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American neuropsychologist who has extensively investigated the neural basis of memory, including several investigations of the famous amnesia patient H.M.
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Suzanne Corkin
b. 1937 |
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German psychologist who originated the scientific study of forgetting; plotted the first forgetting curve, which describes the basic pattern of forgetting learned information over time.
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
1850-1909 |
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American neurobiologist, born in Austria, who won a Nobel prize in 2000 for his work on the neural basis of learning and memory in the sea snail _Aplysia_.
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Eric Kandel
b. 1929 |
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American physiological psychologist who attempted to find the specific brain location of particular memories.
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Karl Lashley
1890-1958 |
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American psychologist who has conducted extensive research on the memory distortions that can occur in eyewitness testimony.
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Elizabeth F. Loftus
b. 1944 |
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Canadian neuropsychologist whose goundbreaking research on the role of brain structures and functions in cognitive processes helped establish neuropsychology as a field; extensively studied the famous amnesia patient H.M.
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Brenda Milner
b. 1918 |
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American psychologist who identified the duration of visual sensory memory in a series of classic experiments in 1960.
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George Sperling
b. 1934 |
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American psychologist and neuroscientist who has conducted extensive research on the neurobiological foundations of learning and memory.
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Richard F. Thompson
b. 1930 |