David Eagleman - Neuroscientist, Author, Technologist, Entrepreneur

DAVID EAGLEMAN

Neuroscientist, Author, Technologist, Entrepreneur

His research encompasses brain plasticity, sensory substitution, time perception, synesthesia, and the intersection of brain science with the legal system.

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My TED talk: Can we create new senses for humans?

Research

David researches many aspects of neuroscience, from human perception to legal ramifications and beyond.

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Powered by your sense of touch, vibrations on your wrist can catch the conversation you’re missing. Distinguish hard-to-hear speech sounds like “that” versus “cat.”

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"David Eagleman is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun."
- New York Times

"David Eagleman offers startling lessons.... His method is to ask us to cast off our lazy commonplace assumptions.
- The Guardian

"David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive."
- Stewart Brand

"Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness."
- The New Yorker

"A popularizer of impressive gusto...[Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars."
- New York Observer