Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Vilayanur_S._Ramachandran
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gptkb:Henry_Dale_Prize
gptkb:Padma_Bhushan
gptkb:Presidential_Lecture_Award_(Society_for_Neuroscience)
gptkb:Ramon_y_Cajal_Award
gptkbp:birthDate 1951-08-10
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Tamil_Nadu,_India
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gptkb:United_States
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gptkb:University_of_Madras
gptkbp:employer gptkb:University_of_California,_San_Diego
gptkbp:field neurology
neuroscience
psychology
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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gptkbp:knownFor visual perception
mirror neurons
work on phantom limbs
synesthesia research
neurology of self-awareness
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gptkb:Tamil
English
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
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gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:A_Brief_Tour_of_Human_Consciousness
gptkb:Phantoms_in_the_Brain
gptkb:The_Tell-Tale_Brain
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gptkb:professor
author
gptkbp:position Director, Center for Brain and Cognition
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gptkbp:website https://cbc.ucsd.edu/ramachandran.html
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