Haystack Full of Needles: A Memoir of Research on Mechanisms of Memory in the Decades That Defined Neuroscience

by Louis Neal Irwin

How do we store information in the brain? Is memory a thing in a place, like a specific molecule in a particular cell? Or does learning require a process in a population, like neurons firing in a specific pattern for each experience? This combination of memoir and history tells the story of how the mechanisms of memory were gradually revealed, through biographical vignettes of the scientists who set out to solve the riddle of memory, including the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1664140603
• ISBN13: 9781664140608
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Xlibris Us
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"