Alison Barker

Dr. Alison Barker is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, leading the Social Systems and Circuits Group. Her work focuses on neural mechanisms underlying social communication and cooperation, with an emphasis on cross-species comparative studies.

• Research Areas: Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, Bioacoustics, Neural Circuits
• Methods: In vivo calcium imaging, electrophysiology, machine learning, behavior analysis

Recent publications explore vocal dialect transmission in naked mole-rats, auditory system evolution, and molecular pain insensitivity adaptations. While no awards or students are listed here, her work bridges evolutionary biology and neuroscience to decode social behavior mechanisms.