doi's

Two more articles can now be found by using the doi.

A multisensory centrifugal neuron in the olfactory pathway of heliothine moths. DOI:10.1002/cne.2316

Do Adjustments in Search Behavior Depend on the Precision of Spatial Memory? DOI: 10.3758/s13420-012-0087-1

and another paper where my contribution is statistics comes out in November 2012 in ASIAN SOCIAL SCIENCE. First author is Haghish, whom I co-supervised for his Masterthesis in 2011.

Find out more also on researchgate.

Conference time

Summer is approaching and that is a high time for conferences. We will present recent research at the PhysCog in Birmingham and at the ISBE in Lund. But before heading off, two papers shall be submitted. And then traveling goes on ...

Publication list is growing and growing and growing

After two slow years, 2010 and 2011, 2012 takes off, already 7 papers that are now published and three more that are accepted, and still 4 more that are submitted.
Here my updated publication list with DOI where available. Pdf's can be send to you (leave a comment with your email address).

(1) Pfuhl G, Tjelmeland H, Molden S, Biegler R (2009): Cache retrieval: precision of knowledge and pilfering probability determine when to stop searching. Animal Behaviour 78(4), 819-828 doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.014

(2) Pfuhl G, Tjelmeland, H, Biegler R. (2011): Precision and reliability in navigation.  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 73(5), 951-977 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9547-y

(3) Pfuhl G, Biegler R (2011): Do humans know the imprecision inherent in a map? Meta-carto semiotics 4 

 

(4) Pfuhl G (2012). Two strings to pull from – do ravens choose the easier one? Animal Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0483-0

(5) Whitlock J, Pfuhl G, Dagslott N, Moser MB, Moser E (2012): Functional Split Between Parietal and Entorhinal Cortices in the Rat. Neuron. 73(4): 789-802

(6) Pfuhl G, Biegler R (2012). Ordinality and planning in jackdaws. Animal Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0509-7

(7) Zhao X-C, Pfuhl G, Surlykke AM, Tro J, Berg B (2012): A mechano and sound sensitive centrifugal neuron type in the central olfactory pathway of the heliothine moth. Journal of Comparative Neurology, In press    
      

(8) Pfuhl G, Barrera LBG, Living M, Biegler R (2012). Do adjustments in search behaviour depend on the precision of spatial memory? accepted

That paper shows some modularity in spatial decision making in humans.Our follow-up on learning of precision (Biegler, Ebad Farzadeh, Pfuhl) is analysed but not completely written up. Have to wait for the next break in teaching and grading exams.

(9) Pfuhl G, Biegler R (2012). Do jackdaws have a memory for order? accepted

That looks at episodic memory in a non-verbal manner, would be interesting to use the paradigm in children and in other nonhuman animals

(10) Pfuhl G, Ebad Farzadeh H, Biegler R (2012). Assessment of altruism depends on inferred ulterior motives. accepted

that paper extends the study of mechanism in decision making into the social realm. Our follow-up on people along the autistic spectrum is in preparation. We wait until Leif Ekblad got his paper of the new scale for measuring autism accepted - after all we use the same scale in addition to our social scenarios.

The four submitted papers and 3 drafts are hopefully soon moving ahead, so that the publication record is increasing further.

Accepted papers

Update or my latest publishing news (date: 28th of march 2012)

2011 in its last weeks and 2012 started nicely for me. Now I have a total of 5 papers out and another 3 accepted and hopefully soon in press. That increases my publication record to 8. Still 6 papers in the pipeline and working on 2 and hope to get them submitted soon. And then I will focus on 3 papers that need a bit more work before I can submit them, but the biggest junk has been done already. Quite a range of topics I cover in my papers, but still, it is all about deciphering mechanisms of decision making, mostly in the spatial domain but also extended to the social domain

Here a quick update of my papers:

Pfuhl G, Tjelmeland H, Molden S, Biegler R (2009): Cache retrieval: precision of knowledge and pilfering probability determine when to stop searching. Animal Behaviour 78(4), 819-828 doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.014

Pfuhl G, Tjelmeland, H, Biegler R. (2011): Precision and reliability in navigation.  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 73(5), 951-977 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9547-y

Theoretical unification of many seemingly conflicting experimental data.

Pfuhl G, Biegler R (2011): Do humans know the imprecision inherent in a map? Meta-carto semiotics 4 

includes a figure illustrating the difference between precision, reliability and accuracy. These are not the same!

Whitlock J, Pfuhl G, Dagslott N, Moser MB, Moser E (2012): Functional Split Between Parietal and Entorhinal Cortices in the Rat. Neuron. 73(4): 789-802

it was a great experience to work with Jonathan and in the Moser lab. The paper requires a lot of math but the results are striking!

 

Pfuhl G (2012). Two strings to pull from – do ravens choose the easier one? Animal Cognition.

http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10071-012-0483-0

An idea I got during my time at the KLF in Gruenau and I could realise it in the few weeks I was there, one can learn about folk physics in ravens. Unfortunately the ravens are now widely dispersed, so any follow-up is nearly impossible. 

Papers soon to be out (always optimistic)

Pfuhl G, Biegler R (2012). Ordinality and planning in jackdaws. accepted

Some final polishing required but hopefully soon in press

Pfuhl G, Barrera LBG, Living M, Biegler R (2012). Do adjustments in search behaviour depend on the precision of spatial memory? In revision

That paper shows some modularity in spatial decision making in humans.Our follow-up on learning of precision (Biegler, Ebad Farzadeh, Pfuhl) is analysed but not completely written up. Have to wait for the next break in teaching and grading exams.

Pfuhl G, Biegler R (2012). Do jackdaws have a memory for order?accepted

That looks at episodic memory in a non-verbal manner, would be interesting to use the paradigm in children and in other nonhuman animals

Pfuhl G, Ebad Farzadeh H, Biegler R (2012). Assessment of altruism depends on inferred ulterior motives. In revision

that paper extends the study of mechanism in decision making into the social realm. Our follow-up on people along the autistic spectrum is in preparation. We wait until Leif Ekblad got his paper of the new scale for measuring autism accepted - after all we use the same scale in addition to our social scenarios.

Zhao X-C, Pfuhl G, Surlykke AM, Tro J, Berg B (2012): A sound sensitive centrifugal neuron type in the central olfactory pathway of the heliothine moth. In revision           

It took time to prepare the figures, thanks to Xin-Cheng for the great artistic work. The paper looking at sound neurons (Pfuhl et al.) will soon be submitted. Presumably after my visit at Annemarie Surlykkes lab in a few weeks.

Ebad Fardzadeh H, Heydari A, Pfuhl G, Biegler R, Teymoori A. (2012). Ethical Attitude toward Ethnic Humor (EATEH). Development of a New Scale. Submitted

That is one of the 3 papers with Hagish E. Farzadeh and from is Masterthesis. I was mainly responsible for the statistics and structuring the article. Though we discussed an interesting follow-up. Haghish now got a PhD position. That are great news and I am looking forward discussing science with him.

There are two more papers submitted with colleagues. Another 3 papers where I am first or principal author are in preparation but first: revisions and proof-reading.