Professor Shane O’Mara
Life Through a Neuroscience Lens
Latest Book
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds
How do our thoughts, memories, and conversations change our brains? What does it mean that we spend most of our thinking lives in a five-minute bubble around the present moment? Why does our sense of self solidify with age, even as we grow more forgetful? In what ways do we imagine futures together? And how do our nations begin as conversations?
Other Works By Shane O’Mara
In Praise of Walking
A Brain for Business
Why Torture Doesn’t Work
Hi, I’m Shane O’Mara, Professor of Experimental Brain at Trinity College, Dublin.
I’m a neuroscientist, psychologist, and writer. My research interests are roughly, to borrow a phrase, ‘brain meets world’.
I write on brain function and life from an evidence-based perspective – I try to keep pretty close to what is empirically defensible.
I have published four single-authored books, with another on the way.
Shane O'Mara Writer 