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.