My book Sum is an international bestseller, and has been in the top 100 bestselling books on Amazon several times over the course of the past decade. My other non-fiction books include The Runaway Species, Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, The Safety Net: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters, and Brain & Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. I have also written the New York Times bestseller Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, which was named a Book of the Year by Amazon, Goodreads, and Boston Globe. I have written many non-fiction books, including my latest, LIVEWIRED (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize). In this series, I pose a simple question from a neuroscientist's point of view: what does it mean to be human? Public understanding of science is a passion of mine, and to that end I made The Brain, an Emmy-nominated 6-hour television series (PBS/BBC) and companion book. I direct the national non-profit The Center for Science and Law, and serve as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Science and Law. I'm a scientific advisor to many great startups, including NextSense, Neurable, Tenyx, Skywalk, Ampa, and others.

I'm also the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer for BrainCheck, a mobile platform used in thousands of physician offices and hospital systems to assess cognitive changes associated with dementia or concussion. See my TED talk for more about that (and check out this clip from Westworld to see our technology there). Outside of academia, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Neosensory, a company which addresses hearing problems and tinnitus via sensory substitution with a vibratory wristband. Funding for my research has come from NIH, NSF, DHHS, DARPA, Guggenheim Foundation, and several private foundations.

Please see publications for our latest research results. To that end, most of my academic work involves sensory substitution, time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw. My scientific interests are how the brain constructs perception, how different brains do so differently, and how this matters for society. Additionally, I have written the textbook ( Brain and Behavior) for the Cognitive Neuroscience course. At Stanford I teach courses on Brain Plasticity, Literature and the Brain, and The Brain and the Law.

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