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Dr Ramakrishna Chakravarthi

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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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  • Distinct spatial patterns of flanker interference differentiate visual crowding from flanker compatibility effects in the Eriksen task

    Papadaki, D., Chakravarthi, R., Andersen, S.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 424-439
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The effect of target-flanker similarity in dense crowding

    Chakravarthi, R.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Method matters: Diverging patterns in online measures of temporal binding

    Silver, C. A., Tatler, B., Chakravarthi, R., Timmermans, B.
    Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 140, 104022
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Suppressive interactions between nearby stimuli in visual cortex reflect crowding

    Soo, L., Antonov, P. A., Chakravarthi, R., Andersen, S.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-14
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Contour integration in the parafovea and the near periphery: Testing the association field account

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R., Martinovic, J.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 292, no. 2055, 20251107
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Neural representations of visual categories are dynamically tailored to the discrimination required by the task

    Poncet, M., Batziou, P., Chakravarthi, R.
    Cerebral Cortex, vol. 35, no. 8, bhaf212
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The time course of Temporal Binding in social and nonsocial interactions

    Silver, C. A., Tatler, B., Chakravarthi, R., Timmermans, B.
    Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 326-341
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Neural and behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing

    Almeida, J., Fracasso, A., Valério, D., Chakravarthi, R., Tal, Z., Walbrin, J., Kristensen, S., Bergström, F.
    Communications Biology, vol. 6, no. 1, 940
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Fundamental units of numerosity estimation

    Chakravarthi, R., Nordqvist, A., Poncet, M., Adamian, N.
    Cognition, vol. 239, 105565
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The effect of stimulus similarity in the Eriksen Flanker Task

    Papadaki, D., Chakravarthi, R., Andersen, S.
    Vision Sciences Society (VSS)
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
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