Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think
Update: 2024-12-23
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David Eagleman upends myths and describes the vast possibilities of a brainscape that even neuroscientists are only beginning to understand. Steve Levitt interviews him in this special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire.
- SOURCES:
- David Eagleman, professor of cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University and C.E.O. of Neosensory.
- RESOURCES:
- Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, by David Eagleman (2020).
- "Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains," by David Eagleman and Don Vaughn (TIME, 2020).
- "Prevalence of Learned Grapheme-Color Pairings in a Large Online Sample of Synesthetes," by Nathan Witthoft, Jonathan Winawer, and David Eagleman (PLoS One, 2015).
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman (2009).
- The vOICe app.
- Neosensory.
- EXTRAS:
- "Feeling Sound and Hearing Color," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
- "What’s Impacting American Workers?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
- "This Is Your Brain on Podcasts," by Freakonomics Radio (2016).
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It's impressive how the brain can rewire- interesting that even seeing people can begin to echolocate after only a few hours. 🤯