 He has served on the president's advisory task force, the committee to develop the new institution's core curriculum, and on the search committee to recruit the inaugural dean.Prior to the ground-breaking work of Brenda Milner, Suzanne Corkin and others studying the amnesiac patient Henry Molaison, researchers had assumed that memory was an emergent property of the cerebral cortex or brain as a whole.Because of H.M., they began to explore the possibility that there were multiple memory systems in the brain