| A stay at the Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy during March, 1992, offered a marvellous opportunity and perfect environment in which to prepare an early draft of this book, which then remained more or less dormant until after my retirement late in 1993, except for invaluable comments from Jimmy Schwartz, who was a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford in 19923. A Leverhulme Foundation Emeritus Fellowship for the academic year 19945 provided welcome secretarial support. A stay at the University of Arizona in January, 1995, allowed me to take the matter farther in a lovely, sheltered, and stimulating environment, and finally, during a visit later that year to the Salk Institute and the University of California, San Diego, I was able to benefit from a number of stimulating discussions with Francis Crick and some of his colleagues there and also at the California Institute of Technology. I have had helpful exchanges about specific points in the book with Paul Azzopardi, John Barbur, Alan Cowey, Bea DeGelder, Harvey Karten, Brenda Milner, Mortimer Mishkin, Dick Passingham, David Rosenthal, Keith Ruddock, Petra Stoerig, Endel Tulving, and Bill Verplanck, to all of whom I am grateful. I owe a special vote of thanks to Arash Sahraie, who has been not only a skilled and dedicated post-doctoral research colleague, but has also helped with many of the diagrams in the book. |
| Academics are privileged to be able to attend a variety of specialized conferences, and I owe a very large debt to many persons, too many to list, who have both stimulated my interest and have informed it. I am truly pleased to express my gratitude to so many, at least collectively. |
| More particularly and more concretely, two referees of this manuscript both made many helpful suggestions, dropping their cloak of anonymity to me. I do not reveal who they are becauseseeing the finished productthey may well not want to be known publicly! But I owe them a very special thanks. My wife, Barbara, during her own busy life, has shown her usual forbearance, support, and helpincluding preparation of the indices. |
| Recognizable variants of passages in this book will be found in The problem of animal consciousness in relation to neuropsychology (Behavioural brain research, 1995, 71, 1715), Fragments of memory (to appear in |
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