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In Search of Memory - Eric R. Kendal

Description: ISBN 0393329372 / Author: Eric R. Kendal / Genre: Science / Nature / Shows how behavioural psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience ... more

In Search of Memory - Eric R. Kendal ... and molecular biology have converged into a powerful science of mind.

Newest Review: ... seamless whole. What I found particularly interesting was the fact that Kandel came to neuroscience from the humanities side: ... more

... he went to Harvard to study history and literature, got interested in psychoanalysis and only via the medical school got involved in the neuro-physiological research: first with a naive aim to find out where the Freudian id, ego and superego were located, an ambition which later on developed into the idea of understanding brain function, one cell at a time. Because of this background, Kandel does an excellent job of explaining the attractiveness of psychoanalysis to the student of mind in the 30's, 40's and ...more

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In Search of Memory - Eric R. Kendal: Life in Mind Science (1219 words)
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When I went to study psychology, I was motivated by an unspecified but strong desire to learn how the human mind works: how reality is transformed into our perception of it, how we form judgements, attachments and beliefs, how we love and hate, how we think. Not very surprisingly, I learned nothing of the sort. Instead, I was shown, on one hand, a number of theories and frameworks more or less helpful in understanding the workings of human psyche on a general, abstract level: personality theories, social psychology concepts, cognitive models and so on. On the other hand, we studied the anatomy and basic physiology of the nervous system, we cut half heads of ... Read the complete review