Neuroscience
From The Observer
VS Ramachandran: The Marco Polo of neuroscience
Among his contemporaries he's a pioneer who, by using real mirrors and looking at mirror neurons, is changing the way we think about thinking
Andrew Anthony
The Observer
Sunday, 30 January 2011
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Neuroscience
VS Ramachandran
From The Observer
VS Ramachandran: The Marco Polo of neuroscience
Among his contemporaries he's a pioneer who, by using real mirrors and looking at mirror neurons, is changing the way we think about thinking
Andrew Anthony
The Observer
Sunday, 30 January 2011
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