Dr. rer. nat. Neslihan Wittek
Ruhr-University Bochum
Fakultät für Psychologie
AE Biopsychologie
D-44780 Bochum, Germany
Room: IB 6-135
Phone: +49 234 32 26804
Fax: +49 234 32 14377
E-Mail: neslihan.wittek@rub.de
Curriculum Vitae
| Since 2022 | Postdoc at the Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 2018 - 2021 | PhD Student at the Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 2017 - 2018 | Research Assistant at the Department of Biopsychology |
| 2013 - 2017 | M.Sc. Environmental Sciences at Bogazici University, Turkey: The Effects of Reward Maximization and Reward Unpredictability On Pigeons’ Foraging Decisions and Dopamine’s Role On Pigeons’ Choice |
| 2009 - 2013 | B.Sc. Biology, Istanbul University, Turkey |
Methods and Research Interests
- Decision making
- Avian cognition and behaviour
- Computational ethology
- Comparative cognition
Full publication list
- Anselme, P., Wittek, N., Oeksuez, F., Güntürkün, O. (2022). Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons. Behavioural Processes, 201, 104728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104728
- Wittek, N., Wittek, K., Keibel, C., Güntürkün, O. (2022). Supervised machine learning aided behavior classification in pigeons. Behav Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01881-w
- Wittek, N., Oeksuez, F., Güntürkün, O. & Anselme, P. (2022). More opportunities to peck for identical food availability increases foraging efficiency in pigeons, Behaviour.
- Wittek, N., Matsui, H., Behroozi, M., Otto, T., Wittek, K., Sarı, N., Stoecker, S., Letzner, S., Choudhary, V., Peterburs, J., & Güntürkün, O. (2021). Unihemispheric evidence accumulation in pigeons. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, 47(3), 303–316. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000290
- Wittek, N., Matsui, H., Kessel, N., Oeksuez, F., Güntürkün, O., & Anselme, P. (2021). Mirror Self-Recognition in Pigeons: Beyond the Pass-or-Fail Criterion. Frontiers in Psychology, 12.
- Wittek, N., Wittek, K., Güntürkün, O. & Anselme, P. (2021). Decreased key pecking in response to reward uncertainty and surprising delay extension in pigeons. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 34, 1-17.
- Anselme P., Edeş N., Tabrik S., Güntürkün O, (2018). Long-term behavioral sensitization to apomorphine is independent of conditioning and increases conditioned pecking, but not preference, in pigeons. Behavioral Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2017.08.037
- Di Addario M., Temizel I., Edeş N., Onay T., Demirel B., Copty N., 2017. A Fuzzy-Logic-Simulated Landfill Model to Predict the Effects Of ZnO Nanoparticles On Methane Generation In Landfills. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2017.10.033.