Miguel Eckstein is the winner of a National Academy of Sciences Troland Award for 2008. This award is given to young investigators (age 40 or younger) to recognize unusual achievement and further empirical research in psychology regarding the relationships of consciousness and the physical world. Preference is given to experimental work taking a quantitative or other formal approach, and/or to experimental research seeking physiological explanations.

Miguel’s award was granted for sophisticated theoretical analysis and modeling that address fundamental issues in perception and cognition and their application to the practical problems of medical imaging.