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. Videos of most Master Lectures are provided on the CCS YouTube Channel
2025 — Suzanne MacDonald (York University)
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)
CCS also supports an annual Early Career Award and a plethora of Student Awards.
