David Eagleman
Book Shambles
This week Robin is joined by bestselling author, neuroscientist and broadcaster David Eagleman to talk about his latest book Livewired : The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. They chat about brain plasticity, why we don’t look for the rearview mirror when walking, the criminal brain, the power of suggestion within fiction and how David broke his hand the day before we recorded…
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
Livewired by David Eagleman
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
The Self Illusion by Bruce Hood
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
Ulysses by James Joyce
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee
The work of Stephen Pinker
Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines by Miguel Nicoleli
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