Professor Dr. Onur Güntürkün

Address Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fakultät für Psychologie
Lehrstuhl für Biopsychologie
Universitätsstraße 150
44801 Bochum

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - A three-dimensional investigation of the avian thalamofugal visual system – Functional properties, relation to the avian tectofugal system and comparison to the mammalian cortex (Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Koordination des Schwerpunktprogramms "Sensomotorische Integration" (1001) (Priority Programmes)
  - Neuronale Substrate des Arbeitsgedächtnisses (Research Grants)
  - Neuronale Grundlage der Entstehung von "Bedeutung" (Research Grants)
  - The functional role of delay activity: Dissociating working memory from reward processing (Priority Programmes)
  - Cerebrale Asymmetrien der Pfeifsprache (Research Grants)
  - Die Rolle interhemisphärischen Transfers und cerebraler Asymmetrien für die multisensorische Wahrnehmung (Research Grants)
  - Combining cells and behavior: Neuronal foundations of extinction and renewal (Research Units)
  - Koordinationsprojekt (Research Units)
  - Development of a neuronal causal model for mechanisms underlying goal activation processes in 'multitasking'. (Research Grants)
  - Structures of bird brains and their relationship to cognitive capacity, metabolic costs and limitations to brain growth (Research Grants)
As Spokesperson
- Current projects
  - SFB 1280: Extinction Learning (Collaborative Research Centres)
- Completed projects
  - SPP 1001: Sensomotorische Integration (Priority Programmes)
  - FOR 1581: Extinction Learning: Behavioural, Neural and Clinical Mechanisms (Research Units)
As Participating Researcher
- Current projects
  - GRK 2185: Situated Cognition - New Concepts in Investigating Core Mental Phenomena (Research Training Groups)
- Completed projects
  - GSC 98: Ruhr-University Research School (Graduate Schools)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Multisensory integration of navigational information in the avian telencephalon (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Compass and map neurons in the avian brain (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Extinction Learning in the 4th Dimension (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Focus Group Learning Dynamics (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Public outreach (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Central administration (Collaborative Research Centres)
- Completed projects
  - Neuronale Grundlagen der visuellen Lateralisation (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Neuronale Substrate visuokognitiver Leistungen bei Tauben (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - The Emergence of Perceptual Categories at Forebrain Level (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Kognitive Leistungen und motorische Kontrolle im "Präfrontalen Cortex" von Tauben (Priority Programmes)
  - Dopaminergic control of preference for reward maximization and reward unpredictability during free choice. (Research Grants)
As Co-Investigator
- Completed projects
  - Interhemispheric integration in different sensory modalities and their relation to callosal microstructure and functional brain asymmetries (Research Grants)

As Prizewinner
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm 2013
- Communicator-Preis 2014