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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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  • Does Self-Prioritisation Affect Perceptual Processes?

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R.
    Scottish Vision Group Meeting, 2017, pp. 15-15
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
  • Does self-prioritization affect perceptual processes?

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R.
    Visual Cognition, vol. 25, no. 1-3, pp. 381-398
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Target discrimination is not affected by distractor expectation

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R.
    Perception, vol. 45, no. S2, pp. 227
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
  • Combining S-cone and luminance signals adversely affects discrimination of objects within backgrounds

    Jennings, B. J., Tsattalios, K., Chakravarthi, R., Martinovic, J.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 6, pp. 1-10
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Category effect in visual crowding= feature differences plus overlap differences

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R.
    The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) Meeting 2015
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
  • Can anticipating distractors influence visual object recognition accuracy?

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R.
    The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) 2016, pp. 15
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
  • The temporal dynamics of visual processing in multiple sclerosis

    Lopes Costa, S., Gonçalves, O. F., DeLuca, J., Chiaravalloti, N., Chakravarthi, R., Almeida, J.
    Applied Neuropsychology. Adult, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 133-140
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Category effect in visual crowding = feature differences + overlap differences

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R.
    The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) Meeting 2015, pp. 20
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
  • Higher-level effects in crowding falter when low-level attributes are controlled for

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R.
    38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 182-183
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
  • The Bouma law of crowding, revised: Critical spacing is equal across parts, not objects

    Rosen, S., Chakravarthi, R., Pelli, D. G.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 14, no. 6, 10
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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