Henry Molaison, or ‘H.M.’, was a patient who had an operation to remove the hippocampus from his brain. The result was that he could not remember anything for longer than about a minute, yet he was able to continue his life with the skills he had learnt prior to the operation.
Ray Dolan’s research is concerned with a neurobiological characterisation of human emotion and how it interacts with other components of cognition, particularly attention, memory and decision making. An emphasis in his recent work has been to link brain activity to theoretical models of decision making, particularly models derived from reinforcement learning theory. He is the author of 400 original papers and is ranked as one of the most cited scientists in the world in the field of Neuroscience and Behaviour.
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