EAGLEMAN LAB - The Laboratory for Perception and Action

The long range goal of our lab is to understand how the brain constructs perception, how different brains do so differently, and how this matters for society. Our three main prongs involve time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw.

Time perception
To understand the neural mechanisms of time perception, we combine psychophysical, behavioral, and computational approaches to address the relationship between the timing of perception and the timing of neural signals. We are currently engaged in experiments that explore temporal encoding, time warping, manipulations of the perception of causality, time perception in schizophrenia, and time perception in high-adrenaline situations. We use this data to explore how neural signals processed by different brain regions come together for a temporally unified picture of the world.

  • For more about our time research, see coverage by Los Angeles Times, Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC radio, or Discover Magazine. For extra credit in the time domain, do all four at once.

  • Synesthesia
    Synesthesia is a perceptual condition in which information between the senses is blended. We are performing a family linkage analysis to pull the gene for synethesia (see articles in UT Medical Magazine [pdf], Houston Chronicle, and Seed Magazine). To this end, we have developed a standardized battery for synesthesia at synesthete.org. This battery of questionnaires and online software is free and open to the public, and provides a rigorous, standardized scoring system for quantifying synesthetia. We recently hosted the American Synesthesia Association annual meeting here in Houston.

    For more, please see my book on synesthesia, co-authored with Richard Cytowic: Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (MIT Press, 2009).


    Click on the play button to watch recent coverage of our research on the Discovery Channel

    Neuroscience and Law
    I am founder and director of BCM's Initiative on Neuroscience and Law, which studies how new discoveries in neuroscience should navigate the way we make laws, punish criminals, and develop rehabilitation. The project brings together a unique collaboration of neurobiologists, legal scholars, and policy makers, with the goal of building modern, evidence-based policy.

    The Initiative hosts a bi-annual Conference on Neuroscience and Law; additionally, I teach a yearly neurolaw seminar course which is open to students and professionals.

    I am a faculty affiliate at the Criminal Justice Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.

  • For more about our neurolaw research, watch my talk at the Royal Society of Arts, listen to a C-SPAN podcast or read a short review article: Eagleman DM (2008). Neuroscience and the Law.
  • Other Projects

    Other projects in our lab include illusory motion reversal, the flash lag effect, a theory of cerebellar glomeruli, extracellular calcium as a neurotransmitter, and dopamine and human decision-making.

    Lab Members
    See full details on all the members of the laboratory here.

    • David Eagleman, Director
    • Vani Pariyadath, Graduate Student
    • Steffie Nelson, Graduate Student
    • Mingbo Cai, Graduate Student
    • Thomas Sprague, Rice undergraduate Research Student
    • Gregory Bohuslav, U.H. Undergraduate Research Student
    • Elyse Aurbach, Research Assistant
    • Daisy Thompson-Lake, M.S., Research Assistant
    • Don Vaughn, Research Assistant
    • Robert LiKamWa, Programmer
    • Matthew Timberlake, BCM Medical Student
    • Harsha Mittikani, BCM Medical Student
    • Mike Lara, BCM Medical Student
    • Evan Delacruz, Programmer
    • Sherry Cheng, Research Assistant
    • A. Karthik Sarma, M.D., Neurology collaborator
    Lab alumni:
    • Chess Stetson, Graduate Student
    • Keith Kline, Graduate Student
    • Shilpa Gandhi, Research Assistant
    • Sara Churchill, Research Assistant
    • Jyotpal Singh, Law student, Research Assistant
    • Rejnal Tushe, Rice undergraduate Research Assistant
    • Giovanni Piantoni, Research Assistant
    • Arielle Kagan, Harvard undergraduate summer student
    • Wilber Wang, Rice undergraduate summer student
    • Mehwish Ismaily, Stanford undergraduate student
    • Daniel Dascenco, International summer student
    • Matthew Fiesta, Summer Research Medical Student
    • Deepak Sagaram, M.D., Graduate Research Assistant
    • Helen Vo, Research Assistant
    • Josh Hesterman, Rice undergraduate summer student
    • Leo Linbeck, Summer student

    Recent and Future Talk Schedule
    April 9, 2008 - Houston - University of Houston Law Center, Criminal Justice Institute
    April 19, 2008 - New York - Colors of the Brain - Columbia University & MoMA
    April 26, 2008 - Houston - Conference for Rice Alumni Leaders
    May 23, 2008 - Houston - Conference on Neuroscience and Law
    May 26, 2008 - San Antonio - Distinguished Speaker, Mind Science Foundation
    May 29, 2008 - New York - World Science Festival
    July 17-18, 2008 - Albuquerque - Conference on Learning and Neuroscience
    July 18-23, 2008 - Brisbane, Australia - Asia Pacific Conference on Vision
    July 25, 2008 - New Zealand - NeuroLaw talk for New Zealand Ministry of Justice
    July 27-29, 2008 - Aspen - Conference on Consciousness
    October 6-8, 2008 - Barcelona - The Nature of Time, from Physics to Psychology
    October 16-18, 2008 - Munich - The clock's time, the brain's time and the mind's time
    October 21, 2008 - Houston - Scientia series on Biopolitics, Rice University
    October 30, 2008 - Houston - Big Questions and Future Directions in the Humanities, Rice University
    November 16, 2008 - Washington DC - Society for Neuroscience Meeting
    December 4, 2008 - Mexico - Annual meeting of Neurology
    January 16, 2009 - Dallas - Dallas Museum of Art
    Mar 4, 2009 - Denver, CO
    Mar 5, 2009 - Colorado Springs, CO
    Mar 13, 2009 - Tuscon, AZ
    Mar 14, 2009 - Phoenix, AZ
    Mar 16, 2009 - San Diego, CA
    Mar 17, 2009 - Los Angeles, CA
    Mar 28, 2009 - Houston - Exploring the Mind through Music conference, Rice University
    Apr 21, 2009 - London - The Brain and the Law: Royal Society for the Arts (RSA) lecture
    Apr 23 2009 - London - London School of Economics
    Apr 24 2009 - London - University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
    Apr 26 2009 - Concord, MA - Concord Bookstore
    Apr 27, 2009 - Boston - Speaker at Google
    Apr 28, 2009 - New York
    Apr 29, 2009 - Hartford, CT
    Apr 30, 2009 - New York
    May 8-13, 2009 Naples, FL
    May 17-22, 2009 - Squaw Valley, CA - Conference on Neuroscience and Law
    May 21, 2009 - Stanford
    May 23-24, 2009 - Albuquerque, NM
    June 1-8, 2009 - Sydney, Australia - Performance of Sum with Brian Eno at the Sydney Opera House
    June 17, 2009 - Dallas, TX
    June 25, 2009 - Toronto, Canada
    June 26-30, 2009 - Bozeman, MT
    July 8, 2009 - Miami
    July 15-17, 2009 - Plano, TX - Texas Defenders Service - The Mind and Criminal Defense
    Aug 13, 2009 - Houston, TX - Houston Public Library's Author Reading Series
    Aug 14-16, 2009 - Vancouver
    Aug 17, 2009 - Seattle, WA
    Aug 18, 2009 - Portland, OR
    Aug 19-20, 2009 - San Francisco, CA
    Sept 15-27, 2009 - Los Angeles, CA
    Sept 21-22, 2009 - London, Ontario - Lecture at University of Western Ontario
    Sept 24-26, 2009 - Albuquerque, NM
    Oct 15, 2009 - Houston, TX - Speaker at the UP Experience
    Oct 17-21, 2009 - Chicago, IL - Society for Neuroscience conference
    Oct 24, 2009 - Albuquerque, NM - Speaker at gifted and talented educators conference
    Oct 29, 2009 - San Antonio, TX - Synesthesia lecture at the Mind Science Foundation
    Oct 30, 2009 - San Antonio, TX - Speaker at Gemini Ink
    Oct 31, 2009 - Austin, TX - Reading at the Texas Book Festival
    Nov 11, 2009 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Discussion of Sum with former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway
    Nov 12, 2009 - London, England - Performance of Sum with Philip Pullman at Queen Elizabeth Hall
    Dec 5-6, 2009 - Sarasota, FL - Keynote speaker at 50th anniversary Nephrology Conference
    Feb 4-5, 2010 - Dallas, TX - Lecturer at Harris County Dept of Education conference
    March 26 - 28, 2010 - London, UK - Keynote speaker at UK Synaesthesia Association
    Apr 1, 2010 - San Francisco, CA - Speaker, Long Now Foundation
    Apr 2, 2010 - Berkeley, CA - Seminar speaker, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley
    Apr 15-16, 2010 - Casper, WY - Speaker, Wyoming School Psychology Association conference
    July 6-10, 2010 - Paris, France - Speaker, Attention & Performance conference
    July 23, 2010 - Albuquerque, NM - Lecture at educators conference

     

    PUBLICATIONS
    • Cui X, Stetson C, Montague PR, Eagleman DM (2009). Ready…Go: Amplitude of the fMRI Signal Encodes Expectation of Cue Arrival Time. PLoS Biology. 7(8): e1000167. [Full text]
    • Eagleman DM (2009). The objectification of overlearned sequences: A large-scale analysis of spatial sequence synesthesia. Cortex. 45(10): 1266-1277. [Full text]
    • Eagleman DM & Pariyadath V (2009). Is subjective duration a signature of coding efficiency? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 364(1525):1841-51. [Full text]
    • Eagleman DM & Goodale MA (2009). Why color synesthesia involves more than color. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13(7): 288-292. [Full text]
    • Eagleman DM, Correro MA, Singh J (2009). Why neuroscience matters for a rational drug policy. Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology. In press. [Full text]
    • Eagleman DM (2009). Brain Time. In What's Next: Dispatches from the Future of Science, M. Brockman, Ed. Vintage Books. [Reprinted at Edge.org]
    • Eagleman DM (2009). Temporality, empirical approaches. In The Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Oxford, UK. In press.
    • Eagleman DM (2009). Duration and predictability. In Attention and Time. Eds: Coull and Nobre. In press.
    • Pariyadath V, Eagleman DM (2009). Duration illusions and what they tell us about the brain. In Advances in Cognitive Science: Volume 2. Eds: Srinivasan, Kar, & Pandey. Sage books. In press.
    • Eagleman DM (2009). How does the timing of neural signals map onto the timing of perception? In Problems of Space and Time in Perception and Action, R. Nijhawan, Ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. In press.
    • Eagleman DM (2009). Using time perception to measure fitness for duty. American Psychological Society Military Psychology. 21(S1): S123 - S129. [Full text]
    • Pariyadath V, Eagleman DM (2008). Brief subjective durations contract with repetition. Journal of Vision. 8(16):1-6. [Full text]
    • Eagleman DM (2008). Human time perception and its illusions. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 18(2):131-6. [Full text]
    • Eagleman DM (2008). Prediction and Postdiction: two frameworks with the goal of delay compensation. Commentary in Brain and Behavioral Sciences. 31(2):205-206. [Full text][Full article]
    • Fiesta MP, Eagleman DM (2008). A method for achieving an order-of-magnitude increase in the temporal resolution of a standard CRT computer monitor. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 174(1):103-105. [Full text]
    • Kline KA, Eagleman DM (2008). Evidence against the snapshot hypothesis of illusory motion reversal. Journal of Vision. 8(4):13, 1-5. [Full text][Web Demo].
    • Eagleman DM (2008). Neuroscience and the Law. Houston Lawyer. 16(6): 36-40. [Full text]
    • Eagleman DM (2008). Envenomation by the Asp Caterpillar, Megalopyge Opercularis. Clinical Toxicology. 46(3):201-5. [Full text]
    • Stetson C, Fiesta MP, Eagleman DM (2007). Does time really slow down during a frightening event? PLoS One. 2(12):e1295. [Full text]
    • Pariyadath V, Eagleman DM (2007). The effect of predictability on subjective duration. PLoS One. 2(11):e1264. [Full text]
    • Cui X, Yang D, Jeter C, Montague PR, Eagleman DM (2007). Vividness of mental imagery: individual variation can be measured objectively. Vision Research. 47(2007): 474–478. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman DM, Sejnowski TJ (2007). Motion signals bias position judgments: A unified explanation for the flash-lag, flash-drag, flash-jump and Frohlich effects. Journal of Vision. 7(4): 1-12. http://journalofvision.org/7/4/3. [Full text]
    • 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. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Stetson C, Cui X, Montague PR, Eagleman DM (2006). Motor-sensory recalibration leads to an illusory reversal of action and sensation. Neuron. 51(5): 651-9. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman DM (2006). Futures: A brief history of death switches. Nature. 443(7113): : 882. [Full text (pdf)] [Anthologized in Futures from Nature]
    • Eagleman DM (2006) Correspondence: Will the Internet save us from epidemics? Nature. 441(7093):574.[Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman DM, Tse PU, Janssen P, Nobre AC, Buonomano D, Holcombe AO (2005). Time and the brain: how subjective time relates to neural time. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(45): 10369-71. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M. (2005) News & Views: Distortions of time during rapid eye movements. Nature Neuroscience. 8(7): 850-851. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M. (2005) Comment on "The involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex in the experience of regret". Science. 308(5726):1260. [Full text (pdf)] [Matlab code]
    • Eagleman, D.M. (2005). Obituary: Francis H. C. Crick (1916-2004). Vision Research. 45: 391-393. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Holcombe, A.O., Clifford, C.W.G., Eagleman, D.M, & Pakarian, P. (2005). Illusory motion reversal in tune with motion detectors. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 9(12):559-60. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Kline, K.A., Holcombe, A.O., Eagleman, D.M. (2005). Illusory motion reversal does not imply discrete processing: Reply to Rojas et al. Vision Research. 46(6-7):1158-9. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M. (2004). The where and when of intention. Science. 303: 1144-1146. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M., Jacobson, J.E., Sejnowski, T.J. (2004). Perceived luminance depends on temporal context. Nature. 428(6985), 854-856. [Full text (pdf)] [Web demo] [Supplementary material]
    • Kline, K.A., Holcombe, A.O., Eagleman, D.M. (2004). Illusory motion reversal is caused by rivalry, not by perceptual snapshots of the visual field. Vision Research. 44: 2653–2658. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M. & Holcombe, A.O. (2003). Improving science through online commentary. Nature. 423: 15. [Full text (pdf)] [Supplementary material]
    • Eagleman, D.M. & Sejnowski, T.J. (2003). The line-motion illusion can be reversed by motion signals after the line disappears. Perception. 32: 963-968. [Full text (pdf)] [Web demo]
    • Eagleman, D.M. & Sejnowski, T.J. (2002). Untangling spatial from temporal illusions. Trends in Neurosciences. 25(6): 293. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M. & Holcombe, A.O. (2002). Causality and the perception of time. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 6(8): 323-5. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M. & Montague, P.R. (2002) Models of learning and memory. In: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, MacMillan Press: London. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Montague, P.R., Eagleman, D.M., McClure, S.M., Berns, G.S. (2002) Reinforcement learning. In: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, MacMillan Press: London. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M. (2001) Visual Illusions and Neurobiology. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2(12): 920-6. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M., Coenen, O.J.D., Mitsner, V., Bartol, T.M., Bell, A.J.,Sejnowski, T.J. (2001). Cerebellar glomeruli: Does limited extracellular calcium direct a new kind of plasticity? Proc. 8th Joint Symposium in Neural Computation. [Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M. & Sejnowski, T.J. (2001). The flash-lag illusion: distinguishing a spatial from a temporal effect, and why that matters for interpreting visual physiology. Journal of Vision, 1(3), 16a.[Abstract]
    • Rao, R.P.N., Eagleman, D.M., Sejnowski, T.J. (2001) Optimal smoothing in visual motion perception. Neural Computation.13(6):1243-53.[Full text (pdf)][Abstract]
    • Eagleman, D.M. & Sejnowski, T.J. (2000) Motion integration and postdiction in visual awareness. Science. 287(5460): 2036-8. [Abstract][Full text (pdf)][Web demo]
    • Eagleman, D.M. & Sejnowski, T.J. (2000) The position of moving objects: Response. Science. 289(5482):1107a.[Full text (pdf)][Science Online]
    • Eagleman, D.M., Sejnowski, T.J. (2000) Latency difference versus postdiction: Response to Patel et al. Science. 290(5494): 1051a.[Full text (pdf)][Science Online]
    • Perret, S.P., Dudek, S., Eagleman, D., Montague, P.R., Friedlander, M.J. (2001) LTD induction in adult visual cortex: Role of stimulus pattern and inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience. 21(7): 2308-2319.[Full text (pdf)][J. Neurosci. Online]
    • King, R.D., Wiest, M.C., Montague, P.R., Eagleman, D.M. (2000) Do extracellular calcium signals carry information through neural tissue? Trends in Neurosciences. 23(1):12-13. [Abstract][Full text]
    • Wiest, M.C., Eagleman, D.M., King, R.D., Montague, P.R. (2000) Dendritic spikes and their influence on extracellular calcium signaling. Journal of Neurophysiology. 83(3):1329-1337. [Abstract][Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M., Montague, P.R. (1999) Calcium dynamics in the extracellular space of mammalian neural tissue. Biophysical Journal 76(4):1856-1867.[Abstract][Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M. (1998). Doctoral dissertation: Computational properties of extracellular calcium dynamics.[Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M., Montague, P.R. (1998). Computational properties of peri-dendritic calcium fluctuations. Journal of Neuroscience. 18(21): 8580-8589.[Abstract][Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M., Person, C., Montague, P.R. (1998). A computational role for dopamine delivery in human decision-making. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 10(5): 623-630. [Abstract][Full text (pdf)]
    • Eagleman, D.M., King, R.D., Montague, P.R. (1998). Interaction of nitric oxide and external calcium fluctuations: a possible substrate for rapid information retrieval. Prog Brain Res 1998;118:199-211 [Abstract]
      (Also pubished in Nitric Oxide and other diffusible messengers in development, plasticity, and disease. Mize,R.R., Friedlander,M.J., Dawson,T.J., Dawson,V.M., Eds. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press.)
    • Person, C., Eagleman, D.M., King, R.D., Montague, P.R. (1997). Three-dimensional synaptic distributions influence neural processing through the resource consumption principle. J. Physiol, Paris. 90(5-6):330-333. [Abstract]
    BOOKS

     

    Sum. David Eagleman. New York: Pantheon Books. (Literary fiction).

    "This little book is teeming, writhing with imagination." - Los Angeles Times

    "This delightful, thought-provoking little collection belongs 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." - Alexander McCall Smith, New York Times Book Review

    "Sum has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius" - The Guardian

    "Imaginative and inventive." - Wall Street Journal

    "Eagleman is a true original. Read Sum and be amazed. Reread it and be reamazed all over again." - Time Magazine

    "Sum is terrific. The inventiveness, the clarity and wit of the prose, the calm air of moral understanding that pervades the whole thing, add up to something completely original." — Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass

    "David Eagleman’s Sum is a captivating collection of vignettes that portray possible afterlives–creatively conceived and deftly described. Each tale imagines an unexpected reality that might await us, possible worlds that illuminate life with colors rarely encountered." - Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe

    "As rigorous and imaginative as the writings of Italo Calvino and Alan Lightman, each vignette is a glimpse into an expansive topic such as time, faith or memory. Together they illuminate an astounding range of possibilities for the meaning of human life." - Nature

    "With both a childlike sense of wonder and a trenchant flair for irony, the Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist generously offers forty variations on the theme of God and the afterlife, imagining what each of us might find when we shuffle off this mortal coil.... Sum is great fun—sort of a brainy parlor game in print—and a modest satire aimed at zealots who define heaven and God to serve their own ends." - Texas Monthly

    "Wow." - The New York Observer

    "Bracing, provocative, fun... it challenges and teases as it spins out different parables of possibility." - Houston Chronicle

    "A disarming, splendid little book... intriguing and extraordinarily well-written.... It made my heart light" - Dallas Morning News

    "Witty, bright, sharp and unexpected... as surprising a book as I’ve read for years." - Brian Eno

    "SUM is an imaginative and provocative book that gives new perspectives on how to view ourselves and our place in the world." - Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams

    Hear Nick Cave read the title story:

    (Fan of SUM? Please join the Facebook group or follow the news on Twitter)

     

    Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia. Richard E. Cytowic and David M. Eagleman. MIT Press.

    "Twenty years ago, synesthesia—the automatic conjoining of two or more senses—was regarded by scientists (if at all) as a rare curiosity. We now know that perhaps one person in twenty is synesthetic, and so we must regard it as an essential, and fascinating, part of the human experience. Indeed, it may well be the basis and inspiration for much of human imagination and metaphor. No one has done more than Richard Cytowic and David Eagleman to bring a careful neuroscientific attention to synesthesia, grounded in decades of research and reports from thousands of patients. Their work has changed the way we think of the human brain, and Wednesday Is Indigo Blue is a unique and indispensable guide for anyone interested in how we perceive the world." - Oliver Sacks, author of The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

    "This is a clear, clever book that will appeal to synaesthetes in search of explanations, and to all with a passion for neurology's wild territory." - New Scientist

    "An invaluable introduction to the phenomenon of synesthesia.... a well-structured exposition of the vast, rich literature on the subject. The text is richly illustrated, adding to the readers' understanding of the process. This well-written summary of what is known about synesthesia concludes with some helpful suggestions for the direction of future research. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice Magazine

    "Wednesday is Indigo Blue adds a new and rich philosophical discussion and a variety of cognitive neuroscience experiments to the topic of synesthesia. Cytowic and Eagleman make a convincing case that research on synesthesia has and will significantly contribute to our understanding of the brain's neural networks." - Harry A. Whitaker, Department of Psychology, Northern Michigan University

    "A fascinating survey of the enormous variety and creativity of the synesthetic mind." - Daniel Tammet, synesthete and author of Born on a Blue Day



     

    Upcoming books

    • Dethronement: The secret hegemony of the Unconscious Brain. David M. Eagleman. Pantheon Books. Under contract for 2010.
    • Plasticity: How the Brain Reconfigures Itself. David M. Eagleman. Oxford University Press. Under contract for 2010.
    • Cognitive Neuroscience: A Principles Based Approach (Textbook). David M. Eagleman and Jonathan Downar. Oxford University Press. Under contract for 2011.
    • Ten Unsolved Mysteries of the Brain. David M. Eagleman. Submitted to Publishers. (Cover article, Aug 2007 Discover Magazine).
    • The BioHistory Files: How the Microscopic Shapes the Macroscopic. David M. Eagleman. (Book to accompany 6 part television series on disease and world history, under consideration at Discovery Channel).



    UNDER REVIEW OR IN PREPARATION

    • Pariyadath V, Churchill SJ, Eagleman DM. Why Overlearned Sequences are Special: Distinct Neural Networks in the Right Hemisphere for Ordinal Sequences. Submitted.
    • Nelson S, Avidan N, Sarma AK, Tushe R, Milewicz DM, Lee K, Bray M, Leal SM, Eagleman DM. The genetics of colored sequence synesthesia: Evidence of linkage to chromosome 16q and genetic heterogeneity for the condition. Submitted.
    • Pariyadath V, Eagleman DM. Prediction suppression. Submitted.
    • Piantoni G, Kline KA & Eagleman DM. Beta power correlates with perception in illusory motion motion reversal. Submitted.
    • Vaughn DA & Eagleman DM. Faces seen briefly are judged to be more beautiful. Submitted.
    • Cheng S, Eagleman DM. Is synesthesia one condition or many? A large-scale analysis reveals sub-groups. In preparation.
    • Churchill, SJ, Eagleman DM. A large-scale analysis of music-color synesthesia: individual variability and why it matters. In preparation.
    • Sprague TC, Jacobson JE, Eagleman DM. Perceived duration depends on temporal context. In preparation.
    • Eagleman DM. Time perception is distorted during visual slow motion. In preparation.
    • How do brains simulate future(s)?  D. M. Eagleman.  In preparation for Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
    • A theory of the mossy fiber - granule cell glomerulus in the cerebellum. D. M. Eagleman, O. J-M. D. Coenen, V. Mitsner, et al.
    • What the brain does not need to know about position and motion. D. M. Eagleman & D. Dennett. In preparation.

    MEDIA
    Television
    The Brain (2 hour documentary). History Channel.
    Redes 20: Que es el tiempo? (In Spanish) [Video]
    Does time really slow down during fear? Discovery Channel[Video]
    Synesthesia: One Step Beyond, Discovery Channel [Video]
    Can Time Slow Down? ABC News [Video]
    Exploring Time, Discovery Channel [Video]
    Neuroscience research at the Salk Institute, PBS [Video]

    Radio:
    All in the Mind, hosted by Natasha Mitchell, Australian Broadcasting Corportaion, 20 June 2009: Podcast
    Late Night Live with Philip Adams, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, June 4, 2009: Podcast
    All Things Considered, Robert Krulwich, National Public Radio, May 18, 2009: Podcast
    Front Row, BBC Radio 4, April 24, 2009: Podcast
    On Point with Tom Ashbrook, National Public Radio: Podcast
    Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, Feb 17, 2009: Podcast
    All in the Mind, BBC Radio 4, July 22, 2008: Podcast


    Print:
    Ten Unsolved Mysteries of the Brain, Discover Magazine
    Memory, emotions can trip up time perceptions, Los Angeles Times, Mar 9, 2009
    Scared Slow - ScienCentral News, Jan 2008 (includes video)
    Time doesn’t really freeze when you’re freaked - MSNBC, Dec 12, 2007
    Free-falling scientists seek to slow time - AFP via Yahoo! News, Dec 12, 2007
    Does trauma slow down time? Research says no - Houston Chronicle, Dec 12, 2007
    Why I and O are dull for synaesthetes - New Sceintist, Nov 2007
    Wie die Zeit in den Kopf kommt - German article on Time in the brain, Oct 2007
    Finding the Gene that Makes People Hear Shapes and Taste Words, UT-Houston Medicine, May 2006
    The Mind in Overdrive, Discover Magazine, April 2006
    Synesthesia: Hearing Sounds and Seeing Colors, Houston Chroncile
    The Most Beautiful Painting You've Ever Heard, Seed Magazine, Dec 2006
    Thinking faster by altering your perception of time, by George Dvorsky, Sentient Developments
    Brain's-eye view of spinning, Newsday
    My tribute to Francis Crick, Houston Chronicle
    The Eagleman Lab and Synesthesia
    USA Today on our research on illusory motion reversal
    Grand Forks Herald - Life in slow motion
    Science Daily
    UT Houston Newsroom
    Newswise
    Imprint Online
    (Russian)
    Science-Presse (French)

    OTHER LINKS

    Yosemite

    I serve on the editorial boards of Journal of Vision, PLoS One, and Seminars in Brain and Consciousness.

    I am on the board of directors for two Houston arts organizations: Nova Arts Project and Divas World Productions, Inc.

    I am a charter member of the Houston Skyline Chapter of the Rotary Club.

    I spoke at two events in the World Science Festival in NYC. See a video excerpt of Illuminating Genius, a panel which combined artists and scientists to explore the concept of creativity.

    I have founded a prize in mathematics and physics.

    I enjoy a parallel career as a writer.


    Alaska

    Email: eagleman -AT- bcm.edu

    The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
    W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM