In Search of Memory, Eric R. Kandel
In Search of Memory, Eric R. Kandel
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In Search of Memory
The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

Author: Eric R. Kandel

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 14 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/08/2018

Synopsis

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 listeners 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.

About Eric R. Kandel

Eric R. Kandel is the University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor at Columbia University and a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory, he is the author of In Search of Memory, a memoir that won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, which won the Bruno Kreisky Award in Literature, Austria's highest literary award; and Reductionism in Art and Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, a book about the New York School of abstract art. He is also coauthor of Principles of Neural Science, the standard textbook in the field.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lewis

I'm taking a course at Oxford this summer on "The Brain and the Senses." So this is a little extra homework. The idea of memory, where thoughts come from, etc., is fascinating to me. And, many years ago, before I was there, Kandel had his laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute, of which......more

Goodreads review by Sreena

"Each time we learn something new, the cellular infrastructure of our brains changes. It is, in fact, these very changes that encode memory" After a long time, I finally found a book which was seriously worth the read as this book was able to delve into Neuroscience, and the transformation of neuros......more

Goodreads review by Morgan

Warning: this book can be a little dull in the autobiographical sections (which you are free to skim), and a bit challenging in some of the technical parts (particularly if you are new to the nuts and bolts of cognitive neuroscience). But if you're a cognitive neuroscience dork (like me) and you lov......more

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