With this new award, the Institute honors outstanding research work that has been carried out in close collaboration between different working groups. The aim of the award is to make interdisciplinary cooperation visible and to strengthen future joint third-party funded projects.
"With the IKW Connect Award, we want to strengthen cooperation within the institute. We want to make it even more visible to our students and the public how interdisciplinary work in cognitive science leads to fruitful results," says Dr. Tobias Thelen from the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University.
The award-winning projects impressively demonstrate how scientific innovation can arise from interdisciplinary collaboration.
An independent jury, consisting of Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner (University of Giessen), Prof. Dr. Albert Newen (Ruhr University Bochum) and Prof. Dr. Claus Christian Hilgetag (University of Hamburg), evaluated the submitted publications, particularly with regard to the strength of the collaboration and the potential for using the work in future research proposals.
The following papers were honored:
1st place (€3,333)
Sven Walter (Philosophy of Mind) and Peter König (Neurobiopsychology):
An investigation of the approach-avoidance bias
2nd place (€2,333)
Moritz Hartstang, Nicole Gotzner (both Psycho- and Neurolinguistics) and Sebastian Musslick (Computational Neuroscience):
Predicting Comprehensibility in Scientific Text Based on Word Facilitation
3rd place (€ 1,333)
Tim Kietzmann (Machine Learning) and Peter König (Neurobiopsychology):
No Evidence of Information Carry-Over between Fixations
The prize money donated by IKW is intended to enable the award-winning working groups to further advance joint projects or launch new research initiatives.
The Institute aims to establish the IKW Connect Award as a permanent tradition in order to strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation in the long term.
Further information for editorial offices:
Julia Reuter, Osnabrück University
Institute of Cognitive Science
E-mail: julreuter@uni-osnabrueck.de
