Brenda Milner
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Through a series of landmark studies, Dr. Milner demonstrated that the medial temporal lobe amnestic syndrome is characterized by an inability to acquire new memories while old memories and other cognitive abilities, including language, perception and reasoning are not affected. | Through a series of landmark studies, Dr. Milner demonstrated that the medial temporal lobe amnestic syndrome is characterized by an inability to acquire new memories while old memories and other cognitive abilities, including language, perception and reasoning are not affected. | ||
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Dr. Brenda Milner was born in Manchester, England in 1918. She is a pioneer of the discipline of neuropsychology. Her detailed long-term studies on epilepsy cases of patients before and after have added substantially to the scientific understanding of the structure of the brain. Especially, to the functions of the hippocampus, and the role of the temporal and frontal lobes in learning, memory and speech functions.
Dr. Milner work in the field of neuropsychology includes the study of memory and other cognitive functions in humans. She was the first to study the effects of damage to the medial temporal lobe on memory and systematically described the deficits in the patient HM concerning cognitive neuroscience.
Through a series of landmark studies, Dr. Milner demonstrated that the medial temporal lobe amnestic syndrome is characterized by an inability to acquire new memories while old memories and other cognitive abilities, including language, perception and reasoning are not affected.
