title: The biology of memory: a forty-year perspective.
abstract: In the forty years since the Society for Neuroscience was founded, our understanding of the biology of memory has progressed dramatically. From a historical perspective, one can discern four distinct periods of growth in neurobiological research during that time. Here I use that chronology to chart a personalized and selective course through forty years of extraordinary advances in our understanding of the biology of memory storage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA. erk5@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Eric R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Kandel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends