© Columbia University Press
Memories Are Made of This: How Memory Works in Humans and Animals
Paper, 208 pages, 14 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12021-0
$25.00
/ £17.50
July, 2002
Cloth, 208 pages, 14 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12020-3
$77.50
"...is a highly readable and accessible account of recent research into memory..." — Robert Pepperell, Leonardo
"grabbed our attention immediately...this book joins a rather short list of books that would be of interest and value to students in the classroom as well as to the popular science audience...we highly recommend this book" — Michael J. Beran & Duane M. Rumbaugh, Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books
"Reading it closely is like drinking champagne cocktails: everything starts out innocently... then bang--it hits you like a sledgehammer." — Rob Harle, Leonardo
"With charismatic charm and keen insight, this virtuoso of modern neuroscience has offered a biological portrait of my essence – of all those memories that make me me. Rusiko waltzed me through the history of memory science; she burrowed into my brain to tell me where it all happened; she unzipped my DNA to tell me what genes and molecules are involved; she gave me hope that modern medicine will use these discoveries to help me keep my memories while I grow old. This is one book I will not forget." — Tim Tully, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"How brains make memories is a central question in the burgeoning field of neuroscience. In the course of Rusiko Bourtchouladze's brilliant research career she has moved from being a young post-doc in the former Soviet Union to working in the world's leading laboratories in Europe and North America. In this captivating book she draws elegantly on her personal trajectory to bring readers to the cutting edge of contemporary memory research." — Steven Rose, The Open University
"This is a wonderful book. . . The last twenty years have been groundbreaking in the study of memory, and this book offers an insider's account of these heady times that is both scholarly and rich with compelling insights into the personalities and the events that fueled this underreported revolution." — Alcino Silva, Brain Research Institute, UCLA
"A wonderfully personal, interesting, and enjoyable overview of modern studies of memory." — Eric Kandel, Nobel laureate, Medicine (2000)