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.

Committee Members

Catherine Adamson
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Paolo Annibale
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Juliana Bowles
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Tugcu Cuhadarogle
Academic Rep Economics & Finance
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Emma Gale
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Susanna Galea-Singer
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Mauricio Gonzalez Forero
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Stefan Pulver
BrainStem coordinator, Psychology and Neuroscience
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Frances Quirk
NHS Fife
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Erin Robbins
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Recent News

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...
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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
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Child Development 2023 vol. 94 pp. 970-984
IUCrData 2023 vol. 8
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023 vol. 145 pp. 8064-8072
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2023 vol. 14 pp. 1457-1474
Nature Chemistry 2023 vol. 15 pp. 560-568
Journal of Thermal Biology 2023 vol. 114
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2023 vol. 231
Scientific Reports 2023 vol. 13
Genome Biology and Evolution 2023 vol. 15
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2023 vol. 153 pp. 952-960