Pendleton Read Montague, Jr.
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Read Montague is an American neuroscientist and popular science author who serves as the director of the Human Neuroimaging Lab and Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. His research focuses on computational neuroscience, specifically how dopamine and serotonin shape learning, motivation, and decision-making.
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What Pendleton Read Montague, Jr. has said on podcasts
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Dopamine fluctuations control learning.
“It's very clearly a learning signal, number one. So dopamine fluctuations high and low, control learning.”
Open the episode · How Dopamine & Serotonin Shape Decisions, Motivation & Learning | Dr. Read MontagueListen at 4:37
Dopamine encodes successive prediction changes during ongoing learning.
“And dopamine is encoding those signals.”
Open the episode · How Dopamine & Serotonin Shape Decisions, Motivation & Learning | Dr. Read MontagueListen at 9:10
Temporal-difference learning algorithms occur across species, including humans.
“An algorithm based on that is installed in bee brains, sea slug brains, all the way up to human brains.”
Open the episode · How Dopamine & Serotonin Shape Decisions, Motivation & Learning | Dr. Read MontagueListen at 10:50
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