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Read Montague, PhD

Dr. Read Montague
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Human Neuroimaging Lab
Baylor College of Medicine

1 Baylor Plaza
S104 Houston, TX 77030

phone: 713-798-3134
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Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications
References
Recent Talks

Dr. Read Montague is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Director of the Human Neuroimaging Lab, and Director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience.

His work focuses on computational neuroscience - the connection between the physical mechanisms present in real neural tissue and the computational functions that these mechanisms embody.

Work in the Montague group also extends into several experimental areas including synaptic physiology, human neuroimaging, and human behavior.

Dr. Montague talks about decision-making and free will. Click here to listen to a layman-level description of his work on choice and its relationship to the brain.

The Montague lab is also a member of The Computational Psychiatry Unit (CPU), a new unit dedicated to understanding the computational connections between biological mechanisms and psychiatric illness.

Recent Interviews

Oprah Radio - Dr. Oz Show - July 15, 2009
SETI Radio Network - Skeptic Check - January 20, 2010

Book Release

Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions
by Read Montague

Book Reviews

Nature - Choose your own reward
AmericanScientist.org - The Bookshelf talks with Read Montague

Recent Publications

Strathearn L, Fonagy P, Amico J, Montague PR (2009) Adult Attachment Predicts Maternal Brain and Oxytocin Response to Infant Cues. Neuropsychopharmacology. PDF  Commentary

Martin LE, Potts GF, Burton PC, Montague PR (2009) Electrophysiological and hemodynamic responses to reward prediction violation. Neuroreport. 20(13):1140-3 PDF

Cui X, Stetson C, Montague PR, Eagleman DM (2009) Ready...go: Amplitude of the FMRI signal encodes expectation of cue arrival time. PLoS biology. (8):e1000167. E-pub PDF

Li, J, Xiao, E, Houser, D, Montague, PR (2009) Neural responses to sanction threats in 2party economic exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA). 106(39): 16835-16840. PDF

Van den Bos, W, Li, J, Lau, T, Maskin, E, Cohen, JD, Montague, PR, McClure, SM (2008) The value of victory: social origins of the winner's curse in common value auctions. Judgment and Decision Making 3: 483-492. PDF

Montague, PR (2008) Free will. Current Biology. 18(4):R584-R585. PDF

King-Casas, B, Sharp, C, Lomax, L, Lohrenz, T, Fonagy, P, Montague, PR (2008) The rupture and repair of cooperation in borderline personality disorder. Science. 321:806-810. PDF SOM Podcast Perspective