In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (62 page)

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During the course of my career I have had the privilege of working with and learning from many gifted collaborators, fellows, and students, and I have tried throughout this book to acknowledge their contributions. Beyond individual collaborators my science has benefited enormously from the interactive environment created by the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. It would be hard to find a more ideal environment in which to mature as a scientist. Specifically, I have benefited greatly from my long-standing friendships with Richard Axel, Craig Bailey, Jane Dodd, Robert Hawkins, Michael Goldberg, Samuel Schacher, John Koester, Thomas Jessell, James H. Schwartz, Steven Siegelbaum, and Gerald Fischbach, the current dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. I am further grateful to John Koester for his excellent leadership of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior.

My research has been generously supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and by the NIH. I am particularly indebted to the leadership of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Donald Frederickson, George Cahill, Purnell Chopin, Max Cowan, Donald Harter, and, more recently, Tom Cech and Gerry Rubin. Their farsighted vision has encouraged Hughes investigators to adopt a long-term perspective on research and to tackle challenging problems. Research on learning and memory certainly meets both of these criteria!

I am grateful to the Sloan Foundation for a grant that helped me start on this book and to my agents, John Brockman and Katinka Matson, who aided me in framing the proposal for this book and in guiding it through the editorial process.

Many people have read part or all of the several earlier versions of this book. Professor Edward Timms, a historian of modern Austria at the University of Sussex in England, and Dieter Kuhl, a student of Viennese culture, kindly read and commented on chapters 2 and 24. David Olds, an academic psychoanalyst and colleague at Columbia, commented on chapters 3, 22, and 27. Several of my scientific colleagues read one or more versions of the whole text. I am particularly grateful to Tom Jessell, Jimmy Schwartz, Tom Carew, Jack Byrne, Yadin Dudai, Tamas Bartfei, Roger Nicoll, Sten Grillner, David Olds, Rod MacKinnon, Michael Bennett, Dominick Purpura, Dusan Bartsch, Robert Wurtz, Tony Movshon, Chris Miller, Anna Kris Wolfe, Marianne Goldberger, Christof Koch, and Bertil Hille for their thoughtful comments. I have also benefited from insightful readings of an early draft by several nonscientists, Connie Casey, Amy Bednick, June Bingham Birge, Natalie Lehman Haupt, Robert Kornfeld, Sandy Shellack, and Sarah Mack, who pointed out difficulties posed by certain technical discussions.

Jane Nevins, the editor-in-chief of the DANA Foundation, and Sibyl Golden read later versions of the manuscript and helped me make some of the more technical portions more understandable for the general reader. Howard Beckman, my longtime friend who has edited several versions of
Principles of Neural Science
, generously read and commented on the text, and the superb science writer Geoffrey Montgomery worked with me on several chapters to help make them come more alive. Most of all, I am enormously indebted to my excellent editor Blair Burns Potter, who read almost all versions of the text and the figures, and in each case improved their overall clarity and coherence. Before I began this book, I had heard about Blair’s talents but had met her only briefly. Through our extensive e-mail correspondence, I have come to value her as a wonderful friend.

I am fortunate to have had help on the art program from Maya Pines, a longtime friend and a science editor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and from Sarah Mack my colleague at Columbia and the art director of
Principles of Neural Science
. I am grateful to Sarah and to Charles Lam, who also executed the art program, animating what were originally rather vague ideas. In addition, I want to thank my associates at Columbia—Aviva Olsavsky for help with the glossary and text, Shoshana Vasheetz for word processing assistance, Seta Izmirly Millie Pellan, Arielle Rodman, Brian Skorney and Heidi Smith for proofreading the galleys, and especially Maria Palileo for her assiduous organization of the numerous versions of the manuscript.

My book editor at Norton, Angela von der Lippe, helped me to rethink and reorganize portions of the book and thereby improve it in numerous ways. I am also indebted to Angela’s colleagues at Norton, in particular Vanessa Levine-Smith, Winfrida Mbewe, and Trent Duffy, my copyeditor. All of them caringly helped the book achieve its present form. All deserve my deepest gratitude.