You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component. Eric Kandel cognitivecomponentdifficult share on social
Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections. Eric Kandel connectionenduregrowth Change image and share on social
Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia. Eric Kandel animalaplysiabegin share on social
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young. Eric Kandel bearbegincity Change image and share on social
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art. Eric Kandel artartistconvey share on social
Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine. Eric Kandel carlclinicalfounder share on social
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. Eric Kandel biologybridgeconcern Change image and share on social
If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory. Eric Kandel converthippocampuslesion Change image and share on social
If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. Eric Kandel bookhistoricalperspective Change image and share on social
