Live From The NYPL: Oliver Sacks — Hallucinations

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The Robert B. Silvers Lecture. Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks examines how the normal brain, if deprived of perceptual input, may generate illusory sensations—as with the visual hallucinations of the blind, or the musical hallucinations of the deaf.

http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=5843

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