ENDORSEMENTS "Neuroscientists tend to be specialists, focusing on a particular brain area or function. Edmund Rolls is an exception. He has studied numerous brain areas and functions in animals and humans, giving us a better understanding of processes as diverse as vision, reward, memory, motivation, and emotion. He also understands the pieces as a whole." --Joe LeDoux, Professor Emeritus, New York University; co-creator of The Amygdaloids "How does it work? For over fifty years, Edmund Rolls has been seeking the juice of neural computations, neurophysiologically, with simulations, through imaging human brains. The juice has been worth the squeeze." --Alessandro Treves, Researcher, SISSA--The International School for Advanced Studies "A fascinating and informative account of a very personal intellectual journey, from early neuroscientific discoveries in the laboratory to their theoretical denouement in computational neuroscience and possible application to human mental disorders." --Trevor Robbins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge; coeditor of The Frontal Cortex: Organization, Networks, and Function "Neuroscience suffers from a shortage of historical perspectives.

Edmund Rolls provides fascinating insights on important neuroscience discoveries that advanced our understanding of brain mechanisms for behaviors ranging from feeding to face recognition to memory function." --Michael Hasselmo, Director, Center for Systems Neuroscience Boston University; author of How We Remember.