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Overview

Brian Key is a researcher affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their work primarily spans the field of neuroscience, with a focus on several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, small animals, genetics, and social psychology.

Their research topics encompass a range of themes related to neural and behavioral psychology studies, brain function dynamics, and animal behavior and welfare. Other prominent areas of study include human-animal interaction, embodied and extended cognition, olfactory and sensory function, as well as pain management and the placebo effect.

Key has contributed scholarly papers to various academic journals. Recent publications include the following:

  • Lack of imagination can bias our view of animal sentience (2022), published in Animal Sentience
  • Neural Design Principles for Subjective Experience: Implications for Insects (2021), published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • A First Principles Approach to Subjective Experience (2022), published in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

In addition to journal articles, Key has published a book titled Reading Descartes in 2023, released by Firenze University Press.

Their frequent coauthors include Deborah Brown, Oressia Zalucki, Robert Arlinghaus, Howard I. Browman, and Steven J. Cooke. Publication venues where Key's work appears regularly include Animal Sentience, Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Neuroscience of Consciousness, and Biology & Philosophy.

Research topics and themes Key has covered extensively are:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect

Key's scientific output reflects a consistent focus on understanding subjective experience and animal sentience through interdisciplinary approaches bridging neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy.

Best Publications

  • Why fish do not feel pain

    Brian Key

  • Role of galectin-1 in the developing mouse olfactory system.

    A.C. Puche;F. Poirier;M. Hair;P.F. Bartlett

  • The effect of drugs on arousal responses produced by electrical stimulation of the reticular formation of the brain

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  • Development of P2 olfactory glomeruli in P2-internal ribosome entry site-tau-LacZ transgenic mice.

    Stephanie J. Royal;Brian Key

  • The Extracellular Matrix Modulates Olfactory Neurite Outgrowth on Ensheathing Cells

    Katarina T. Tisay;Brian Key

  • Potential Roles of Dental Pulp Stem Cells in Neural Regeneration and Repair.

    Lihua Luo;Yan He;Yan He;Xiaoyan Wang;Brian Key

  • The effect of the sympathomimetic amines on behaviour and electrocortical activity of the chicken

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  • Neogenin interacts with RGMa and Netrin-1 to guide axons within the embryonic vertebrate forebrain

    Nicole H. Wilson;Brian Key

  • Neogenin: one receptor, many functions.

    Nicole H. Wilson;Brian Key

  • Expression of extracellular matrix molecules in the embryonic rat olfactory pathway

    H. B. Treloar;V. Nurcombe;B. Key

  • Neurovascular relationships in hippocampal slices: physiological and anatomical studies of mechanisms underlying flow-metabolism coupling in intraparenchymal microvessels.

    T.A. Lovick;L.A. Brown;B.J. Key

  • Motile membrane protrusions regulate cell-cell adhesion and migration of olfactory ensheathing glia.

    Louisa C. E. Windus;Christina Claxton;Chelsea L. Allen;Brian Key

  • Fish do not feel pain and its implications for understanding phenomenal consciousness

    Brian Key

  • Olfactory neurons express a unique glycosylated form of the neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM).

    B Key;R A Akeson

  • Delineation of olfactory pathways in the frog nervous system by unique glycoconjugates and N-CAM glycoforms

    Brian Key;Richard A. Akeson

  • Soybean agglutinin binding to the olfactory systems of the rat and mouse

    Brian Key;Piero P. Giorgi

  • Septal organ of Grüneberg is part of the olfactory system.

    Melonie Joanne Storan;Brian Key

  • Lamellipodia mediate the heterogeneity of central olfactory ensheathing cell interactions

    Louisa Windus;Louisa Windus;Katie Eireann Lineburg;Sue Scott;Christina Claxton

  • Zebrafish as a model for caveolin-associated muscle disease; caveolin-3 is required for myofibril organization and muscle cell patterning

    Susan J Nixon;Jeremy Wegner;Charles Ferguson;Pierre-Francois Mery;Pierre-Francois Mery

  • The central pathway of primary olfactory axons is abnormal in mice lacking the N-CAM-180 isoform.

    H. Treloar;H. Tomasiewicz;T. Magnuson;B. Key

  • Distinct subsets of sensory olfactory neurons in mouse: Possible role in the formation of the mosaic olfactory projection

    Brian Key;Richard A. Akeson

  • Selective binding of soybean agglutinin to the olfactory system of Xenopus

    B. Key;P.P. Giorgi

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam C. Puche
Adam C. Puche University of Maryland, Baltimore
Alan Mackay-Sim
Alan Mackay-Sim Griffith University
Perry F. Bartlett
Perry F. Bartlett University of Queensland
Clive D. L. Wynne
Clive D. L. Wynne Arizona State University
S. Steven Potter
S. Steven Potter Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Colin L. Masters
Colin L. Masters University of Melbourne
Frank L. Margolis
Frank L. Margolis University of Maryland, Baltimore
Stuart W G Derbyshire
Stuart W G Derbyshire National University of Singapore
Linda J. Richards
Linda J. Richards Washington University in St. Louis
Christine E. Holt
Christine E. Holt University of Cambridge

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