Neuroscience
Vilayanur Ramachandran was recently featured on TEDTalks.
He talked about creativity & the brain, using these three concepts to illustrate his points:
1. Face perception
2. Phantom limbs
3. Synesthesia
Fascinating, as always.
eta: the embedded video no longer works. This link will take you to his talk at TED.
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I was so excited about my possible synesthetic experience last week (aural synesthesia?) that I didn't explain what synesthesia actually is. It just so happened that on last week's episode of Australia's terrific radio program All in the Mind,...
- "rama" & Art
Australia's ABC Radio National program "All in the Mind" recently interviewed the "Marco Polo of Neuroscience", V.S Ramachandran. He talks a little about neuroscience and a lot about how humans perceive art. When he was at Hampshire. "Rama" talked...
Neuroscience
Rama @ TEDTalks
Vilayanur Ramachandran was recently featured on TEDTalks.
He talked about creativity & the brain, using these three concepts to illustrate his points:
1. Face perception
2. Phantom limbs
3. Synesthesia
Fascinating, as always.
eta: the embedded video no longer works. This link will take you to his talk at TED.
- Neuroscience Podcasts From Science And The City
Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities) interviews Michael Gazzaniga (The Ethical Brain) in a podcast titled Ethics in the Age of Neuroscience. Produced by the Dana Foundation and the New York Academy of Science, it's the first in a series of podcasts...
- The Woman Who Grew Phantom Fingers That She'd Never Physically Had
Inside the human brain there is a map of the body drawn in neural tissue. When a person loses a limb, the neural representation of that body part still exists in the map, and more often than not, it continues to give rise to "phantom" sensations. Sometimes...
- David Eagleman On Time And Synesthesia
Burkhard Bilger had a great piece in the April 25, 2011 New Yorker entitled David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain. In it, Bilger discusses Eagleman's fascinating work trying to figure out how we think about time. Eagleman goes to a Zero Gravity...
- More About Synesthesia
I was so excited about my possible synesthetic experience last week (aural synesthesia?) that I didn't explain what synesthesia actually is. It just so happened that on last week's episode of Australia's terrific radio program All in the Mind,...
- "rama" & Art
Australia's ABC Radio National program "All in the Mind" recently interviewed the "Marco Polo of Neuroscience", V.S Ramachandran. He talks a little about neuroscience and a lot about how humans perceive art. When he was at Hampshire. "Rama" talked...