Prof. Dr. Metin Üngör

Publications

Torrents-Rodas, D., Koenig, S., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2023). The effect of prediction error on overt attention and learning in humans. Behavioural Processes, 206, 104843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2023.104843

Willadsen, M., Uengoer, M., Sługocka, A., Schwarting, R. K. W., Homberg, J. R., & Wöhr, M. (2021). Fear Extinction and Predictive Trait-Like Inter-Individual Differences in Rats Lacking the Serotonin Transporter. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(13). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22137088

Torrents-Rodas, D., Koenig, S., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2021). Evidence for two attentional mechanisms during learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(12), 2112–2123. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211019308

Donoso, J. R., Packheiser, J., Pusch, R., Lederer, Z., Walther, T., Uengoer, M., Lachnit, H., Güntürkün, O., & Cheng, S. (2021). Emergence of complex dynamics of choice due to repeated exposures to extinction learning. Animal Cognition, 24(6), 1279–1297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01521-4 

Bernal-Gamboa, R., Almaguer-Azpeitia, M., Carreón, D., Nieto, J., & Uengoer, M. (2021). Positive affective states can play the role of context to renew extinguished instrumental behavior in rats. Behavioural Processes, 187, 104376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104376

Torrents-Rodas, D., Koenig, S., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2021). A rise in prediction error increases attention to irrelevant cues. Biological Psychology, 159, 108007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.108007

Lipp, J., Draganova, R., Batsikadze, G., Ernst, T. M., Uengoer, M., & Timmann, D. (2020). Prefrontal but not cerebellar tDCS attenuates renewal of extinguished conditioned eyeblink responses. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 170, 107137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107137

Nieto, J., Mason, T. A., Bernal-Gamboa, R., & Uengoer, M. (2020). The impacts of acquisition and extinction cues on ABC renewal of voluntary behaviors. Learning & Memory, 27(3), 114–118. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.050831.119

Packheiser, J., Pusch, R., Stein, C. C., Güntürkün, O., Lachnit, H., & Uengoer, M. (2020). How competitive is cue competition? The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(1), 104–114. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819866967

Steiner, K. M., Jansen, S., Adeishvili, N., Hulst, T., Ernst, T. M., Müller, O., Wondzinski, E., Göricke, S. L., Siebler, M., Uengoer, M., & Timmann, D. (2020). Extinction of cognitive associations is preserved in patients with cerebellar disease. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 169, 107185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107185 

Uengoer, M., Klass, A., Tegenthoff, M., & Lissek, S. (2020). Test-retest reliability of response recovery after discrimination reversal learning. Behavioural Processes, 176, 104107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104107

Uengoer, M., Lachnit, H., & Pearce, J. M. (2020). The role of common elements in the redundancy effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46(3), 286–296. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000236

Uengoer, M., Lissek, S., Tegenthoff, M., Manahan-Vaughan, D., & Lachnit, H. (2020). Principles of extinction learning of nonaversive experience. Neuroforum, 0(0), 80. https://doi.org/10.1515/nf-2020-0013

Uengoer, M., Thorwart, A., Lucke, S., Wöhr, M., & Lachnit, H. (2020). Adding or removing context components equally disrupts extinction in human predictive learning. Behavioural Processes, 179, 104216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104216

Willadsen, M., Uengoer, M., Schwarting, R. K.W., Homberg, J. R., & Wöhr, M. (2020). Reduced emission of alarm 22-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations during fear conditioning in rats lacking the serotonin transporter. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 110072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.110072

Livesey, E. J., Don, H. J., Uengoer, M., & Thorwart, A. (2019). Transfer of associability and relational structure in human associative learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition, 45(2), 125–142. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000197

Uengoer, M., Dwyer, D. M., Koenig, S., & Pearce, J. M. (2019). A test for a difference in the associability of blocked and uninformative cues in human predictive learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(2), 222–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1345957

Uengoer, M., Lachnit, H., & Pearce, J. M. (2019). The fate of redundant cues in human predictive learning: The outcome ratio effect. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(8), 1945–1960. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818820042

Bernal-Gamboa, R., Nieto, J., & Uengoer, M. (2018). Removing but not adding elements of a context affects generalization of instrumental responses. Learning & Behavior, 46(3), 256–264. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-017-0307-9

Koenig, S., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2018). Pupil dilation indicates the coding of past prediction errors: Evidence for attentional learning theory. Psychophysiology, 55(4), e13020. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13020

Uengoer, M., Lucke, S., & Lachnit, H. (2018). Attention toward contexts modulates context-specificity of behavior in human predictive learning: Evidence from the n-back task. Learning & Behavior, 46(3), 320–326. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-018-0318-1

Uengoer, M., Pearce, J. M., Lachnit, H., & Koenig, S. (2018). Context modulation of learned attention deployment. Learning & Behavior, 46(1), 23–37. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-017-0277-y

Bernal-Gamboa, R., Nieto, J., & Uengoer, M. (2017). Effects of Extinction in Multiple Contexts on Renewal of Instrumental Responses. Behavioural Processes, 142, 64–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2017.06.003

Koenig, S., Kadel, H., Uengoer, M., Schubö, A., & Lachnit, H. (2017). Reward Draws the Eye, Uncertainty Holds the Eye: Associative Learning Modulates Distractor Interference in Visual Search. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 24. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00128

Koenig, S., Nauroth, P., Lucke, S., Lachnit, H., Gollwitzer, M., & Uengoer, M. (2017). Fear acquisition and liking of out-group and in-group members: Learning bias or attention? Biological Psychology, 129, 195–206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.08.060

Koenig, S., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2017). Attentional bias for uncertain cues of shock in human fear conditioning: Evidence for attentional learning theory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 24. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00266

Nieto, J., Uengoer, M., & Bernal-Gamboa, R. (2017). A reminder of extinction reduces relapse in an animal model of voluntary behavior. Learning & Memory, 24(2), 76–80. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.044495.116

Thorwart, A., Uengoer, M., Livesey, E. J., & Harris, J. A. (2017). Summation Effects in Human Learning: Evidence from Patterning Discriminations in Goal-Tracking. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(7), 1366–1379. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1184290

Bustamante, J., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2016). Reminder cues modulate the renewal effect in human predictive learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 80. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01968

Bustamante, J., Uengoer, M., Thorwart, A., & Lachnit, H. (2016). Extinction in multiple contexts: Effects on the rate of extinction and the strength of response recovery. Learning & Behavior, 44(3), 283–294. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-016-0212-7

Starosta, S., Uengoer, M., Bartetzko, I., Lucke, S., Güntürkün, O., & Stüttgen, M. C. (2016). Context specificity of both acquisition and extinction of a Pavlovian conditioned response. Learning & Memory, 23(11), 639–643. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.043075.116

Chang, D.-I., Lissek, S., Ernst, T. M., Thürling, M., Uengoer, M., Tegenthoff, M., Ladd, M. E., & Timmann, D. (2015). Cerebellar contribution to context processing in extinction learning and recall. The Cerebellum, 14(6), 670–676. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12311-015-0670-z

Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T., Uengoer, M., & Schubö, A. (2015). You see what you have learned. Evidence for an interrelation of associative learning and visual selective attention. Psychophysiology, 52(11), 1483–1497. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12514

Lengersdorf, D., Marks, D., Uengoer, M., Stüttgen, M. C., & Güntürkün, O. (2015). Blocking NMDA-receptors in the pigeon’s “prefrontal” caudal nidopallium impairs appetitive extinction learning in a sign-tracking paradigm. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00085

Lengersdorf, D., Stüttgen, M. C., Uengoer, M., & Güntürkün, O. (2014). Transient inactivation of the pigeon hippocampus or the nidopallium caudolaterale during extinction learning impairs extinction retrieval in an appetitive conditioning paradigm. Behavioural Brain Research, 265, 93–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.025

Lucke, S., Lachnit, H., Stüttgen, M. C., & Uengoer, M. (2014). The impact of context relevance during extinction learning. Learning & Behavior, 42(3), 256–269. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-014-0143-0

Hamacher-Dang, T. C., Uengoer, M., & Wolf, O. T. (2013). Stress impairs retrieval of extinguished and unextinguished associations in a predictive learning task. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 104, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.04.007

Lachnit, H., Thorwart, A., Schultheis, H., Lotz, A., Koenig, S., & Uengoer, M. (2013). Indicators of early and late processing reveal the importance of within-trial-time for theories of associative learning. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e66291. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066291

Lissek, S., Glaubitz, B., Uengoer, M., & Tegenthoff, M. (2013). Hippocampal activation during extinction learning predicts occurrence of the renewal effect in extinction recall. NeuroImage, 81, 131–143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.025

Lucke, S., Lachnit, H., Koenig, S., & Uengoer, M. (2013). The informational value of contexts affects context-dependent learning. Learning & Behavior, 41(3), 285–297. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-013-0104-z

Uengoer, M., Lachnit, H., Lotz, A., Koenig, S., & Pearce, J. M. (2013). Contextual control of attentional allocation in human discrimination learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39(1), 56–66. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030599

Uengoer, M., Lotz, A., & Pearce, J. M. (2013). The fate of redundant cues in human predictive learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39(4), 323–333. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034073 Featured in APA PeePs (Particularly Exciting Experiments in Psychology), Issue 9, November 14, 2013 https://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/peeps/issue-09

Lotz, A., Uengoer, M., Koenig, S., Pearce, J. M., & Lachnit, H. (2012). An exploration of the feature-positive effect in adult humans. Learning & Behavior, 40(2), 222–230. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-011-0057-z

Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2012). Modulation of attention in discrimination learning: The roles of stimulus relevance and stimulus–outcome correlation. Learning & Behavior, 40(2), 117–127. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-011-0049-z

Lachnit, H., Schultheis, H., König, S., Üngör, M., & Melchers, K. (2008). Comparing elemental and configural associative theories in human causal learning: A case for attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34(2), 303–313. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.34.2.303

Üngör, M., & Lachnit, H. (2008). Dissociations among ABA, ABC, and AAB recovery effects. Learning and Motivation, 39(3), 181–195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2007.08.001

Üngör, M., & Lachnit, H. (2006). Contextual control in discrimination reversal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32(4), 441–453. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.32.4.441 

Melchers, K. G., Lachnit, H., Üngör, M., & Shanks, D. R. (2005). Prior experience can influence whether the whole is different from the sum of its parts. Learning and Motivation, 36(1), 20–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2004.06.002

Melchers, K. G., Üngör, M., & Lachnit, H. (2005). The experimental task influences cue competition in human causal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31(4), 477–483. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.31.4.477