Barrie Frost

Barrie James Frost was a New Zealand-born Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist.
Born in Nelson, New Zealand, Frost was educated at Nelson College from 1953 to 1956. 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. 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, and the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, and received a Humboldt Research Award. 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 : 729–731.
Nelson, J. I., and B. J. Frost. "Orientation-selective inhibition from beyond the classic visual receptive field." Brain Research 139, no. 2 : 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 : 236.