Onur Güntürkün (born 18 July 1958, in
Ä°zmir
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) is a Turkish-German
neuroscientist
A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist specializing in neuroscience that deals with the anatomy and function of neurons, Biological neural network, neural circuits, and glia, and their Behavior, behavioral, biological, and psycholo ...
. He is professor of
behavioral neuroscience at
Ruhr University Bochum.
Güntürkün studied psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1975 to 1980 and received his PhD in 1984.
Awards
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2013)
See also
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Bird intelligence
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Avian pallium
References
Living people
1958 births
German neuroscientists
Turkish neuroscientists
Academic staff of Ruhr University Bochum
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