• Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think

  • Dec 23 2024
  • Length: 48 mins
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Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think

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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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