“Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what's… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way:… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy,… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing… — David Eagleman Copy Share
Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world. — David Eagleman Copy Share
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. — David Eagleman Copy Share
We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them. — David Eagleman Copy Share
“with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the… — David Eagleman Copy Share
“If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something… — David Eagleman Copy Share
The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated… — David Eagleman Copy Share
When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal… — David Eagleman Copy Share
The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment. — David Eagleman Copy Share
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion.… — David Eagleman Copy Share
“As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning… — David Eagleman Copy Share
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast… — David Eagleman Copy Share
When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away… — David Eagleman Copy Share
“Platoons and plays and stores and congresses do not end - they simply move on to a different dimension.” — David Eagleman Copy Share
Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the… — David Eagleman Copy Share
