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Dan Montello, Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara

Montello received his undergraduate degree in psychology from The Johns Hopkins University and completed doctoral work in psychology at Arizona State University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota and currently serves as Full Professor in the department of geography (and affiliated faculty, department of psychology) at UCSB.

Montello's research interests include spatial perception, cognition and behavior; behavioral and cognitive geography and environmental perception and cognition. He has authored over 40 journal articles and continues research in the areas of map perception, spatial learning and development and navigation of built and natural environments.