Adam Aron (www.aronlab.org), Associate Professor in the Psychology Deparment, has won the 2012 Young Investigator Award of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Dr Aron will be honored at the Society's annual meeting in March, this year in Chicago. The award is given “to recognize the outstanding contributions by scientists early in their careers.”
Dr Aron's overarching concern is to better understand how people control themselves, especially how they stop, or prepare to stop, inappropriate response tendencies. To understand the brain architecture underlying such cognitive control, he performs studies with electrophysiology, magnetic resonance imaging, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and patient groups. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIDA), the National Science Foundation, NARSAD, CHDI, the UCSD Academic Senate and the Alfred P Sloan foundation.