A neuropsychologist who, with William Beecher Scoville, described profound human memory impairment after bilateral medial temporal surgery. The study connected lesion location to severe difficulty acquiring new experiences while documenting other retained capacities. It helped establish that human memory cannot be understood as one undifferentiated faculty whose every component is equally disrupted by a lesion.[ref]
Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions by William Beecher Scoville and Brenda Milner. 1957, case series and postoperative memory assessment
Portrait of Brenda Milner
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