Doreen Kimura (1933 to 2013) was a Canadian psychologist and professor at the University of Western Ontario, recognized for her work in neuropsychology and later for her advocacy of academic freedom. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Saskatchewan, she took all three of her degrees at McGill University, doing her doctoral research at the Montreal Neurological Institute under Brenda Milner with Donald Hebb as co-supervisor. She was among the first to use dichotic listening tests, showing that right-handed people hear words better in the right ear and melodies better in the left, which she took to reflect specializations of the two brain hemispheres. Her books include Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication (1993) and Sex and Cognition (2000), and she founded the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.
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was a Canadian psychologist who was professor at the University of Western Ontario
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(co-supervised by Donald O. Hebb)
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