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Encyclopedia > Vilayanur Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition. He is also a professor of psychology and neuroscience, at the University of California, San Diego. In addition, he is a professor of biology at the Salk Institute. He has a medical degree from the Stanley Medical College, and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Contents
1 Mass media
2 Writings by Ramachandran
3 See also
4 External links

Mass media

The mass media has given Ramachandran some attention. He has appeared on both Channel Four and PBS documentaries. He has also been featured by the BBC and Newsweek, which considers him one of the "hundred most prominent people to watch in the next century". More recently, he gave the 2003 Reith Lectures, entitled the Emerging Mind.


Writings by Ramachandran

  • A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness : From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
  • Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
  • the Encyclopedia of Human Behaviour (editor-in-chief)
  • The Emerging Mind

See also

  • the mirror box

External links

  • Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (official webpage) (http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/ramabio.html)

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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran MD, PhD (367 words)
V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute.
Ramachandran trained as a Physician and obtained an MD from Stanley Medical College and subsequently a PhD from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, where he was elected a senior Rouse Ball Scholar.
Ramachandran is a trustee for the San Diego museum of art and has lectured widely on art, visual perception and the brain.
Ramachandran Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Md, Phd. Biography. Laboratory V.s. Ramachandran Is Director Of The (352 words)
Laboratory V. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and professor with the Psychology Department and the.
Vilayanur Ramachandran has been called a Sherlock Holmes of Studies in La Jolla, California, Ramachandran has brilliantly sleuthed his way through.
Ramachandran P. Series of Reith Lectures given by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego) on - The Emerging Mind in 2003.
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