I went off to Waterstones in Chiswick to have a browse this Saturday and found what looks like an interesting (and less vague) book.
It’s called The Making of Memory by Steven Rose. It won the Rhone-Poulenc Science prize (which I’m assuming is a good thing) and is described on the back as being:
about the biological processes by which humans – and other animals, learn and remember – and how researchers can explore these mechanisms. Since the first edition of this book won the Science Prize in 1993, research has moved forward and Steven Rose has revised the book
Anyway, I’m not a natural at biology, but I’ll try to post some summaries as I go through it.
Links:
Steven Rose – Memory Book @ Amazon