Department of Biopsychology
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Faculty of Psychology
Ruhr University Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
Room:
IB 6/115
Phone:
+49 (0)234 32-26213
Email:
onur.guentuerkuen@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
I want to understand how mental functions are generated by neurons. Within this broad interest area I’m using a combination of animal and human experimentation. Thus, I try to combine the depth of neuronal analysis using animal experiments (single cell recordings, behavioral, neuroanatomical, neurochemical and neuroimaging analyses) with the power of cognitive experiments using human subjects (behavioral experiments, fMRI, patient studies). With this approach, three research topics are analyzed.
One of them is cerebral asymmetry: Here, I try to disentangle the principles, with which lateralizations emerge in ontogeny and create their profound impact on the way organisms perceive, think and act. The second interest field is cognitive control. Here, I analyze prefrontal functions with respect to working memory and decision making. The third interest field is the evolution of cognition; an area in which I collect evidence that birds and mammals have taking different but converging ways to establish equally powerful forebrain structures.
Behroozi, M., Helluy, X., Ströckens, F., Gao, M., Pusch, R., Tabrik, S., Tegenthoff, M., Otto, T., Axmacher, N., Kumsta, R., Moser, D., Genc, E., & Güntürkün, O. (2020). Event-related functional MRI of awake behaving pigeons at 7T. Nature Communications, 11(1), 4715. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18437-1
Güntürkün, O., Ströckens, F., & Ocklenburg, S. (2020). Brain Lateralization: A Comparative Perspective. Physiological Reviews, 100(3), 1019–1063. https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00006.2019
Stacho, M., Herold, C. J., Rook, N., Wagner, H., Axer, M., Amunts, K. & Güntürkün, O. (2020). A cortex-like canonical circuit in the avian forebrain. Science, 369(6511). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc5534
Anselme, P., & Güntürkün, O. (2018). How foraging works: Uncertainty magnifies food-seeking motivation. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e35. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18000948
Güntürkün, O., & Ocklenburg, S. (2017). Ontogenesis of Lateralization. Neuron, 94(2), 249–263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.02.045
Ocklenburg, S., Schmitz, J., Moinfar, Z., Moser, D., Klose, R., Lor, S., Kunz, G., Tegenthoff, M., Faustmann, P., Francks, C., Epplen, J. T., Kumsta, R., & Güntürkün, O. (2017). Epigenetic regulation of lateralized fetal spinal gene expression underlies hemispheric asymmetries. ELife, 6. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22784
Güntürkün, O., & Bugnyar, T. (2016). Cognition without Cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(4), 291–303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.02.001
Prior, H., Schwarz, A., & Güntürkün, O. (2008). Mirror-induced behavior in the magpie (Pica pica): Evidence of self-recognition. PLoS Biology, 6(8), e202. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060202
Güntürkün, O. (2003). Human behaviour: Adult persistence of head-turning asymmetry. Nature, 421(6924), 711. https://doi.org/10.1038/421711a
Wiltschko, W., Traudt, J., Güntürkün, O., Prior, H., & Wiltschko, R. (2002). Lateralization of magnetic compass orientation in a migratory bird. Nature, 419(6906), 467–470. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature00958
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