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The Simulating Social Mind: The Role of the Mirror Neuron System and Simulation in the Social and Communicative Deficits of Autism Spectrum Disorders by Oberman, Lindsay M, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S

“…The mechanism by which humans perceive others differs greatly from how humans perceive inanimate objects. Unlike inanimate objects, humans have the distinct…”
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Misophonia: physiological investigations and case descriptions by Edelstein, Miren, Brang, David, Rouw, Romke, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S

“…Misophonia is a relatively unexplored chronic condition in which a person experiences autonomic arousal (analogous to an involuntary "fight-or-flight"…”
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Organic Haptics: Intersection of Materials Chemistry and Tactile Perception by Lipomi, Darren J., Dhong, Charles, Carpenter, Cody W., Root, Nicholas B., Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.

“…The goal of the field of haptics is to create technologies that manipulate the sense of touch. In virtual and augmented reality, haptic devices are for touch…”
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Common coding and dynamic interactions between observed, imagined, and experienced motor and somatosensory activity by Case, Laura K., Pineda, Jaime, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.

“…Motor imagery and perception – considered generally as forms of motor simulation – share overlapping neural representations with motor production. While much…”
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The Evolutionary Psychology of Envy and Jealousy by Ramachandran, Vilayanur S, Jalal, Baland

“…The old dogma has always been that the most complex aspects of human emotions are driven by culture; Germans and English are thought to be straight-laced…”
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"I Feel Contaminated in My Fake Hand": Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder like Disgust Sensations Arise from Dummy during Rubber Hand Illusion by Jalal, Baland, Krishnakumar, Divya, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S

“…Despite its theoretical and clinical interest, there are no experimental studies exploring obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-like disgust sensations through…”
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Face to face: Blocking facial mimicry can selectively impair recognition of emotional expressions by Oberman, Lindsay M., Winkielman, Piotr, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.

“…People spontaneously mimic a variety of behaviors, including emotional facial expressions. Embodied cognition theories suggest that mimicry reflects internal…”
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"Fake it till You Make it"! Contaminating Rubber Hands ("Multisensory Stimulation Therapy") to Treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Jalal, Baland, McNally, Richard J, Elias, Jason A, Potluri, Sriramya, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S

“…Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a deeply enigmatic psychiatric condition associated with immense suffering worldwide. Efficacious therapies for OCD,…”
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Novel Smartphone Interventions Improve Cognitive Flexibility and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Symptoms in Individuals with Contamination Fears by Jalal, Baland, Brühl, Annette, O’Callaghan, Claire, Piercy, Thomas, Cardinal, Rudolf N., Ramachandran, Vilayanur S., Sahakian, Barbara J.

“…One type of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by contamination fears and compulsive cleansing. Few effective treatments are available for…”
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Why is the synesthete's “A” red? Using a five-language dataset to disentangle the effects of shape, sound, semantics, and ordinality on inducer–concurrent relationships in grapheme-color synesthesia by Root, Nicholas B., Rouw, Romke, Asano, Michiko, Kim, Chai-Youn, Melero, Helena, Yokosawa, Kazuhiko, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.

“…Grapheme-color synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which viewing a grapheme elicits an additional, automatic, and consistent sensation of color…”
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The cross-activation theory at 10 by Hubbard, Edward M., Brang, David, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.

“…In 2001, Ramachandran and Hubbard introduced the cross‐activation model of grapheme‐colour synaesthesia. On the occasion of its 10‐year anniversary, we review…”
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Individual Differences among Grapheme-Color Synesthetes: Brain-Behavior Correlations by Hubbard, Edward M., Arman, A. Cyrus, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S., Boynton, Geoffrey M.

“…Grapheme-color synesthetes experience specific colors associated with specific number or letter characters. To determine the neural locus of this condition, we…”
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Role of indentation depth and contact area on human perception of softness for haptic interfaces by Dhong, Charles, Miller, Rachel, Root, Nicholas B, Gupta, Sumit, Kayser, Laure V, Carpenter, Cody W, Loh, Kenneth J, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S, Lipomi, Darren J

“…In engineering, the "softness" of an object, as measured by an indenter, manifests as two measurable parameters: (i) indentation depth and (ii) contact area…”
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Grapheme-color synesthetes show enhanced crossmodal processing between auditory and visual modalities by Brang, David, Williams, Lisa E., Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.

“…Synesthesia is an involuntary experience in which stimulation of one sensory modality triggers additional, atypical sensory experiences. Strong multisensory…”
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Contextual priming in grapheme-color synesthetes and yoked controls: 400 msec in the life of a synesthete by Brang, David, Kanai, Stanley, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S, Coulson, Seana

“…Grapheme-color synesthesia is a heritable trait where graphemes ("2") elicit the concurrent perception of specific colors (red). Researchers have questioned…”
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Virtual Texture Generated Using Elastomeric Conductive Block Copolymer in a Wireless Multimodal Haptic Glove by Keef, Colin V., Kayser, Laure V., Tronboll, Stazia, Carpenter, Cody W., Root, Nicholas B., Finn, Mickey, O'Connor, Timothy F., Abuhamdieh, Sami N., Davies, Daniel M., Runser, Rory, Meng, Ying Shirley, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S., Lipomi, Darren J.

“…Haptic devices are in general more adept at mimicking the bulk properties of materials than they are at mimicking the surface properties. Herein, a haptic…”
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Preliminary evidence for deficits in multisensory integration in autism spectrum disorders: The mirror neuron hypothesis by Oberman, Lindsay M., Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.

“…Autism is a complex disorder, characterized by social, cognitive, communicative, and motor symptoms. One suggestion, proposed in the current study, to explain…”
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Impaired acquisition of novel grapheme-color correspondences in synesthesia by Brang, David, Ghiam, Michael, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S

“…Grapheme-color synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which letters and numbers (graphemes) consistently evoke particular colors (e.g., A may be…”
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Trigger Features for Conveying Facial Expressions: The Role of Segmentation by Ramachandran, Vilayanur S, Chunharas, Chaipat, Smythies, Michael

“…Primates are especially good at recognizing facial expression using two contrasting strategies—an individual diagnostic feature (e.g., raise eyebrows or lower…”
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Electropneumotactile Stimulation: Multimodal Haptic Actuators Enabled by a Stretchable Conductive Polymer on Inflatable Pockets by Carpenter, Cody W., Malinao, Marigold G., Rafeedi, Tarek A., Rodriquez, Daniel, Tan, Siew Ting Melissa, Root, Nicholas B., Skelil, Kyle, Ramírez, Julian, Polat, Beril, Root, Samuel E., Ramachandran, Vilayanur S., Lipomi, Darren J.

“…A type of haptic device is described that delivers two modes of stimulation simultaneously and at the same location on the skin. The two modes of stimulation…”
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