Dr Sebastian McBride

PhD, BSc

Dr Sebastian McBride

Senior Lecturer in Biological Science

Department of Life Sciences

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All undergraduate and postgraduate appointments can be made via my appointment calendar accessible here.

Dr Sebastian McBride is a Liverpool (BSc.) and Edinburgh (PhD.) graduate who first took up a lectureship position at Aberystwyth in 1996 in what was the Institute of Rural Sciences. He left the Institute in 2005 to extend his research interests in cognitive robotics in the Department of Computer Science (Aberystwyth) and then cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He has returned to Aberystwyth University in 2016 to take up an appointment as lecturer in Biosciences.

All undergraduate and postgraduate appointments can be made via my appointment calendar accessible here.

Dr Sebastian McBride is involved in a number of research projects based around cognition and the neurophysiological control of behaviour. In particular, he is currently working on: animal cognition markers of human neurodegenerative disease, neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning repetitive behavioural disorders and cognitive enrichment in farm and captive animal species.

An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: Evolutionary perspectives on form and function. / Lewis, Kate; McBride, Sebastian D.; Micheletta, Jérôme et al.
In: PeerJ, Vol. 13, e19309, 28.05.2025.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Influences of Double Versus Snaffle Bridles on Equine Behaviour at Dressage Competitions and Factors That Interact with Their Effect. / Faithfull, Rifka; Lewis, Kate; Drury, Emily et al.
In: Animals, Vol. 15, No. 12, 1782, 17.06.2025.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Learning and cognitive flexibility in two-choice visual discrimination tasks are similar in juvenile and adult sheep. / Gatford, Kathryn L.; Morton, A. Jennifer; McBride, Sebastian D.
In: Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Vol. 291, 106735, 31.10.2025.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Toward a diagnostic framework for the equine depressive phenotype: A narrative review. / O’ Brien, Claire; O. Parker, Matthew; McBride, Sebastian.
In: Journal of Veterinary Behavior, Vol. 79, 03.06.2025, p. 92-107.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › peer-review

Automatic Horse Blink Detection Using Computer Vision and Deep Nets. / Dimitrova, Stefani; Orchard, Emily; Paudel, Bishnu et al.
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS, UKCI 2022. ed. / G Panoutsos; M Mahfouf; LS Mihaylova. Vol. 1454 GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND: Springer Nature, 2024. p. 436-447 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding (ISBN)

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