Elizabeth Kerr Warrington FRS was born on 1931 and is a British neuropsychologist specialised in the study of dementia.
15 Facts About Elizabeth Warrington
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Elizabeth Warrington holds a PhD in Psychology visual processing and is an emeritus professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University College London.
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Elizabeth Warrington formerly worked as the Head of the Department of Neuropsychology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery where she is a member of the Dementia Research Centre.
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Elizabeth Warrington was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986.
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Elizabeth Warrington received her PhD in psychology from the University College London in the 1950s.
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Elizabeth Warrington worked as the Head of Department of Neuropsychology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, England.
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Elizabeth Warrington is a member of the Dementia Research Centre associated with University College London.
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Elizabeth Warrington's work has established a number of important differences between superficially similar cognitive abilities, for example in defining the differences between episodic memory and semantic memory and in establishing the evidence for category specific disorders of semantic knowledge; her work defined a pattern of clinical impairment that became recognised as defining a form of dementia semantic dementia.
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Elizabeth Warrington's work is a foundation for understanding normal function as well as for innovating clinical methods in the development of numerous tests that can be used in the diagnosis of brain injuries and diseases including dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and brain injuries resulting from a stroke and tumours.
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Elizabeth Warrington conducted extensive research in the areas of visual object recognition, memory, and dementia.
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Elizabeth Warrington's research has played an important role in the discovery and characterisation of semantic dementia.
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Elizabeth Warrington contributed to the development of more accurate tests used to diagnose degenerative brain conditions.
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Elizabeth Warrington went on to demonstrate that people with right hemisphere lesions had great difficulty in recognising objects photographed from unusual angles or with unusual lighting.
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Entirely by accident, Elizabeth Warrington working together with Lawrence Weiskrantz discovered a task in which patients with severe amnesia displayed signs of memory.
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Elizabeth Warrington's work is often credited with helping shape the basis of modern-day cognitive psychology.