Brenda Milner
| Brenda Milner | |
|---|---|
Milner at TEDxMcGill, 2011
|
|
| Born |
July 15, 1918 Manchester, England |
| Residence | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Fields | Neuropsychology |
| Institutions | McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge, McGill University |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Olding Hebb |
| Known for | Study of memory and cognition; Work with patient H.M. |
| Notable awards |
|
Brenda Milner, CC GOQ FRS FRSC (born July 15, 1918) is a Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology, sometimes referred to as "the founder of neuropsychology". Milner is a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and a professor of Psychology at the Montreal Neurological Institute. She currently holds more than 20 honorary degrees and continues to work in her nineties. Her current work explores the interaction between the brain’s left and right hemispheres. Milner has been called the founder of neuropsychology, and has proven to be an essential key in its development. She received the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience “for the discovery of specialized brain networks for memory and cognition", together with John O’Keefe, and Marcus E. Raichle, in 2014.
Brenda Langford (later Milner by marriage) was born on July 15, 1918, in Manchester, England. Milner’s father Samuel Langford was a musical critic, journalist, and teacher and her mother (née Leslie Doig) was a singing student. Though she was a daughter to two musically talented parents she had no interest in music. At the age of 6 months, she and her mother both contracted the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. This illness killed between 20 and 40 million people, more than were killed in World War I. Thankfully she and her mother both recovered from this sickness. She was tutored by her father in mathematics and the arts until the age of 8.” She attended Withington Girls' School, which led her to attend Newnham College, Cambridge, to study mathematics, having received a scholarship in 1936. Brenda was one of only 400 women admitted to this prestigious school at this time. However, after realizing she was not "perceptive" enough for mathematics, Milner changed her field of study to psychology. In 1939, Milner graduated with a B.A. degree in experimental psychology, which at that time was considered a moral science.
...
Wikipedia