If you're interested in synesthesia, check out this lecture I gave at the University of Sydney in Australia.
Do you think you might have synesthesia? Go to synesthete.org to take the tests and find out. For more about synesthesia, see my book Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
Designing how we would like to experience our universe...
Communicating science to the public can take time away from a busy research career. So why should scientists do it? I offer a manifesto of six reasons in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Well before we understand how brains work, we may find ourselves able to digitally copy the brain's structure and able to download the conscious mind into a computer. What are the possibilities and challenges?
The "umwelt" is the slice of an animal's ecosystem that it can sense. The rest is invisible....
David was honored to receive the 2014 John J. McGovern Award for Excellence in Biomedical Education from the American Medical Writers' Assocation. Noted past recipients include authors Oliver Sacks and Abraham Verghese.
Want to know more about the inner workings of a neuroscience lab? Watch a video profile of David and his students on NOVA Science Now.
SUM was chosen as the best book of 2009 by Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer-winning literary critic Julia Keller.
