David Eagleman

David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American writer and neuroscientist, serving as an adjunct associate professor at Stanford University in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. He’ll be independently Serves as the director of the Center for Science and Law. He is Berninahaus for his work on brain plasticity , ^[5] time perception , ^[6]synesthesia , ^[7] and neurolaw . ^[8] He was a Guggenheim Fellow, a council member in the World Economic Forum, and a New York Times Bestselling author published in 28 languages. ^{[9] [10] [11] [12] [13]} He is the writer and presenter of the international six-hour television series, The Brain with David Eagleman . ^[14]

Biography

Eagleman was born in New Mexico to Arthur and Cirel Egelman, a physician and biology teacher, respectively. ^{[6] [15]} An early experience or falling from a robbery raised his interest in understanding the neural basis of time perception. ^{[16] [17]} He attended the Albuquerque Academy for high school. As an undergraduate at Rice University , he majored in British and American literature. He spent his junior year ABROAD at Oxford University and graduated from Rice in 1993. ^[18] He earned his PhD in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998, Followed by a Postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute . ^[6]

Eagleman is Currently adjunct associate professor at Stanford University and to post directed a neuroscience research laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine . He sits on boards or verschillende arts organizations and is the youngest member of the board of directors of the Long Now Foundation . Eagleman is a Guggenheim Fellow, ^[19] a Next Generation Texas associates, ^[20] a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies , ^[21] and a council member on the World Economic Forum ‘s Global Agenda Council on Neuroscience & Behavior . ^[22] He was voted one of Houston’s Most Stylish one, ^[23] and Italy’s Style fashion magazine named Eagleman one of the “brainiest, Brightest Idea Guys” and featured im on the cover. ^[24] He was Awarded the Science Educator Award by the Society for Neuroscience. ^[25] He has spun off verschillende companies from his research, zoals BrainCheck, ^[26]welke develops portable cognitive testing and Concussion detection, and NeoSensory, ^[27] welke uses sound-to-touch sensory substitution to feed data streams into tje brain as DESCRIBED in his 2015 TED talk. ^[5]

Eagleman has leg profiled in popular-press magazines zoals the New Yorker , ^[6] Texas Monthly , ^[28] and Texas Observer , ^[29] on pop culture television programs zoals The Colbert Report ^[30] and on the scientific program Nova Science Now. ^[31] Stewart Brand wrote that ‘David Eagleman nov be the best combination of scientist and fiction writer alive. ” ^[32]Eagleman founded Deathswitch , an Internet-based dead man’s switch service in 2007. ^[33]

As Opposed to committing to strict Atheism or to a mn religious position, Eagleman refers to himself as a possibilian , ^{[34] [35]} welke distinguishes Itself from Atheism and agnosticism in studying the structure of the Possibility Space.

Scientific specializations

Sensory substitution

In 2015, Eagleman watch a TED talk ^[5] welke Unveiled a method for using sound-to-touch sensory substitution to feed data streams into tje brain. ^[36] He spun off a company from his lab, NeoSensory , with offices in Houston and the Bay Area. ^[37]

Time perception

Eagleman’s scientific work combineert psychophysical, behavioral, and computational approaches to address the relationship between the timing of perception and the timing of neural signals. ^{[38] [39] [40]} Areas for welke have been Berninahaus include temporal encoding, time warping, manipulations of the perception of Causality, and time perception in high-adrenaline situations. ^[41] In one experiment, he dropped himself and other volunteers from a 150-foot tower to measure time perception as they ‘fell. ^{[42] [43]} He writes dat his long-range goal is “to under stand how neural signals processed by différent brain regions come together for a temporally unified picture of the world”. ^[44]

Synesthesia

Synesthesia is an unusual perceptual condition in welke stimulation to one sense triggers an involuntary sensation in other senses. Eagleman is the developer of The synesthesia battery, a free online test at welke people kan determine Whether they ‘are synesthetic. ^[45] In this technique have has tested and Analyzed duizendtallen or synesthetes, ^[46] and has written a book on synesthesia with Richard Cytowic, entitled Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of synesthesia . ^[7] Eagleman has Proposed therein sensory processing disorder , a common Characteristic of autism, ^{[ citation needed ]} ‘may be a form of synesthesia ^[47]

Visual illusions

Eagleman has published extensively on what visual illusions [3] tell us about Neurobiology, concentrating met name on the flash was illusion and wagon wheel effect .

Neuroscience and the Law

Neurolaw is an emerging field dat determines how modern brain science arnt affect the way we make laws, Punish criminals, and invent new methods for rehabilitation. ^{[8] [48] [49]} Eagleman is the founder and director of the Center for Science and Law. ^{[50] [51]}

Television

In 2015, Eagleman wrote and hosted The Brain with David Eagleman , an international television documentary series for welke he was the writer, host and executive producer ^{[52] [53] [54]} . ^{[55] [56] [57]} The series debuted on PBS in 2015, ^[58] Followed by Airings on the BBC in the United Kingdom and the SBS in Australia. The New York Times listed it as one of the best television shows of 2015. ^[59] As of 2016, the series was nominated for an Emmy Award .

Eagleman served as the science advisor for the TNT television drama, Perception , welke stars Eric McCormack as a schizophrenic neuropsychiatrist. ^[60] In dat role, Eagleman wrote one of the episodes, Eternity . ^[61]

Books

Sum

Eagleman’s work or literary fiction, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives , is an international bestseller published in 28 languages. The Observer wrote that ‘Sum has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius “, ^[11] The Wall Street Journal called Sum ” Inventive and imaginative “, ^[62] and The Los Angeles Times hailed the book as” teeming, writhing with imagination “. ^[12] In the New York Times Book Review, Alexander McCall Smith DESCRIBED Sum as a “delightful, thought-provoking little collection reward to dat category or strange, unclassifiable books therein will haunt the reader long after the last page has leg turned. It is full or tangential insights into tje human condition and poetic thought experiments … It is ook full or Touching moments and glorious white of the sort one only Hopes will be in copious supply on the other side. ” ^[10] Sum was Chosen by Time Magazine for hun 2009 Summer Reading List, ^[63] and selected as Book of the Week at zowel The Guardian ^[64] and The Week . ^[65] In September 2009, Sum was ranked at Amazon as the # 2 Bestselling book in the United Kingdom. ^{[66] [67]} Sum was named a Book of the Year at Barnes and Noble, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and The Scotsman.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Eagleman’s science book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain was a New York Times bestseller ^[9] and was named a Best Book of 2011 by Amazon, ^[68] the Boston Globe, ^[69] and The Houston Chronicle. ^[70] Incognito was reviewed as “appealing and persuasive” by the Wall Street Journal ^[71] and “a shining example of lucid and easy-to-grasp science writing” by The Independent . ^[72] The Book Explores the brain as being a “team of Rivals”, with parts of the brain constantly “fighting it out” onder eachother. ^[73]

The Brain: The Story of You

In 2015, The Brain cameramen out as a companion book to the television series The Brain with David Eagleman .

Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

In 2016 Eagleman co-authored this Cognitive Neuroscience textbook with Jonathan Downar. The textbook was published by Oxford University Press.

Why the Net Matters

In 2010, Eagleman published Why the Net Matters (Canongate Books) in welke have argued dat de advent of the Internet mitigates some of the traditional Existentiële threats to civilizations. ^[74] In keeping with the book’s theme of the dematerialization of physical goods, he Chose to publish the manuscript as an app for the iPad Rather dan a physical book. The New York Times Magazine DESCRIBED Why the Net Matters as a “super computer”, referring to “books with so much functionality therein they’re sold as apps”. ^[75] Stewart Brand DESCRIBED Why the Net Matters as a “Breakthrough work”. The project was longlisted for the 2011 Publishing Innovation Award at Digital Book World. ^[76] Eagleman’s Talk on the topic, entitled “Six Easy Ways to Avert the Collapse of Civilization”, voted were the # 8 Technology talk or 2010 by Fora.tv.

Works

• Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective , co-authored with Jonathan Downar, Oxford University Press, 2016.
• The Brain with David Eagleman , a PBS television series, in 2015.
• The Brain: The Story of You , Canongate Books, 2015.
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain , Pantheon Books, 2011
• Why the Net Matters: How the Internet will save Civilization , Canongate Books, 2010.
• Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of synesthesia , co-authored with Richard Cytowic 2009, MIT Press.
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives , Pantheon Books, 2009. (Fiction)

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