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4210
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464

Overview

Robert A. Barton is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Computer Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Paleontology.

Their work addresses several key topics, notably Primate Behavior and Ecology, Child and Animal Learning Development, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Action Observation and Synchronization, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Throughout their career, Robert A. Barton has published extensively. Their recent papers include:

  • Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology (2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
  • Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size (2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Experts in action: why we need an embodied social brain hypothesis (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals (2022, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology)
  • Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size (2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

They have published frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, including Chris Venditti, Joanna Baker, Ha H. Nguyen, Ebrahim Bedeer, and Louise Barrett.

Best Publications

  • Mosaic evolution of brain structure in mammals

    Robert A. Barton;Paul H. Harvey

  • Neocortex size and behavioural ecology in primates

    Robert A. Barton

  • Evolutionary radiation of visual and olfactory brain systems in primates, bats and insectivores

    R. A. Barton;A. Purvis;P. H. Harvey

  • Visual specialization and brain evolution in primates

    R. A. Barton

  • Ecology, feeding competition and social structure in baboons

    Robert A Barton;Richard W Byrne;Andrew Whiten

  • Rapid Evolution of the Cerebellum in Humans and Other Great Apes

    Robert A. Barton;Chris Venditti

  • Embodied cognitive evolution and the cerebellum

    Robert A. Barton

  • Feeding competition among female olive baboons, Papio anubis

    Robert A. Barton;Andrew Whiten

  • Comparative Methods for Studying Primate Adaptation and Allometry

    Charles L. Nunn;Robert A. Barton

  • Maternal investment, life histories, and the costs of brain growth in mammals

    Robert A. Barton;Isabella Capellini

  • Habitat use and resource availability in baboons

    R.A. Barton;R.A. Barton;A. Whiten;A. Whiten;S.C. Strum;S.C. Strum;R.W. Byrne;R.W. Byrne

  • Olfactory evolution and behavioral ecology in primates.

    Robert A. Barton

  • Grooming site preferences in primates and their functional implications

    Robert A Barton

  • Dietary and Foraging Strategies of Baboons

    A. Whiten;R. W. Byrne;R. A. Barton;P. G. Waterman

  • Phylogenetic Analysis Of The Ecology And Evolution Of Mammalian Sleep

    Isabella Capellini;Robert A. Barton;Patrick McNamara;Patrick McNamara;Brian T. Preston

  • Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals

    Isabella Capellini;Chris Venditti;Robert A. Barton

  • Re-evaluating the link between brain size and behavioural ecology in primates.

    Lauren E. Powell;Karin Isler;Robert A. Barton

  • Human frontal lobes are not relatively large

    Robert A. Barton;Chris Venditti

  • Primate brain evolution : integrating comparative, neurophysiological and ethological data.

    Robert A. Barton

  • Machiavellian Intelligence II: Evolution of the social brain

    Robert A. Barton;Robin I. M. Dunbar

  • The evolution of the cortico-cerebellar complex in primates: anatomical connections predict patterns of correlated evolution

    B.A Whiting;R.A Barton

  • Adaptive Evolution of Four Microcephaly Genes and the Evolution of Brain Size in Anthropoid Primates

    Stephen H. Montgomery;Isabella Capellini;Chris Venditti;Robert A. Barton

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Patrick J. McNamara
Patrick J. McNamara University of Iowa
Andrew Whiten
Andrew Whiten University of St Andrews
Richard W. Byrne
Richard W. Byrne University of St Andrews
Nicholas I. Mundy
Nicholas I. Mundy University of Cambridge
Martin J. Tovée
Martin J. Tovée Northumbria University
Rogier B. Mars
Rogier B. Mars University of Oxford
John Patrick Aggleton
John Patrick Aggleton Cardiff University
David I. Perrett
David I. Perrett University of St Andrews
Lennart Verhagen
Lennart Verhagen Radboud University

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