Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Ramachandran at the 2011 Time 100 gala
Lahir	Tamil Nadu, India
Tempat tinggal	San Diego, California
Almamater	M.B.B.S. di Stanley Medical College, Chennai; Ph.D. di Universitas Cambridge
Dikenal atas	Neurologi, persepsi visual, phantom limb, sinestesia, autisme, body integrity identity disorder
Penghargaan	Ariens Kappers Medal dari Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences; Padma Bhushan dari Presiden India; Reith Lectures BBC 2003
Karier ilmiah
Bidang	Neurologi, Psikologi
Institusi	Universitas California, San Diego (profesor) dan Center for Brain and Cognition (direktur)
Pembimbing doktoral	Oliver Braddick, David Whitteridge, FW Campbell, H Barlow
Mahasiswa doktoral	Daniel Plummer, Dorothy Kleffner, Steve Cobb, K. Carrie Armel, Eric Altschuler, Edward M. Hubbard, William Hirstein, Lindsay Oberman (Shenk), Lisa Williams, David Brang, Laura Case, Paul D. McGeoch

Vilayanur Subramanian "Rama" Ramachandran (lahir 1951) adalah ilmuwan neurosains yang dikenal akan karyanya dalam bidang neurologi perilaku dan psikofisika. Ia adalah kepala Center for Brain and Cognition,^[1][2][3] dan profesor di University of California, San Diego.^[4][5]

Ramachandran terkenal akan percobaannya dalam neurologi perilaku. Ia telah dijuluki sebagai "Marco Polo neurosains” oleh Richard Dawkins^[6] dan "Paul Broca modern" oleh Eric Kandel.^[6] Pada tahun 1997, majalah Newsweek menobatkannya sebagai salah satu dari "seratus orang yang paling penting untuk ditonton" pada abad ke-21,^[7] sementara pada tahun 2011 Time memasukkannya ke dalam daftar seratus orang yang paling berpengaruh di dunia.^[8][9]

Catatan kaki

1. Center for Brain and Cognition website
2. Ramachandran Bio on CBC website
3. Psychology Department Webage with link to CBC
4. "UCSD Psychology Faculty Directory". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2011-12-14. Diakses tanggal 2011-08-20. 
5. "Ramachandran Neurosciences Graduate Program Webpage". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2020-07-29. Diakses tanggal 2011-08-20. 
6. Colapinto, J (May 11, 2009). "Brain Games; The Marco Polo of Neuroscience". The New Yorker. Diakses tanggal March 11, 2011.  Full text via Lexis-Nexus here Diarsipkan 2011-07-28 di Wayback Machine.
7. "The Century Club". Newsweek. April 21, 1997. Diakses tanggal February 16, 2011. 
8. "V.S. Ramachandran - Time 100". April 21, 2011. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-08-24. Diakses tanggal April 21, 2011.  The citation by Tom Insel, Director of NIH, reads: "Once described as the Marco Polo of neuroscience, V.S. Ramachandran has mapped some of the most mysterious regions of the mind. He has studied visual perception and a range of conditions, from synesthesia to autism. V.S. Ramachandran is changing how our brains think about our minds."
9. In poll results used for the 2011 list Ramachandran ranked 97 out of 100.[1] Diarsipkan 2012-10-28 di Wayback Machine.

Pranala luar

• Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (official webpage)
• Take the Neuron Express for a Brief Tour of Consciousness The Science Network interview with V.S. Ramachandran
• Ramachandran Illusions
• All in the Mind interview
• Reith Lectures 2003 The Emerging Mind by Ramachandran
• TED talk by Ramachandran on brain damage and structures of the mind
• Talk at Princeton Diarsipkan 2011-05-17 di Wayback Machine. A 2009 talk about his work.
• The Third Culture Diarsipkan 2011-05-18 di Wayback Machine. Scroll down for three of his essays regarding mirror neurons and self-awareness
• Ramachandran's contribution to The Science Network's Beyond Belief 2007 Lectures on synaesthesia and metaphor.