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Anything Eric Kandel says about neuroscience or the relationship between art and neuroscience, is noteworthy. He is not only brilliant at explaining difficult and complex scientific ideas and data in simple language, but also well-informed about—and sympathetic to—twentieth-century art, and avails himself of an impressive range of art historical literature. -- Nancy Princenthal, author of <i>Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s,</i> and Joseph E. LeDoux, Henry And Lucy Moses Professor of Science, New York University

Anything Eric R. Kandel says about neuroscience or the relationship between art and neuroscience is noteworthy. He is not only brilliant at explaining difficult and complex scientific ideas and data in simple language but also well-informed about—and sympathetic to—twentieth-century art, and avails himself of an impressive range of art-historical literature. -- Nancy Princenthal, author of <i>Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s,</i> and Joseph E. LeDoux, Henry And Lucy Moses Professor of Science, New York University A lively, erudite inquiry into the experience of art. * Kirkus Reviews *

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Eric R. Kandel is University Professor Emeritus and professor emeritus of physiology and cellular biophysics, psychiatry, biochemistry, molecular biophysics, and neuroscience at Columbia University. He is founding codirector of Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, founding director of Columbia’s Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and Sagol Professor Emeritus of Brain Science at the Zuckerman Institute. He was also a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1984 to 2022. In 2000, Kandel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory. He has been awarded twenty-four honorary degrees. Kandel is the author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (2006), The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present (2012), Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures (Columbia, 2016), The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (2018), and There Is Life After the Nobel Prize (Columbia, 2022). He is also a coauthor of Principles of Neural Science (2021), the standard textbook in the field of neuroscience.

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