David Eagleman

Eagleman was born on April 25, 1971,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIogEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA221 |title=Essential Quotes for Scientists and Engineers|first=Konstantin K.|last=Likharev|year=2021|publisher=Springer Nature|isbn=9783030633325|via=Google Books}} in New Mexico to Jewish parents Arthur and Cirel Egelman, a physician and a biology teacher, respectively.{{Cite web|url=http://eaglemanlab.net/papers/EgelmanThesis.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325033620/http://eaglemanlab.net/papers/EgelmanThesis.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 25, 2016|title=BCM dissertation acknowledgements|accessdate=November 4, 2022}} Eagleman chose to Americanize the spelling of his surname after discovering several alternative spellings in personal genealogy research.{{Cite web|url=https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/jumping-to-conclusions/Content?oid=1327997|title=Jumping to conclusions|accessdate=November 4, 2022}} An early experience of falling from a roof raised his interest in understanding the neural basis of time perception.[https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/91726-falling Radiolab: Falling], September 2010.Ripley, Amanda (2008). The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why. Crown Books. pp 65–67. He attended the Albuquerque Academy for high school. As an undergraduate at Rice University, he majored in British and American literature. He spent his junior year abroad at Oxford University. He graduated from Rice in 1993.{{cite web |url=http://alumni.rice.edu/alc2008/bios.html |title=Association of Rice Alumni |access-date=December 12, 2008 |publisher=Rice.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604234608/http://alumni.rice.edu/alc2008/bios.html |archive-date=June 4, 2010 |url-status=dead }} He earned his PhD in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute.

Eagleman is an adjunct professor at Stanford University, after directing a neuroscience research laboratory for 10 years at Baylor College of Medicine. He serves as the Chief Science Advisor for the Mind Science Foundation, and is the youngest member of the board of directors of the Long Now Foundation. Eagleman is a Guggenheim Fellow,{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/david-m-eagleman/|title=David M. Eagleman|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|accessdate=November 4, 2022}} a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies,{{Cite web | url=https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/bio/eagleman | title=David Eagleman}} and a council member on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Neuroscience & Behavior.{{Cite web|url=https://www3.weforum.org/maintenance/public.htm|title=World Economic Forum - Home|website=www3.weforum.org|accessdate=November 4, 2022}} He was voted one of Houston's Most Stylish men,Schmal, Jody (2011). [http://digital.modernluxury.com/article/Men+Of+Style+Going+Global/680728/65156/article.html "Men Of Style Going Global"]. Houston Magazine. and Italy's Style fashion magazine named Eagleman one of the "Brainiest, Brightest Idea Guys" and featured him on the cover.[http://eagleman.com/blog/item/30-italys-style-magazine-idea-guys-for-2012 David Eagleman], Style, December 2011, Issue 12, pp 75–80. He was awarded the Science Educator Award by the Society for Neuroscience.[https://web.sfn.org/SfN/Press-Room/News-Release-Archives/2012/Society-for-Neuroscience-Announces-Recipients-of-Science-Education-and-Outreach-Awards Science Educator Award], Society for Neuroscience, October 2012. He has spun off several companies from his research,{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wCMlrLAAAAAJ&hl=en|title=David Eagleman|website=scholar.google.com|accessdate=November 4, 2022}} including BrainCheck, which helps medical professionals assess and diagnose cognitive impairment and dementia, and Neosensory, which uses sound-to-touch sensory substitution to feed data streams into the brain, as described in his TED talk.

Eagleman has been profiled in magazines such as the New Yorker, Texas Monthly,{{Cite news|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/is-david-eagleman-neurosciences-carl-sagan/|title=Is David Eagleman Neuroscience's Carl Sagan?|first=Michael|last=Hardy 3|date=October 14, 2015|newspaper=Texas Monthly|accessdate=November 4, 2022}} and Texas Observer,[http://www.texasobserver.org/cover-story/the-soul-seeker The Soul Seeker: A neuroscientist's search for the human essence], Texas Observer, May 28, 2010. on pop-culture television programs such as The Colbert Report[https://web.archive.org/web/20151018172657/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/9catel/the-colbert-report-david-eagleman Colbert Report: David Eagleman], Aired July 21, 2011. and on the scientific program Nova Science Now.[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/profile-david-eagleman.html Profile: David Eagleman], Nova Science Now, Aired February 2, 2011. Stewart Brand wrote that "David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive".[http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/apr/01/six-easy-steps-avert-collapse-civilization/ Introduction to Eagleman lecture at the Long Now Foundation], April 1, 2010. Eagleman founded Deathswitch, an internet based dead man's switch service, in 2007.{{Cite news|url=http://www.chron.com/business/article/Houston-firm-offers-e-mail-from-beyond-grave-1844277.php|title=Houston firm offers e-mail from beyond grave|first=DAVID|last=KAPLAN|newspaper=Chron |accessdate=April 6, 2024}} He also appeared on MPR News, in a segment called Ask a Neuroscientist, where he answered audience-submitted questions.{{Cite web |title=Ask a Neuroscientist: How and where are memories stored? |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/03/13/daily-circuit-ask-a-neuroscientist |access-date=January 5, 2023 |website=MPR News |date=March 12, 2012 |language=en}}

As opposed to committing to strict atheism or to a particular religious position, Eagleman who was raised Jewish, refers to himself as a possibilian,[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727795.300-beyond-god-and-atheism-why-i-am-a-possibilian.html Beyond god and atheism: Why I am a possibilian], David Eagleman, New Scientist, September 27, 2010.[http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/stray-questions-for-david-eagleman Stray questions for David Eagleman], The New York Times Paper Cuts, July 10, 2009. which distinguishes itself from atheism and agnosticism by studying the structure of the possibility space.

Sensory substitution refers to feeding information into the brain via unusual sensory channels, a central topic in Eagleman's book Livewired. In a TED talk, Eagleman unveiled a method for using sound-to-touch sensory substitution to feed data streams into the brain.Novich SD & Eagleman DM (2015). [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00221-015-4346-1 Using space and time to encode vibrotactile information: toward an estimate of the skin's achievable throughput.] Experimental Brain Research. 233 (10): 2777-2788. In 2015, together with Dr. Scott Novich, PhD, he co-founded the company Neosensory,{{Cite web|title=Device lets hearing-impaired feel sound via wrist vibrations|url=https://www.healthyhearing.com/report/53155-Buzz-device-routes-sound-through-skin|access-date=February 15, 2021|website=Healthy Hearing|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Homepage|url=https://neosensory.com/|access-date=February 15, 2021|website=neosensory.com|language=en-US}} headquartered in Palo Alto, California, of which he is the CEO. As of 2023, Neosensory has raised over 20 million dollars in venture funding.[https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/neosensory-announces-10-million-series-a-financing-round-1027855882 Neosensory announces 10 million Series A financing round], Business Insider, January 2019] In 2015, the company presented the Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer (VEST) wearable device that "translates" speech and other audio signals into series of vibration, that allows deaf people to "feel" sounds on their body.{{Cite web|last=Li|first=Shirley|date=April 14, 2015|title=The Wearable Device That Could Unlock a New Human Sense|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/the-wearable-device-that-could-unlock-a-new-human-sense/390273/|access-date=February 15, 2021|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Kirkwood|first=David H.|date=April 29, 2015|title=VEST enables deaf to understand by feel|url=https://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearingnewswatch/2015/vest-is-designed-to-allow-deaf-people-to-feel-what-speakers-are-saying/|access-date=February 15, 2021|website=Hearing News Watch|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Keller|first=Kate|title=Could This Futuristic Vest Give Us a Sixth Sense?|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-this-futuristic-vest-give-us-sixth-sense-180968852/|access-date=February 15, 2021|website=Smithsonian}} In 2019, Neosensory presented the Buzz wristband, a sensory substitution device that transfers sound into dynamic vibration patterns, aimed for deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals.Perrotta MV, Asgeirsdottir T, Eagleman DM (2021). [https://eagleman.com/papers/Perrottaetal2021_DecipheringSounds_Neuroscience.pdf Deciphering sounds through patterns of vibration on the skin]. Neuroscience. 458: 77-86.{{Cite news|last=King|first=Darryn|date=September 5, 2019|title=Hearing Loss? A New Device Lets You Feel Sound|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/hearing-loss-a-new-device-lets-you-feel-sound-11567691822|access-date=February 15, 2021|issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite web|title=The Wristband that Gives You Superpowers|url=https://neo.life/2019/01/the-wristband-that-gives-you-superpowers/|access-date=February 15, 2021|website=NEO.LIFE|date=January 10, 2019 |language=en-us}} This was followed in 2021 by the Neosensory Duo, which uses bimodal stimulation for addressing tinnitus.Perrotta MV, Kohler I, Eagleman DM (2023). [https://www.tinnitusjournal.com/articles/bimodal-stimulation-for-the-reduction-of-tinnitus-using-vibration-on-the-skin.pdf Bimodal stimulation for the reduction of tinnitus using vibration on the skin.] International Tinnitus Journal. 27(1):01-05. In 2022, the company released the Neosensory Clarify for high-frequency hearing loss; the wristband uses machine learning to detect high-frequency phonemes in real time and indicate their presence to the user through vibrations.Kohler, Perrotta, Ferriera, Eagleman (2024). Cross-Modal Sensory Boosting to Improve High-Frequency Hearing Loss: Device Development and Validation. JMIRx Med 2024;5:e49969 doi: 10.2196/49969

Eagleman's scientific work combines psychophysical, behavioral, and computational approaches to address the relationship between the timing of perception and the timing of neural signals.Eagleman DM (2009). Brain Time. In What's Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science. Ed: Max Brockman. Vintage Books.Burdick, A (2006). The mind in overdrive. Discover, 27 (4), 21–22.{{cite journal | last1 = Eagleman | first1 = DM | year = 2008 | title = Human time perception and its illusions | url = https://eagleman.com/papers/EaglemanCurrOpinionNeuro_TimeIllusions_2008.pdf | journal = Current Opinion in Neurobiology | volume = 18 | issue = 2| pages = 131–6 | doi=10.1016/j.conb.2008.06.002| pmid = 18639634 | pmc = 2866156 }} Areas for which he is known include temporal encoding, time warping, manipulations of the perception of causality, and time perception in high-adrenaline situations.Stetson C, Fiesta MP, Eagleman DM (2007). [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001295 Does time really slow down during a frightening event?] PLoS One. 2(12):e1295. In one experiment, he dropped himself and other volunteers from a 150-foot tower to measure time perception as they fell.Choi, CQ. [https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/time-doesn-t-really-freeze-when-you-re-freaked-flna1c9471640 Time doesn't really freeze when you're freaked], MSNBC, December 11, 2007. He writes that his long-range goal is "to understand how neural signals processed by different brain regions come together for a temporally unified picture of the world".

Synesthesia is an unusual perceptual condition in which stimulation to one sense triggers an involuntary sensation in other senses. Eagleman is the developer of The Synesthesia Battery, a free online test by which people can determine whether they are synesthetic.{{Cite web|url=https://eagleman.com/papers/EaglemanetalSynesthesiaBattery2006.pdf|title=Eagleman DM, Kagan AD, Nelson SN, Sagaram D, Sarma AK (2007). A standardized test battery for the study of Synesthesia" Journal of Neuroscience Methods 159: 139–145.|accessdate=November 4, 2022}} By this technique he has tested and analyzed thousands of synesthetes,{{cite journal | last1 = Novich | first1 = SD | last2 = Cheng | first2 = S | last3 = Eagleman | first3 = DM | year = 2011 | title = Is synesthesia one condition or many? A large-scale analysis reveals subgroups | url = https://eagleman.com/papers/NovichChengEagleman_Synesthesias_2011.pdf | journal = Journal of Neuropsychology | volume = 5 | issue = 2| pages = 353–371 | doi=10.1111/j.1748-6653.2011.02015.x| pmid = 21923794 }} and has written a book on synesthesia with Richard Cytowic, entitled Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia. Eagleman has proposed that sensory processing disorder, a common characteristic of autism,{{Citation needed|date=March 2015}} may be a form of synesthesia.[http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-synesthesia-brain-20120220,0,6760571.story The blended senses of synesthesia], Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2012.

Eagleman has published extensively on what visual illusions{{Cite web |url=https://eagleman.com/papers/Eagleman.NatureRevNeuro.Illusions.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=November 18, 2018 |archive-date=October 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026180145/https://www.eagleman.com/papers/Eagleman.NatureRevNeuro.Illusions.pdf |url-status=dead }} tell us about neurobiology, concentrating especially on the flash lag illusion and wagon wheel effect.

Neurolaw is an emerging field that determines how modern brain science should affect the way we make laws, punish criminals, and invent new methods for rehabilitation.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5QObhuLxso The Brain and The Law], Lecture at the Royal Society for the Arts, London, England, April 21, 2009.Eagleman DM, Correro MA, Singh J (2009). {{cite journal|url=http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=978074069119094087090084093095004065022033067082008069010097019077095076104110019077049010006099009024001094116003029003111077055029063052011084065110006103078113063026087093120101065101080085102067102087104126096025097018067098105126031087096006102&EXT=pdf|title=Why Neuroscience Matters for a Rational Drug Policy|date=April 9, 2009|last1=Correro|first1=Mark A.|last2=Eagleman|first2=David M.}}, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology. Eagleman is the founder and director of the Center for Science and Law.[http://reason.tv/video/show/neuroscience-and-the-criminal "You are your brain" – David Eagleman on transforming the criminal justice system], Reason TV, April 2010. Retrieved on February 19, 2012.

Eagleman's BrainCheck tests ones cognitive abilities, including their memory.{{Cite web |title=BrainCheck: David Eagleman's New App Tests Cognitive Health in Under 5 Minutes |url=https://www.thelavinagency.com/news/braincheck-david-eagleman-s-new-app-tests-cognitive-health-in-under-5-minutes |access-date=January 5, 2023 |website=The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau}} The Eagleman Laboratory operated a website from 2013 to 2017 called mylifememory.info about hyperthymesia, which invited users to take "The Extraordinary Memory Test" for research purposes.{{Cite web |last=Eagleman |first=David |title=My Life Memory: Studying Hyperthymesia |url=http://mylifememory.info/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018212841/http://www.mylifememory.info:80/ |archive-date=October 18, 2017 |access-date=January 4, 2023 |website=mylifememory.info |publisher=Eagleman Laboratory: For Perception and Action}} The lab was trying to find individuals with the condition so they could "further elucidate the causes and nature of hyperthymesia."

Eagleman hosts the weekly monologue podcast Inner Cosmos, which has ranked as the number-one science podcast on Apple several times and was nominated for the best science podcast of the year at the 2024 iHeart Podcast Awards at SXSW.

Eagleman wrote and hosted The Brain with David Eagleman, an international television documentary series for which he was the writer, host, and executive producer{{cite web |url=http://www.newsweek.com/david-eaglemans-new-tv-show-brain-gets-inside-your-head-383843 |title=David Eagleman's New TV Show 'The Brain' Gets Inside Your Head |newspaper=Newsweek |date= October 15, 2015|access-date= October 19, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/10/this-new-pbs-miniseries-will-expand-your-mind.html |title=David Eagleman Wants You to Meet Your Brain |newspaper=New York |date= October 14, 2015|access-date= October 19, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-brain/ |title=Exploring the Mysteries of the Brain - David Eagleman answers questions about his major PBS series |newspaper=Scientific American |date=October 6, 2015 |author= Gareth Cook }}{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2015/10/13/the-cosmos-inside-your-head-neuroscientist-david-eagleman-tells-the-story-of-the-brain-on-pbs |title=The Cosmos Inside Your Head: Neuroscientist David Eagleman Tells The Story Of The Brain On PBS |newspaper=Forbes |date= October 13, 2015 |author=David DiSalvo }}{{cite journal | url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7571/full/526041a.html |title=Neuroscience: The mechanics of mind |newspaper=Nature |date= October 1, 2015 |author=Daniel Bor |volume=526 |issue=7571 |doi=10.1038/526041a |pages=41–42|bibcode=2015Natur.526...41B |doi-access=free }}{{cite news | url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/is-david-eagleman-neurosciences-carl-sagan/ |title=Is David Eagleman Neuroscience's Carl Sagan? |newspaper=Texas Monthly |date= October 14, 2015 |author=Michael Hardy }} The series debuted on PBS in America in 2015,{{cite web|title=The Brain with David Eagleman|url=http://video.pbs.org/program/brain-david-eagleman/|website=Public Broadcasting Service}} followed by the BBC in the United Kingdom and the SBS in Australia before worldwide distribution. The New York Times listed it as one of the best television shows of the year.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/arts/television/best-tv-shows-2015.html |title=The Best TV Shows of 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |date= December 7, 2015 |access-date= April 8, 2016}} In 2016, the series was nominated for an Emmy Award.

In 2018 he made a Netflix documentary, The Creative Brain, based on his book The Runaway Species with Anthony Brandt. In that documentary, he interviews creators such as Tim Robbins, Michael Chabon, Grimes, Dan Weiss, Kelis, Robert Glasper, Nathan Myhrvold, Michelle Khine, Nick Cave, Bjarke Ingels, and others.{{cite web | url=https://www.netflix.com/title/81090128 | title=The Creative Brain on Netflix| website=Netflix}}

Eagleman served as a scientific advisor for the HBO television series Westworld.{{cite web | url=https://www.science.org/content/article/free-will-ai-and-vibrating-vests-investigating-science-westworld |title=Free will, AI, and vibrating vests: investigating the science of Westworld |magazine=Science |date= May 2, 2018 |access-date= November 30, 2018}}{{cite web | url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/lovesick-cyborg/2018/06/07/westworld-science-advisor-talks-brains-and-ai |title='Westworld' Science Advisor Talks Brains and AI |magazine=Discover |date= June 7, 2018 |access-date= November 30, 2018}} He previously served as the science advisor for the TNT television drama, Perception, starring Eric McCormack as a schizophrenic neuropsychiatrist.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714204/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast Internet Movie Database], Full Cast & Crew, Perception In that role, Eagleman wrote one of the episodes, "Eternity".[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3742728/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers Internet Movie Database], Eternity episode of Perception

Eagleman's 2009 book on synesthesia, co-authored with neurologist Richard E. Cytowic,{{Cite book |last1=Cytowic |first1=Richard E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbPGx-Gua9kC |title=Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia |last2=Eagleman |first2=David |date=2009 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-01279-9}} compiles contemporary understanding and research about this perceptual condition. The afterword for the book was written by Dmitri Nabokov, the son of Vladimir Nabokov, a synesthete. The book won the Montaigne Medal for "books that illuminate, progress, or redirect thought".{{Cite web|url=http://www.hofferaward.com/Montaigne-Medal.html|title=Montaigne Medal Winners|website=www.hofferaward.com|accessdate=November 4, 2022}}

Eagleman's 2009 work of literary fiction, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, is an international bestseller published in 32 languages. The Observer wrote that "Sum has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius"; The Wall Street Journal called Sum "inventive and imaginative";Stark, A. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123448373118079905 In Our End Is Our Beginning], The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2009. and the Los Angeles Times hailed it as "teeming, writhing with imagination". In The New York Times Book Review, Alexander McCall Smith described Sum as a "delightful, thought-provoking little collection belonging to that category of strange, unclassifiable books that will haunt the reader long after the last page has been turned. It is full of tangential insights into the human condition and poetic thought experiments ... It is also full of touching moments and glorious wit of the sort one only hopes will be in copious supply on the other side." Sum was chosen by Time magazine for their Summer Reading list[https://web.archive.org/web/20090706070958/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1908352_1908227,00.html "Summer Reading List"]. Time. July 13, 2009. and selected as Book of the Week by both The GuardianNick Lezard, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jun/13/sum-forty-tales-afterlives-david-eagleman Life after life explained], The Guardian, June 13, 2009. and The Week.[http://www.theweek.com/article/index/93761/Book_of_the_week_Sum_Forty_Tales__From_the_Afterlives_by_David_Eagleman Book of the week: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman], The Week, March 6, 2009. In September 2009, Sum was ranked by Amazon as the #2 bestselling book in the United Kingdom.[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/11/stephen-fry-book-sales-rocketing Stephen Fry tweet sends book's sales rocketing], The Guardian, September 11, 2009.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6170777/Stephen-Frys-Twitter-posts-on-David-Eagleman-novel-sparks-6000-sales-spike.html Stephen Fry's Twitter posts on David Eagleman novel sparks 6000% sales spike], The Telegraph, September 11, 2009.

In 2020, Eagleman published The Safety Net: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters, an updated and retitled version of a book he had published in 2010: Why the Net Matters. In it, he argues that the advent of the internet mitigates some of the traditional existential threats to civilizations.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9281000/9281069.stm A new species of book], BBC Radio 4, Today Programme, December 13, 2010 In keeping with the book's theme of the dematerialization of physical goods, he chose to publish the manuscript as an app for the iPad rather than a physical book. The New York Times Magazine described Why the Net Matters as a "superbook", referring to "books with so much functionality that they're sold as apps".[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/magazine/16FOB-medium-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine Watch Me, Read Me], New York Times Magazine, January 16, 2011 Stewart Brand described it as a "breakthrough work". The project was longlisted for the 2011 Publishing Innovation Award by Digital Book World.[http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/2010-dbw-publishing-innovation-awards-longlist DBW Innovation Awards longlist], retrieved January 16, 2011.

Eagleman's 2011 science book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain was a New York Times bestseller and was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon,{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=4637819011|title=Amazon.com: Science - 2011 Best Books of the Year: Books|website=www.amazon.com|accessdate=April 6, 2024}} The Boston Globe,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2011/12/18/science/kmT6xnNy2nWED5Q1XE5rAK/story.html|title=On science: Best books of the year |newspaper= The Boston Globe|accessdate=November 4, 2022}} and Houston Chronicle.{{Cite web|url=http://blog.chron.com/bookish/2011/12/bookish-best-books-of-2011/#2160-7|title=Bookish: Best Books of 2011|website=blog.chron.com|accessdate=November 4, 2022|archive-date=April 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427001649/https://blog.chron.com/bookish/2011/12/bookish-best-books-of-2011/#2160-7|url-status=dead}} The book was reviewed as "appealing and persuasive" by The Wall Street Journal[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304474804576371522374025268 The Stranger Within], The Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2011 and "a shining example of lucid and easy-to-grasp science writing" by The Independent.[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/incognito-the-secret-lives-of-the-brain-by-david-eagleman-2268847.html Incognito review], The Independent, April 17, 2011 The book explores the brain as being a "team of rivals", with different parts constantly "fighting it out" among each other.{{cite web|author=Fresh Air with Terry Gross|title='Incognito': What's Hiding in the Unconscious Mind|date=May 31, 2011|url = https://www.npr.org/2011/05/31/136495499/incognito-whats-hiding-in-the-unconscious-mind|website=National Public Radio (U.S.) WHYY, Inc.|author-link=Fresh Air with Terry Gross}} Press the blue button to hear the audio of the interview.

In 2015, The Brain came out as a companion book to the television series The Brain with David Eagleman.

In 2016, Eagleman co-authored a textbook on cognitive neuroscience with Jonathan Downar, titled Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, published by Oxford University Press.

In 2017, Eagleman and co-author Anthony Brandt wrote The Runaway Species, an examination of human creativity. The book was described by Nature as "A lively exploration of the software our brains run in search of the mother lode of invention... It sweeps the reader through examples from engineering, science, product design, music and the visual arts to trace the roots of creative thinking."{{Cite journal | doi=10.1038/550034a| title=Neuroscience: The mother lode of invention| journal=Nature| volume=550| issue=7674| pages=34–35| year=2017| last1=Jones| first1=Dan| bibcode=2017Natur.550...34J| doi-access=free}} The Wall Street Journal wrote that "the authors look at art and science together to examine how innovations — from Picasso's initially offensive paintings to Steve Jobs's startling iPhone — build on what already exists ... This manifesto of sorts shows how both disciplines foster creativity."[https://www.wsj.com/articles/fall-books-for-tech-loversand-those-who-want-to-escape-it-1507212479 Fall Books for Tech Lovers—and Those Who Want to Escape It], The Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2017

In 2020, Eagleman published Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, a nonfiction book about neuroplasticity. As of late 2020, it has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}} A Kirkus review described it as "outstanding popular science",[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews//livewired Livewired – Kirkus Reviews], August 25, 2020 while New Scientist magazine wrote that "Eagleman brings the subject to life in a way I haven't seen other writers achieve before."[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24733010-300-how-a-6-year-old-had-half-his-brain-removed-and-recovered-in-3-months Livewired review: How a 6-year-old had half his brain removed and recovered in 3 months], New Scientist, Sep 23, 2020 Harvard Business Review wrote that Livewired "gets the science right and makes it accessible ... completely upending our basic sense of what the brain is in the process."[https://hbr.org/2020/11/unartificial-intelligence Unartificial Intelligence], Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec 2020 The Wall Street Journal wrote that "since the passing of Isaac Asimov, we haven't had a working scientist like Eagleman, who engages his ideas in such a variety of modes. Livewired reads wonderfully, like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan's front lawn."{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/livewired-book-review-network-effect-11599256662 |work=The Wall Street Journal |title=Livewired Book Review|date=September 4, 2020 |last1=Levitin |first1=Daniel J.}}

Eagleman is married to Sarah Eagleman, a fellow neuroscientist.{{Cite magazine |last=Bilger |first=Burkhard |date=April 18, 2011 |title=The Possibilian |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/25/the-possibilian |access-date=November 7, 2023 |issn=0028-792X}} They have two children. Eagleman does not drink alcohol.{{Cite web |title=Optimize Your Brain For Better Health, Performance, and Fulfillment {{!}} Neuroscientist, Dr. David Eagleman |url=https://findingmastery.com/podcasts/david-eagleman/ |access-date=November 7, 2023 |website=Finding Mastery}}

• Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, co-authored with Richard Cytowic, MIT Press, 2009
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, Pantheon, 2009 (Fiction)
• The Safety Net: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters, Canongate, 2020 (originally published as Why the Net Matters, Canongate, 2010)
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Pantheon, 2011
• The Brain with David Eagleman, a PBS television series, 2015
• The Brain: The Story of You, Canongate, 2015
• Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, co-authored with Jonathan Downar, Oxford University Press, 2016
• The Runaway Species, co-authored with Anthony Brandt, Catapult, 2017
• Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, Penguin Random House, 2020

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