In 1919, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had written that “the test that is best of the fact is the effectiveness of the idea getting it self accepted within the competition for the market.” Our minds never obviously obey this dictum that is admirable. But by better comprehending the mechanisms of memory, maybe reporters can go their modern market nearer to Holmes’s ideal.
Sam Wang, a co-employee teacher of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton University, and Sandra Aamodt, an old editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, would be the writers of “Welcome to the human brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but always remember just how to Drive as well as other Puzzles of every day life.”