Awards of the Cognitive Science Conference

Marr Award

The Marr Award, named in honour of the late David Marr, is given annually to the best student paper at the Cognitive Science conference.
The Awards is co-sponsored by The Cognitive Science Society and Elsevier.

A list of previous winners include:

2000- Eliana Colunga
2001-Sam Scott
2002-Sourabh Niyogi
2003-Chen Yu
2004-Florencia Reali
2005-Matthew Tong
2006-Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz
2007-David Landy
2008-Michael Frank

2008 Prizes

The winners of the 2008 Computational Modeling Prizes are:

Applied Cognition
Gideon Borensztajn, Jelle Zuidema, and Rens Bod
Children's grammars grow more abstract with age - Evidence from an automatic procedure for identifying the productive units of language.

Perception/Action
Joseph Toscano and Bob McMurray
Using the distributional statistics of speech sounds for weighting and integrating acoustic cues.

Language
Afsaneh Fazly, Afra Alishahi, & Suzanne Stevenson
A Probabilistic Incremental Model of Word Learning in the Presence of Referential Uncertainty.

Higher-level cognition
Pernille Hemmer and Mark Steyvers
A Bayesian Account of Reconstructive Memory.

Winner of the 2008 Cognition and Student Learning Prize:

Ron Salden, Vincent Aleven, Alexander Renkl, and Rolf Schwonke
Worked Examples and Tutored Problem Solving: Redundant or Synergistic Forms of Support?