Louise Barrett, University of Lethbridge

Research

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Latest papers

Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025 · senior author
Social induction and the developmental trajectory of participation in intergroup conflict by vervet monkeys.
Evolutionary human sciences · 2025 · senior author
Sex differences in the acoustic structure of terrestrial alarm calls in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus).
American journal of primatology · 2025

All 46 publications

Latest funding

Cognition, Evolution, and Behaviour
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$800,000
Behavioural Flexibility, Fertility and Social Network Influences in Human and Non-Human Primates
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$329,000
Cognition, Evolution, and Behaviour
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$200,000

All 12 grants and awards

46 publications.

01

Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence.

Barton R, Barrett L

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0255 PMID: 40566912

02

Social induction and the developmental trajectory of participation in intergroup conflict by vervet monkeys.

Clarke M, Bonnell T, Blersch R, Nord C, Vilette C, Young C, Henzi P, Barrett L

Evolutionary human sciences2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.7 PMID: 40162067

03

Sex differences in the acoustic structure of terrestrial alarm calls in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus).

Dubreuil C, Notman H, Barrett L, Henzi P, Pavelka MSM

American journal of primatology2025

DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23674 PMID: 39162128

04

Estimates of life history parameters in a high latitude, arid-country vervet monkey population.

Henzi SP, Blersch RA, Bonnell TR, Clarke M, Dostie MJ, Lucas M, Jarrett J, McFarland R, Nord C, Takahashi A, Vilette C, Young C, Young MM, Barrett L

American journal of primatology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23527 PMID: 37270697

05

Minds in movement: embodied cognition in the age of artificial intelligence.

Barrett L, Stout D

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024First author

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0144 PMID: 39155722

06

Anthropofabrication and the redressing of memory: an embodied approach to comparative cognition.

Van Woerkum B, Barrett L

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0145 PMID: 39155716

07

Reclaiming behaviour settings: reviewing empirical applications of Barker's behaviour settings theory.

Avram CM, Jones AE, Lucas ML, Barrett L

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0283 PMID: 39114986

08

People, places, things and communities: expanding behaviour settings theory in the twenty-first century.

McGann M, Lucas M, McHugh C, Barrett L

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0282 PMID: 39114984

09

Introduction to the special collection: The expression of the emotions in man and animals.

Barrett L

Evolutionary human sciences2022First author

DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2022.59 PMID: 37588909

10

Using network synchrony to identify drivers of social dynamics.

Bonnell TR, Henzi SP, Barrett L

Proceedings. Biological sciences2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0537 PMID: 35765841

Cognition, Evolution, and Behaviour

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Barrett, Louise

Keywords: fertility; social networks; phenotypic plasticity; behavioural ; flexibility; development; gene-culture co-evolution; ; reproductive success; primates; humans; decision-making; ; embodied cognition; enactivism; extended mind

$800,000

Behavioural Flexibility, Fertility and Social Network Influences in Human and Non-Human Primates

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Barrett, Louise

Keywords: primates; fertility; life history; social networks; development; reproduction; human behavioural ecology; behavioural flexibility; cultural evolution; sociality

$329,000

Cognition, Evolution, and Behaviour

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Barrett, Louise

$200,000

Behavioural Flexibility, Fertility and Social Network Influences in Human and Non-Human Primates

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Accelerator Supplements

Principal investigators: Barrett, Louise

$120,000

Cognition, Evolution, and Behaviour

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Barrett, Louise

$250,000

You are here: an interdisciplinary workshop and knowledge mobilization program

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Mills, Josephine

Keywords: public engagement; art audiences; museum studies; enactive cognition; embodied cognition; social activism; visual art; research creation

$48,000

Situated Social Cognition

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Barrett, Louise

$145,000

Situated Social Cognition

Principal investigatorNSERC2012Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Barrett, Louise

$25,000

Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Barrett, Louise

$1,200,000

Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Barrett, Louise

Keywords: CRC

$200,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Psychology Department
Geography and Environment Department
Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience
Computer Science
Other

Co-authors at University of Lethbridge, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Peter Henzi

Psychology Department

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Tyler Bonnell

Computer Science

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Hugh Notman

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Sergio Pellis

Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience

1 shared papers, latest 2015

Marcus Dostie

Geography and Environment Department

1 shared papers, latest 2020

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