Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences

The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is an interdisciplinary community of researchers who study the behaviour of human beings and other animals from cellular, neural, cognitive and evolutionary perspectives. The Institute brings together faculty members, research staff and students from the Schools of Biology, Psychology & Neuroscience, Medicine, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics and Physics & Astronomy, with the aim of fostering progress at interfaces of the behavioural and neural sciences.

To find out more about research conducted in IBANS see the profile of our principal investigators.

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School of Biology, University of St Andrews

School of Biology

School of Biology, University of St Andrews

School of Chemistry

School of Biology, University of St Andrews

School of Computer Science

School of Biology, University of St Andrews

School of Economics & Finance

School of Biology, University of St Andrews

School of Medicine

School of Biology, University of St Andrews

School of Physics & Atronomy

School of Biology, University of St Andrews

School of Psychology & Neuroscience

Committee Members

Andrew Blaikie

Silvia Paracchini

Co-Director
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Karen Spencer

Karen Spencer

Co-Director
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Catherine Adamson

Catherine Adamson

Academic Rep Biology
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Paolo Annibale

Paolo Annibale

Academic Rep Physics and Astronomy
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Juliana Bowles

Juliana Bowles

Academic Rep Computer Science
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Tugce Cuhadaroglu

Tugcu Cuhadarogle

Academic Rep Economics & Finance
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Emma Gale

Emma Gale

ECR Rep Medicine
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Susanna Galea-Singer

Susanna Galea-Singer

NHS Fife
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Mauricio Gonzalez Forero

Mauricio Gonzalez Forero

ECR Rep Biology
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Stefan Pulver

Stefan Pulver

BrainStem coordinator, Psychology and Neuroscience
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Frances Quirk

Frances Quirk

NHS Fife
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Erin Robbins

Erin Robbins

BrainStem, Psychology and Neuroscience
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Research Groups

Recent News

IBANS Burns Social, Feb 25th, 2023

IBANS Burns Social, Feb 25th, 2023

IBANS members from different schools came together for "IBANS Burns Social and Networking event" for 2023’s Burns Night. The event was organized to be an informal interdisciplinary gathering where researchers of different backgrounds and expertise were able to come...

Older entries

Institute holds networking event with partners at University of Bonn

The Institute held an online networking event with key institutional partner the University of Bonn on 28 September 2023. The meeting was organised by IBANS Co-Director Dr Silvia Paracchini (St Andrews School of Medicine), IBANS Early Career Researcher Representative...

Recent Publications

10 (of 2392 /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/status/published available) for Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences (source: University of St Andrews PURE)
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Language and reading impairments are associated with increased prevalence of non-right handedness Philip S. Dale, Carol A. Wang, Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas, Umar Toseeb, Tanner S Koomar, Karen G Wigg, Yu Feng, Kaitlyn M Price, Elizabeth N Kerr, Sharon L Guger, Maureen W Lovett, Lisa J Strug, Elsje van Bergen, Conor V. Dolan, J Bruce Tomblin, Kristina Moll, Gerd Schulte-Körne, Nina Neuhoff, Andreas Warnke, Simon E. Fisher, Cathy L Barr, Jacob J Michaelson, Dorret I. Boomsma, Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme, Andrews J.O. Whitehouse, Craig E Pennell, Dianne F. Newbury, John Stein, Joel B. Talcott, Dorothy V.M. Bishop, Silvia Paracchini
Child Development 2023 vol. 94 pp. 970-984
[3-Meth-oxy-5-(meth-oxy-carbon-yl)isoxazol-4-yl](4-meth-oxy-phen-yl)iodo-nium 2,2,2-tri-fluoro-acetate Mohd Abdul Fatah Abdul Manan, David Bradford Cordes, Alexandra Martha Zoya Slawin, David O'Hagan
IUCrData 2023 vol. 8
Investigating native metal ion binding sites in mammalian histidine-rich glycoprotein Katrin Ackermann, Siavash Khazaipoul, Joshua Wort, Amelie Isabelle Sylvie Sobczak, Hassane El Mkami, Alan J. Stewart, Bela Ernest Bode
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023 vol. 145 pp. 8064-8072
Body condition changes at sea Taiki Adachi, Philip Lovell, James Turnbull, Mike Fedak, Baptiste Picard, Christophe Guinet, Martin Biuw, Theresa R. Keates, Rachel R. Holser, Daniel P. Costa, Daniel E. Crocker, Patrick James Miller
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2023 vol. 14 pp. 1457-1474
Unusual peptide-binding proteins guide pyrroloindoline alkaloid formation in crocagin biosynthesis Sebastian Adam, Dazhong Zheng, Andreas Klein, Carsten Volz, William Mullen, Sally Lorna Shirran, Brian O. Smith, Olga V. Kalinina, Rolf Müller, Jesko Koehnke
Nature Chemistry 2023 vol. 15 pp. 560-568
Little prospect of colour-based drag reduction underwater William L. Allen, Graeme Douglas Ruxton
Journal of Thermal Biology 2023 vol. 114
Young children use imitation communicatively Nazli Altinok, Harriet Over, Malinda Carpenter
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2023 vol. 231
Dialects in leaf-clipping and other leaf-modifying gestures between neighbouring communities of East African chimpanzees Kirsty Emma Graham, Klaus Zuberbuehler, Cat Hobaiter
Scientific Reports 2023 vol. 13
Selection on the fly Rhonda R Snook, Michael Gordon Ritchie, Carolin Kosiol
Genome Biology and Evolution 2023 vol. 15
Latencies of click-evoked auditory responses in a harbor porpoise exceed the time interval between subsequent echolocation clicks K. Beedholm, M. Ladegaard, P. T. Madsen, Peter Lloyd Tyack
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2023 vol. 153 pp. 952-960

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