DAVID EAGLEMAN earned his undergraduate degree in British and American Literature at Rice University and Oxford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998. He is now the director of BCM’s Laboratory for Perception and Action, whose long-range goal is to understand the neural mechanisms of time perception. Eagleman also directs BCM’s Initiative on Law, Brains, and Behavior, which seeks to determine how new discoveries in neuroscience will change our laws and criminal justice system. Eagleman has written several neuroscience books—including Unsolved Mysteries of the Brain; Dethronement: The Hidden Hegemony of the Unconscious Brain;The Dynamically Reorganizing Brain; Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, and a book of fiction titled Sum.

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