He is the Chief Scientific Advisor for the Mind Science Foundation and the winner of the Claude Shannon Luminary Award from Bell Labs and the McGovern Award for Excellence in Biomedical Communication. The Runaway Species, co-authored with music composer Anthony Brandt, explores the neuroscience and behavior behind human creativity.Įagleman is a TED speaker, a Guggenheim Fellow, and serves on several boards, including the American Brain Foundation and the The Long Now Foundation. The award-winning Wednesday is Indigo Blue explores the neurological condition of synesthesia, in which the senses are blended. The Safety Net examines what the advent of the internet means on the timescale of civilizations. His work of fiction, SUM, is an international bestseller published in 33 languages and turned into two operas. His bestselling book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, explores the neuroscience “under the hood” of the conscious mind: all the aspects of neural function to which we have no awareness or access. His latest book Livewired tells the story of brain plasticity: how your forest of billions of neurons reconfigures every moment over your life. He has spun several companies out of his lab, including Neosensory, a company that uses haptics for sensory substitution and addition.Beyond his 120+ academic publications, he has published many popular books. He has been a TED speaker, a guest on the Colbert Report, and profiled in the New Yorker magazine.
Eagleman writes for the Atlantic, New York Times, Discover Magazine, Slate, Wired, and New Scientist, and appears regularly on National Public Radio and BBC to discuss both science and literature. He is also the author of a widely adopted textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Brain and Behavior, as well as a bestselling book of literary fiction, Sum, which has been translated into 32 languages, turned into two operas, and named a Best Book of the Year by Barnes and Noble.
Eagleman is the author of many books, including Livewired, The Runaway Species, The Brain, Incognito, and Wednesday is Indigo Blue. Eagleman’s areas of research include sensory substitution, time perception, vision, and synesthesia he also studies the intersection of neuroscience with the legal system, and in that capacity he directs the Center for Science and Law. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University, an internationally bestselling author, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the writer and presenter of The Brain, an Emmy-nominated television series on PBS and BBC. Dr.
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