V S Ramachandran on “Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, explored through synesthesia, mental calendars, and body image distortions”, 6/7 Oct 2021

Professor V S Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California San Diego, and Trinity PhD

V S Ramachandran; MBBS, FRCP (London),  PhD( Trinity ) DSc, Distinguished Professor, UCSD ( La Jolla), Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute , La Jolla CA, will talk on

“Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, explored through synesthesia, mental calendars, and body image distortions”

Zoom event details:

• Thursday 7 October 9:00am (Tokyo time),
• Thursday 7 October 1:00am (London/Cambridge time with apologies)
• Wednesday 6 October 5pm (Los Angeles/PDT time)
• Professor V S Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California San Diego, and Trinity PhD, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about the brain and neuroscience.

Program

• 9am Thur 7 Oct 2021, (Tokyo time) start
  • 5pm Wed 6 Oct 2021, 5pm ( Los Angeles/PDT time)
  • 1am Thur 7 Oct 2021, (UK time)
• 9:15am – 10:15am (Tokyo) Professor V S Ramachandran
  • 5:15pm – 6:15pm (LA/PDT time)
  • 1:15am – 2:15am (UK time)
• 10:15am- (Tokyo) follow-on discussions
  • 6:15pm – (LA/PDT time) follow-on discussions
  • 2:15am – (UK time)

Prior registration required until Tuesday 5 Oct 2021. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.

We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording: 

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Professor V S Ramachandran

V S Ramachandran; MBBS, FRCP (London),  PhD( Trinity ) DSc, Distinguished Professor, UCSD ( La Jolla), Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute , La Jolla CA.

V S Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute. V S Ramachandran graduated with a PhD from Cambridge University and Trinity College.

As of July 2019, Ramachandran is also a professor in the UCSD Medical School’s Neurosciences program and an Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies

More about Professor V S Ramachandran:

• http://cbc.ucsd.edu/ramabio.html
• Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego http://cbc.ucsd.edu/index.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Ramachandran

Books by Professor V S Ramachandran

• Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, coauthor Sandra Blakeslee, 1998 (ISBN 0-688-17217-2)
• Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (editor-in-chief), three volumes, 2002 (ISBN 0-12-227210-2).
• The Emerging Mind, 2003 (ISBN 1-86197-303-9).
• A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers, 2005 (ISBN 0-13-187278-8; paperback edition).
• The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-393-07782-7).
• The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (editor-in-chief), four-volume second edition, 2012 (ISBN 978-0123750006).

Registration and enquiries:

All Trinity members, Fellows and students globally are very welcome to pre-register, and I will send a registration link if there are still places available.

Licence: Vilayanur S Ramachandran photograph

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