= Brenda Milner
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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.<Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions by William Beecher Scoville and Brenda Milner>[1957, case series and postoperative memory assessment]{ref}
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