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Blogs about: Vilayanur Ramachandran

Aesthetic Universals and the Neurology of Art

Crusher wrote 3 months ago: It’s an awesome feeling to find that an individual with the tag of science pinned to them is p … more →

Tags: x, Aesthetics, Neurology, Science, usc

Five Perspectives on Metaphors and Anthropomorphism

Vicente Peláyez wrote 3 months ago: Perhaps one of our most consistent cognitive biases as human beings is our tendency to treat the non … more →

Tags: Vicente, Metaphors, Anthropomorphism, Marshall Strother, susan sontag, John Ruskin, Thomas Pynchon

Five Perspectives on Metaphors and Anthropomorphism2 comments

Vicente Peláyez wrote 3 months ago: Perhaps one of our most consistent cognitive biases as human beings is our tendency to treat the non … more →

Tags: Who's Driving the Boat?!, Metaphors, Anthropomorphism, Marshall Strother, susan sontag, John Ruskin, Thomas Pynchon

Further Scientific Ideas Pertaining To How The Human Mind Works...1 comment

Karl Richard wrote 3 months ago: Two more ideas that demonstrate how the human mind works… Here Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us … more →

Tags: Illusion, Mind, Delusion, Christopher deCharms, Pain, brain

The Science of Art: A Neurological Theory of Artistic Experience

Kitsune wrote 6 months ago: Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics Series Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics Talk … more →

Tags: Art, Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics, Jean-Pierre CHANGEUX, Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics, Neurology of Art, Science of Art, The Science of Art: A Neurological Theory of Artistic E

Nevropsihološki status optične prevare

Robert Anon wrote 7 months ago: Optičnim  prevaram običajno  ne pripisujemo velike ontološke teže. Večinoma jih imamo preprosto za p … more →

Tags: fenomenološki modeli, fantomski udi, phantomic limbs

Celebrity Worship7 comments

sospokesaroj wrote 8 months ago: We really are a bunch of celebrity-worshippers. Don’t deny it, you know it’s true. Our s … more →

Tags: Politics, Society, Food, Entertainment, Neuroscience, Music, jazz, Comedy, Rachel Maddow

The Situation of Confabulation

The Situationist Staff wrote 8 months ago: Helen Philips had a nice article  titled “Mind fiction: Why your brain tells tall tales, … more →

Tags: book, Choice Myth, Deep Capture, Illusions, Neuroscience, Timothy Wilson, confabulation, cognitive neur, Oliver Sacks

Beyond Belief '06 - V.S. Ramachandran (Clip 3)

Vision Raval wrote 9 months ago: … more →

Tags: Memory Techniques, Self-Development, mind power

Beyond Belief '06 - V.S. Ramachandran (Clip 2)

Vision Raval wrote 9 months ago: … more →

Tags: Memory Techniques, Self-Development

Beyond Belief '06 - V.S. Ramachandran (Clip 1)

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Tags: Memory Techniques, Self-Development

Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind

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Tags: Memory Techniques

A journey to the center of your mind

Félix Adorno wrote 1 year ago: Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral t … more →

Tags: a world beyond, tedtalks, TeD, human brain, Human Nature, human consciousness, Brain Damage, genetic change, mental capacity

Phantom Penis

Johannes wrote 1 year ago: A recent blog entry directed me to this paper by Namba et al. titled Phantom erectile penis after se … more →

Tags: Medicine, penis, phantom penis, vaginoplasty, male-to-female transsexuals, Namba, Namba et al, phantom erectile penis, erect phantom penis

Journey to the center of your mind... (must see)

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Tags: subjective & personal, Attitude, TeD, brain, amazing!, Truth, Science, Neuroscience

Vilayanur Ramachandran On Your Mind

The Situationist Staff wrote 1 year ago: From TED: “Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection b … more →

Tags: Neuroscience, Video, Brain Damage, Neurology, TeD, The Mind

TED Talk: Vilayanur Ramachandran5 comments

Jason Booy wrote 1 year ago: If you haven’t yet discovered TED.com, go check it out! But choose sometime when you don … more →

Tags: Psychiatry, TED Talks, brain, Creativity, Neuroscience, Phantom Limb, Synesthesia, ted-talk, TED.com

Musicians, Artists, and Writers 8X More Likely to Have Synesthesia than General Population4 comments

wpm1955 wrote 2 years ago: I finally found just the information on synesthesia I was looking for. I was trying to find out if p … more →

Tags: writing, Oil Painting, Music, Writers, Drawing, Art, Teaching painting, Painter, Peinture

Kiki/Bouba

anticargocultscience wrote 2 years ago: I came across the following talk by Vilayanur Ramachandran on the TED site. Quite interesting ! The … more →

Tags: Neuroscience, Kiki Bouba, Synesthesia, TED Talks


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