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CCS Research Award

The CCS Research Award honors scientists who have made major contributions to our understanding of animal cognition during their career. Recipients of the award give a Master Lecture at the Conference on Comparative Cognition and are honored at the conference banquet. A special issue of Learning & Behavior is published the following year, in honor of the contributions of the honoree. You can browse past special issues here. Videos of most Master Lectures are posted on the CCS YouTube Channel.

CCS also supports an annual Early Career Award and a range of Student Awards.

Honorees

Research award
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 CCS Research Award recipient is Dr. Suzanne MacDonald (York University). The 2026 Research Award recipient will be Dr. Robert G. Cook (Tufts University). A list of past Research Award recipients is below.
Past Honorees

2024 — Nicky Clayton (University of Cambridge)

2023 — Ken Cheng (Macquarie University)

2022 — Sarah Boysen (Comparative Cognition Project & Purdue University)

2021 — David Sherry (Western University)

2020 — Irene Pepperberg (Harvard University)

2019 — Stephen E. G. Lea (University of Exeter)

2018 — Marcia Spetch (University of Alberta)

2017 — Ralph R. Miller (Binghamton University - SUNY)

2016 — Karen Hollis (Mount Holyoke University)

2015 — Edward Wasserman (University of Iowa)

2014 — Thomas Zentall (University of Kentucky)

2013 — Alan C. Kamil (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

2012 — Anthony Wright (University of Texas Medical School at Houston)

2011 — Alex Kacelnik (University of Oxford)

2010 — Donald A. Riley (University of California, Berkeley)

2009 — Herbert Terrace (Columbia University)

2008 — Sara Shettleworth (University of Toronto)

2007 — Ron Weisman (Queen's University)

2006 — Russell Church (Brown University)

2005 — William Roberts (University of Western Ontario)

2004 — Donald Blough (Brown University)

2002 — Stewart Hulse (Johns Hopkins University)