Habituation: A Reductionist’s Strategy to the Study of Procedural Learning

Eric Kandel

Professor, Columbia University and Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures

April 9, 1992 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus

About Eric Kandel

Eric Kandel is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He is also the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia.

Related Lectures

• Sensitization: The Long and Short of Long-Term Memory — 1992
• Classical Conditioning: Is There a Cellular Alphabet for Learning? — 1992
• Cell and Molecular Biological Approaches to Learning and Memory — 1992