There's nothing like a sea slug to get my memory going. At least, that's the basis of research by Dr. Eric Kandel, who shared last year's Nobel Prize in medicine for figuring out what makes sea slugs ...

In the 1960s, neuroscientist Eric Kandel began a series of experiments on the California brown sea hare, a species of sea slug that looks as though it were dropped into the ocean from outer space.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American There is a rich tradition in psychology and ...