Editor’s Note

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We are reminded in the Lackner retrospective of the matchless contribution over the last half century of the amnesic case, H.M., to our current understanding of the multiple component processes of memory from both a neural systems and psychological perspectives. H.M. died in December 2008 at the age of 82 years. I refer readers interested in the research history of H.M.—from the seminal paper of Scoville and Milner on the identification of H.M.’s global amnesia to the discovery by Corkin of H.M.’s preservation of motor skills through the development of memory theories enabled by rigorous and innovative study of this special man—to a synthetic review by Corkin, S. (2002). What’s new with the amnesic patient H.M.? Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 3, 153–160. …