If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it… — 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 continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity… — 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
“consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.” — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle.… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices. — 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
All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Many „pathogens“ (both chemical and behavioral) can influence how you turn out; these include substance abuse by a mother during pregnancy, maternal… — 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
The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your… — 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
