Pendleton Read Montague, Jr. | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Education | Auburn University University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Known for | Temporal difference learning |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Baylor College of Medicine Virginia Tech University College London |
| Thesis | An application of fractal sets to the analysis of neuritic patterns of cultured cat retinal ganglion cells (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Friedlander |
| Other academic advisors | Terry Sejnowski Gerald Edelman |
| Doctoral students | David Eagleman |
Pendleton Read Montague, Jr. (born 1960) is an American neuroscientist and popular science author. He is the director of the Human Neuroimaging Lab and Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC in Roanoke, Virginia, where he also holds the title of the inaugural Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor. Montague is also a professor in the department of physics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia and professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.