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Cohen with the 2024 Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award</span><span style='font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#265357'><o:p></o:p></span></h1></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#CED8EE'><tr><td width="65%" valign=top style='width:65.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><p><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>Congratulations</span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'> to Michael A. Cohen, this year's recipient of the Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award, for his fundamental contributions to the scientific study of perceptual awareness. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0C0C0C'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0C0C0C'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>For more information about Dr. Cohen, please visit </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0C0C0C'><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001wu-lzz9L40dZTkzfjW4iVKmoqD8LZAIb0zaicL6bC0PUvkYHftoLJFZv-Iyv2bcQC6hwMnV4ugGb8HHYBBZr5s1gx-ESZkcwyKC6trqPPVYWu3wb65s0_YG9kKiv1_e6oVJJvamE7xZhVi4HFR0NxVDDgGJdQmy0e3tqFLa7vrA=&c=Pa7iD5DD03zghNANriEPZAJq49f_DdBNCxRNW-9kztokSxA56T0A0g==&ch=rTF_ks31dlqc3ou6KO76cPb5mvBmUzAWc-qHKYGNltCXriAk5PB4JQ==" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#395485;text-decoration:none'>2024 Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0C0C0C'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#555555'></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0C0C0C'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>Dr. Cohen will be presented with his award and deliver his talk, "The cognitive and neural limitations of perceptual awareness" at the 2024 </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0C0C0C'><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001wu-lzz9L40dZTkzfjW4iVKmoqD8LZAIb0zaicL6bC0PUvkYHftoLJFZv-Iyv2bcQb8VnbCz8ex9V8qGg2gSduR92x1C1Vyc0-95xLSE59qTO-tF5u1QRf76ya8X95nWlHk38ISZ2y6mnB7lzR-bLVp5GSjwbszzN-7cF78o8ErPofrcGBuYZ0w==&c=Pa7iD5DD03zghNANriEPZAJq49f_DdBNCxRNW-9kztokSxA56T0A0g==&ch=rTF_ks31dlqc3ou6KO76cPb5mvBmUzAWc-qHKYGNltCXriAk5PB4JQ==" 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