Robert Barton

Evolutionary anthropologist interested in 'organs of extreme perfection and complication' (brains, mainly)

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

@WillCalverleyUK @Conservatives 😂😂😂😂

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

@KemiBadenoch Publish the evidence so that the public can see what sort of political degenerates are defecting to Reform

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

One implication is that measures of relative brain size should be treated with extreme caution. The curvilinear pattern may explain why large bodied species appear relatively small brained when using linear models to characterise and account for scaling - they are large not dim

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

Macroevolutionary brain scaling is a microevolutionary metaphenomenon - full text of our new paper now available (open access) https://t.co/gCgvqWZdYx

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

This has implications for how we interpret macroevolutionary patterns more generally, emphasising the need to account for intraspecific variation in order to understand variation across species

[Vittorio Gallese @GalleseVittorio]

What the Best Neuroscientists Already Know
"The claim that neuroscience needs the humanities is not a plea from outside the field. Many of its most thoughtful practitioners have already reached this conclusion."
https://t.co/MZqkUSsJfE

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

Yes! https://t.co/i1uRrD5EH3

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

@royalsociety MUST strip Musk of his fellowship to retain credibility. He has brought the society into the disrepute in the gravest manner. Calling on all FRSs, please act swiftly

[Durham University @durham_uni]

A study co-authored by @howbrainsevolve of @AnthDurham1 gives new insight on how human hands and minds evolved together. 🧠The research is published in @CommsBio & was led by Dr Joanna Baker of @UniofReading 👉 https://t.co/yN986yESxd

#DUresearch #DUinspire

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

New paper: Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand https://t.co/FMMP5Ouwi1

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Max Farnworth https://t.co/hfUM9K66Ug

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

Humans may not have a uniquely specialised memory for sequences - it may be more to do with how tasks are culturally scaffolded and what they “mean” to participants. New paper https://t.co/HKlWhN1V56

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

Interesting new study demonstrates "cerebellar connectivity to higher-order networks at birth, which generally strengthen with age, emphasizing the cerebellum’s early role in cognitive processing beyond sensory and motor functions https://t.co/BfKkKrtnXC

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

@GalleseVittorio Same could be said of comparative psychology. And psychology probably

[Vittorio Gallese @GalleseVittorio]

Is the sense of reality a purely visual business??
"Our results demonstrate that a key mechanism through which the brain distinguishes imagination from reality is by monitoring the activity of the mid-level visual cortex."
https://t.co/gE4vPKGzgB