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Michael Dawson

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ProfessorDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Alberta

Michael Dawson

Professor

Department of Psychology

Faculty of Arts

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Principal investigator on 9 research grants (7 NSERC, 2 SSHRC), most recently in 2009.

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Latest funding

Interpreting symbolic and subsymbolic regularities in artificial neural networks that classify musical stimuli
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$81,312
Artificial neural networks, contingency, and associative learning
NSERC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$123,725
Interpreting the inernal structure of PDP networks
NSERC · 2002 · Principal investigator
$170,000

All 9 grants and awards

Interpreting symbolic and subsymbolic regularities in artificial neural networks that classify musical stimuli

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Dawson, Michael R.W.

Keywords: artificial neural networks; representation; music; cognitive science

$81,312

Artificial neural networks, contingency, and associative learning

Principal investigatorNSERC2007Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dawson, Michael

$123,725

Interpreting the inernal structure of PDP networks

Principal investigatorNSERC2002Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dawson, Michael

$170,000

Relating symbolic and subsymbolic theories of mind

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Dawson, Michael R.W.

Keywords: symbolic representations; subsymbolic representations; neural networks; cognitive science

$105,000

Using banded density plots to interpret the inernal structure of PDP networks

Principal investigatorNSERC1998Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dawson, Michael

$118,690

Investigating the psychological relevance of value unit networks

Principal investigatorNSERC1994Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dawson, Michael

$104,000

Artificial neural network laboratory

Principal investigatorNSERC1993Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Dawson, Michael

$15,980

Spatiotemporal processing in artificial neural networks

Principal investigatorNSERC1993Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dawson, Michael

$26,500

Motion correspondence and tag-assignment

Principal investigatorNSERC1990Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dawson, Michael

$65,640

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Profile data last refreshed on September 29, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and public research funding records.

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