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• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Reflections on the Mind

  Experiments with a simple mirror setup can reveal much about the workings of the brain

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Aug 18, 2011  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  The Ghost Hand Illusion

  Spooky fun with afterimages

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Mar 14, 2011  | 2

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Reading between the Lines: How We See Hidden Objects

  When an object is partially hidden, the brain deftly reconstructs it as a visual whole

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Aug 30, 2010  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Extreme Function: Why Our Brains Respond So Intensely to Exaggerated Characteristics

  How quirks of perception drive the evolution of species

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Aug 2, 2010  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Hey, Is That Me over There?

  And other real-life tales from the bizarre realm of out-of-body experience

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Apr 13, 2010  | 16

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Aristotle's Error

  Using aftereffects to probe visual function reveals how the eye and brain handle colors and contours

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Mar 15, 2010  | 9

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  A Moving Experience: Illusions That Trick the Brain

  How the eyes can see movement where it does not exist

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Jan 26, 2010  | 14

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Illusions: The Mona Lisa and Abraham Lincoln

  What do the famous portrait and the former U.S. president have in common?

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Dec 10, 2009  | 7

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Two Eyes, Two Views: Your Brain and Depth Perception

  Insights into the nuances of depth perception provided by our two eyes' slightly different views of the world

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Oct 21, 2009  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Seeing in Stereo: Illusions of Depth

  Binocular vision gives us depth perception—and enables us to play some tricks

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Aug 14, 2009  | 12

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Illusions in Motion: The Power of Symmetry

  Our brain's preference for symmetry influences how we perceive motion

  By Vilaynur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Apr 30, 2009  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  More Science

  When Blindness Is in the Mind, Not the Eyes

  Patients with unusual visual deficits provide insights into how we normally see

  By Vilaynur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Dec 11, 2008  | 7

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Shading Illusions: How 2-D Becomes 3-D in the Mind

  Light cues influence the brain's processing of depth

  By Vilaynur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Sep 17, 2008  | 10

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Sliding Stripes

  A few simple experiments untangle the mysteries behind the Barber Pole Illusion

  By Vilaynur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | May 29, 2008  | 1

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Transparently Obvious

  How the brain sees through the perceptual hurdles of tinted glass, shadows and all things transparent

  By Diane Rogers-Ramachandran and Vilaynur S. Ramachandran   | Apr 3, 2008  

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