Dr. Metin Üngör (Uengoer)

Resarch Assistent

Philipps-Universität Marburg
Department of Psychology
Associative Learning Group

Adress: Gutenbergstr. 18, 35037 Marburg
Phone: +49 6421 2823439

mailto:metin.uengoer@staff.uni-marburg.de

Research Interests:

My research is concerned with the mechanisms underlying associative learning in humans. In particular, I am interested in the role of attentional processes in discrimination learning and categorisation.  

Another line of research is focused on how behaviour comes under the control of contextual stimuli. I approach this questing by exploring an effect called renewal. Renewal refers to the recovery of an extinguished response when there is a change in the context present during the extinction of this response. As an example, take a situation in which a patient suffers from a relapse at home after having successfully completed an exposure-based treatment in a therapeutic setting.

Selected Publications

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

Üngör, M. & Lachnit, H. (2008). Dissociations among ABA, ABC, and AAB Recovery Effects. Learning and Motivation, 39, 181-195.

Üngör, M. & Lachnit, H. (2006). Contextual Control in Discrimination Reversal Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 441-453.

Melchers, K., 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, 20-41.

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.