Barrie Frost
New Zealand-born Canadian neuroscientist and psychologist (died 2018)
Barrie James Frost FRSC (1938/39 – 4 October 2018) was a New Zealand-born Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist.
Born in Nelson, New Zealand , [1] Frost was educated at Nelson College from 1953 to 1956. [2] He initially trained as a primary school teacher, and then earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Canterbury , followed by a PhD from Dalhousie University in 1967. [2] [3] [4] Frost then taught at Queen's University at Kingston . Over the course of his career, Frost was granted fellowship into the Royal Society of Canada , the Canadian Psychological Association , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , [5] and the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund , [6] and received a Humboldt Research Award . [7] Frost died of cancer at the Providence Care Hospital in Kingston, Ontario on 4 October 2018, aged 79. [1]
Selected works
- Annis, Robert C., and Barrie Frost. "Human visual ecology and orientation anisotropies in acuity." Science 182, no. 4113 (1973): 729–731.
- Nelson, J. I., and B. J. Frost. "Orientation-selective inhibition from beyond the classic visual receptive field." Brain Research 139, no. 2 (1978): 359–365.
- Wang, Yongchang, and Barrie J. Frost. "Time to collision is signalled by neurons in the nucleus rotundus of pigeons." Nature 356, no. 6366 (1992): 236.
References
- 1 2 "Barrie Frost" . The Globe and Mail . 6 October 2018 . Retrieved 22 October 2018 .
- 1 2 "Full school list of Nelson College, 1856–2005". Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006 (CD-ROM) (6th ed.). 2006.
- ↑ Adams, Jocelyn (November 2017). "A passion for research" . Dal Magazine . Retrieved 22 October 2018 .
- ↑ "Barrie Frost" . Queen's University. Archived from the original on 22 October 2018 . Retrieved 22 October 2018 .
- ↑ "Barrie J. Frost" . Queen's University. Archived from the original on 22 October 2018 . Retrieved 22 October 2018 .
- ↑ "New research takes flight" . Queen's University . Retrieved 22 October 2018 .
- ↑ "Prof. Dr. Barrie James Frost" . Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . Retrieved 22 October 2018 .
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