Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandranis a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionScientist
CountryIndia
thinking interesting brain
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
attention examination labs
One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).
romantic-love games mistress
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.
real statistics facts
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified.
art people cant
You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
creative pressure minutes
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
brain discrepancies
The brain abhors discrepancies.
stars apes bananas
Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
motivation inspiration thinking
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'
fighting order organization
The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.
war brain colonialism
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
brain mind asking
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
branches matter becoming
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
children people creative
In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the brain develops, the excess connections are turned off, so you get very specialized areas. So most people have really specialized talents. What happens in creative people is this pooling doesn't take place.