“If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but… — 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
When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed… — 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
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
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
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
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
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“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
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we… — 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
If you cannot always elicit a straight answer from the unconscious brain, how can you access its knowledge? Sometimes the trick is… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough to understand them.” — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain. — 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
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 Image
Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
