Kandel relates the astonishing story of how four different and distinct disciplines--behaviorist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology--converged into a powerful new Science of mind.
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..
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.
But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R.
We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember.
Memory binds our mental life together.
Kandel relates the astonishing story of how four different and distinct disciplines--behaviorist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology--converged into a powerful new Science of mind
