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Memory's Voice: Deciphering the Brain-Mind Code
Memory's Voice Deciphering the BrainMind Code Author:Daniel L. Alkon The hunt for a memory storage "site" in the brain is the subject of this engrossing scientific memoir. Alkon, chief of the Neural Systems Lab at the National Institutes of Health, describes in often elegant prose his search to explain human memory and learning in biological terms. Sea snails that were conditioned (a la Pavlov) to associate light... more » with rotation helped to demonstrate Alkon's hypothesis that human memory is an associative process. Further painstaking research revealed memory records at the cellular level -- with enormous implications for the treatment of psychological dysfunction. Alkon has also been able to apply the design of neural networks to artificial intelligence systems.« less