"Incognito." Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book? David Eagleman: I was amazed at how little access we have to the massive work the brain does behind the scenes. Almost everything we ...

“Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain.” Fresh off an appearance on “The Colbert Report,” where he cracked wise with host Stephen Colbert about the unseen ways the unconscious mind ...

But “Incognito” movingly allows us to share its scientist characters’ wonder at the power and mystery of every human brain. By the play’s end, we’re pretty sure that the contents of our ...

An accessible and entertaining tour of modern brain science, Incognito covers artificial intelligence, brain damage, drugs, synesthesia, visual illusions, and much more. Eagleman also considers ...

And then there’s your brain ... secret, conjuring ideas like tremendous magic. It does not allow its colossal operating system to be probed by conscious cognition. The brain runs its show incognito.

In reality, great ideas, decisions and opinions are all generated well before the conscious brain is in on the task, argues Eagleman, a neuroscientist. In fresh, clear prose unencumbered by neuro ...

And then there’s your brain. Three pounds of the most complex material we’ve discovered in the universe. This is the mission control center that drives the whole operation, gathering ...

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman is an excellent book which covers the intricacies of the human brain. Eagleman presents some interesting perspectives about how the brain ...

Thus, "the conscious you is the smallest bit-player in the brain". Consciousness is but one ... room for those of us who wish to live the life of freedom and responsibility. But the writing ...

In Incognito ... that flickers to life when you wake up in the morning", just doesn't have security clearance. "The conscious mind is not at the centre of the action in the brain; instead ...