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One of the most fascinating problems confronting biology concerns the neurobiology of mental processes. The recent increase in the technical and conceptual strength of both psychology and biology has allowed scientists to confront the boundary between these two disciplines, in the attempt to unify them. In my talk I would like to illustrate how one can combine molecular biology and cognitive psychology in the study of one mental process by using as specific examples various simple forms of memory storage.

Eric Kandel, MD, is a Professor, at Columbia University and Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and N.Y.U. School of Medicine, Kandel trained in Neurobiology at NIH and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior.