by Eric Haseltine | Feb 14, 2018 | Psychology Today
Have you ever slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting a car that abruptly braked in front of you, or even a pedestrian suddenly darting into the road? Ever swerved to avoid a deer or piece of junk on the highway? I have, plenty of times. Almost always, I have stopped... 
by Eric Haseltine | Feb 13, 2018 | Psychology Today
Where do ghosts come from? I don’t mean, from which plane of paranormal existence—which spirit world, as it were—but where and how did ghosts originate in our folklore? Cultural anthropologists may never answer that question definitively, but I have an idea, based... 
by Eric Haseltine | Jan 22, 2018 | Psychology Today
Exploring the urban legend When I was a lowly graduate student—doing my PhD thesis on the brains of boas and pythons—I had the great fortune of having dinner with two Nobel prize winning brain scientists, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. Not wanting to waste the... 
by Eric Haseltine | Jan 15, 2018 | Psychology Today
It turns out our nervous system is much more than neurons Comedian Will Rogers observed “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” What we know, or used to know, is: Our nervous system is made up... 
by Eric Haseltine | Jan 12, 2018 | Psychology Today
Who are all those strangers inside your skull? Who are you…really? A straightforward definition of “you” is the mélange of conscious thoughts, perceptions, feelings and memories that live in your skull. Along with these percepts, “you” might also...
Dr. Eric Haseltine is an author, futurist, and neuroscientist. He has held senior executive positions in private industry and the public sector, including serving as the associate director and CTO for national intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Eric holds 15 patents in optics, special effects, and electronic media. He has published in Discover magazine, Brain Research and Society for Neuroscience Proceedings, and Psychology Today. His books include Long Fuse, Big Bang, The Listening Cure, with Dr. Chris Gilbert, and Brain Safari.