The Age of Insight, The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain

摘要

The author, a neurologist and professor of neurobiology at Harvard, won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2000 for his research on the human brain's functions in memory storage. Viennese-born (1931) Eric Kandel writes clearly and most accessibly -and is understandably proud of the efforts in his field bequeathed, in part, by a Viennese quintet of exceptional cultural talents during the twilight years of the Austro-Hungarian empire.