{"product_id":"the-making-of-memory-9780593019900","title":"The Making of Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe human brain weighs  on average  just over two pounds  is wrinkled like a walnut and has the colour and something of the consistency of porridge. Yet somehow the interactions of the ten billion cells that comprise it produce our capacity to think  hope  believe  imagine  and also to remember - to learn and recall  perhaps years later  a face  a tune  a poem or a telephone number. Are there molecules of memory? Can we understand the brain best as a computer? What light do diseases of memory shed on its mechanism? What is it  locked into the interactions of the brain cells and the molecules composing them  that carries the memories which make each person unique? Deciphering this  Steven Rose argues  is the key to interpreting the links between brain and mind. In this book he traces the road to a new understanding of memory that he and other researchers have followed  with all its false turnings and misleading signposts. One of the aims of the book is to explore  through a description of the laboratory life of memory researchers  how scientists  in a world not free from political rivalry  ideology and self-deception  nevertheless strive to answer an important and fascinating question.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924208156725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0593019903","price":99.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780593019900.jpg?v=1794130876","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-making-of-memory-9780593019900","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}