ST&D Student Awards and Past Winners

 

The Outstanding Student Paper Award

The Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA) recognizes quality in work that is predominantly that of a graduate student. 

1997 Andreas Schraam 
Aspect and causal inferences: Towards the linguistic component in a process model of inference generation in text comprehension
1998 Ken Samuel
Discourse learning: Dialogue act tagging with transformation-based learning
1999 Michelle L. Gregory
Effects of informativeness on durational shortening in conversation
2000 Rob Stanfield 
The effect of verbal context on picture recognition: Initial support for perceptual symbol theory
2000 Johanna Kaakinen
Perspective effects on fixation times and memory for text
2001 Tobias Richter
Epistomological evaluations in comprehension of expository text
2002 Heather Hite Mitchell
The effects of context on the appreciation and comprehension of jokes
2003 Carol Madden
All words require lexical disambiguation
2004 David Havas
An embodiment basis for emotional language comprehension
2005 Johann Ari Larusson
Using discourse to measure the representational work of pilots during an approach briefing
2006 Fabrice Cauchard
Do visual signals extend the vertical visual span in processing of expository text? A gaze-contingent moving window study
2007
Not Awarded

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