January 20, 2005

Medin honored for psychology research

Douglas Medin, professor of psychology, has been named a 2005 winner of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award by the American Psychological Association. The award honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic psychology research.

An American Psychological Association Fellow, Medin is director of the University’s Program in Cognitive Studies of the Environment and Program in Culture, Language and Cognition. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and is one of only three Northwestern faculty members ever to receive the prestigious Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Medin has made outstanding empirical and theoretical contributions to several research areas. These range from work on perceptual processes, learning and memory in nonhuman primates to the study of learning, memory and categorization processes in humans.