The biopsychologist at Ruhr University is not only considered an outstanding researcher. He is also very committed to his students. Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Onur Güntürkün from the Chair of Biopsychology at Ruhr University Bochum is Professor of the Year 2025. He was awarded the prize on October 27. The high-caliber jury, headed by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Radtke, honored Güntürkün for his “outstanding commitment as a university teacher and mentor.”
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Once a candidate is in the lead, our brains cannot get rid of this impression. This influences our evaluation of election results.
Hans Alves, André Vaz and Moritz Ingendahl (from left) have conducted seven consecutive online studies.
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For animals, sleeping on their left side is not about comfort. It is a survival strategy.
Cats prefer to sleep on their left side. This is the conclusion drawn by an international research team that analyzed several hundred YouTube videos of sleeping cats. The researchers see this bias as an evolutionary advantage because it favors hunting and escape behavior after waking up.
[…]The research team around Dr. Sevim Isparta from the Animal Physiology and Behaviour Research Unit in Bari and Professor Onur Güntürkün from the Bochum working group Biopsychology wanted to find out whether cats prefer to sleep on one side or the other. “Asymmetries in behavior can have advantages because both hemispheres of the brain specialize in different tasks,” says Onur Güntürkün.
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