Combining data from cortical architecture, function, connectivity, and topography. The authors found 97 previously unidentified brain areas. It's jaw-dropping how this sort of discovery happens each year: it's like aliens peering at the Earth with improving technology and discovering the borders of 97 countries they'd missed before. Video below; paper here: http://www.nature.com/articles/nature18933.epdf
A new map of the human brain
From the Blog
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NeoSensory and the science of sensory substitution
Want a quick overview about what we're doing at NeoSensory?
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The Brain and the Now
I recently spoke at the Long Now Foundation's 20th anniversary event.
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CNN's Next List - video profile
I was named a CNN Next List Fellow. Watch two clips from the show.
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Silicon Immortality: Downloading Consciousness into Computers
Well before we understand how brains work, we may find ourselves able to digitally copy the brain's structure and able to download the conscious mind into a computer. What are the possibilities and challenges?
In other news...
Musician Jarvis Cocker reads from Sum
Listen to British rocker Jarvis Cocker read the story "Descent of Species" from Sum. He is one of the dozens of terrific voices who read for the audio book.
Sum #2 book in UK
In September, 2009, Sum became the number 2 book in the United Kingdom on Amazon's bestseller list, only behind Dan Brown's Lost Symbol.
New Yorker magazine profile
Read a profile of David in The New Yorker: The Possibilian: What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain by Burkhard Bilger.
