Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran features on the latest edition of ABC Radio National’s All in the Mind where he is interviewed about how the mind and brain understand art.
Ramachandran is well known as a broadcaster and author. Notably for his book Phantoms in the Brain and for giving the 2003 BBC Reith Lectures on The Emerging Mind.
UPDATE:
UK magazine The Psychologist has just made an interview with V.S. Ramachandran available online (PDF). Ramachandram is interviewed by our very own Tom Stafford.
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Realaudio of All in the Mind interview with V.S. Ramachandran
Link to transcript of programme.
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Ramachandran on art
Neuroscientist and author VS Ramachandran was interviewed on All In The Mind. (Previous Ramachandran posts on BB here and here.) He’s now exploring “aesthetic universals” and how the brain processes art. Ramachandran calls art “visual foreplay before t…
Excellent. I hadn’t spotted that. Nice one Vaughan!