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TED: Vilayanur Ramachandran on the workings of the mind

submitted by RedSky

1 decade 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago

In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind. He talks about phantom limb pain, synesthesia (when people hear color or smell sounds), and the Capgras delusion, when brain-damaged people believe their closest friends and family have been replaced with imposters.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/184

13 Comments

This is great stuff. It's always a battle getting long stuff sifted.

Okay gonna fight for them requeues, oh and I might vote it up too

I'd love to run into Ramachandran at a party. I bet he'd be great fun. I've seen this talk before on the sift I think, maybe not the same video, but the same content.

plastiquemonkey

there's an N at the end of VS Ramachandran.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'TED, Vilayanur Ramachandra, phantom limb, synesthesia, Capgras syndrome' to 'TED, Vilayanur Ramachandran, phantom limb, synesthesia, Capgras syndrome' - edited by oxdottir

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Capgras Delusion - The Illusion of Doubles has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow on that post.

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