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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on physics and astronomy, with a significant emphasis on stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

Their scholarly work is notably concentrated within the subfields of astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, and computational mechanics. Specific research topics include stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astronomy and astrophysical research, astrophysics and star formation studies, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astronomical observations and instrumentation, astrophysical phenomena and observations, and astro and planetary science.

Ramachandran has published extensively in recognized scientific venues, with a particular concentration in:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

The scientist's recent papers cover a range of topics primarily related to massive stars, stellar evolution, and mass loss phenomena. Significant publications include:

  • Testing massive star evolution, star-formation history, and feedback at low metallicity (2020, Springer Link, Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity (2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • The excess of cool supergiants from contemporary stellar evolution models defies the metallicity-independent Humphreys-Davidson limit (2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • The temperature dependency of Wolf-Rayet-type mass loss (2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • Stellar wind properties of the nearly complete sample of O stars in the low metallicity young star cluster NGC 346 in the SMC galaxy (2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics)

Frequent collaborators have included A. A. C. Sander, L. M. Oskinova, T. Shenar, W.-R. Hamann, and J. S. Vink, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the field focused on astrophysical phenomena and stellar studies.

Best Publications

  • Encyclopedia of Human Behavior

    V. S. Ramachandran

  • Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

    V. S. Ramachandran;Sandra Blakeslee

  • Synaesthesia? A window into perception, thought and language

    Vilayanur S. Ramachandran;Edward M. Hubbard

  • The science of art: A neurological theory of aesthetic experience

    Vilayanur S. Ramachandran;William Hirstein

  • EEG evidence for mirror neuron dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders.

    Lindsay M. Oberman;Edward M. Hubbard;Joseph P. McCleery;Eric L. Altschuler;Eric L. Altschuler

  • The perception of phantom limbs. The D. O. Hebb lecture.

    Vilayanur S. Ramachandran;William Hirstein

  • Synaesthesia in Phantom Limbs Induced with Mirrors

    Vilayanur S. Ramachandran;Diane Rogers-Ramachandran

  • Projecting sensations to external objects: evidence from skin conductance response

    K. Carrie Armel;V. S. Ramachandran

  • Rehabilitation of hemiparesis after stroke with a mirror.

    Eric Lewin Altschuler;Sidney B Wisdom;Lance Stone;Chris Foster

  • Touching the phantom limb

    V S Ramachandran;D Rogers-Ramachandran;S Cobb

  • Perception of shape from shading

    V. S. Ramachandran

  • The use of visual feedback, in particular mirror visual feedback, in restoring brain function

    V. S. Ramachandran;Eric L. Altschuler;Eric L. Altschuler

  • Perceptual correlates of massive cortical reorganization.

    VS Ramachandran;D Rogers-Ramachandran;M Stewart

  • The perception of phantom limbs

    Vilayanur S. Ramachandran;William Hirstein

  • The simulating social mind: the role of the mirror neuron system and simulation in the social and communicative deficits of autism spectrum disorders.

    Lindsay M. Oberman;Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  • Perceptual filling in of artificially induced scotomas in human vision

    Vilayanur S. Ramachandran;Richard L. Gregory

  • Psychophysical investigations into the neural basis of synaesthesia

    Vilayanur S. Ramachandran;Edward M. Hubbard

  • A critique of pure vision

    Patricia S. Churchland;V. S. Ramachandran;Terrence J. Sejnowski

  • Perceptual correlates of massive cortical reorganization.

    V S Ramachandran;M Stewart;D C Rogers-Ramachandran

  • Neurocognitive mechanisms of synesthesia.

    Edward M. Hubbard;Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Frequent Co-Authors

Seana Coulson
Seana Coulson University of California, San Diego
Mingxiong Huang
Mingxiong Huang University of California, San Diego
Jaime A. Pineda
Jaime A. Pineda University of California, San Diego
Roland R. Lee
Roland R. Lee Veterans Health Administration
Darren J. Lipomi
Darren J. Lipomi University of California, San Diego
Trichur R. Vidyasagar
Trichur R. Vidyasagar University of Melbourne
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University
Karen R. Dobkins
Karen R. Dobkins University of California, San Diego
Rudolf N. Cardinal
Rudolf N. Cardinal University of Cambridge
Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally Harvard University

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