Andrew Huberman

Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.

I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

My guest today is Dr. David Eagleman.

Dr. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, a bestselling author, and a longtime science public educator.

Today, we discuss several different features of brain science that impact your everyday life.

And once you understand the mechanisms behind these features, it will position you to make better decisions, and if you choose, to rewire your brain to be a more effective learner.

We start by discussing neuroplasticity, which is your brain's ability to change in response to experience or any form of deliberate learning that you are trying to impose on yourself.

We talk about the mechanisms for it and how you can get better at learning and unlearning in the context of skills and information.

We also discuss memory formation and the relationship between stress and time perception and why it is that people experience things in slow motion if those things are very stressful or traumatic and how that can be useful for undoing

traumatic memories.

David also takes us through the neuroscience of cultural and political polarization, something that's very timely right now.

False memories, deja vu, dreams, and the meaning of dreams, and a lot more.

David is an absolutely legendary science communicator.

I say this as a fellow neuroscientist.

He is able to embed factual information about the brain into real life stories.

And in doing so, he's able to shed light on how we work as humans and how we can all improve our life experience.

He's a true virtuoso of neuroscience and science education more generally.

What David shares with us today will change the way that you think about thinking and your own mind, and no doubt will also change the way that you view the world.

Before we begin, I'd like to emphasize that this podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford.

It is, however, part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to consumer information about science and science related tools to the general public.