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Dr Ramakrishna Chakravarthi

Dr Ramakrishna Chakravarthi
Dr Ramakrishna Chakravarthi
Dr Ramakrishna Chakravarthi

Senior Lecturer

About
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
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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
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