Daniele Ortu

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter

• Cihon, T.M., Becker, A.M., Ortu, D., Glenn, S. (2020). Establishing a research lab for cultural science. Behavior science perspectives on culture and community.

Journal Article

• Caldwell, J., Gopal, K.V., Ortu, D., Miller, S.E. (2024). Electrophysiological auditory measures to identify potential cortical markers of tinnitus. Brain Research. 1842 Elsevier.
• Luc, O.T., Ortu, D. (2023). Distal and Proximal Sources of Stimulus Control in a Virtual Maze as a Function of Task Difficulty: A Preliminary Study. The Psychological Record. Springer.
• Schleifer-Katz , E.Z., Ortu, D. (2022). Crafting Sequences of Sight and Sound: A Behavior Analysis of Filmmaking. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Springer. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40616-022-00178-5
• Ortu, D., Bugg, R. (2022). Response Systems, Antagonistic Responses, and the Behavioral Repertoire.. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Modulation of Behavioral Outcomes by Conditioning Competing States, Valences, or Responses. Frontiers Publishing. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.778420/abstract
• Ortu, D., Vaidya, M. (2020). Intraexperimental development of priming and event related potentials effects with abstract geometrical stimuli. Other. 172 Elsevier. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85078174002
• Niland, H., Ortu, D. (2020). Confessions Selected by Consequences: An Operant Analysis of False Confessions and Interrogation Techniques. Behavior and Social Issues. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42822-019-00025-8
• Ortu, D., Cihon, T.M. (2018). A neuro-operant analysis of mnemonic recognition. Perspectives on Behavior Science. 42 (2) 267-281.
• Pal, A., Ortu, D. (2018). A Book Review on Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. Jastreboff, P., & Hazell, J. (2004). Tinnitus Retraining Therapy: Implementing the Neurophysiological Model.. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
• Ortu, D., Vaidya, M. (2016). The Challenges of Integrating Behavioral and Neural Data: Bridging and Breaking Boundaries Across Levels of Analysis. Other.
• Vaidya, M., Hudgins, C.D., Ortu, D. (2015). Conditional discriminations, symmetry, and semantic priming. Other. 118 90–97. Elsevier.
• Ortu, D. (2015). How do we remember traumatic events? Exploring the role of neuromodulation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 38 Cambridge University Press.
• Ortu, D., Vaidya, M. (2013). A Neurobiology of Learning beyond the Declarative Non-Declarative Distinction. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
• Ortu, D., Allan, K., Donaldson, D.I. (2013). Is the N400 effect a neurophysiological index of associative relationships?. Neuropsychologia. 51 (9) 1742–1748. Pergamon.
• Ortu, D., Skavhaug, I., Vaidya, M. (2013). Timescales of Learning in the Basal Ganglia and the Hippocampus. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 7 (98)
• Ortu, D., Becker, A.M., Woelz, T.A., Glenn, S.S. (2012). An iterated four-player prisoner’s dilemma game with an external selecting agent: A metacontingency experiment. Other. 44 (1) 111–120. Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz.
• Ortu, D. (2012). Neuroscientific measures of covert behavior. Other. 35 (1) 75–87. Springer International Publishing.
• Schlund, M., Ortu, D. (2010). Experience-dependent changes in human brain activation during contingency learning. Neuroscience. 165 (1) 151–158. Elsevier.

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Ortu, D. (2018). Consiousness and Decision Making: A Neuro-Operant Perspective. B.F. Skinner Foundation. https://www.bfskinner.org/behavioral-science/operants/

Webpage

• Ortu, D. (2023). It Sounds like Sci-fi: A Giant Network of Repertoires. https://science.abainternational.org/2023/12/06/it-sounds-like-sci-fi-a-giant-network-of-repertoires/

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Ortu, D., "Ph. D. Full Funding," sponsored by SINAPSE, State, $65000 Funded. (2008 - 2011).
• Ortu, D., "Borsa di Studio," State, $1100 Funded. ( - 1997).

Grant - Research

• Ortu, D., Rosales, J. (Co-Principal), Bugg, R. (Supporting), "A Novel Approach to Event-Related Potentials based on the Free-Operant Paradigm - Grantwriting Support," sponsored by Seed Grant from HPS - University of North Texas, University of North Texas, Funded. (2021 - 2022).

Sponsored Research

• Becker, A. (Co-Principal), Ortu, D. (Co-Principal), "The Beatrice H. Barrett Endowment for Research in Neuro-Operant Relations," sponsored by The Beatrice H. Barrett Endowment for Research in Neuro-Operant Relations, Private, $3500000 Funded. (2003).