Professor Paul Siegel Awarded Sloan-Menninger-Shevrin Prize for Brain-Behavior Research
Professor of Psychology Paul Siegel has been awarded the prestigious Sloan-Menninger-Shevrin Prize for outstanding contributions to psychodynamic research from the International Society of Neuropsychoanalysis.
The Sloan-Menninger-Shevrin Prize honors researchers who establish connections between psychodynamic concepts, such as unconscious motivation, and neuroscientific findings, like patterns of brain activity.
Professor Siegel was awarded the prize for using his “very brief exposure” (VBE) paradigm to demonstrate brain-behavior relationships that suggest psychodynamic conflict.
VBE was developed in Dr. Siegel’s psychology lab at Purchase and was supported by numerous senior project students and Purchase psychology graduates over the last 19 years.
The prize was created in honor of Alfred Sloan, William Clare Menninger, Karl Augustus Menninger, and Howard Shevrin, recognizing their significant contributions to the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis. Recent recipients of the Prize include influential neuroscientists Mark Solms and Cristina Alberini.