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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Supercrowding: weakly masking a target expands the range of crowding
Journal of Vision, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 1-15Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://w.journalofvision.org/content/9/2/12.full
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/9.2.12
Temporal properties of the polarity advantage effect in crowding
Journal of Vision, vol. 7, no. 2, 11Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://ww.journalofvision.org/content/7/2/11.full
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/7.2.11
Real latencies and facilitation
Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 300-303Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/ccog.2002.0572