouth College
2002
Laura Louise Eldridge
"The Role of the Medial Temporal Lobe in Human Memory"
Mentor: Michelle Craske
University of California, Los Angeles
Steven Most
"Sustained Intentional Blindness: What You See Is What You See"
Mentor: Daniel Simons
Harvard University