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Onur Güntürkün (born 18 July 1958, in
Onur Güntürkün (born 18 July 1958, in İzmir
İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...
) is a Turkish-German neuroscientist
A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial ...
. He is professor of behavioral neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum
The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...
.
Güntürkün studied psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1975 to 1980 and received his PhD in 1984.
Awards
* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2013)See also
*Bird intelligence
The difficulty of defining or measuring intelligence in non-human animals makes the subject difficult to study scientifically in birds. In general, birds have relatively large brains compared to their head size. The visual and auditory senses are ...
* Avian pallium
References
Living people 1958 births German neuroscientists Turkish neuroscientists Ruhr University Bochum faculty {{neuroscientist-stub