Why the Net Matters

For more on synesthesia, follow these links:


2 The Synesthesia Battery
Want to know if you are a synesthete? Take the tests on The Synesthesia Battery to find out.

Link Synesthesia on NOVA Science now

A profile of the synesthesia research in the Eagleman lab.

Link Synesthesia on Discovery Channel
For a quick overview of synesthesia, see this 6 minute video with Dr. Eagleman on the Discovery Channel.

Link Synesthesia on Research Channel
For a slightly longer overview, see this 8 minute video with Dr. Eagleman on the Research Channel.

Link Lecture on Synesthesia
For a more complete view of the phenomenon, see David Eagleman's 1 hour talk at the University of Sydney.

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From the Blog

  • A note about head shape in mummies
    A note about head shape in mummies

    A few months ago I scanned a 3,000 mummy. What can (and can't) be concluded based on his perspicuously elongated skull shape, known as dolicocephy (elongated head)?  

  • The Brain and the Law
    The Brain and the Law

    Interested in the intersection of the brain and the legal system? Watch a talk I delivered at the Royal Society for the Arts in London, entitled "The Brain and the Law".

  • Breivik's Brain
    Breivik's Brain

    What could explain Anders Breivik's shooting attack in Oslo, Norway? While this is debated from the angles of politics, religion, and sociology, I want to ask this from the viewpoint of neurobiology.

  • Houston Modern Luxury's Men of Style
    Houston Modern Luxury's Men of Style

    I had the honor of being selected as one of Houston Modern Luxury's Men of Style.

Newsflashes

Why the Net Matters on BBC Today

Listen to an interview on BBC's Today Programme regarding the new iPad book Why the Net Matters.

SUM is Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune

SUM was chosen as the best book of 2009 by Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer-winning literary critic Julia Keller.

Neurolaw: The Brain on Trial

Want to know how neuroscience will force major changes in our criminal justice system? Read David's article The Brain on Trial in The Atlantic. Now anthologized in 2012 Best American Science and Nature Writing.
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