The Age of Insight is a wonderfully written and superbly researched book that provides a foundation for future work in neuroscience and the humanities. This is an extraordinary book from an international leader in neuroscience and intellectual history...

Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can ...

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.