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Blind Spots

Investigating how the visual system compensates for gaps in perception is helping researchers to elucidate how the brain processes images

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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran is a professor and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego. Ramachandran's accolades include receiving the Henry Dale Prize of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, giving the 2003 Reith Lectures for the BBC and participating in the 2012 Gifford Lectures in Glasgow.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 266 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “Blind Spots” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 266 No. 5 (), p. 86
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0592-86