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Pigeons as a model species for cognitive neuroscience

• O. Güntürkün

  His high school diploma in Izmir, Turkey, and studied psychology at Bochum University in Germany, completing his PhD studies in 1984. Following research visits in Homburg (Germany), CNRS Neurosciences (Paris, France), UCSD Medical School (San Diego, USA) and Konstanz (Germany), he was appointed professor for biopsychology at Bochum University in 1993, where he has been ever since, only interrupted by extended research visits to Brisbane (Australia), Izmir (Turkey) and Antwerp (Belgium). He was awarded two honorary doctorates as well as a whole range of further prestigious awards, such as the Alfred Krupp Price (1995), the Wilhelm Wundt Medal (2006), the Higher Achievement Award of the Turkish Republic (2009), as well as the Leibniz (2013) and the Communicator Awards of the German Research Foundation (2014).

  , M.C. Stüttgen

  Studied psychology and neurosciences at the Universities of Giessen and Tübingen (both Germany), respectively. He conducted his doctoral studies on the physiology of perception in the rat whisker system under the supervision of Cornelius Schwarz at Tübingen University, obtaining his PhD in 2007. He then joined the group of Onur Güntürkün in Bochum and investigated single-neuron activity in the nidopallium caudolaterale of operantly conditioned, freely moving pigeons. In 2013, he spent six months with Arthur Houweling at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, working on the effects of single-cell stimulation on the local neural network in mouse cortex. Since June 2014, he is working as assistant professor at the University Medical Center in Mainz (Germany), investigating neural and psychological processes underlying adaptive behavior.

  und M. Manns

  Studied biology at the Universities of Bochum and Bielefeld (both Germany). She completed her PhD studies on the development of visual asymmetries in pigeons under the supervision of Onur Güntürkün in Konstanz and Bochum and continued to work as a postdoctoral researcher with Onur Güntürkün on cerebral asymmetries and with Rolf Heumann (also in Bochum) on adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus. She obtained her habilitation in cognitive neuroscience in 2007 and was appointed adjunct professor at the Faculty of Psychology in 2013.