Worksheet on Secrets of the Mind Video (will be on Tuesday’s quiz)
Name: ___________________________
What is Dr. Ramachandran’s theory about why touching a man’s face would cause him to feel touch
on his phantom hand? Relate your answer to the “body map” on the somatosensory cortex.
What pathway does Dr. Ramachandran think is damaged, causing some blind people to still detect
movement and other characteristics of objects they cannot see? Which pathway is still intact?
One of Dr. Ramachandran’s patients believed his parents were clever imposters and not the real
thing. What was Dr. Ramachandran’s hypothesis for why this was happening? What area of the man’s
brain was damaged?
What is happening in the brain of a person who is having an epileptic seizure? Which lobe of the brain
is associated with intense religious experiences in some people who have epilepsy?