

Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Author: Jonah Lehrer
Narrator: Dan John Miller
Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/01/2008
Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Art
Author: Jonah Lehrer
Narrator: Dan John Miller
Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/01/2008
Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Art
JONAH LEHRER is editor at large for Seed magazine and the author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist. A graduate of Columbia University and a Rhodes Scholar, Lehrer has worked in the lab of Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and has written for The New Yorker, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. He edits the "Mind Matters" blog for Scientific American, and writes his own highly regarded blog, "The Frontal Cortex."
One of my most admired scientists is Dr. Eric Kandel, not only for his research work regarding the reductionist molecular approach of how our memory works (which got him the Nobel in Physiology or Medicine in the year 2000), but also for his remarkable ability explaining in such an elegant prose how......more
Proust Was a Neuroscientist turned out to be the book I'd been looking to read for a long time. Apparently there have been quite a few books prior to this one about the "third culture," the bridge between art and science (and unfortunately I've not read any of them) —Lehrer mentions E.O. Wilson's......more
The premise of this book is great, but the author fails to make good enough connections half the time. A few of the chapters are fabulous and he should have quit while he was ahead, but I suppose that would have left a short book. My advice is to only read these chapters: 3 - Auguste Escoffier and T......more
This book appeared unsolicited in my mailbox from a bookworm friend and instantly, I could tell, I would consume it in one sitting: a slim paperback with a commercial-pop cover design, Oliver Sacks endorsement, and incongruous title-cum-slogan. Ah, yes, every nerd’s most guilty pleasure – an instant......more
Lehrer worked in the Kandel lab for Dr. Kausik Si, who is known for his research on the molecular basis of memory. Dr. Si was intrigued by a paradox: the brain's cells are in constant flux and the proteins that mediate much of the brain's functions are regenerated every so often. Yet, our memories o......more