Fly Fishing People: Neuroscientist Jon Driver

February 5, 2012 By: Marshall Cutchin

Well-known in his field, neuroscientist Jon Driver, who recently passed away, was also an avid fly fisherman.  In a eulogy, one writer asks: “Was it the intuitions that come from patiently casting a fly that led him toward the concept of the multitasking brain, which acquires information from all the senses, and instantly unifies them into a single coherent picture?”