Synaesthesia in phantom limbs induced with mirrors

V. Ramachandran; D. Rogers-Ramachandran

DOI:10.1098/rspb.1996.0058

Corpus ID: 4819370

Synaesthesia in phantom limbs induced with mirrors

@article{Ramachandran1996SynaesthesiaIP,
  title={Synaesthesia in phantom limbs induced with mirrors},
  author={V. Ramachandran and D. Rogers-Ramachandran},
  journal={Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences},
  year={1996},
  volume={263},
  pages={377 - 386}
}

V. Ramachandran, D. Rogers-Ramachandran

Published 1996

Psychology, Medicine

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

Although there is a vast clinical literature on phantom limbs, there have been no experimental studies on the effects of visual input on phantom sensations. We introduce an inexpensive new device - a ‘virtual reality box’ - to resurrect the phantom visually to study such inter-sensory effects. A mirror is placed vertically on the table so that the mirror reflection of the patient’s intact hand is ‘superimposed’ on the felt position of the phantom. We used this procedure on ten patients and… CONTINUE READING

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