33 Facts About Brenda Milner

Brenda Milner is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology.

Brenda Milner's work covers many aspects of neuropsychology including her lifelong interest in the involvement of the temporal lobes in episodic memory.

Brenda Milner is sometimes referred to as one of the founders of neuropsychology and has been essential in its development.

Brenda Milner received the Balzan Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience in 2009, and the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, together with John O'Keefe, and Marcus E Raichle, in 2014.

Brenda Milner Langford was born on 15 July 1918, in Manchester, England.

Brenda Milner's father Samuel Langford was a musical critic, journalist, and teacher, and her mother was one of his students.

Brenda Milner was tutored by her father in mathematics and the arts until the age of 8.

However, after realising she was not "perceptive" enough for mathematics, Brenda Milner changed her field of study to psychology.

Brenda Milner's position was to devise perceptual tasks for future use in selecting aircrew.

Brenda Milner was an electrical engineer who had been recruited for the war effort.

Brenda Milner has been awarded a large number of honorary degrees including an honorary Sc.

In 1954, Brenda Milner published an article in the McGill University Psychological Bulletin entitled 'Intellectual Function of the Temporal Lobes'.

Brenda Milner was a pioneer in the field of neuropsychology and in the study of memory and other cognitive functions in humankind.

Brenda Milner showed that the medial temporal lobe amnestic syndrome is characterised by an inability to acquire new memories and an inability to recall established memories from a few years immediately before damage, while memories from the more remote past and other cognitive abilities, including language, perception and reasoning were intact.

Brenda Milner was able to demonstrate two different memory systems - episodic memory and procedural memory.

Brenda Milner has made major contributions to the understanding of the role of the frontal lobes in memory processing, in the area of organizing information.

Brenda Milner demonstrated the critical role of the dorsolateral frontal cortex for the temporal organization of memory and her work showed that there is partial separability of the neural circuits subserving recognition memory from those mediating memory for temporal order.

Brenda Milner described the inflexibility in problem solving that is widely recognized as a common consequence of frontal-lobe injury.

Brenda Milner helped describe the lateralization of function in the human brain and has shown how the neural substrate of language in the cerebral hemispheres can vary in left-handed, right-handed and ambidextrous individuals.

Brenda Milner used the Wada test to show that for any handedness, the left hemisphere is dominant for language in most people.

Brenda Milner's studies were among the first to demonstrate convincingly that damage to the brain can lead to dramatic functional reorganization.

In more recent times, Brenda Milner has expanded her research to the study of brain activity in normal subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography.

Brenda Milner kept some involvement in teaching and researching past her 100th birthday.

Brenda Milner is the Dorothy J Killam Professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.

In 2018, Brenda Milner celebrated her 100th birthday in Montreal with about 30 friends, including fellow researcher Denise Klein.

That same year, Brenda Milner participated in a video series, launched by the Montreal Neurological Institute, dedicated to promoting female scientists and researchers.

Brenda Milner has received numerous awards for her contributions to neuroscience and psychology including memberships in the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Sciences.

Early on, Brenda Milner was awarded a Sarah Smithson Research Studentship by Newnham College, Cambridge after her graduation, which allowed her to continue her work at Newnham College.

In 1984 Brenda Milner was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 2004.

Brenda Milner was awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences in 2004 for her seminal investigations of the role of the temporal lobes and other brain regions in learning, memory, and language.

Brenda Milner was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Brenda Milner was awarded the Balzan Prize for her contributions to Cognitive Neurosciences in a ceremony held in the Swiss Parliament in December 2009.

Brenda Milner was awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014.