David Eagleman

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.

Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains

Listen to David speak with Brene Brown about "Livewired"

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

Research

Read David's article The Brain on Trial in The Atlantic. Now anthologized in 2012 Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Feel the world around you

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.”

Neosensory Buzz changes lives in China

Neosensory Buzz helps people all over the world expand their senses.

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

"[A] neuroscientist and polymath."
- Wall Street Journal

"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

"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 in both Sum and his new book, Incognito, is to ask us to cast off our lazy, commonplace assumptions."
- The Guardian

"What Eagleman seems to be calling for is a new Enlightenment."
- Sunday Herald

"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