Television

Perception on TNT

I was the scientific advisor for the TNT television drama,Perception, starring Eric McCormack and Rachael Leigh Cook. Learn more about the show.

Watch an experiment in which we studied time perception by dropping volunteer subjects from a 150 foot high tower. Free fall.

Interested in issues of memory and the brain? Watch a clip of David on the History Channel.

Perception on TNT

I was the scientific advisor for the TNT television drama,Perception, starring Eric McCormack and Rachael Leigh Cook. Learn more about the show.
The Umwelt

The "umwelt" is the slice of an animal's ecosystem that it can sense. The rest is invisible....
CNN's Next List - video profile

I was named a CNN Next List Fellow. Watch two clips from the show.
Book extract from "The Brain: The Story of You" in the Financial Times

Our drive to come together into groups yields a survival advantage — but it has a dark side.

Listen to David discussing Sum -- and actor Jeffrey Tambor reading stories from the book -- on WNYC's Radiolab.

David has been named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He will use the fellowship opportunity to pursue the genetics and neuroimaging of synesthesia.

Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia has been awarded the Montaigne Medal, Eric Hoffer Award for Books.