Bruce L. Mcnaughton PhD, FRSC

Dr Bruce McNaughton received his Ph.D. in Psychology at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia in 1978 under the supervision of Dr. Graham Goddard, one of the pioneers in the study of brain mechanisms of learning and of epilepsy. After several years of postdoctoral study in Oslo and London he joined the faculty at the University of Colorado. In 1990 he moved to the University of Arizona, where he served as the Chair of the Neuroscience Graduate Interdisciplinary Program from 2004 to 2008. He is presently a jointly appointed as Professor of Neuroscience at The Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience in Lethbridge, Alberta. He is author of over 200 research publications on the neurophysiological mechanisms of learning and memory and information coding in the brain. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards for research excellence, including the MERIT and Javitz Awards for research excellence from NIH and, most recently, the Polaris Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. He is an elected lifetime member of the The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. Throughout his career he has been involved in the development and application of new conceptual approaches and innovative technologies to understanding brain function, and has supervised the PhD or postdoctoral training of over 30 students, many of whom are now successful, independent neuroscientists.