ST&D Student Awards and Past Winners

The Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award

The Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award (JAOYSA) honors the memory of Jason Albrecht, a promising young text and discourse researcher who passed away.  The award recognizes an outstanding paper based on a doctoral dissertation.

1997 Marie-Pilar Quintana
Causal strength criteria and network mental representation of narrative texts
1998 Herb Colston
An evaluation of conceptual metaphor via extra-linguistic paradigms: Evidence from category accessibility and reading inferences
1999 David Roberston
Functional neuroanatomy of narrative comprehension with and without words
2000 Steve Frisson
Processing figurative language in the underspecification model
2001 Max Louwerse
Cohesion in the coherence process: Evidence for specification hypothesis
2002 David Rapp
Readers' reality- and plot-based expectations in narrative comprehension
2003 Sabine Gueraud
Mechanisms of reactivation and integration in the resonance model: Some new evidence
2004 Amelie Teisserenc
Situation models construction and integration: A working memory capacity study
2005
not awarded
2006 Heather H. Mitchell
The timecourse of comprehending jokes
2007 Heather Ferguson
Counterfactual context effects: From eye-movements to Neuroscience
2008 Patrick Jeuniaux
The impact of feedback and context difficulty on language acquisition
2009 Michelle Levine
Copresence in collaborative music-making
2010 Jennifer J. Stiegler
Comprehension of protagonists' goals and intentions: The dynamic relation between reading skill and text characterisitcs