Brenda Milner
Professor
Dept. of Neurology
and Neurosurgery
Montreal Neurological Institute
514-398-8503
brenda.milner at mcgill.ca
Research Areas
Cognition-Language-Perception,
Behavioral
Neuroscience
Research Summary
Dr. Milner is based at the Montreal Neurological Institute. She studies
patients who undergo focal cortical excisions for the relief of epilepsy.
Her current areas of research include memory functions of the temporal
lobes, especially the role of the hippocampus, specialization and interaction
of the cerebral hemispheres, frontal-lobe functions, effects of early brain
lesions on patterns of cerebral organization at maturity, functional brain
imaging of language.
Selected References
Klein, D., Zatorre, R.J., Milner, B., and Zhao, (2001). V. A cross-linguistic
study of tone perception in Mandarin Chinese and English speakers, Neuroimage,
13, 646-653.
Milner, B., Johnsrude, I., and Crane, J. (1997). Right medial temporal-lobe
contribution to object-location memory. Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society of London, B, 352, 1469-1474.
Updated: November 1, 2004
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