March 22, 2023 - SAN FRANCISCO - The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), in partnership with the Chen Institute, is honoring two early-career cognitive neuroscientists at its annual meeting in San Francisco with the Young Investigator Award: Anna Schapiro, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Freek van Ede, PhD, of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Their awards are made possible this year through the support of the nonprofit Chen Institute.
“Thanks to the Chen Institute, we are able to support the important work of young cognitive neuroscientists and to share their work with the broader scientific community,” says Ron Mangun, PhD, director of the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, who is a member of the CNS Governing Board. “Dr. Schapiro and Dr. van Ede join an esteemed group of cognitive neuroscientists who have received the Young Investigator Award over the 20-year history of the prize.”
The sponsor for this year’s award, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, works to help advance brain research around the world. “We at the Chen Institute are proud to partner with CNS to support the next generation of neuroscience researchers,” says Yan Li, PhD, senior program manager at the Chen Institute.
The Young Investigator Award winners, Schapiro and van Ede, will deliver their award lectures on Monday, March 26, 2023, on how human learning transforms over time and how working memory helps prepare people for the future , respectively, at the CNS meeting. This year’s annual conference marks the 30th for the Society.
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The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute was created in 2016 by Tianqiao Chen and his wife Chrissy Luo, the founders of Shanda Group, with a US $1 billion commitment. The organization’s vision is to improve the human experience by understanding how our brains perceive, learn, and interact with the world.
CNS is committed to the development of mind and brain research aimed at investigating the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of cognition. Since its founding in 1994, the Society has been dedicated to bringing its 2,000 members worldwide the latest research to facilitate public, professional, and scientific discourse.