Brandon Barker

Brandon Barker is Assistant Professor of Folklore and Affiliate Faculty in Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. While specializing in American Folklore, especially folklore of the southern United States and children's folklore, he publishes on a wide variety of topics in folklore and cognitive science, ranging from folk music and supernatural legends to children's play with perceptual illusions and the science of animal folklore. His books include Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception (2019, with Claiborne Rice) and The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm: An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science (2021, with Daniel Povinelli).