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3 questions suzanne corkin biography
Suzanne Corkin
American neuropsychologist (–)
Suzanne Corkin (May 18, – May 24, ) was an American professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.[1] 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 and studied until his death in
Early life and education
Corkin was born Suzanne Janet Hammond in Hartford, Connecticut, she was the only child of Lester and Mabelle Dowling Hammond.[2][1] 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 sei