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Jul 21, 2023
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University of California-Irvine and Embic Corporation Team Win Outstanding Paper Award

The team of Michael D. Lee, Jason R. Bock, Isaiah Cushman, and William R. Shankle win the 2023 R. Duncan Luce Outstanding Paper Award.

MATHPSYCH.ORG — The team of Dr. Michael Lee (University of California, Irvine), Mr. Jason R. Bock (Embic Corporation and University of California, Irvine), Mr. Isaiah Cushman (University of California, Irvine), and Dr. William R. Shankle (Embic Corporation and University of California, Irvine) was presented with the prestigious R. Duncan Luce Outstanding Paper Award (2023) on July 20, 2023, for the most outstanding paper published in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology. Their paper An application of multinomial processing tree models and Bayesian methods to understanding memory impairment won the hotly contested prize over all other papers published in the journal in the preceding three years. The R. Duncan Luce Outstanding Paper Award is sponsored by Elsevier, Inc.

Dr. Michael Lee

Lee, M. D., Bock, J. R., Cushman, I., & Shankle, W. R. (2020). An application of multinomial processing tree models and Bayesian methods to understanding memory impairment. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 95, 102328.

Dr. Lee is Professor of Cognitive Sciences in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Bock is Director of Informatics at Embic Corporation (formerly Medical Care Corporation) and Research Associate at the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Isaiah Cushman is a student researcher at University of California, Irvine. Dr. Shankle is Chief Medical Officer at Embic Corporation and Research Fellow at the University of California, Irvine.

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