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Books

Ramachandran, VS, & Blakeslee, S (1998). Phantoms in the Brain. William Morrow, N.Y.

Ramachandran, VS (2002). Encyclopedia of the Human Brain. Academic Press, San Diego.

Ramachandran, VS (2003). The Emerging Mind. BBC/Profile Books, London.

Ramachandran, VS (2004). A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers. New York: Pi Press.

Ramachandran, VS (2008). The Man with the Phantom Twin: Adventures in the Neuroscience of the Human Brain, Due out June, 2008. Dutton Adult, N.Y.

Selected Journal Articles; Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience

Ramachandran, VS & Hirstein, W (1998). The perception of phantom limbs: The D. O. Hebb lecture. Brain, 121, 1603-1630.

Ramachandran, VS (2005). Plasticity and functional recovery in neurology. Clinical medicine, 5(4), 368-73.

Ramachandran, VS & Hubbard, EM (2003), Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes, Scientific American, Vol 288 Issue 5 (May 2003), 42-49.

Ramachandran, VS & Hubbard, EM (2001). Psychophysical investigations in to the neural basis of synaesthesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 268, 979-983.

Ramachandran, VS & Hubbard, EM (2001). Synaesthesia--a window into perception, thought and language. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8, 3-34.

Oberman, LM, Hubbard, EM, McCleery, JP, Altschuler EL, Ramachandran, VS (2005). EEG evidence for mirror neuron dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Cognitive brain research, 24(2), 190-8.

Ramachandran, VS, McGeoch, PD, Williams, L, Arcilla, G (2007) Rapid Relief of Thalamic Pain Syndrome Induced by Vestibular Caloric Stimulation. Neurocase, 13(3), 185-8.

Ramachandran, VS, & McGeoch, PD (2007). Occurrence of phantom genitalia after gender reassignment surgery. Medical Hypotheses, 69(5), 1001-3.

Ramachandran, VS, & Oberman, LM (2006). Broken mirrors: a theory of autism. Scientific American, 295(5), 62-9.

Ramachandran, VS, & Azoulai, S (2006). Synesthetically induced colors evoke apparent-motion perception. Perception, 35(11), 1557-60.

Ramachandran, VS. Mirror neurons and imitation as the driving force behind “the great leap forward” in human evolution. EDGE: The third culture,http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p1.html.

Ramachandran, VS & Rogers-Ramachandran, D (2007). It’s All Done with Mirrors. Scientific American Mind, 18(4), 16-18.

McGeoch, PD, Brang, D, Ramachandran, VS (2007). Apraxia, metaphor and mirror neurons. Med Hypotheses, Jun 27.

Oberman, LM, & Ramachandran, VS (2007). The simulating social mind: the role of the mirror neuron system and simulation in the social and communicative deficits of autism spectrum disorders. Psychological bulletin, 133(2), 310-27.

Ramachandran, VS, & McGeoch, P (2007). Can vestibular caloric stimulation be used to treat apotemnophilia?. Medical Hypotheses, 69(2), 250-2.

Altschuler EL, Ramachandran, VS (2007). A simple method to stand outside oneself. Perception, 36(4), 632-4.

Hubbard, EM, Manohar, S, & Ramachandran, VS (2006). Contrast affects the strength of synesthetic colors. Cortex, 42(2), 184-94.

Ramachandran, VS, Rogers-Ramachandran, D (2006). The Neurology of Aesthetics. Scientific American Mind, October/November 2006.

Hubbard, EM, & Ramachandran, VS (2005). Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Synesthesia. Neuron, 48(3), 509-520.

Hubbard, EM, Arman, AC, Ramachandran, VS, Boynton, GM (2005). Individual Differences among Grapheme-Color Synesthetes: Brain-Behavior Correlations. Neuron, 45: 975-985.

Ramachandran, VS (2004). The astonishing Francis Crick. Perception, 33(10), 1151-4.

Ramachandran, VS (2003). The phenomenology of synaesthesia. Journal of consciousness studies, 10(8), 49-.

Armel, KC & Ramachandran, VS (2003), Projecting sensations to external objects: evidence from skin conductance response, Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, Biological Sciences, 270 (1523), 1499-506

Hirstein, W, Iversen, P & Ramachandran, VS (2001). Autonomic responses of autistic children to people and objects. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 268, 1883-1888.

Ramachandran, VS, Altschuler, EL, & Hillyer, S (1997). Mirror agnosia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 264, 645-647.

Hirstein, W, & Ramachandran, VS (1997). Capgras syndrome: a novel probe for understanding the neural representation and familiarity of persons. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 264, 437-444.

Selected Journal Articles; Visual Perception and Psychophysics

Ramachandran, VS & Rogers-Ramachandran, D (1996). Synaesthesia in phantom limbs induced with mirrors. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 263, 377-386.

Ramachandran, VS & Cobb, S (1995). Visual attention modulates metacontrast masking. Nature, 373, 66-68.

Kleffner, DA & Ramachandran, VS (1992). On the perception of shape from shading. Perception & Psychophysics, 52, 18-36.

Ramachandran, VS & Gregory, RL (1991). Perceptual filling in of artificially induced scotomas in human vision. Nature, 350, 699-702.

Ramachandran, VS (1990). Perceiving shape from shading. The perceptual world: Readings from Scientific American magazine. I. Rock. New York, NY, US, W. H. Freeman & Co, Publishers: 127-138.

Ramachandran, VS (1987). Interaction between colour and motion in human vision. Nature, 328, 645-647.

Ramachandran, VS & Cavanagh, P (1987). Motion capture anisotropy. Vision Research, 27, 97-106.

Ramachandran, VS & Anstis, SM (1986). The perception of apparent motion. Scientific American, 254, 102-109.

Ramachandran, VS (1986). Capture of stereopsis and apparent motion by illusory contours. Perception & Psychophysics, 39, 361-373.

Ramachandran, VS, Clarke, PG, & Whitteridge, D (1977). Cells selective to binocular disparity in the cortex of newborn lambs. Nature, 268, 333-335.

Selected TV and Radio Documentaries

BBC Annual Reith Lectures – 5 lectures on BBC website

"Secrets of the Mind" – PBS, USA

"Phantoms in the Brain" – Channel 4; UK

Annual Alfred Deakin Lectures, Australia

Miscellaneous

Ramachandran, VS (1994). Phantom limbs, neglect syndromes, repressed memories, and Freudian psychology. International review of neurobiology, 37, 291-333; discussion 369. First proposal of the idea of using mirror visual feedback to accelerate recover from stroke

Altschuler, EL, Vankov, A, Hubbard, EM, Roberts, E, Ramachandran, VS, Pineda, JA. Mu wave blocking by observer of movement and its possible use as a tool to study theory of other minds Poster session presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA (2000 (November)). First description of mirror neuron dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders.

Ramachandran, VS, & Hubbard, EM (2005a). The emergence of the human mind: Some clues from synesthesia. Robertson and Sagiv, 147-190. Cognitive consequences and perceptual nature of number forms ("lines")

Churchland, P. S., Ramachandran, V. S. & Sejnowski, T. J. (1994) A critique of pure vision. In: Large-scale neuronal theories of the brain, ed. C. Koch & J. L. Davis. MIT Press/Bradford Books.

Selected Book Chapters

Ramachandran, VS & Hubbard, EM. Synesthesia: What does it tell us about the emergence of qulia, metaphor, abstract thought, and language? In: 23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience, edited by Sejnowski TS, Van Hemmen L. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005b, p. 432–473.

Ramachandran, VS & Hubbard, EM. The emergence of the human mind: some clues from synesthesia. In: L.C. Robertson and N. Sagiv, Editors, Synesthesia: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience, Oxford University Press, New York (2005), pp. 147-192.