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Temporal Frequency and Velocity-Like Tuning in the Pigeon Accessory Optic System by Crowder, Nathan A, Dawson, Michael R.W, Wylie, Douglas R.W

“…1 Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada 2 Division of Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G…”
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Probability Learning by Perceptrons and People by Dawson, Michael R. W.

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How Do Artificial Neural Networks Classify Musical Triads? A Case Study in Eluding Bonini's Paradox by Perez, Arturo, Ma, Helen L., Zawaduk, Stephanie, Dawson, Michael R. W.

“…How might artificial neural networks (ANNs) inform cognitive science? Often cognitive scientists use ANNs but do not examine their internal structures. In this…”
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Artificial Neural Networks Solve Musical Problems With Fourier Phase Spaces by Dawson, Michael R. W., Perez, Arturo, Sylvestre, Sara

“…How does the brain represent musical properties? Even with our growing understanding of the cognitive neuroscience of music, the answer to this question…”
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A parallel distributed processing model of Wason’s selection task by Leighton, Jacqueline P, Dawson, Michael R.W

“…Architectural accounts of cognitive performance are important to explore because they provide the infrastructure for algorithmic theories of cognition [Dawson,…”
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Embodying cognitive ethology by Ma, Helen L., Dawson, Michael R. W., Prinsen, Ruby S., Hayward, Dana A.

“…Cognitive psychology considers the environment as providing information, not affecting fundamental information processes. Thus, cognitive psychology’s…”
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Probability matching in perceptrons: Effects of conditional dependence and linear nonseparability by Dawson, Michael R W, Gupta, Maya

“…Probability matching occurs when the behavior of an agent matches the likelihood of occurrence of events in the agent's environment. For instance, when…”
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The effect of adapting luminance on the latency of visual search by Dawson, Michael R.W, Thibodeau, Mike H

“…Computational models of attentional processing typically view the “attentional spotlight” as a winner-take-all network whose focus can be shifted serially…”
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Theoretical Psychology at the University of Alberta as Social Science During the Cold War by Dawson, Michael R. W, Baerveldt, Cor, Shillabeer, Evan, Richard, Vickie

“…We examine the University of Alberta's Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology (1965-1990) in the context of social science conducted during the…”
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Get out of the corner: Inhibition and the effect of location type and number on perceptron and human reorientation by Dupuis, Brian, Dawson, Michael R. W.

“…Spatial learning and navigation have frequently been investigated using a reorientation task paradigm (Cheng, Cognition, 23(2), 149-78, 1986 ). However,…”
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Equilibria of Perceptrons for Simple Contingency Problems by Dawson, M. R. W., Dupuis, B.

“…The contingency between cues and outcomes is fundamentally important to theories of causal reasoning and to theories of associative learning. Researchers have…”
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Using perceptrons to explore the reorientation task by Dawson, Michael R.W., Kelly, Debbie M., Spetch, Marcia L., Dupuis, Brian

“…The reorientation task is a paradigm that has been used extensively to study the types of information used by humans and animals to navigate in their…”
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Development of a contact call in black-capped chickadees ( Poecile atricapillus ) hand-reared in different acoustic environments by Guillette, Lauren M., Bloomfield, Laurie L., Batty, Emily R., Dawson, Michael R. W., Sturdy, Christopher B.

“…The tseet contact call, common to black-capped ( Poecile atricapillus ) and mountain chickadees ( P. gambeli ), is the most frequently produced vocalization of…”
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A CASE STUDY IN GANTT CHARTS AS HISTORIOPHOTY: A Century of Psychology at the University of Alberta by Dawson, Michael R. W

“…History is typically presented as historiography, where historians communicate via the written word. However, some historians have suggested alternative…”
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Black-capped ( Poecile atricapillus ) and mountain chickadee ( Poecile gambeli ) contact call contains species, sex, and individual identity features by Guillette, Lauren M., Bloomfield, Laurie L., Batty, Emily R., Dawson, Michael R. W., Sturdy, Christopher B.

“…The tseet contact call, common to both black-capped and mountain chickadees, is among the most frequently produced call of each species, but has remained…”
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Simple Artificial Neural Networks That Match Probability and Exploit and Explore When Confronting a Multiarmed Bandit by Dawson, M., Dupuis, B., Spetch, M.L., Kelly, D.M.

“…The matching law (Herrnstein 1961) states that response rates become proportional to reinforcement rates; this is related to the empirical phenomenon called…”
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Mechanisms of Call Note-Type Perception in Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus): Peak Shift in a Note-Type Continuum by Guillette, Lauren M, Farrell, Tara M, Hoeschele, Marisa, Nickerson, Carly M, Dawson, Michael R. W, Sturdy, Christopher B

“…We report on operant conditioning and artificial neural network (ANN) simulations aimed at further elucidating mechanisms of black-capped chickadee chick-a-dee…”
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Using an artificial neural network to classify black-capped chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus ) call note types by Dawson, Michael R. W., Charrier, Isabelle, Sturdy, Christopher B.

“…The "chick-a-dee" call of the black-capped chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus ) contains four note types, A, B, C, and D that have important functional roles…”
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Artificial neural network discrimination of black-capped chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus ) call notes by Nickerson, Carly M., Bloomfield, Laurie L., Dawson, Michael R. W., Sturdy, Christopher B.

“…Artificial neural networks were trained to discriminate between two different notes from the "chick-a-dee" call of the black-capped chickadee ( Poecile…”
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Feature weighting in "chick-a-dee" call notes of Poecile atricapillus by Nickerson, Carly M., Bloomfield, Laurie L., Dawson, Michael R. W., Charrier, Isabelle, Sturdy, Christopher B.

“…Artificial neural networks were trained to discriminate between different note types from the black-capped chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus ) "chick-a-dee"…”
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