Bartosz Baran

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bartosz.m.baran@gmail.com

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Bartosz holds Master’s degree in biotechnology from the University of Silesia in Katowice. He is a co-author of papers published in PLOS One, Insects, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal of Pest Science, Open Life Sciences, Molecules, Zoomorphology, Scientific Reports, European Journal of Entomology, Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). He has led the project (DI2015 0254 45) funded by the Diamond Grant V programme. He was awarded the Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for academic excellence in 2017. He is a corresponding member of the Polish Ethological Society and a longtime co-organiser of Brain Awareness Week celebrations in Katowice.

Bartosz works on his Ph.D. dissertation on mechanisms of geometric cognition in insects at the University of Silesia in Katowice and at the MCLL under co-supervision of Mateusz Hohol (supervisor: Mirosław Nakonieczny).

Co-investigator in Projects:

Mathematical Cognition and Learning Lab: Funding grant

Selected publications:

Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues

Baran, B., Krzyżowski, M., Rádai, Z., Francikowski, J., & Hohol, M. (2023). Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues. Animal Cognition, 23, 755–770. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01712-7

Raw data to: Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues

Baran, B., Krzyżowski, M., Radai, Z., Francikowski, J., & Hohol, M. (2022). Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues. Animal Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01712-7 (Raw data available at Open Science Framework)

Motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees

Gibbons, M., Versace, E., Crump, A., Baran, B., & Chittka, L. (2022). Motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(31), e2205821119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205821119

Ból bzyczenia: Trzmiele czują ból, są gotowe ryzykować

Baran, B. (2022). Ból bzyczenia: Trzmiele czują ból, są gotowe ryzykować. Tygodnik Powszechny, 32(3813), 58–60.

Does spatial navigation have a blind-spot? Visiocentrism is not enough to explain the navigational behavior comprehensively

Hohol, M., Baran, B., Krzyżowski, M., Francikowski, J. (2017). Does spatial navigation have a blind-spot? Visiocentrism is not enough to explain the navigational behavior comprehensively. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11(154). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00154

MCLL is funded by the Excellence Initiative – Jagiellonian University within the Priority Research Area Society of the Future

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