Brenda Milner

33.8k total citations · 12 hit papers
101 papers, 24.3k citations indexed

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Brenda Milner is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brenda Milner has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 24.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Brenda Milner's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (32 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (27 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (22 papers). Brenda Milner is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (32 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (27 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (22 papers). Brenda Milner collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Brenda Milner's co-authors include William Beecher Scoville, Michael Petrides, Theodore P. Rasmussen, Mary Lou Smith, Hans‐Lukas Teuber, Larry R. Squire, Eric R. Kandel, Marilyn Jones‐Gotman, Suzanne Corkin and Robert J. Zatorre and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Brenda Milner

98 papers receiving 22.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

LOSS OF RECENT MEMORY AFTER BILATERAL HIPPOCAMPAL LESIONS

1957 4.8k citations Brenda Milner et al. profile →
INTERHEMISPHERIC DIFFERENCES IN THE LOCALIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN MAN

1971 1.9k citations Brenda Milner profile →
Effects of Different Brain Lesions on Card Sorting

1963 1.7k citations Brenda Milner profile →
Deficits on subject-ordered tasks after frontal- and temporal-lobe lesions in man

1982 1.0k citations Michael Petrides, Brenda Milner Neuropsychologia profile →
Cognitive Neuroscience and the Study of Memory

1998 892 citations Brenda Milner et al. profile →
THE ROLE OF EARLY LEFT‐BRAIN INJURY IN DETERMINING LATERALIZATION OF CEREBRAL SPEECH FUNCTIONS

1977 810 citations Brenda Milner et al. profile →
Further analysis of the hippocampal amnesic syndrome: 14-year follow-up study of H.M.

1968 805 citations Brenda Milner et al. Neuropsychologia profile →
Some effects of frontal lobectomy in man

1964 721 citations Brenda Milner profile →
Disorders of Learning and Memory after Temporal Lobe Lesions in Man

1972 668 citations Brenda Milner profile →
Visual recognition and recall after right temporal-lobe excision in man

1968 545 citations Brenda Milner Neuropsychologia profile →
Psychological defects produced by temporal lobe excision.

1958 374 citations Brenda Milner PubMed profile →
Psychological aspects of focal epilepsy and its neurosurgical management.

1975 329 citations Brenda Milner PubMed profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Cognitive function fifty-six years after surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy: A case study 2014 ·Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports ·Sarah J. Banks, William Feindel, Brenda Milner, Marilyn Jones‐Gotman	1
2	Bilingual brain organization: A functional magnetic resonance adaptation study 2006 ·NeuroImage ·Denise Klein, Robert J. Zatorre, Jen‐Kai Chen, Brenda Milner, Joelle Crane, Pascal Belin, Marc A. Bouffard	78
3	Cerebral organization in bilinguals 1999 ·Neuroreport ·Denise Klein, Brenda Milner, Robert J. Zatorre, (unknown), (unknown)	136
4	Amobarbital Memory Testing: Some Personal Reflections 1997 ·Brain and Cognition ·Brenda Milner	7
5	Left-hemisphere specialization for the processing of acoustic transients 1997 ·Neuroreport ·Ingrid S. Johnsrude, Robert J. Zatorre, Brenda Milner, Alan C. Evans	97
6	A Specific Role for the Right Parahippocampal Gyrus in the Retrieval of Object-Location: A Positron Emission Tomography Study 1996 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·(unknown), Brenda Milner, Michael Petrides, Alan C. Evans	131
7	Recall of self-generated arm movements by patients with unilateral cortical excisions 1995 ·Neuropsychologia ·Gabriel Leonard, Brenda Milner	9
8	The effects of frontal- or temporal-lobe lesions on susceptibility to interference in spatial memory 1995 ·Neuropsychologia ·Mary Lou Smith, Gabriel Leonard, Joelle Crane, Brenda Milner	43
9	The effect of presentation rate on the comprehension and recall of speech after anterior temporal-lobe resection 1994 ·Neuropsychologia ·Ingrid S. Johnsrude, Brenda Milner	5
10	Capacity of visual short-term memory after unilateral frontal or anterior temporal-lobe resection 1994 ·Neuropsychologia ·Susan Pigott, Brenda Milner	14
11	Left putaminal activation when speaking a second language 1994 ·Neuroreport ·Denise Klein, Robert J. Zatorre, Brenda Milner, Ernst Meyer, Alan C. Evans	162
12	Right-hippocampal contralateral-hand effect in the recall of spatial location in the tactual modality 1994 ·Neuropsychologia ·(unknown), Brenda Milner	35
13	Recall of the end-position of examiner-defined arm movements by patients with frontal- or temporal-lobe lesions 1991 ·Neuropsychologia ·Gabriel Leonard, Brenda Milner	16
14	Role of the right temporal lobe in visual-cue learning during repeated pattern discriminations 1991 ·Neuropsychologia ·Julien Doyon, Brenda Milner	9
15	The role of the left hippocampal region in the acquisition and retention of story content 1990 ·Neuropsychologia ·Virginia Frisk, Brenda Milner	196
16	Residual impairment in handgrip strength after unilateral frontal-lobe lesions 1988 ·Neuropsychologia ·Gabriel Leonard, Lynette A. Jones, Brenda Milner	22
17	Performance on unimanual and bimanual tapping tasks by patients with lesions of the frontal or temporal lobe 1988 ·Neuropsychologia ·Gabriel Leonard, Brenda Milner, Lynette A. Jones	72
18	Some cognitive effects of frontal-lobe lesions in man 1982 ·Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences ·Brenda Milner	312
19	The effect of hippocampal lesions on recent memory. 1955 ·PubMed ·Brenda Milner, Wilder Penfield	110
20	Intellectual effects of temporal-lobe damage in man. 1952 ·eScholarship@McGill (McGill) ·Brenda Milner	6

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