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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Inner-outer asymmetry in the Eriksen f lanker task
European Conference of Visual Perception (2022), pp. 180-181Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI:
Visual field asymmetries in numerosity processing
Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, vol. 84, no. 8, pp. 2607-2622Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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The time course of social and non-social implicit Sense of Agency
Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] DOI:
Effects of Spatial Arrangement of Flankers in the Eriksen Flanker task
Scottish Vision Group (SVG) 2022Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI:
Masking, crowding and grouping: Connecting low and mid-level vision
Journal of Vision, vol. 22, no. 2, 7Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Characterizing the in-out asymmetry in visual crowding
Journal of Vision, vol. 21, no. 11, 10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Emergence of crowding: the role of contrast and orientation salience
Journal of Vision, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 1-21Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Age-related changes in low and midlevel vision: assessing the information degradation and neural inhibition accounts
AVA 2020 Virtual Christmas Meeting, pp. 591-592Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI:
Social Agency as a Continuum
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 28, pp. 434-453Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Subitizing object parts reveals a second stage of individuation
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 28, pp. 476-486Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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