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Robert Lickliter is a researcher affiliated with Florida International University in the United States. Their work spans several fields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, sociology and political science, animal science and zoology, as well as molecular biology. The scientist's research covers a variety of topics such as evolutionary game theory and cooperation, hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience, animal nutrition and physiology, epigenetics and DNA methylation, birth, development, and health, nutrition, genetics, and disease, and child and animal learning development.

Lickliter has published in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Human Development
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • American Psychologist
  • Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Recent papers by Robert Lickliter include the following:

  • "Molecular and Systemic Epigenetic Inheritance: Integrating Development, Genetics, and Evolution," 2023, Human Development
  • "Evolving evolutionary psychology," 2021, American Psychologist
  • "Development as explanation: Understanding phenotypic stability and variability after the failure of genetic determinism," 2023, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • "Hearing better with the right eye? The lateralization of multisensory processing affects auditory learning in Northern bobwhite quail (Colinus Virginianus) chicks," 2021, Applied Animal Behaviour Science
  • "How deep do we have to go to rehabilitate evolutionary psychology? Reply to Bjorklund et al. (2022)," 2022, American Psychologist

Collaborations are an integral part of Lickliter's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • David S. Moore
  • David C. Witherington
  • Lorraine E. Bahrick
  • Darcia Narváez
  • Timothy I Vandiver

Best Publications

  • Intersensory redundancy guides attentional selectivity and perceptual learning in infancy.

    Lorraine E. Bahrick;Robert Lickliter

  • The Significance of Biology for Human Development: A Developmental Psychobiological Systems View

    Gilbert Gottlieb;Douglas Wahlsten;Robert Lickliter

  • Developmental Dynamics: Toward a Biologically Plausible Evolutionary Psychology

    Robert Lickliter;Hunter Honeycutt

  • Intersensory Redundancy Guides the Development of Selective Attention, Perception, and Cognition in Infancy:

    Lorraine E. Bahrick;Robert Lickliter;Ross Flom

  • The Development of Intersensory Perception : Comparative Perspectives

    David J. Lewkowicz;Robert Lickliter

  • Intersensory redundancy guides early perceptual and cognitive development.

    Lorraine E Bahrick;Robert Lickliter

  • Intersensory redundancy facilitates discrimination of tempo in 3-month-old infants.

    Lorraine E. Bahrick;Ross Flom;Robert Lickliter

  • The role of intersensory redundancy in early perceptual, cognitive, and social development

    Lorraine E. Bahrick;Robert Lickliter

  • The development of infant intersensory perception: advantages of a comparative convergent-operations approach.

    Robert Lickliter;Lorraine E. Bahrick

  • The integrated development of sensory organization.

    Robert Lickliter

  • The phylogeny fallacy: Developmental psychology's misapplication of evolutionary theory

    Robert Lickliter;Thomas D Berry

  • Premature visual stimulation accelerates intersensory functioning in bobwhite quail neonates.

    Robert Lickliter

  • Social interaction with siblings is necessary for visual imprinting of species-specific maternal preferences in ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos).

    Robert E. Lickliter;Gilbert Gottlieb

  • Infants' perception of rhythm and tempo in unimodal and multimodal stimulation: a developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis.

    Lorraine E. Bahrick;Robert Lickliter

  • Contextual determinants of auditory learning in bobwhite quail embryos and hatchlings.

    Robert Lickliter;Timothy B. Hellewell

  • Atypical perinatal sensory stimulation and early perceptual development: insights from developmental psychobiology.

    Robert Lickliter

  • Behavior associated with parturition in the domestic goat

    Robert E. Lickliter

  • Intersensory experience and early perceptual development: Attenuated prenatal sensory stimulation affects postnatal auditory and visual responsiveness in bobwhite quail chicks (Colinus virginianus).

    Robert Lickliter;David J. Lewkowicz

  • Intersensory redundancy facilitates prenatal perceptual learning in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) embryos.

    Robert Lickliter;Lorraine E. Bahrick;Hunter Honeycutt

  • Book review: a dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action by, esther thelen and linda b. smith, cambridge, ma: The mit press, 1994, hardbound, 376 pages, $50.00. isbn 0-262-70059-x

    David J. Lewkowicz;Robert Lickliter

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorraine E. Bahrick
Lorraine E. Bahrick Florida International University
David J. Lewkowicz
David J. Lewkowicz Northeastern University
Gilbert Gottlieb
Gilbert Gottlieb University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Erich Möstl
Erich Möstl University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
John Colombo
John Colombo University of Kansas

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