Dr Sebastian McBride

PhD, BSc

Dr Sebastian McBride

Senior Lecturer in Biological Science

Department of Life Sciences

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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.

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

Research

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.

Publications

Dimitrova, S, Orchard, E, Paudel, B, McBride, S, Hemmings, A & Akanyeti, O 2024, Automatic Horse Blink Detection Using Computer Vision and Deep Nets. in G Panoutsos, M Mahfouf & LS Mihaylova (eds), ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS, UKCI 2022. vol. 1454, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer Nature, GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND, pp. 436-447. 10.1007/978-3-031-55568-837
McBride, S 2024, Behavior and Behavioral Abnormalities in Atheletic Horses. in K Hinchcliff, R Geor, A Kaneps & E van Erck-Westergren (eds), Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery. 3rd edn, Elsevier, pp. 1097-1118.
Mellor, N, McBride, S, Stoker, E & Dalesman, S 2024, 'Impact of Training Discipline and Experience on Inhibitory Control and Cognitive Performance in Pet Dogs', Animals, vol. 14, no. 3, 428. 10.3390/ani14030428
McBride, S, Ober, J, Dylak, J, Schneider, W & Morton, AJ 2023, 'Oculomotor Abnormalities in a Sheep (Ovis aries) Model of Huntington's Disease: Towards a Biomarker for Assessing Therapeutic Efficacy', Journal of Huntington's Disease, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 189-200. 10.3233/JHD-230584
McBride, S & Davies, E 2023, 'Performance inconsistency in the ovine delayed-match-to -sample task', pp. 45.
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