David Eagleman
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David Eagleman is an American neuroscientist, bestselling author, and science communicator who teaches at Stanford University. He is the host of the PBS series The Brain with David Eagleman and the podcast Inner Cosmos, and he has founded several neurotech startups.
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What David Eagleman has said on podcasts
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Continual challenge keeps the brain changing through plasticity.
“if you're constantly pushing and challenging it with things it doesn't understand, then it'll keep changing”
Open the episode · Science & Tools of Learning & Memory | Dr. David EaglemanListen at 0:22
Experience, culture, language, and neighborhoods shape brain wiring.
“It's every bit of experience that you have. It's your culture, it's your language, it's your neighborhood. All of that stuff gets absorbed by the brain and wires us up.”
Open the episode · Science & Tools of Learning & Memory | Dr. David EaglemanListen at 3:51
The brain constantly reconfigures itself throughout life.
“brain plasticity, for anyone who doesn't know, it's that the brain is constantly reconfiguring itself every second of your life”
Open the episode · Science & Tools of Learning & Memory | Dr. David EaglemanListen at 4:24
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Episodes
2 episodes featuring David Eagleman, newest first
Works by David Eagleman
- EOEmpire of the Invisible
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