Bruce McNaughton

Peter Bruce L. McNaughton FRSC 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]

Bruce McNaughton
Education	Carleton University Dalhousie University
Known for	Systems neuroscience
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	University of Arizona University of Lethbridge University of California, Irvine
Thesis	The dynamics of synaptic modulation in the medial and lateral components of the perforant pathway to the fascia dentata in the rat  (1978)
Doctoral advisor	Graham Goddard
Notable students	Edvard Moser[1]