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

Kandel, Eric R.

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ISBN 10: 0393329372 ISBN 13: 9780393329377

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2007

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

"A scrupulously detailed yet magnificently panoramic autobiography." --The New York Times Book Review

"[A] scintillating mix of memoir, history of science, and fundamental biology without peer. It shows compellingly what first-rate science is and how it is created." --E.O. Wilson

"Few can interlace their autobiography with the evolution of a scientific paradigm. Even fewer can weave such a story seamlessly. Eric Kandel is one of these." --Nature

L'autore:

Eric R. Kandel is Kavli Professor and University Professor at Columbia University and senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000. He lives in New York City.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393329372
• ISBN 13: 9780393329377
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 510