In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind“A stunning book.”—Oliver Sacks Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the mind—a combination of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology—with his own personal quest to understand memory. A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior, In Search of Memory brings readers from Kandel's childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to the forefront of one of the great scientific endeavors of the twentieth century: the search for the biological basis of memory. |
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User Review - nmarun - LibraryThingBook offers a lot of information (sometimes an overload of it, but in a good way). The author starts very basic and leads to quite a high level of detail about neurophysiology. One of the best lines ... Read full review
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User Review - jcbrunner - LibraryThingA wonderful book that works both as a layman introduction to the new field of neurobiology and a Nobel prize scientist autobiography. Eric Kandel, having dabbled in psychiatry, turned to and devoted ... Read full review
Contents
| 1 | |
| 3 | |
| 12 | |
An American Education | 33 |
TWO | 51 |
One Cell at a Time | 53 |
The Nerve Cell Speaks | 74 |
Conversation Between Nerve Cells | 90 |
A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses | 261 |
FOUR | 277 |
A Return to Complex Memory | 279 |
Synapses Also Hold Our Fondest Memories | 286 |
The Brains Picture of the External World | 295 |
Attention Must Be Paid | 307 |
FIVE | 317 |
A Little Red Pill | 319 |
Simple and Complex Neuronal Systems | 103 |
Different Memories Different Brain Regions | 116 |
Searching for an Ideal System to Study Memory | 135 |
Neural Analogs of Learning | 150 |
THREE | 163 |
Strengthening Synaptic Connections | 165 |
A Center for Neurobiology and Behavior | 180 |
Even a Simple Behavior Can Be Modified by Learning | 187 |
Synapses Change with Experience | 198 |
The Biological Basis of Individuality | 208 |
Molecules and ShortTerm Memory | 221 |
LongTerm Memory | 240 |
Memory Genes | 247 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind |
| Author | Eric R. Kandel |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0393070514, 9780393070514 |
| Length | 528 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
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