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
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- Chair of EDI Committee
- PS3524 (Cognitive Neuroscience) course coordinator
- External Memberships
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- Editorial Board Member: Journal of Vision, Cortex
- External examiner: MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, Durham University
- Research
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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
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Teaching Responsibilities
Level 2: Perception Level 3: - Methodology: Semester long research project (5-6 students each semester)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Levels 3 and 4)
- Level 3 Biological Psychology tutorials
Level 4: - Senior honours (research-based) thesis (6-7 students each year)
- Sixth Century Course on Consciousness (Levels 3 and 4)
Masters: - MRes Bayesian Statistics
- MSc Bayesian Statistics
- MRes thesis supervision
Others: PhD Supervision - Publications
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Response selection modulates crowding: a cautionary tale for invoking top-down explanations
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 1763-1778Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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The eye that binds: Feature integration is not disrupted by saccadic eye movements
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 82, pp. 533-549Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Neural Correlates of Motion Perception
i-Perception, vol. 10, no. 14-15Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI:
Two’s company, three’s a crowd: Individuation is necessary for object recognition
Cognition, vol. 184, pp. 69-82Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Critical resolution: A superior measure of crowding
Vision Research, vol. 153, pp. 13-23Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Does Self-Prioritisation Affect Perceptual Processes?
Scottish Vision Group Meeting, 2017, pp. 15-15Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Does self-prioritization affect perceptual processes?
Visual Cognition, vol. 25, no. 1-3, pp. 381-398Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Target discrimination is not affected by distractor expectation
Perception, vol. 45, no. S2, pp. 227Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI:
Combining S-cone and luminance signals adversely affects discrimination of objects within backgrounds
Scientific Reports, vol. 6, pp. 1-10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Category effect in visual crowding= feature differences plus overlap differences
The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) Meeting 2015Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE]
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Can anticipating distractors influence visual object recognition accuracy?
The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) 2016, pp. 15Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsThe temporal dynamics of visual processing in multiple sclerosis
Applied Neuropsychology. Adult, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 133-140Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Category effect in visual crowding = feature differences + overlap differences
The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) Meeting 2015, pp. 20Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsHigher-level effects in crowding falter when low-level attributes are controlled for
38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 182-183Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE]
The Bouma law of crowding, revised: Critical spacing is equal across parts, not objects
Journal of Vision, vol. 14, no. 6, 10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Categorical membership modulates crowding: evidence from characters
Journal of Vision, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1-13Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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The temporal evolution of coarse location coding of objects: evidence for feedback
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 2370-2384Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
For whom the bell tolls: periodic reactivation of sensory cortex in the gamma band as a substrate of visual working memory maintenance
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 8, 696Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Evidence for categorical crowding
The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) Meeting 2014Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE]
Conscious updating is a rhythmic process
PNAS, vol. 109, no. 26, pp. 10599-10604Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Substitution and pooling in crowding
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 379-396Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Bullet trains and steam engines: exogenous attention zips but endogenous attention chugs along
Journal of Vision, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 1-12Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
The same binding in contour integration and crowding
Journal of Vision, vol. 11, no. 8, 10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Recovery of a crowded object by masking the flankers: determining the locus of feature integration
Journal of Vision, vol. 9, no. 10, 4Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Bilateral field advantage in visual crowding
Vision Research, vol. 49, no. 13, pp. 1638-1646Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: