Suzanne Corkin
| Suzanne Corkin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Suzanne Hammond May 18, 1937 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | May 24, 2016 (aged 79) Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Smith College (B.A.) McGill University (M.Sc., Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Studies of human memory; work with H.M. |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Corkin (divorced) |
| Website | Archived Sept. 28, 2013 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields |
Neuroscience Psychology |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Somesthetic function after focal cerebral damage in man (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brenda Milner |
| Doctoral students |
John Gabrieli Christopher I. Moore Bradley Postle Elizabeth Kensinger |
| Other notable students |
Neal J. Cohen (postdoc) Alice Cronin-Golomb (postdoc) |
Suzanne Corkin (May 18, 1937 – May 24, 2016) was an American professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. She was a leading scholar in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. She is best known for her research on human memory, which she studied in patients with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amnesia. She is also well known for studying H.M., a man with memory loss whom she met in 1962 and studied until his death in 2008.
Suzanne Corkin was born Suzanne Janet Hammond in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Lester and Mabelle Dowling Hammond. She studied psychology at Smith College in Massachusetts, and obtained a PhD at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, supervised by Brenda Milner. Milner studied a man named Henry Molaison, who had sustained severe memory loss as a result of brain surgery for uncontrolled epileptic seizures. Corkin met him in 1962 and tested his memory relating to his sense of touch "Somesthetic function after focal cerebral damage" which became the subject of her PhD.
After she completed her PhD in 1964 she moved to the US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to join the laboratory of Hans-Lukas Teuber. In 1977, when Teuber passed away, Dr. Corkin became director of the human neuropsychology laboratory and, in 1981, was promoted directly from the position of Principal Research Scientist to Associate Professor with tenure.
From that point forward, Dr. Corkin directed the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, making seminal contributions to many different domains of cognitive neuroscience. These contributions included further delineation of memory systems required for different forms of nondeclarative learning, elucidation of memory deficits that arise in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and contributions toward theoretical debates regarding the role of the medial temporal lobe in the retrieval of remote memories.
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