In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R Kandel
Gives Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science. This book relates the story of how four distinct disciplines - behaviourist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and molecular biology - converged into a powerful new science of mind.
"The weaving of science and memoir, in a clear and unadorned style, is especially effective.." The Economist "[A] scrupulously detailed yet magnificently panoramic autobiography." The New York Times"
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393058635 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393058638 |
| Title | In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind |
| Author | Eric R Kandel |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2006-03-17 |
| Number of pages | 428 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Royal Society Prize for Science Books: General Prize 2007 |
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