In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

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.

Author: Eric R. Kandel
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 528
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780393329377