The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Jerry W. Rudy […] This book represents my attempt to integrate some of what we have learned from this interdisciplinary approach into a coherent framework that can be understood by students who have a rudimentary background in psychology and neuroscience and also by wider scientific community. […] The first story (Part 1) is organized around the central idea that synapses are elementary storage units that can be modified by experience. […] The second story (Part 2) begins with a discussion in Chapter 7 of the basic conceptual issue researchers face in trying to relate cellular processes and molecules to memory and describes some of the behavioral and neurobiological methods that are used to make this connection… The third story (Part 3) is organized around what is sometimes called the multiple memory systems view - that different neural systems have evolved to capture the various content contained in our experiences. Three neural systems are discussed. […] In writing this book, I tried to provide a broad context in which to introduce the key concepts and facts that are central to a particular topic. I made no attempt to be comprehensive in the material I covered. Instead, I tried to maintain a level of description and discussion that was sufficient to ensure a basic understanding of the relevant principles and processes, without getting to a level of detail that would be tedious […]. Jerry W. Rudy Professor of Psychology University of Colorado