Don Dedrick, University of Guelph

Research

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Latest funding

Understanding colour naming research and its multidisciplinary context
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$59,759
Conference in Honour of Zenon Pylyshyn
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
$16,713

All 2 grants and awards

No publications available.

Understanding colour naming research and its multidisciplinary context

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Dedrick, Donald P.

Keywords: colour naming; colour perception; cross-cultural; basic colour terms; cultural relativism; nativism; infant hue perception

$59,759

Conference in Honour of Zenon Pylyshyn

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Dedrick, Donald P.

Keywords: cognition; computation; artificial intelligence; cognitive science; nativism; mind; mental representation; Pylyshyn; philosophy of mind; neuroscience

$16,713

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.

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