SCS Faculty: National Academy of Sciences Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
– The Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences (formerly the NAS Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences) is presented to honor significant advances in the psychological and cognitive sciences with important implications for formal and systematic theory in these fields. Two prizes are presented biennially. The prize was established by Richard C. Atkinson in 2013.

• John R. Anderson, 2016
  – For foundational contributions to systematic theory and optimality analysis in cognitive and psychological science and for developing effective, theory-based cognitive tutors for education.