Donald O. Hebb Graduate Student Award

This award shall be made to the individual who, in the opinion of the committee on this award, has been judged to have presented the best paper or poster at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science. Normally, the awardee would be a Canadian citizen or would have conducted a significant proportion of his/her research, training or disciplinary work within Canada.

BEST PAPER / BEST POSTER

Chris Sturdy (paper) (with Phillmore, Price, and Weisman) Song note discrimination in zebra finches (taeniopygia guttata). (Queen's)

Penny MacDonald (paper) (with Joordens) One hundred milliseconds of negative priming: Now you see it, now you don't! (U of Toronto at Scarborough)

Honourable Mentions:

There were an extraordinary number of outstanding student presentations and the committee trying to adjudicate the awards (1) argued that there had to be two awards this year, and (2) asked that the following be identified as "honourable mentions" in this regard.

Glen Bodner (paper) (with Masson) A processing fluency account of masked repetition priming. (Victoria)

Vicki LeBlanc (poster) (with Milliken) Inhibition of return and repetition priming: The role of stimulus-response mapping. (McMaster)

Bonnie Sonnenschein (poster) (with Shizgal) Duration neglect in brain stimulation reward. (Concordia)

Lianne Stanford (paper) (with Brown) Strain and sex differences in MHC-congenic mice in learning the Hebb-Williams Maze. (Dalhousie)

The selection committee this year consisted of two teams of two judges:

Richard Brown and Richard Tees
Colin MacLeod and Don Read.

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