Psychology Quote by Eric Kandel

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People…

— Eric Kandel

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each…

— Eric Kandel

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always compare…

— Eric Kandel

One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is…

— Eric Kandel

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

— Eric Kandel

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our…

— Eric Kandel

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the…

— Eric Kandel

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me…

— Eric Kandel

It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say…

— Eric Kandel

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory…

— Eric Kandel

My heart beats in three-quarter time.

— Eric Kandel

Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists and…

— Eric Kandel