Dr Robyn Grant (Research Associate)
Contact
- Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TP, UK.
- Tel: telephone number not specified in personal file
- Fax: +44 (0) 114 276 6515 (shared with department)
- Email: R.Grant/at/sheffield.ac.uk
Summary
- I am a postdoctoral researcher and project manager for BIOTACT. My research interest lies in the fields of neuroethology and sensory ecology, in particular I focus on studying active touch in rodents and pinnipeds. I also work in collaboration with the Marine Science Centre, Rostock (http://www.marine-science-center.de/)
Research Interests
- Neuroethology of active sensing
- Characterising rat whisker behaviour in adults, and its development in neonates
- Comparative studies of vibrissal sensing
- Whisking in mutant mouse models
- High-speed video analyses in general (locomotion and whisking)
- Active touch sensing in harbour seals
- Funded by BIOTACT and DAAD
Peer-reviewed print articles
2012
2011
- Ben Mitchinson, Robyn A. Grant, Kendra Arkley, Vladan Rankov, Igor Perkon and Tony J. Prescott (2011), Active vibrissal sensing in rodents and marsupials, Philosophical Transactions Royal Society B, 366(1581):3037-3048.
- Tony J. Prescott, Ben Mitchinson, Robyn A. Grant (2011), Vibrissal behavior and function, Scholarpedia, 6(10):6642.
2010
- G. Gyory, V. Rankov, G. Gordon, I. Perkon, B. Mitchinson, R. Grant, T. Prescott (2010), An algorithm for automatic tracking of rat whiskers, Proc. Int. Workshop on Visual observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior (VAIB), Istanbul, in conjunction with ICPR 2010.
2009
2007
