William Hirstein

This documentary covers several neurological syndromes that involve confabulation (basically, confidently saying things that are likely to be false). It features a snippet of me describing the older Capgras’ theory that V. S. Ramachandran and I affirmed in “Capgras Syndrome: A Novel Probe…” Recently I have devised a more specific version of this theory that I call the mindreading theory of misidentification (See “The Misidentification Syndromes as Mindreading Disorders”).

This television documentary on autism. called “The Invisible Wall,” features the research described in “Autonomic Reactions of Autistic Children….”  It aired originally on the Discovery Channel, April, 2001.

This article covers my paper with V. S. Ramachandran, “Capgras Syndrome: A Novel Probe….” “This is Not My Beautiful Wife…,” by Rory Johnston, New Scientist magazine, March 22, 1997.

This article describe my research on Capgras’ syndrome. “Alien Friends,” by Thomas Grüter and Ulrich Kraft, Scientific American Mind, 2005, 16(1): 58-63.