Other names Molly Potter Name Molly Potter Thesis (1961) | Fields Psychology Citizenship American | |
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1967-Present) Influenced Mary C. Potter Award (from Women in Cognitive Science) | ||
How are you feeling today? Molly Potter and illustrated by Sarah Jennings
Molly Potter (born Mary C. Potter) is a psychologist and researcher in the field of cognitive science. She was a fellow of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program in 1956, four years after receiving her B.A. from Swarthmore College. In 1961 she earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University.
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Potter was among the scientists who discovered and initially studied Patient HM. Potter's research and the classes she teaches at MIT focus on experimental methods to study human cognition, thereby revealing the implicit data structures and algorithms used by the human brain.
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