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Vilayanur Ramachandran, professor of psychology and director of the Brain and Perception Laboratory Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California at San Diego, will deliver The James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture on Thursday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson  Auditorium.  His talk, "What neurology can tell us about human nature and the meaning of art," is free and open to the public.

The James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture series was established in 1987 through a bequest from Dr. Plant, class of 1912 and an eminent child psychiatrist, to bring to the campus outstanding scientists as guest lecturers.

Ramachandran received his medical degree from Stanley Medical College and subsequently a Ph.D. from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, where he was elected a senior Rouse Ball Scholar. Ramachandran's early research was on visual perception but he is best known for his work in neurology.

Ramachandran is a trustee for the San Diego Museum of Art and has lectured widely on art, visual perception and the brain. Ramachandran has published more than 120 papers in scientific journals (including three invited review articles in the Scientific American), is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Human Behaviour and author of the critically acclaimed book Phantoms in the Brain that has been translated into eight languages and formed the basis for a two-part series on Channel Four TV UK, and a one-hour PBS special in USA. His work is featured frequently in the major news media, and Newsweek magazine recently named him a member of "The Century Club," one of the "hundred most prominent people to watch in the next century."

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