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Stephen M. Fleming is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College, London and the author of over 75 scientific papers. He is the recipient of the Wiley Award, granted by the British Academy, and the Philip Leverhulme prize in psychology, from the Leverhulme Trust.

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Dr. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and internationally best-selling author. His books include The Brain and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. He also created and hosted an Emmy-nominated TV series on the brain, and he runs the neuroscience hardware company NeoSensory

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Ethan Kross attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University and is a leading expert on the behavior of the mind. Currently, Kross is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory at the University of Michigan. His work has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal – and he’s given policy advice to the White House.

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Tom Vanderbilt is a prolific author with works appearing in The New York Times Magazine, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and London Review of Books. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction titles such as You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), and Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America.

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S. Ramachandran is an internationally renowned neuroscientist and brain researcher. A professor at the University of California, San Diego, he’s notable for being the inventor of mirror therapy, developed to help treat amputees who suffer from phantom limb pain. Ramachandran is also the author of three other popular science books including The Tell-Tale Brain.

Sandra Blakeslee is an award-winning science writer for the New York Times who specializes in neuroscience. She’s the coauthor of two other books, The Good Marriage and the national best seller Second Chances.

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