The Allen Newell Award – named in recognition of one of the founders of the field of cognitive modeling – is given for the best full paper with a student as first author. The winner was selected by an international jury, who judged five papers that received outstanding reviews.

• The winner is:
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    Stability of Individual Parameters in a Model of Optimal Fact Learning

  • Florian Sense, Friederike Behrens, Rob R. Meijer, & Hedderik van Rijn

• Honorable Mention goes to the following four papers:
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    The Role of Simple and Complex Working Memory Strategies in the Development of First-order False Belief Reasoning: A Computational Model of Transfer of Skills

  • Burcu Arslan, Stefan Wierda, Niels Taatgen, & Rineke Verbrugge
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    Predicting Surprise Judgments from Explanation Graphs

  • Meadhbh Foster & Mark Keane
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    Reconciling two computational models of working memory in aging

  • Violette Hoareau, Benoit Lemaire, Sophie Portrat, & Gaen Plancher
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    A Connectionist Semantic Network Modeling the Influence of Category Member Distance on Induction Strength

  • Michael Vinos, Efthymios Tsilionis, & Athanassios Protopapas