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Dr Ramakrishna Chakravarthi

Dr Ramakrishna Chakravarthi
Dr Ramakrishna Chakravarthi
Dr Ramakrishna Chakravarthi

Senior Lecturer

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Email Address
rama@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272243
Office Address

School of Psychology

William Guild Building Room S7

Kings College

Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX

School/Department
School of Psychology


Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Chair of EDI Committee
  • PS3524 (Cognitive Neuroscience) course coordinator
External Memberships
  • Editorial Board Member: Journal of Vision, Cortex
  • External examiner: MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, Durham University
Research

Research Overview

  • Neural mechanisms (EEG) in visual perception and attention
  • Numerical cognition: estimation and subitizing
  • Object recognition: crowding and categorisation
  • Time perception
  • Intentionality, sense of agency, and visual awareness
  • Aesthetics: symmetry and beauty

Funding and Grants

2026-30

Does selective visual attention sample rhythmically? Lundbeck Foundation (Denmark) grant awarded to Soren Andersen (PI), Marco Steinhauser (Co-I) and me (Co-I), DKK 6,259,925, equivalent to ~£735,000

2025-26

Sense of Agency in social interaction through reciprocal action timing, EPS Small Grant awarded to Bert Timmermans (PI) and me (Co-I), £9,985

2021-22

Visual processing in humans and machines, Internal Funding to Pump-Prime Interdisciplinary Research and Impact Activities awarded to me (PI), Murilo Batista and Alasdair Clarke, £6,040

2019-20

Experiencing myself through you: Self-agency in social interactions, Carnegie Research Incentive Grant awarded to Bert Timmermans (PI) and me (Co-I), £9,914

2019-21

Investigating the microstructure of human visual fields and generating low-vision applications, BBSRC International Partnering award granted to Dr Jasna Martinovic (PI), Dr Daniel Coates (Houston, external partner), Dr Josephine Reuther (post-doc) and me (Co-I), £10,000

2018-21

Neural mechanisms of long-range spatial vision: an investigation of perceptive, integrative and association fields across the lifespan, BBSRC grant awarded to Dr Jasna Martinovic (PI) and me (Co-I), £344,000

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Level 2:   Perception
Level 3:
  1. Methodology: Semester long research project (5-6 students each semester)
  2. Cognitive Neuroscience (Levels 3 and 4)
  3. Level 3 Biological Psychology tutorials
Level 4:
  1. Senior honours (research-based) thesis (6-7 students each year)
  2. Sixth Century Course on Consciousness (Levels 3 and 4)
Masters:
  1. MRes Bayesian Statistics
  2. MSc Bayesian Statistics
  3. MRes thesis supervision
Others:
   PhD Supervision
Publications

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  • A simple rule to describe interactions between visual categories

    Poncet, M., Fabre-Thorpe, M., Chakravarthi, R.
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 4639-4666
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Too little, too late, and in the wrong place: Alpha band activity does not reflect an active mechanism of selective attention

    Antonov, P. A., Chakravarthi, R., Andersen, S. K.
    Neuroimage, vol. 219, 117006
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Research Plan - How gaze is deployed in visual target choice and how we identify if like-wise choices are human- or computer-generated when observing and interacting

    Silver, C. A., Tatler, B., Chakravarthi, R., Timmermans, B.
    EPS Online 2020
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters
  • Crowding in humans is unlike that in convolutional neural networks

    Lonnqvist, B., Clarke, A. D. F., Chakravarthi, R.
    Neural Networks, vol. 126, pp. 262-274
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Clustering leads to underestimation of numerosity, but crowding is not the cause

    Chakravarthi, R., Bertamini, M.
    Cognition, vol. 198, 104195
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Response selection modulates crowding: a cautionary tale for invoking top-down explanations

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R.
    Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 1763-1778
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The eye that binds: Feature integration is not disrupted by saccadic eye movements

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R., Hunt, A. R.
    Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 82, pp. 533-549
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Neural Correlates of Motion Perception

    Papadaki, D., Pilz, K. S., Chakravarthi, R.
    i-Perception, vol. 10, no. 14-15
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
  • Two’s company, three’s a crowd: Individuation is necessary for object recognition

    Chakravarthi, R., Herbert, A.
    Cognition, vol. 184, pp. 69-82
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Critical resolution: A superior measure of crowding

    Soo, L., Chakravarthi, R., Andersen, S. K.
    Vision Research, vol. 153, pp. 13-23
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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