Television

Perception on TNT

I was the scientific advisor for the TNT television drama,Perception, starring Eric McCormack and Rachael Leigh Cook. Learn more about the show.

Watch an experiment in which we studied time perception by dropping volunteer subjects from a 150 foot high tower. Free fall.

Interested in issues of memory and the brain? Watch a clip of David on the History Channel.

The Neuroscience of Engagement

Why don't we do what we know we should? Here's a talk I gave at Stanford Medical School telling why, and what to do about it.
British musician Jarvis Cocker reads from Sum

Hear British rocker Jarvis Cocker read the short story "Descent of Species" from Sum.
Scanning a 3,000 year old mummy

I performed a CT scan on an Egyptian mummy, and found beautiful objects inside.
Possibilianism at PopTech

I spoke at PopTech on the limits of science, the problems of false dichotomies, and my new movement of possibilianism. See the video.

See David Eagleman's TED talk entitled "Can we create new senses for humans?"

Why should the US invest in brain science? See David's opinion in the New York Times.

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