Michael Dixon, University of Waterloo

Latest funding

Exploring the Motivational and Emotional Aspects of Gambling
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$385,500
Reward processing, motivation and emotional responding during slot machine play
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$165,000
An ERP laboratory for collaborative cognitive neuroscience research
NSERC · 2008 · Co-investigator
$90,500

All 6 grants and awards

Exploring the Motivational and Emotional Aspects of Gambling

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dixon, Michael

$385,500

Reward processing, motivation and emotional responding during slot machine play

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dixon, Michael

$165,000

An ERP laboratory for collaborative cognitive neuroscience research

Co-investigatorNSERC2008Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Fugelsang, Jonathan

$90,500

The influence of meaning on attention and memory

Principal investigatorNSERC2006Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dixon, Michael

$150,000

The influence of meaning on perception and memory

Principal investigatorNSERC2002Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dixon, Michael

$124,000

Semantic and visual determinants of object confusions in memory

Principal investigatorNSERC1998Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dixon, Michael

$91,300

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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