Onur Güntürkün

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Onur Güntürkün, in a session on "cognition without cortex"[1] at the Festival della Scienza 2017

Onur Güntürkün (born 18 July 1958, in İzmir) is a Turkish-German neuroscientist. He is professor of behavioral neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum.[2] Güntürkün studied psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1975 to 1980 and received his PhD in 1984.[3]

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  1. ^ Güntürkün, Onur; Bugnyar, Thomas (April 2016). "Cognition without Cortex". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 20 (4): 291–303. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.02.001. Cognition in corvids and parrots reaches the same level of excellence and diversity as in apes. Among others, bird cognition encompasses abilities such as delay of gratification, mental time travel, reasoning, metacognition, mirror self-recognition, theory of mind, and third-party intervention. The cerebrum of birds and mammals is homologous but very differently organized. Birds lack a neocortex but have instead several large pallial aggregations without apparent laminar structure. However, according to some scientists, these aggregations might correspond to cortical layers.
  2. ^ Willmann, Urs (23 December 2007). "Wie das Denken entsteht" [How thinking works]. Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 2014-09-09.
  3. ^ "Ruhr-Universität Bochum Hochschulbibliographie". Archived from the original on 2014-09-10. Retrieved 2014-09-09.