CNS 2027 | Young Investigator Award
Nominations for the Young Investigator Awards in Cognitive Neuroscience will open September 3, 2026. The submission deadline for submitting a nomination is October 2, 2026. Only online submissions will be accepted.
About the YIA Award
The purpose of the Young Investigator Award is to recognize outstanding contributions by scientists early in their career. Two awardees are named by the Awards Committee, and are honored at the CNS Annual meeting.
Previous Winners
2027Coming Soon! |
2026Monica Rosenberg, University of Chicago Samuel D. McDougle, Yale University |
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2025Emily S. Finn, Dartmouth College Andre' Bastos, Vanderbilt University |
2024Peter Kok, University College London Ella Striem-Amit, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC |
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2023Anna Schapiro, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania Freek van Ede, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
2022Oriel FeldmanHall, Brown University Vishnu "Deepu" Murty, Temple University |
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2021Anne Collins, UC Berkeley Amitai Shenhav, Brown University |
2020Catherine Hartley, New York University Samuel J. Gershman, Harvard University |
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2019Muireann Irish, The University of Sydney, Australia Michael W. Cole, Rutgers University – Newark |
2018Morgan Barense, University of Toronto Michael Yassa, University of California, Irvine |
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2017Leah Somerville, Ph.D., Harvard University Nicholas Turk-Browne, Ph.D., Princeton University |
2016Adriana Galvan, UCLA Joel Voss, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine |
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2015Donna Rose Addis, Ph.D., University of Auckland, NZ Christopher Summerfield, Ph.D., University of Oxford |
2014Daphna Shohamy, Ph.D. , Columbia University David Badre, Ph.D., Brown University |
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2013Uta Noppeney, Ph.D., University of Birmingham, UK Tor Wager, Ph.D., University of Colorado |
2012Adam Aron, Ph.D., University of California San Diego Roshan Cools, Ph.D., Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour |
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2011Michael J. Frank, Ph.D., Brown University Elizabeth Kensinger, Ph.D., Boston College |
2010Kara Federmeier, University of Illinois Adam Anderson, University of Toronto |
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2009Lila Davachi, New York University Clayton Curtis, New York University |
2008Charan Ranganath, University of California Davis Kevin Ochsner, Columbia University Rebecca Saxe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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2007Silvia A. Bunge, University of California Steven Laureys, MD, University of Liège |
2006Frank Tong, Vanderbilt University Alumit Ishai, University of Zurich |
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2005Sabine Kastner, Princeton University Kevin LaBar, Duke University |
2004Anthony Wagner, Stanford University Eleanor Maguire, University College London |
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2003Roberto Cabeza, Duke University Sharon Thompson-Schill, University of Pennsylvania |
2002Isabel Gauthier, Vanderbilt University Randy Buckner, Washington University Saint Louis |
March 7 – 10, 2026