• Research Units
  • Functional Architecture of Memory (Sauvage)
  • Neurobiology of Memory (Cheng)
  • Theory of Memory (Werning)
• Publications
• Events
• Team
• Visiting Senior Scientists
• Collaboration Partners
• Open Positions

Mentors

Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Onur Güntürkün
Faculty of Psychology, Department of Biopsychology

Prof. Dr. Denise Manahan-Vaughan
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurophysiology

Prof. Dr. Albert Newen
Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Research, Institute for Philosophy II

Membership in Consortia

ERA-NET NEURON
“Linking post-stroke autoimmunity and dementia” (invited full proposal)

ESF-ROP
"Grasping Discourses. The Role of Mental Simulation in Linguistic Comprehension and Production Processes"

Sonderforschungsbereich 874
“Integration and Representation of Sensory Processes”

ZIF- The Cultural Construction of Causal Cognition
“Re-Integrating Anthropology into the Cognitive Sciences"

Collaborations

Functional Architecture of Memory:
Philosophy: Colin Allen (Indiana U, USA) | Albert Newen (RUB)
Human experimental studies: Andrew Yonelinas (U of California, Davis, USA) | Emrah Duezel (DZNE, Magdeburg) | Stephan Herpertz (LWL, Bochum) | Boris Suchan (RUB)
Animal experimental studies: Takashi Kitsukawa (Osaka University, Japan) | Mathias Hoehn (MPI, Köln) | Heinz Beck and Sandra Blaess (U of Bonn) | Carsten Korth (U Düsseldorf) | Onur Güntürkün (RUB) | Stefan Herlitze (RUB)

Neurobiology of Memory
Christian Bellebaum (U Düsseldorf) | Patrick Crotty (Colgate U, USA) | Yuri Dabaghian (Baylor College of Medicine & Rice U, USA) | Kamran Diba (U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) | Onur Güntürkün (RUB) | Lynn Nadel (U of Arizona, USA) | Fritz Sommer (UC Berkeley, USA) | Alireza Valizadeh (IASBS, Zanjan, Iran) | Laurenz Wiskott (RUB)

Theory of Memory
Internal: Onur Güntürkün, Lars Kuchinke, Albert Newen, Adina Carmen Rusu-Klappheck, Tobias Schlicht, Tobias Schmidt-Wilke, Heinrich Wansing
External: David Bain (U Glasgow), Erica Cosentino (U Calabria), Alan Goldman (U Rutgers), Wolfram Hinzen (U Durham), Nikola Kompa (U Osnabrück), Peter König (U Osnabrück), Sebastian Löbner (SFB 991, U Düsseldorf), Frederike Moltmann (CNRS Paris), Hannes Rakocyz (U Göttingen), Ricarda I. Schubotz (U Münster, MPI Köln, MPI Leipzig), Gerhard Schurz (U Düsseldorf), Achim Stephan (U Osnabrück), Gabriella Vigliocco (UC London)