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101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist's Quest For Memory (2010)

by Terry McDermott(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0375425381 (ISBN13: 9780375425387)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: Not being a scientist, or specifically a neuro-scientist, parts of this book got very dense in the descriptions of the processes in the brain of how memory happens, or at least the experiments to study it. There was a lot of interesting aspects of this book - some of the people in Lynch's lab and some of the broader aspects of the research - that kept me moving forward in spite of the detailed areas that seemed to drag on at points.
review 2: So I understood maybe 1/10th of the science, but after the first chapter, "understanding the science" was no longer my priority--which instead became compulsively devouring the 3-decade-plus story of what it's like to work week in and week out in the same lab on the same problem, trying to stay on the cutting edge of rese... morearch while the scientific and academic and corporate worlds are all whirling around you. Excellent. And if you have any interest in cognition, memory, and the brain, the science is pretty compelling as well. less

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