President’s Pick Paper Award

PPP Award

To honor students and trainees who are publishing impactful work in our journal, Psychophysiology, SPR has created the Presidents’ Pick Psychophysiology Paper Award. Each year, the President-Elect, President, and Past President of SPR select one paper from the list of most-cited papers published by trainee first authors in the two years preceding the year of the award. To be eligible for the award, first authors were, at the time of submission, either (1) a graduate or undergraduate student or (2) in a postdoctoral training position. Awards are announced at the annual meeting during the business lunch.

Year Paper
2026 Carrasco, C. D., Bahle, B., Simmons, A. M., & Luck, S. J. (2024). Using multivariate pattern analysis to increase effect sizes for event-related potential analyses. Psychophysiology, 61, e14570. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14570
2025 McLaughlin, D. J.,  Zink, M. E.,  Gaunt, L.,  Reilly, J.,  Sommers, M. S.,  Van Engen, K. J., &  Peelle, J. E. (2023).  Give me a break! Unavoidable fatigue effects in cognitive pupillometry. Psychophysiology,  60, e14256. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14256
2024 Ventura‐Bort, C., Wendt, J., & Weymar, M. (2022). New insights on the correspondence between subjective affective experience and physiological responses from representational similarity analysis. Psychophysiology, 59(11), e14088. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14088
2023 Battaglia, S., Orsolini, S., Borgomaneri, S., Barbieri, R., Diciotti, S., & di Pellegrino, G. (2022). Characterizing cardiac autonomic dynamics of fear learning in humans. Psychophysiology, 59, e14122. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14122
2022 Hietanen JO, Peltola MJ, Hietanen JK. Psychophysiological responses to eye contact in a live interaction and in video call. Psychophysiology. 2020; 57:e13587. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13587
2021 Leuchs L, Schneider M, Spoormaker VI. Measuring the conditioned response: A comparison of pupillometry, skin conductance, and startle electromyography. Psychophysiology. 2019; 56:e13283. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13283
2020 Reznik SJ, Allen JJB. Frontal asymmetry as a mediator and moderator of emotion: An updated review. Psychophysiology. 2018; 55: e12965. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12965
2019 Ethridge P, Kujawa A, Dirks MA, et al. Neural responses to social and monetary reward in early adolescence and emerging adulthood. Psychophysiology. 2017; 54: 1786–1799. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12957
2018 klein Selle, N., Verschuere, B., Kindt, M., Meijer, E. and Ben-Shakhar, G. (2016), Orienting versus inhibition in the Concealed Information Test: Different cognitive processes drive different physiological measures. Psychophysiol, 53: 579-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12583