Phantoms In The Brain

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From Phantom limbs to perceptions of reality, Ramachandran covers it all in this book.

Necessarily technical at times, this is nevertheless a fascinating insight into the way our brains work to organise our experience.

The theory is spiced up with tales such as that of Tom with a ‘map' of his missing hand laid out on his face, or Diane who can reach out and take objects despite being blind.

This is a groundbreaking book of science’s understanding of human perception, and quite shakes up your own ideas of how we perceive.