How long does it take to read The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory?
Jerry W. Rudy
The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory by Jerry W. Rudy takes about 7 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 51 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 428 pages, about 117,700 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
To understand how the brain learns and remembers requires an integration of psychological concepts and behavioral methods with mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and systems neuroscience. This text provides a synthesis of this interdisciplinary field. Each chapter makes the key concepts transparent and accessible to a reader with minimal background in either neurobiology or psychology and is extensively illustrated with full-color photographs and figures depicting important concepts and experimental data. Like the First Edition, the Second Edition is organized into three parts. However, each part has been expanded to include new chapters or reorganized to incorporate new findings and concepts. Part One introduces the idea that synapses modified by experience provide the basis for memory storage. It next describes the long- term potentiation methodology used to study how synapses are modified and concepts needed to understand the organization of synapses. The remaining chapters are organized around the idea that the synaptic changes that support long-term potentiation evolve in four overlapping stages referred to as (a) generation, (b) stabilization, (c) consolidation, and (d) maintenance. The goal of each chapter is to reveal that each stage depends on unique molecular processes and to describe what they are. Part Two builds on this foundation to show how molecules and cellular processes that have been identified from studies of synaptic plasticity also participate in the making of memories. It discusses some of the basic conceptual issues researchers face in trying to relate memory to synaptic molecules and describes some of the behavioral and neurobiological methods that are used.
Subjects: Psychiatry and neurology, Psychology, Physiology, Memory, Learning, Neurobiology
