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Synaesthesia in Phantom Limbs Induced with Mirror. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Vol. 263, pages 377–386; 1996.

To test this theory, Ramachandran and his colleague and wife Diane Rogers-Ramachandran used a “mirror box” – a tool that creates the visual illusion of two hands for people who actually only ...