Senior Lecturer
- About
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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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Distinct spatial patterns of flanker interference differentiate visual crowding from flanker compatibility effects in the Eriksen task
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 424-439Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effect of target-flanker similarity in dense crowding
Quarterly Journal of Experimental PsychologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesMethod matters: Diverging patterns in online measures of temporal binding
Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 140, 104022Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSuppressive interactions between nearby stimuli in visual cortex reflect crowding
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.a.79
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Contour integration in the parafovea and the near periphery: Testing the association field account
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 292, no. 2055, 20251107Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNeural representations of visual categories are dynamically tailored to the discrimination required by the task
Cerebral Cortex, vol. 35, no. 8, bhaf212Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe time course of Temporal Binding in social and nonsocial interactions
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 326-341Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02540-1
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Neural and behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing
Communications Biology, vol. 6, no. 1, 940Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x
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Fundamental units of numerosity estimation
Cognition, vol. 239, 105565Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effect of stimulus similarity in the Eriksen Flanker Task
Vision Sciences Society (VSS)Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.9.5137