William K. and Katherine W. Estes Fund
2024 Estes Fund Call for Proposals
ABOUT THE FUND
The William K. & Katherine W. Estes Fund was established to extend the legacy of one of the most influential psychological scientists of the past century. Bill Estes was an intellectual force of nature whose pioneering work had a profound influence in psychological science and earned him the nation’s highest scientific honors, including the National Medal of Science.
Jointly overseen by the Association for Psychological Science and the Psychonomic Society, the Estes Fund supports a variety of activities aimed at strengthening methodology in mathematical, quantitative and experimental psychology and related areas. Bill Estes was a major contributor to both organizations: He served on the founding committee that established the Psychonomic Society and later chaired its Governing Board, and was a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science. Bill served as the founding editor of the APS journal Psychological Science, with Kay serving as managing editor.
See APS, Psychonomic Society Join Forces on Estes Fund for more on the initiation of the Estes Fund.
MISSION
The mission of the Estes fund is to support the advancement of mathematical psychology, construed broadly, including psychological statistics, experimental methodology, and formal approaches to psychological research.
Programs Supported by the Estes Fund
2023 FUNDED PROJECTS
- Computational Cognitive Models of Learning and Development
Organizers: Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer Ullman, and Kimele Persaud - Applications of Machine Learning for Measuring and Modeling Psychological Concepts via Different Methods of Communication
Organizers: Adam Natoli and ABM Rezbaul Islam - Computational Summer School on Modeling Social and Collective Behavior (COSMOS) Konstanz 2023
Organizers: Charley Wu and Wataru Toyokawa
2022 FUNDED PROJECTS
- Mental Effort: One Construction, Many Faces?
Organizers: Sebastian Musslick, Maria Wirzberger, and Ivan Grahek - Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) Konstanz 2022
Organizers: Wataru Toyokawa and Charley M. Wu - Bayesian Longitudinal Data Modeling
Organizers: Cynthia Tong and Han Du - PVEST as Meta Theory; The use of Bayesian Analysis to inform Educational Research
Organizers: Cheryl Talley and Avis Jackson
2021 FUNDED PROJECTS
- Mental Effort: One Construction, Many Faces?
Organizers: Sebastian Musslick, Maria Wirzberger, and Ivan Grahek
September 9-10, 2021
Held Virtually - Nonlinear Dynamics in Life Sciences: Applications in Psychology and Neuroscience
Organizers: Caroline Palmer and Anmar Khadra
May 31-June 11, 2021
Montreal, Canada - Introduction to Causal Discovery Analysis for Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry
Organizers: Eric Rawls, Erich Kummerfeld, and Sisi Ma
Held Virtually
July 5-9, 2021
2020 FUNDED PROJECTS:
- Summer Workshop on Model-Based Cognitive Electrophysiology
Organizer: Michael Kahana - Cognitive Modeling for Language at UCI
Organizer: Lisa Pearl
2019 FUNDED PROJECTS:
- Barcelona Summer School on Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Organizers:
Alex Hyafil, Christopher Summerfield, Klaus Wimmer
September 4-10, 2019
Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain
More Information - Methods for Analyzing Sound and Modeling Auditory Plasticity (MASMAP)
Organizers:
Eduardo Mercado, Micheal Dent, and Cynthia Henderson
June 5-7, 2019
University at Buffalo, USA - Multinomial-Processing-Tree (MPT) Modeling: Basic Methods and Recent Advances
Organizers:
Edgar Erdfelder, Daniel W. Heck, and Franziska Meissner
March 19-20, 2022
Cologne, Germany
2018 FUNDED PROJECTS:
- Summer School on Nonlinear Dynamics in Life Sciences
Organizers:
Caroline Palmer, Anmar Khadra
June 18-29, 2018,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
More Information - Deep, Fast and Shallow Learning in Humans and Machines
Organizers:
Franco Pestilli, Robert Goldstone, Linda Smith
May 14-15, 2018,
University of Indiana Bloomington, USA
2017 FUNDED PROJECTS:
- Computational tools for developing and testing models of quantum cognition
Organizers:
Jerome Busemeyer, Tim Pleskac, Emmanuel Pothos, Jennifer Trueblood, Zheng Wang
July 20-21, 2017,
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK - Model-based cognitive neuroscience summer school
Organizers:
Birte Forstmann, Dora Matzke, Uta Noppeney, Andrew Heathcote, Brandon Turner, Gilles de Hollander, Guy Hawkins
July 31 – August 4, 2017,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Data on the Mind: Collecting, Analyzing, and Sharing Research Using Big Data and Naturally Occurring Datasets
Organizers:
Thomas Griffiths, Alexandra Paxton, Michael C. Frank, Todd Gureckis
Summer 2017,
Berkeley, CA, USA
2016 FUNDED PROJECTS:
- Neuroscience and Cognition
Lead organizer:
Andrew Heathcote, University of Tasmania and Newcastle, Australia
Five-day workshop
November 7-11, 2016,
Boston, MA, USA - Computational and Mathematical Modelling of Cognition
Lead organizer:
Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol, United Kingdom and University of Western Australia
Twelve-day summer school
July 12-24, 2016,
Bolzano, Italy - Contemporary Neural Network Models: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognition
Lead organizer:
James L. McClelland, Stanford University
Two-day workshop
August 8-9, 2016,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Lecture Series
Translating Clark Hull’s Learning Theory Into Estes’ Statistical Theory: A 60-Year Retrospective2015: Daphne Bavelier, University of Rochester and Université de Genève, Switzerland and Jeffrey Lin, Riot Games
This Is Your Mind on Technology2014: Janet Metcalfe, Columbia University, Richard C. Atkinson, University of California, San Diego, Henry L. Roediger, III, Washington University in St. Louis, Robert A. Bjork, University of California, Los Angeles, Daniel L. Schacter, Harvard University
From Principles of Cognitive Science to MOOCs
