Read Montague

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Read Montague is an American neuroscientist and popular science author. He holds a professorship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he also serves as Director of the College's Human Neuroimaging Laboratory. 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.

[edit] Popular science

Montague has written a nonfiction work aimed at lay audiences entitled Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions.[1] The book was published in 2006 and discusses with (mostly) non-technical language the neuroscience and psychology of decision making.

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  1. ^ Montague, R. (2006). Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions. New York: Penguin Group (USA) Inc. ISBN 0525949828

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