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Troland Research Awards
Offered by National Academy of Sciences
Two Troland Research Awards of $75,000 are given annually to recognize unusual achievement by early-career researchers (preferably 45 years of age or younger) and to further empirical research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology. The Troland Research Award was established by a trust created in 1931 by the bequest of Leonard T. Troland.
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Award Amount $75 000
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Host Country United States
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Comments Two Troland Research Awards of $75,000 are given annually to two investigators to recognize unusual achievement and to further empirical research within the broad spectrum of experimental psycholog; including: empirical psychology research on the relationships of consciousness and the physical world, including the topics of sensation, perception, motivation, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, language, and action. Preference to experimental work taking a quantitative or other formal approach, including mathematics and explicit algorithms (e.g., computer modeling) or symbolic logics of various types, and/or to experimental research seeking physiological explanations. Eligibility: aged 40 or younger to further. Lisa Feigenson, professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University received a 2015 Troland Research Awards.
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National Academy of Sciences United States
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