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Ramachandran on Capgras Syndrome, Phantom Limbs & Synaesthesia

Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran provides an introduction to how we study the brain's deficits using three cool examples:



  • Capgras syndrome: where a man looks at his mother and says: "It looks like my mother but she's an imposter." How can a person recognise his mother's face yet feel it's not her?
  • Phantom limbs: why would an amputated limb still hurt? Can this pain be relieved?
  • Synaesthesia: Numbers are colours. Notes are colours. Cross-talk between the senses has a higher incidence in creative people: why?

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2 comments

Anonymous Anonymous on 30/10/07 4:45 AM 

Wow, I always thought "seeing" musical tones in color was something normal. Now that I know it's not, I feel special haha.

Anonymous Eleanor on 30/10/07 11:19 AM 

It's brilliant to see all these psychologists that you've previously only known of for years as names on research papers you've studied, actually talking on videos!