Teresa Bajo Receives Prestigious Award From Psychonomic Society

APS Board Member Teresa Bajo has been honored with the Psychonomic Society’s Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award, which recognizes individuals for their significant contributions to the field of cognitive psychology.

Bajo is a professor in the University of Granada’s Department of Experimental Psychology, where she directs the Memory and Language Laboratory in the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior. She co-founded the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology and the European chapter of Women for Cognitive Science. She began her 3-year term on the APS Board in 2023.  

Also receiving this year’s Clifford T. Morgan award is Helene Intraub, a spatial cognition scientist at the University of Delaware.  

The award, launched in 2019, is named after the late experimental psychologist Clifford Thomas Morgan, who co-founded the Psychonomic Society in 1959 and served as its first chairman. It recognizes scientists who have been in the field for at least 10 years, have demonstrated a commitment to scientific and methodological rigor in the experimental study of cognition, and have shown dedication to developing and advancing the Psychonomic Society’s mission of advancing and communicating basic research in experimental psychology and allied sciences.  

Past recipients of the award include APS Immediate Past President Randi C. Martin (Rice University); APS Past Presidents Morton Ann Gernsbacher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Henry L. Roediger, III (Washington University in St. Louis), and Suparna Rajaram, (Stony Brook University, The State University of New York); and APS William James Fellow Nora S. Newcombe.

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