Explorers of the Black Box: The Search for the Cellular Basis of Memory

by Susan Allport

Explorers of the Black Box is a scientific adventure story. The “Black Box” is the brain. The “Explorers” are neuroscientists in search of how nerve cells record memories, and they are as ruthless and dauntless as any soldiers of fortune. The book centers around the early, often-controversial research Nobel-Prize winner Eric Kandel. It takes readers behind the scenes of laboratories at Woods Hole, Columbia, Yale and Princeton to create an absorbing account of how the brain works and of how science itself works.

276 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Nilendu Misra · Rating 4 out of 5]

How great science writing should be - approachable, illuminating and rich with associative metaphors from popular domains - an old book (1986) but the kernel of memory architecture it discusses is billion+ years old. So it aged very well!