D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award

The D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award is given each year to recognize the best paper published in Behavioral Neuroscience^®. Each author receives a plaque at the Business Meeting of Division 6, held at the APA Annual Convention.

This award is selected by the editor and consulting editors of Behavioral Neuroscience.

Donald G. Marquis (1908-73) studied at Washington State Teachers College and Stanford University, where he received his undergraduate degree. He began his graduate work there and stayed at Stanford for two years as a fellow and an assistant in neuroanatomy. He moved to Yale University and completed his PhD in 1932, after which he was appointed National Research Council fellow in neurophysiology. After Ernest Hilgard left Yale, Marquis succeeded him first as an instructor, and later as chairman of the psychology department. He eventually moved to the University of Michigan where he served as chairman of the psychology department. His final position was in industrial management at MIT. Marquis was president of the American Psychological Association in 1947, chairman of the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology and influential in the creation of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He was co-author with Ernest Hilgard of the extremely important book, Conditioning and Learning (1940), subsequently revised as Hilgard and Marquis' Conditioning and Learning (1961).

2025

Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel, P., Gaetani, K., Zeng, L., Weidemann, G., & McNally, G. P. (2024). Translational research in punishment learning. Behavioral neuroscience, 138(3), 143–151. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000587opens in new window

2024

Craig Taswell (National Institutes of Health) for: Taswell, C. A., Janssen, M., Murray, E. A., & Averbeck, B. B. (2023). The motivational role of the ventral striatum and amygdala in learning from gains and losses. Behavioral Neuroscience, 137(4), 268–280. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000558opens in new window

Callum Thomas (University of Vermont) for: Thomas, C. M. P., Bouton, M. E., & Green, J. T. (2023). Prelimbic cortex inactivation prevents ABA renewal based on stress state. Behavioral Neuroscience, 137(6), 373–379. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000570opens in new window

2023

Swanson, K., Averbeck, B. B., & Laubach, M. (2022). Noradrenergic regulation of two-armed bandit performance. Behavioral Neuroscience, 136(1), 84–99.

2022

Peng C.Y, Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, P., Gilchrist, S., Power, J.M., & McNally, G.P. (2021). Phasic inhibition of dopamine neurons is an instrumental punisher. Behavioral Neuroscience, 135(3), 415-425.

2021

Seib, D. R., Espinueva, D. F., Floresco, S. B., & Snyder, J. S. (2020). A role for neurogenesis in probabilistic reward learning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 134(4), 283-295.

2020

Smith, A. E., Cheek, O. A., Sweet, E. L. C., Dudchenko, P. A., & Wood, E. R. (2019). Lesions of the head direction cell system impair direction discrimination. Behavioral Neuroscience, 133(6), 602-613.

2019

Fernandez-Rey, J., Gonzalez-Gonzalez, D., & Redondo, J. (2018). "Preventing the return of fear memories with postretrieval extinction: A human study using a burst of white noise as an aversive stimulus." Behavioral Neuroscience, 132(4), 230-239. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000245opens in new window

2018

Seip-Cammack, Katharine M.; Young, James J.; Young, Megan E.; Shapiro, Matthew L. (2017). "Partial lesion of the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway in rats impairs egocentric learning but not spatial learning or behavioral flexibility." Behavioral Neuroscience, 131, 135-142.

2017

Assareh, N.; Sarrami, M.; Carrive, P. & McNally, G.P. (2016). "The organization of defensive behavior elicited by optogenetic excitation of rat lateral or ventrolateral periaqueductal gray." Behavioral Neuroscience, 130, 406-414.

2015

Vincent D. Costa

2014

Cynthia Woo

2013

Stella Li

2012

M. S. Matell

2011

Sara N. Burke

2010

Heather C. Bell

2009

none

2008

none

2007

M. J. Frank, R. C. O'Reilly

2006

Gilmartin, M. R., McEchron, M. D.

2005

D. Figlewicz et al.

2004

M. Ling, A. S. Fleming

2003

none

2002

T. Canli et al.

2001

E. DeRosa, M. Hasselmo

2000

Patricia E. Sharp

1999

J. Tracy, J. K. Thompson, D. Krupa, R. F. Thompson

1998

P. Dudchenko and J. Taube

1997

R. Dias, T. W. Robbins, A. C. Roberts