University of St Andrews
 
 
Sea Mammal Research Unit

Dr Thomas Götz
Research Fellow

Scottish Oceans Institute
East Sands
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 8LB
UK

Research interests:

  • Psycho-physiological basis of aversivness of sound
  • Sensory and behavioural ecology in marine mammals
  • Impact of anthropgenic noise on marine mammals
  • Echolocation behaviour

 

Publications

Gotz, T & Janik, VM 2011, ' Repeated elicitation of the acoustic startle reflex leads to sensitisation in subsequent avoidance behaviour and induces fear conditioning ' BioMed Central Neuroscience , vol 12, pp. 30.
Gotz, T , Antunes, R & Heinrich, S 2010, ' Echolocation clicks of free-ranging Chilean dolphins ( Cephalorhynchus eutropia ) ' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , vol 128, no. 2, pp. 563-566.
Gotz, T & Janik, VM 2010, ' Aversiveness of sounds in phocid seals: psycho-physiological factors, learning processes and motivation ' Journal of Experimental Biology , vol 213, no. 9, pp. 1536-1548.
Gotz, T , Verfuss, UK & Schnitzler, H-U 2006, ' Eavesdropping in wild rough-toothed dolphins (Steno bredanensis) ? ' Biology Letters , vol 2, no. 1, pp. 5-7.
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