Barrie Frost Explained

Barrie James Frost (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.

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.

Notes and References

1. News: Barrie Frost . 22 October 2018 . The Globe and Mail . 6 October 2018.
2. Book: Full school list of Nelson College, 1856–2005 . Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006 . 2006 . 6th . CD-ROM.
3. News: Adams . Jocelyn . A passion for research . 22 October 2018 . Dal Magazine . November 2017.
4. News: Barrie Frost . 22 October 2018 . Queen's University . https://web.archive.org/web/20181022073720/https://www.queensu.ca/psychology/people/emeritus-and-retired-faculty/barrie-frost . 22 October 2018 . dead .
5. News: Barrie J. Frost . 22 October 2018 . Queen's University . https://web.archive.org/web/20181022073610/https://www.queensu.ca/psychology/visual-and-auditory-neuroscience-lab/dr-barrie-frost . 22 October 2018 . dead .
6. News: New research takes flight . 22 October 2018 . Queen's University.
7. News: Prof. Dr. Barrie James Frost . 22 October 2018 . Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.