BSP 129 Dr. Brenda Milner: Neuropsychology and the Study of Memory

In episode 129, Dr. Brenda Milner comes on the show to talk about
her life's work and her most famous experiments. Dr. Milner was a
pioneer in the field of neuropsychology and in the study of
memory and other cognitive functions in humankind. She studied
the effects of damage to the medial temporal lobe on memory and
systematically described the deficits in the most famous patient
in cognitive neuroscience, Henry Molaison, formerly known as
patient H.M.She has made major contributions to the understanding
of the role of the frontal lobes in memory processing, in the
area of organizing information.


 


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