The best paper reward from the Cognitive Science Society has been attributed to Erik Schmidt for his paper: "Relating Perceptual and Feature Space Invariances in Music Emotion Recognition" (Erik Schmidt, Matthew Prockup, Jeffrey Scott, Brian Dolhansky, Brandon Morton and Youngmoo Kim).
The best paper reward from I Like Music on Music and Emotions has been attributed to Matt McVicar for his paper "CCA and Multi-way Extension for Investigating Common Components Between Audio, Lyrics and Tags" (Matt McVicar and Tijl De Bie).
Congratulations to Erik Schmidt and Matt McVicar.