David M. Eagleman

David M. Eagleman completed his undergraduate studies in British and American Literature at Rice University and the University of Oxford, and in 1998, he received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine. He currently works at the same institution as the director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action. Eagleman is the head of the Baylor College of Medicine Initiative on Law, Brains, and Behavior, an organization that seeks to determine how new discoveries in neuroscience will change laws and the criminal justice system. Eagleman has authored: "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives" and "Plasticity: How the Brain Reshapes Itself."