# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vilayanur-s-ramachandran
# Generated: 2026-09-06T20:48:15.968Z

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name: "Vilayanur S. Ramachandran"
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description: "Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran is an Indian-American neuroscientist. He is known for his experiments and theories in behavioral neurology, including the invention of the mirror box. Ramachandran is a distinguished professor in UCSD's Department of Psychology, where he is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition."
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birthDate: "1951-08-10"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump