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• TED | Talks | Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind (video)
• 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…
  

  I have a little question: A person suffering from the Capgras Delusion is sitting beside their mother and looking at her; she is also speaking to them. Now, if the proper response is set off by voice recognition, does that brain area differentiate between a signal …

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  Absolutely amazing. The whole 23 1/2 minutes felt like a few minutes of watching. I mean, he brought a simple solution to such a complex problem. It’s just 23 minutes of our life, but it’s probably the most informative 23 minutes we have experienced in quite sometime. Dugg for being informative and very interesting!

  How does he explain the people with “water-brains”, there are some people people who have some 90% of their skull filled with some large cyst of liquid and they have only 10% of brain mass yet operate entirely normal?

  Brilliant!! Somebody get this man a Guinness.

  Did he learn English in Scotland?

  If I were to buy one of his books, can anybody recommend one? (I’m sure they’re all good)

  like the player and his name, Vilayanur Ramachandran

  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.

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  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.

  A bit about how the brain works, especially as it relates to creativity and artistic inclinations.

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  Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind

  Vilayanur Ramachandran’s amazing talk on some of the curious things about the way brain functions and recent studies

  How many of you noticed Sir Richard Branson at the end in the crowd?

  He’s got the coolest Scottish/Indian accent I’ve ever heard. Well, the only.

  I was struck by that too. The talk would be pretty interesting even without it though.

  Oh, completely. I think it’d be worth it either way, even if the content wasn’t as interesting, his accent makes it, and vice versa.