1996 - National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (Social, Behavioral, and Economics Sciences Directorate).

"For outstanding contributions to understanding the cognitive neuroscience of human learning by evaluating computational models of neural networks that relate brain mechanisms to emergent behaviors and integrating behavioral and psychobiological approaches to animal and human learning."

1996 - American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology  (in Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning  and Behavior).

"For his many contributions at the interface between computational modeling, associative learning, and behavioral neuroscience. His original and broadly conceived research on historically important processes and issues in learning and memory has demonstrated quantitative sophistication and an ability to appreciate the value of several levels of analysis. In the process, he has shown how connectionist modeling can benefit from being constrained by both behavioral and physiological data. Already, his work is having a major impact in the exciting new area that is emerging at the intersection of the cognitive and neurosciences."

1992 - Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (Cognitive and Neural   Sciences Division).