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“... in hand since Galen’s performances with the vivisected pigs. Livewired, by the neuroscientist David Eagleman, comes closer than either of the other books to this tradition of popular entertainment. One of his main goals is to emphasise that brains are formed in large part by engagement with the world – by what a person ...”

“... the dulling effect of habit. In Writing against Time, drawing on the work of the neuroscientist David Eagleman, Clune looks at the way ordinary experiences are affected by repetition. When we first perceive something, time seems to slow: ‘the moment of perception swells’ and ‘the “fraction of time” expands.’ But the effect fades after the ...”

“... them from talking about ‘the moral landscape’, fMRI studies aren’t taken very seriously. As David Eagleman writes in his recent book Incognito, ‘imaging methods make use of highly processed blood-flow signals, which cover tens of cubic millimetres of brain tissue. In a single cubic millimetre of brain tissue, there are some one hundred million ...”