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Nothing is more stimulating for self-education than working in a new area.

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The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths.

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What biological processes enable me to review my own history with such emotional vividness?

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Science may explain aspects of art but it will not replace the inspiration that art evokes...

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Reductionism can expand our vision and give us new insights into the nature and creation of art.

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As knowledge advances and scientific disciplines change, so do the disciplines impinging on them.

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The intellectual life of turn-of-the-century Vienna is in my blood: my heart beats in three-quarter time.

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I continue to explore the science in which I work almost like a child, with naïve joy, curiosity, and amazement.

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The history of Austrian culture and scholarship in the modern era largely paralleled the history of Austrian Jewry.

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My hope is that the difference in the three generations' attitudes may signal a lessening of anti-Semitism in Austria.

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The firing of individual nerve cells involved in perceptual and motor processing is modified by attention and decision making.

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The same CREB switch is important for many forms of implicit memory in a variety of other species, from bees to mice to people.

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We did not realize that the hippocampus is concerned with perception of the environment and therefore represents multisensory experience...

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CPEB is the first self-propogating form of a prion known to serve a physiological function... perpetuation of synaptic facilitation and memory storage.

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One of the characteristic features of Viennese life at this time was the continual, easy interaction of artists, writers, and thinkers with scientists.

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What is learning but a set of sensory signals from the environment, with different forms of learning resulting from different types or patterns of sensory signals?

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It is much more meaningful and enjoyable to read the scientific literature about experiments you are involved in yourself than to read about science in the abstract.

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In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

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Exceptionally good memory exhibited by some people may stem from genetic differences in CREB-2 that limit the activity of this repressor protein in relation to CREB-1.

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We now understand that every mental state and every mental disorder is a disorder of brain function. Treatments work by altering the structure and function of the brain.

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Each sensory system first analyzes and deconstructs, then restructures the raw, incoming information to its own built-in connections and rules—shades of Immanuel Kant.

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Because we do not have a sensory organ dedicated to space, the representation of space is a quintessentially cognitive sensibility: it is the binding problem writ large.

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Long-term potentiation helps stabalize the internal representation of space, and... attention, a defining feature of explicit memory storage, modulates the representation of space.

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O'Keefe... argued that many forms of explicit memory (for example, memory for people and objects) use spatial coordinates... we typically remember people and events in a spatial context.

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The Modernist reaction to the Enlightenment came in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, whose brutalizing effects revealed that modern life had not become... mathematically perfect...

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The overarching ideas that have influenced my work and fueled my interest in conscious and unconscious memory derive from a perspective on mind that psychiatry and psychoanalysis opened up for me.

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For all of us, explicit memory makes it possible to leap across space and time and conjure up events and emotional states that have vanished into the past yet somehow continue to live in our minds.

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For some representations of space the brain typically uses egocentric coordinates (centered on the receiver)... For other behaviors... the brain uses allocentric coordinates (centered on the world).

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