Past Student
Travel Award
Winners

2009 Travel Award Winners

The 2009 Student Travel Awards are sponsored by Elsevier/Vision Research.

Tracey Brandwood
Cardiff University, School of Psychology
Advisor: Simon Rushton

Jason Fischer
University of California Davis, Center for Mind and Brain and Department of Psychology
Advisor: David Whitney

Stephenie Harrison
Vanderbilt University
Advisor: Frank Tong

Elizabeth Huber
University of Washington
Advisor: Ione Fine

Farhan Khawaja
McGill University Montreal Neurological Institute
Advisor: Christopher Pack

Jeffrey Lin
University of Washington, Department of Psychology
Advisors: Geoffrey Boynton, Scott Murray

Kyle Mathewson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Advisors: Gabriele Gratton, Monica Fabiani

Vani Pariyadath
Baylor College of Medicine
Advisor: David M. Eagleman

Joshua Susskind
University of Toronto, Department of Psychology
Advisor: Adam K. Anderson

Kevin Weiner
Stanford University
Advisor: Kalanit Grill-Spector

Krista Ehinger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Advisor: Aude Oliva

Tao Gao
Yale University
Advisor: Brian Scholl

Robert Held
UCSF / UC Berkeley, Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering
Advisor: Marty Banks

Walter Jermakowicz
Vanderbilt Vision Research Center
Advisor: Vivien Casagrande

Maria Lev
Tel-Aviv University
Advisor: Uri Polat

Tomer Livne
Weizmann Institute of Science
Advisor: Dov Sagi

Marieke Mur
Maastricht University, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
Advisor: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Karen Schloss
University of California Berkeley, Department of Psychology
Advisor: Stephen E. Palmer

Katie Wagner
University of California San Diego
Advisor: Karen Dobkins

Mariko Yamaguchi
Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Lisa Feigenson

2008 Travel Award Winners

The 2008 Student Travel Awards are sponsored by Elsevier/Vision Research.

Peter Battaglia
University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology
Advisors: Paul Schrater, Daniel Kersten

Jason Haberman
niversity of California, Davis
Advisor: David Whitney

Grit Herzmann
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Advisor: Werner Sommer

Jie Huang
Brandeis University, Department of Psychology
Advisor: Robert Sekuler

Min-Suk Kang
Vanderbilt University, Department of psychology
Advisor: Randolph Blake

Jonas Kubilius
MIT, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Advisors: Nancy Kanwisher, Daniel D. Dilks

Lee Lovejoy
University of California San Diego, Salk Institute and Graduate Program in Neurosciences
Advisor: Rich Krauzlis

Travis Meyer
Wake Forest Medical Center
Advisor: Christos Constantinidis

Tim Preston
University of Birmingham, School of Psychology
Advisor: Zoe Kourtzi

Anna Seydell
University of Giessen, Germany
Advisor: Julia Trommershäuser

Wei Wu
Duke University, Department of Neurobiology
Advisor: David Fitzpatrick

Po-Jang Hsieh
Dartmouth College, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Advisor: Peter Tse

Sung Jun Joo
Yonsei University, Graduate Program in Cognitive Science
Advisor: Sang Chul Chong

Robyn Kim
UCLA
Advisor: Ladan Shams

Tingting Liu
University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology, Eye & ENT hospital of Fudan University, Department of Ophthalmology
Advisor: Sheng He

Tamar Makin
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Neurobiology, Life Sciences Institute
Advisor: Ehud Zohary

Anirvan Nandy
University of Southern California, Department of Psychology
Advisor: Bosco S. Tjan

Constantin Rothkopf
University of Rochester, Center for Visual Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Advisors: Dana Ballard, Mary Hayhoe

Yetta Kwailing Wong
Vanderbilt University
Advisor: Isabel Gauthier

Serap Yigit
University of Washington, Cognition and Perception, Psychology Dept.
Advisor: John Palmer

2007 Travel Award Winners

The 2007 Student Travel Awards were sponsored Elsevier/Vision Research.

Maha Adamo
University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Advisor: Susanne Ferber

Seyed-Reza Afraz
Harvard University, Department of Psychology
Advisor: Patrick Cavanagh

Bahador Bahrami
University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology Department
Advisors: Vincent Walsh, Nilli Lavie, Geraint Rees

Daniel Baldauf
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Caltech
Advisors: Heiner Deubel, Richard A. Andersen

Jan Brascamp
Utrecht University and Helmholtz Institute, Department of Biology, Functional Neurobiology Lab
Advisors: Albert van den Berg, Raymond van Ee

Jonathan Cant
University of Western Ontario, Psychology Department & Neuroscience Graduate Program
Advisor: Melvyn A. Goodale

James Christensen
Ohio State University, Department of Psychology
Advisor: James T. Todd

Michael Frank
MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tedlab
Advisor: Edward Gibson

Jacqueline Fulvio
New York University, Department of Psychology
Advisor: Laurence T. Maloney

Julie Golomb
Yale University, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Advisors: James Mazer, Marvin Chun

Sam Ling
New York University, Department of Psychology
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco

Philip John O'Herron
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neuroscience Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
Advisor: Rüdiger von der Heydt

Jin Qian
University of Houston, College of Optometry
Advisor: Harold E. Bedell

Kelly Shen
Queen’s University, Visual Information Processing Laboratory, Centre for Neuroscience Studies
Advisor: Martin Paré

Jed Singer
Brown University, Brain Science Program
Advisor: David Sheinberg

Kasey Soska
New York University, Department of Psychology
Advisors: Scott P. Johnson, Karen E. Adolph

Nicole Spotswood
University of California Davis, Center for Mind and Brain in the Department of Psychology, Vision and Action Lab
Advisor: David Whitney

Chris Striemer
University of Waterloo, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department
of Psychology
Advisor: James Danckert

Timothy Vickery
Harvard University, Department of Psychology
Advisor: Yuhong Jiang

Edward Vul
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kanwisher Lab Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science
Advisor: Nancy Kanwisher