Faculty

Research Interests

Dr. Ramachandran's major areas of research are: cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neurology - the study of cognitive and perceptual deficits in human neurological patients, neural plasticity and "phantom limbs", stroke rehabilitation, human visual perception/cognition, and visual psychophysics.

Selected Publications

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

Ramachandran, V. S., Clarke, P. H., & Whitteridge, D. (1977). Cells selective to binocular disparity in the cortex of newborn animals. Nature, 268, 333-335.

Ramachandran, V. S. (1988). Perception of depth from shading. Scientific American, 269, 76-83.

Ramachandran, V. S. (1989). Visual perception: A biological perspective. Presidential lecture, Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience. Also see "Visual Perception in People and Machines" in R. Blake & T. Troscianko, Ed. AI and the Eye (1990) J. Wiley & Sons, Bristol.

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

Ramachandran, V. S. (1992). Blind spots. Scientific American, 266, 86-91.

Ramachandran, V. S. (1993). Behavioral and MEG correlates of neural plasticity in the adult human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 90, 10413-10420.

Ramachandran, V. S. (1995). Illusions of body image in neurology: What they reveal of human nature. Decade of the Brain lecture given at the 25th annual (Silver Jubilee) meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Published in The Mind Brain Continuum. Ed. R. Llinas and P. Churchland. MIT Press (1996).

Ramachandran, V. S. (1996). Synaesthesia in phantom limbs induced with mirrors. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, 263, 377-386.

Hirstein, W. & Ramachandran, V. S. (1996). Capgras syndrome: A novel probe for unraveling the mnemonic functions of the brain. In press. Proc. of the Royal Society of London, V264, 437-444.

Ramachandran, V. S. (1998). Perception of phantom limbs. (D. O. Hebb lecture). Invited review article. Brain (Sept. 1998).