Rumelhart Prize (cognitive science)

Jewish recipients of the Rumelhart Prize (cognitive science) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 46% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

46%of all recipients are Jewish

12 documented recipients

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Richard Shiffrin1942

Cognitive psychologist known for the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology

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Paul Smolensky1955

Cognitive scientist, co-founder of Optimality Theory and connectionist linguistics.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics

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Jeffrey Elman1948

Cognitive scientist who pioneered connectionist recurrent-network models of language.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics

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Shimon Ullman2008

Israeli pioneer of computational vision (Weizmann Institute); Rumelhart Prize (2008)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Rumelhart Prize

JP

Judea Pearl2011

Artificial Intelligence and Bayesian Networks

Source: Turing Award 2011

PD

Peter Dayan2012

Theoretical neuroscientist of dopamine reward learning; Rumelhart Prize (2012)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Rumelhart Prize

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Ray Jackendoff1945

Linguist known for conceptual semantics within generative grammar.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics

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Lila Gleitman1929

Psycholinguist known for research on how children acquire word meaning.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics

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Michael Tanenhaus

Psychologist (psycholinguistics)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology

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Susan Goldin-Meadow1949

Psychologist known for research on gesture and its role in language development.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics

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Alison Gopnik1955

Developmental psychologist known for research on children's learning and cognition

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology

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Nora Newcombe1951

Developmental psychologist known for research on spatial cognition

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology