144. Feeling Sound and Hearing Color

David Eagleman is a Stanford neuroscientist, C.E.O., television host, and founder of the Possibilianism movement. He and Steve talk about how wrists can substitute for ears, why we dream, and what Fisher-Price magnets have to do with neuroscience.

• SOURCE:• David Eagleman (eagleman.com/about-david-eagleman), professor of cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University and C.E.O. of Neosensory.

• RESOURCES:• Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (amzn.to/4hIwZF2), by David Eagleman (2020).
• "Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains (time.com/5925206/why-do-we-dream)," by David Eagleman and Don Vaughn (TIME, 2020).
• "Prevalence of Learned Grapheme-Color Pairings in a Large Online Sample of Synesthetes (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4349591)," by Nathan Witthoft, Jonathan Winawer, and David Eagleman (PLoS One, 2015).
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (amzn.to/3YVXVKi), by David Eagleman (2009).
• The vOICe app (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vO…).
• Neosensory (neosensory.com).

• EXTRAS:• "What’s Impacting American Workers? (freakonomics.com/podcast/whats-impacting-ameri…)" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
• "This Is Your Brain on Podcasts (freakonomics.com/podcast/this-is-your-brain-on…)," by Freakonomics Radio (2016).

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