| Bruce McNaughton | |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Fields: | Neuroscience |
| Workplaces: | University of Arizona University of Lethbridge University of California, Irvine |
| Education: | Carleton University Dalhousie University |
| Thesis Title: | The dynamics of synaptic modulation in the medial and lateral components of the perforant pathway to the fascia dentata in the rat |
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| Thesis Year: | 1978 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Graham Goddard |
| Notable Students: | Edvard Moser[1] |
| Known For: | Systems neuroscience |
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Peter Bruce L. McNaughton is a Canadian neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), as well as a Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Polaris Brain Dynamics research group at The Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience.[2] [3] He joined the faculty of UC Irvine in 2014, after having taught at the University of Lethbridge for six years. He had moved his lab from the University of Arizona to the University of Lethbridge in 2008 after winning the Polaris Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.[4] He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016.[5] He is also a lifetime member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.[2]