Neuroscientist David Eagleman on Our Ever-Changing Brain

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Dr. David Eagleman is creator/host of PBS's The Brain, a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and CEO/founder of Neosensory, a company that builds the next generation of neuroscience hardware. He overturns science's traditional understand of brain plasticity and explains how the mind is able to constantly adapt to suit different circumstances. He shares how a child can still function with half his brain missing, how babies start modeling the world from the moment they are born, and what hap Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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