A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers

with neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran

Date:	May 24, 2006
Run Time:	45 minutes
Speakers:	V.S. Ramachandran
Topics:	Brain, Brain Function, Mental Disorder, Phantom limb, Synesthesia, consciousness, mind

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In A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, Ramachandran guides readers through one of the strangest and mysterious places in the natural world - the human mind.

V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at UC San Diego.

Books by V.S. Ramachandran:

A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers, 2005

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, 1999