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Notes"Thought for the day: A good idea not turned into action stays confined to the tiny, poor neurons that spend all their energy on it."Neuroscience speaker David Eagleman, from his Facebook page.
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Notes"An individual brain reflects its culture. Our opinions on normality, custom, dress codes and local superstitions are absorbed into our neural circuitry from the social forest around us."Lavin speaker David Eagleman, in a Guardian UK debate on the virtues of studying neuroscience.
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NotesHere’s Jonah Lehrer, neuroscience speaker and author of Imagine: How Creativity Works, performing some “Brain Games” on The Ellen Degeneres Show. His experiments show how easily the brain can be tricked, and just how oblivious of our surroundings we can be on a daily basis.
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Notes“Vision is a grand illusion,” neuroscience speaker David Eagleman told an audience last week. Even though vision seems effortless, it’s not. It’s a construction of your brain. Your vision does not work like a camera, objectively taking in everything in front of you; vision is an internal model of what you think is happening out there. (Audience reaction at 1:55 is priceless!)
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Notes"I work like the caricature of an American in that I’m never not working. It’s very embarrassing actually,” he says. When he wrote his PhD, he spent weeks on end at a desk equipped with a bag of potatoes and a microwave. When he felt hungry, he would pop a spud on for a few minutes, and scoff it without leaving his typewriter. “I’m not a foodie. As a result I have all this extra time. My friends who are foodies lose a lot of time in the kitchen."Independent in the UK feature article on neuroscience speaker David Eagleman, entitled “Is David Eagleman the cleverest man in America?”
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NotesIn this clip, neuroscience speaker David Eagleman discusses his latest book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, in AOL’s You’ve Got… web series. What is the relationship between our conscious selves and our brains? What is the physical process that goes into deciding our behavior? Eagleman’s audacious attempts to solve the mysteries of our brain make him a fascinating and in-demand speaker, and they make Incognito one of the hottest popular science books in years.
