Biopsychologie

Dr. rer. nat. Roland Pusch

Ruhr-University Bochum
Fakultät für Psychologie
AE Biopsychologie
D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Room: IB 6-131
Phone: +49 234 32 24037
Fax: +49 234 32 14377
Email: roland.pusch@rub.de

Since 2013	Postdoc at the University of Bochum in the lab of Onur Güntürkün
2012 – 2013	Student teacher (Studienreferendar) at the Zentrum für schulpraktische Lehrerausbildung Vettweiß; Supervising school: Franken-Gymnasium Zülpich (2nd state examination for teaching at secondary schools (Sekundarstufe I und II))
2009– 2012	Associate member of the Graduate School "Bionics - Interactions across Boundaries to the Environment" at the University of Bonn
2007 – 2010	Post-graduate fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
2007 – 2013	PhD student in the lab of Prof. Dr. G. von der Emde, Institute of Zoology, Department of Neuroethology/sensory Ecology at Bonn University, Germany. Title: “Environmental imaging with two sensory systems in Gnathonemus petersii.”
2000 – 2006	Studies in Biology and Social Science at the University of Bonn

Clark, W., Chilcott, M., Azizi, A., Pusch, R., Perry, K. & Colombo, M. (2022) Neurons in the pigeon visual network discriminate between faces, scrambled faces, and sine grating images. Sci Rep 12, 589. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04559-z

Pusch, R., Packheiser, J., Koenen, C. Iovine, F. & Güntürkün, O. (2022) Digital embryos: a novel technical approach to investigate perceptual categorization in pigeons (Columba livia) using machine learning. Anim Cogn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01594-1

Güntürkün, O., von Eugen, K., Packheiser, J. and Pusch, R. (2021) Avian pallial circuits and cognition – A comparison to mammals, Current Opinion in Neurobiology 71:29-36. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2021.08.007

Donoso, J., Packheiser, J., Pusch, R., Lederer, Z., Walther, T., Uengoer, M., Lachnit, H., Güntürkün, O. and Cheng, S. (2021) Emergence of complex dynamics of choice due to repeated exposures to extinction, Animal Cognition. doi: 10.1007/s10071-021-01521-4.

Rook, N., Tuff, J., Isparta, S., Masseck, O., Herlitze, S., Güntürkün, O., Pusch, R. (2021) AAV1 is the optimal viral vector for optogenetic experiments in pigeons (Columba livia), Communications Biology 4, 100. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01595-9.

Packheiser, J., Donoso, J., Cheng, S., Güntürkün, O. and Pusch, R. (2021) Trial-by-trial dynamics of reward prediction error associated signals during extinction learning and renewal, Progress in Neurobiology 23, 101901. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101901.

Behroozi, M., Helluy, X., Ströckens, F., Gao, M., Pusch, R., Tabrik, S., Tegenthoff, M., Otto, T., Axmacher, N., Kumsta, R., Moser, D., Genç, E., and Güntürkün, O. (2020) Event-related functional MRI of awake behaving pigeons at 7T, Nature Communications 11, 4715. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18437-1.

Güntürkün, O., Stüttgen, M.C., Starosta, S., Pusch, R., Gao, M., Nitsche, M., Ernst, T.M., Ladd, M.E., Quick, H.H. and Timmann, D. (2020) Beyond the classic extinction network: A wider, comparative view, NeuroForum 26, 161-169. doi: 10.1515/nf-2020-0015.

Packheiser, J., Pusch, R., Stein, C.C., Güntürkün, O., Lachnit, H. and Uengoer, M. (2020) How competitive is cue competition?, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 73, 104-114.

Packheiser, J., Güntürkün, O. and Pusch, R. (2019) Renewal of extinguished behavior in pigeons (Columba livia) does not require memory consolidation of acquisition or extinction in one-day free-operant appetitive conditioning paradigms, Behavioural Brain Research 370, 111947.

Gao, M., Pusch, R. and Güntürkün, O. (2019) Blocking NMDA-receptors in the pigeon's medial striatum impairs extinction acquisition and induces a motoric disinhibition in an appetitive classical conditioning paradigm, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 13,153.

Azizi, A.*, Pusch, R.*, Koenen, C., Klatt, S., Bröker, F., Thiele, S., Kellermann, J., Güntürkün, O. and Cheng, S. (2019) Emerging category representation in the visual forebrain hierarchy of pigeons (Columba livia), Behavioural Brain Research 356, 423-434. (*equal contribution).

Güntürkün, O., Koenen, C., Iovine, F., Garland, A. and Pusch, R. (2018) The neuroscience of perceptual categorization in pigeons: A mechanistic hypothesis, Learning & Behavior 46, 229-241.

Koenen, C., Pusch, R., Bröker, F., Thiele, S. and Güntürkün, O. (2016) Categories in the pigeon brain: A reverse engineering approach, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 105, 111-122.

Lengersdorf, D., Pusch, R., Güntürkün, O. and Stüttgen, M.C. (2014) Neurons in the pigeon nidopallium caudolaterale signal the selection and execution of perceptual decisions, European Journal of Neuroscience 40, 3316-3327.

Francke, M., Kreysing, M., Mack, A., Engelmann, J., Karl, A., Makarov, F., Guck, J., Kolle, M., Wolburg, H., Pusch, R., von der Emde, G., Schuster, S., Wagner, H.-J. and Reichenbach, A. (2014) Grouped retinae and tapetal cups in some teleostian fish: occurrence, structure, and function, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research 38, 43-69.

Pusch, R., Wagner, H.-J., von der Emde, G. and Engelmann J. (2013) Spatial resolution of an eye containing a grouped retina: ganglion cell morphology and tectal physiology in the weakly electric fish Gnathonemus petersii, Journal of Comparative Neurology 521, 4075-4093.

Pusch, R., Kassing, V., Riemer, U., Wagner, H.-J., von der Emde, G. and Engelmann J. (2013) A grouped retina provides high temporal resolution in the weakly electric fish Gnathonemus petersii, Journal of Physiology - Paris 107, 84-94.

Kreysing*, M., Pusch*, R., Haverkate*, D., Landsberger*, M., Engelmann*, J., Ruiter, J., Mora-Ferrer, C., Ulbricht, E., Grosche, J., Franze, K., Streif, S., Schumacher, S., Makarov, F., Kacza, J., Guck, J., Wolburg, H., Bowmaker, J., von der Emde, G., Schuster, S., Wagner, H.-J., Reichenbach, A. and Franke, M. (2012) Photonic crystal light collectors in fish retina improve vision in turbid water, Science 336, 1700-1703. (*equal contribution)

von der Emde, G., Amey, M., Fetz, S., Folde, C., Hollmann, M., Metzen, M. and Pusch, R. (2008) Active electrolocation in Gnathonemus petersii: behaviour, sensory performance, and receptor systems, Journal of Comparative Physiology - Paris 102, 279-290.

Engelmann, J., Bacelo, J., Metzen, M., Pusch, R., Bouton, B., Migliaro, A., Caputi, A., Budelli, R., Grant, K., and von der Emde, G. (2008) Electric imaging through active electrolocation: implication for the analysis of complex scenes, Biological Cybernetics 98, 519-539.

Engelmann, J., Pusch, R. and von der Emde, G. (2008) Active sensing: pre-receptor mechanisms and behaviour in electric fish, Communicative and Integrative Biology: Vol. 1, 29-31.

Pusch, R., von der Emde, G., Hollmann, M., Bacelo, J., Nöbel, S., Grant, K. and Engelmann J. (2008) Active sensing in a mormyrid fish - electric images and peripheral modifications of the signal carrier give evidence of dual foveation, Journal of Experimental Biology 211, 921-934.