Biography
He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was awarded two American Psychological Association Young Investigator awards in 1995 for articles appearing in Journal of Experimental Psychology, the 1996 Chase Memorial Award for Outstanding Young Researcher in Cognitive Science, a 1997 James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, the 2000 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Cognition and Human Learning, and a 2004 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences. He was the editor of Cognitive Science from 2001-2005, and associate editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review from 1998-2000. He was elected as a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2004. In 2006 he became the director of the Indiana University Cognitive Science Program.
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