Jonah Lehrer is an American journalist who writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities. He served as a research assistant at Columbia University in Eric Kandel’s lab.
Lehrer graduated from Columbia University with a major in neuroscience where he examined the biological process of memory and what happens in the brain on a molecular level when a person remembers or forgets information. He was also editor of the Columbia Review for two years. He then studied Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He is a contributing editor at Wired, Scientific American Mind, National Public Radio’s Radiolab, and has written for The New Yorker, Nature, Seed, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. Jonah Lehrer is also featured in brief informational sessions on the television show “Brink”, on the science channel.
Jonah Lehrer is the author of two books, Proust Was a Neuroscientist and How We Decide.
In Proust Was a Neuroscientist, his debut book, Lehrer argues for an intimate relationship with science and the humanities, and he argues that many discoveries of neuroscience are actually rediscoveries of insights made much earlier by various artists, notably including Marcel Proust.
In How We Decide, Lehrer argues there are two main parts of the brain involved in decision-making, the rational and the emotional. His thesis has been called into question based on current understanding of neuroscience. On February 5, 2009, he appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss the book.
Design and Development by 
Pride & Pixel
Subscribe to entries
Subscribe to comments
All content © 2012 by Let Fury Have The Hour
