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

NeoSensory and the science of sensory substitution

Want a quick overview about what we're doing at NeoSensory?

A new map of the human brain

New paper in Nature describes the most highly detailed map of the human cortex so far.

The Science of Waiting

For many years I've been studying how human brains perceive the passage of time.

Book extract from "The Brain: The Story of...

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

What does it mean for time to be real? Is time the ultimate stage on which all events play?

Can we produce our brains on other media?

Can we reproduce our brains on other media (say, on computers, or out of beer cans and tennis balls)?

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Kernel's Quest to Enhance Human Intelligence

The Brain and the Now

Powers of the Subconscious

Disinformation and "fake news"

Had a great time at the NYT summit with friend and...

Your brain constantly re-calibrates its timing.

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

The Brain on PBS

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

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

"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

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

"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 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

Brain And Behavior

Wednesday is Indigo Blue

The Runaway Species