American · b. 1971
David Eagleman is an American neuroscientist and author known for making brain science accessible and fascinating in bestsellers such as Incognito and Livewired.
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and a prolific science communicator, known for his research on perception, time, and brain plasticity and for his gift for vivid explanation.
His bestseller Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain explores the vast hidden workings of the unconscious mind, while Livewired examines the brain’s remarkable capacity to rewire itself. He also wrote the imaginative fiction Sum and created and presented the television series The Brain.
Eagleman is admired for bringing the wonder and strangeness of neuroscience to a broad audience with clarity, curiosity, and flair.
by David Eagleman
Neuroscientist David Eagleman's accessible tour of the unconscious brain. Drawing on cutting-edge research, he argues that the conscious mind is a small, often misled passenger in a brain that does most of its work below awareness — with provocative implications for selfhood, free will, and the law.
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