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Barbara Webb is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and specializes in neuroscience with a strong focus on neurobiology and insect physiology research. Their work encompasses a variety of topics related to insect behavior, neural dynamics, and computational neuroscience, as well as aspects of animal behavior and reproduction.

The primary fields of study for Barbara Webb include Neuroscience, with more specific subfields covering Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This interdisciplinary approach reflects a broad interest in understanding neural mechanisms and behavior from molecular through ecological levels.

Barbara Webb has contributed to research across multiple well-regarded publication venues. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their research topics highlight a focus on:

  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies

Barbara Webb has published several recent papers, notable among them are:

  • "Mushroom Bodies Are Required for Learned Visual Navigation, but Not for Innate Visual Behavior, in Ants" (2020) in Current Biology
  • "The head direction circuit of two insect species" (2020) in eLife
  • "A unified mechanism for innate and learned visual landmark guidance in the insect central complex" (2021) in PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Robots with insect brains" (2020) in Science
  • "Route-following ants respond to alterations of the view sequence" (2020) in Journal of Experimental Biology

Among frequent co-authors, Barbara Webb has collaborated extensively with:

  • Roman Goulard
  • Paul Graham
  • Jeremy E. Niven
  • Cornelia Buehlmann
  • Stanley Heinze

Best Publications

  • Can robots make good models of biological behaviour

    Barbara Webb

  • What does robotics offer animal behaviour

    Barbara Webb

  • A Model of Non-elemental Associative Learning in the Mushroom Body Neuropil of the Insect Brain

    Jan Wessnitzer;Barbara Webb;Darren Smith

  • Neural mechanisms for prediction: do insects have forward models?

    Barbara Webb

  • Using an Insect Mushroom Body Circuit to Encode Route Memory in Complex Natural Environments

    Paul Ardin;Fei Peng;Michael Mangan;Konstantinos Lagogiannis

  • Robots in invertebrate neuroscience

    Barbara Webb

  • Using robots to model animals: a cricket test

    Barbara Webb

  • A simple latency-dependent spiking-neuron model of cricket phonotaxis.

    Barbara Webb;Tom W. Scutt

  • Neural mechanisms of insect navigation

    Barbara Webb;Antoine Wystrach

  • Multimodal sensory integration in insects--towards insect brain control architectures.

    Jan Wessnitzer;Barbara Webb

  • What is cognition

    Tim Bayne;David Brainard;Richard W. Byrne;Lars Chittka

  • Optimal cue integration in ants.

    Antoine Wystrach;Michael Mangan;Barbara Webb

  • Mushroom Bodies Are Required for Learned Visual Navigation, but Not for Innate Visual Behavior, in Ants.

    Cornelia Buehlmann;Beata Wozniak;Roman Goulard;Barbara Webb

  • Robotic experiments in cricket phonotaxis

    Barbara Webb

  • Animals Versus Animats: Or Why Not Model the Real Iguana?

    Barbara Webb

  • Robot phonotaxis in the wild: a biologically inspired approach to outdoor sound localization

    Andrew D. Horchler;Richard E. Reeve;Barbara Webb;Roger D. Quinn

  • New neural circuits for robot phonotaxis.

    Richard E. Reeve;Barbara H. Webb

  • Still no convincing evidence for cognitive map use by honeybees

    Allen Cheung;Matthew Collett;Thomas S. Collett;Alex Dewar

  • Biorobotics: Methods and Applications

    Barbara Webb;Thomas R. Consi

  • Physical and temporal scaling considerations in a robot model of cricket calling song preference

    Henrik Hautop Lund;Barbara Webb;John Hallam

  • New technologies for testing a model of cricket phonotaxis on an outdoor robot

    Richard E. Reeve;Barbara Webb;Andrew D. Horchler;Giacomo Indiveri

  • Sensorimotor control of navigation in arthropod and artificial systems

    Barbara Webb;Reid R Harrison;Mark A Willis

  • ESANN'2007 proceedings - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks

    Jan Wessnitzer;Barbara Webb

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Graham
Paul Graham University of Sussex
Michael Milford
Michael Milford Queensland University of Technology
Magnus T. Borgström
Magnus T. Borgström Lund University
Anders Mikkelsen
Anders Mikkelsen Lund University
Roger D. Quinn
Roger D. Quinn Case Western Reserve University
Berthold Hedwig
Berthold Hedwig University of Cambridge
Giacomo Indiveri
Giacomo Indiveri University of Zurich
Auke Jan Ijspeert
Auke Jan Ijspeert École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Cecilia Heyes
Cecilia Heyes University of Oxford
Jonas Buchli
Jonas Buchli DeepMind (United Kingdom)

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