Historical Perspective
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The following chapters review recent and current research on many important aspects of the neurobiology of learning and memory. This chapter gives some historical perspective to this active field. Having participated in this research for half a century, I am happy to share information, interpretations, and insights about this productive multidisciplinary area. In antiquity, speculation about mechanisms of memory took the form of metaphors, and metaphors of memory continue to be proposed in the present day. By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, scientific hypotheses and investigations of memory and its mechanisms began to be made, and it appeared that progress would be rapid. Research on neurobiological mechanisms of memory appeared to stall, however, and by the middle of the twentieth century, some thinkers despaired about the possibility of progress in this apparently intractable field. But shortly after midcentury, research and theory took off again, and rapid progress has continued to this day.
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