Contacts
Institute: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
Group: Comparative Behavioural Research Group
Office: D4.05A
Curriculum vitae
Profile:
Behaviour science, Ethology, Comparative cognition
Dorottya Júlia Ujfalussy was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1975. She received an MSc degree in biology from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, in 2003. From 2003 she started her doctoral studies at the Department of Ethology at the Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University. She studied avian cognition at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in 2005 – 2006 on a scholarship from the Stiftung Aktion Österreich Ungarn. From 2006 she was employed as Research Assistant by the Department of Ethology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University. She was on parental leave from 2010 to 2015, with two children. She received her PhD degree in 2015 and was employed as Research Fellow by the Department of Ethology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University and by the MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group. Since 2015 she is a Research Fellow at the Department of Ethology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University. Since 2022 she is also a research fellow at Research Center for Natural Sciences Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, working in the HUNREN-ELTE NAP 3.0 Comparative Ethology Research Group.
Her research interests include avian and canine cognition, human ethology, and comparative psychology.
Education
MSc
Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences – Faculty of natural sciences, Budapest
Biologist, researcher 1998 – 2003
PhD
Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences – Faculty of natural sciences, Department of Ethology, Budapest
PhD in Ethology 2010 – 2015
Work experience
Assistant research fellow Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences 2003Sept – 2008 July
On scholarship research fellow Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle, Austria 2005Apr-2006March
Parental leave 2 children, Budapest 2010July – 2015Aug
Research fellow Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest 2015 Sept – Present
Research fellow Research Center for Natural Sciences,
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology 2022 Sept – Present
Selected Publications
Year/Title of PhD: Ujfalussy Dorottya Júlia (2015). Mental representations and cognitive processes related to the physical world in jackdaws (Corvus monedula) Doctoral Dissertation, 106 p., Eötvös Loránd University, ELTE Biology Doctoral School.
Most important publications:
- Laura V. Cuaya, Raúl Hernández-Pérez, Attila Andics, Rita Báji, Márta Gácsi, Marion Guilloux, Alice Roche, Laurence Callejon, Ádám Miklósi & Dorottya Júlia Ujfalussy. Representation of rewards differing in their hedonic valence in the caudate nucleus correlates with the performance in a problem-solving task in dogs (Canis familiaris). Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 14353 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40539-1
- Dorottya Júlia Ujfalussy, Zsófia Bognár, Marianna Molnár, Ádám Miklósi & Enikő Kubinyi. The difference between two brachycephalic and one mesocephalic dog breeds’ problem-solving performance suggests evidence for paedomorphism in behaviour. Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 14284 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41229-8
- M AH Bryer, S E Koopman, J F Cantlon, S T Piantadosi, E L MacLean, J M Baker, M J Beran, S M Jones, K E Jordan, S Mahamane, A Nieder, B M Perdue, F Range, J R Stevens, M Tomonaga, D J Ujfalussy, Jennifer Vonk (2022). The evolution of quantitative sensitivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1844). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0529
- Konok, V., Liszkai-Peres, K., Bunford, N., Ferdinandy, B., Jurányi, Z., Ujfalussy, D. J., … Miklósi, Á. (2021). Mobile use induces local attentional precedence and is associated with limited socio-cognitive skills in pre-schoolers. Computers in Human Behaviour, 120, 106758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106758
- Ujfalussy, D. J., Virányi, Z., Gácsi, M., Faragó, T., Pogány, Á., Bereczky, B. M., … Kubinyi, E. (2020). Comparing the tractability of young hand-raised wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris). Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71687-3
- Ujfalussy, D. J., Kurys, A., Kubinyi, E., Gácsi, M., & Virányi, Z. (2017). Differences in greeting behaviour towards humans with varying levels of familiarity in hand-reared wolves (Canis lupus). Royal Society Open Science, 4(6), 160956. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160956
- Ujfalussy, D.J., Miklósi, A., Bugnyar, T., & Kotrschal, K. (2014). Role of mental representations in quantity judgments by jackdaws (Corvus monedula). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 128(1). https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034063