I am a Professor (Research) at Vision Research Institute. After completing B.E. (Electrical Engg.) at M.A.C.T. Bhopal and Part I of M.Tech. at I.I.T. Kanpur in India, I moved to USA to do M.S. (Computer Science) at Iowa State University, Ph.D. (Biophysics) at University of Illinois, and postdoctoral fellowship in color vision psychophysics at University of Chicago. Further researches in visual psychophysics, neuroscience, and fMRI were at York University (Canada), New England College of Optometry (Boston), and Harvard Medical Schools (Schepens Eye Research Institute and McLean Hospital). My research includes sleep and purposive behavior, biop…
I am a Professor (Research) at Vision Research Institute. After completing B.E. (Electrical Engg.) at M.A.C.T. Bhopal and Part I of M.Tech. at I.I.T. Kanpur in India, I moved to USA to do M.S. (Computer Science) at Iowa State University, Ph.D. (Biophysics) at University of Illinois, and postdoctoral fellowship in color vision psychophysics at University of Chicago. Further researches in visual psychophysics, neuroscience, and fMRI were at York University (Canada), New England College of Optometry (Boston), and Harvard Medical Schools (Schepens Eye Research Institute and McLean Hospital). My research includes sleep and purposive behavior, biophysics of blood-brain barrier, cooperativity model in psychopathology, flicker photometry, appearance of steadily viewed lights, central binocular mechanism affecting chromatic adaptation, foveal cone thresholds, apparent motion, effects of multiple stimuli on ocular orientation by cats, effects of eye position on auditory localization and neural representation of space in superior colliculus of cats, spatiotemporal characteristics of Red-Green channel including orientation and spatial frequency tuned mechanisms and discrimination, fMRI and voxel-based morphometry for MDMA users, fMRI study on lateral visual field stimulation and extrastriate cortical activation in the contralateral hemisphere, fMRI activation in human suprachiasmatic nucleus, epilepsy, visual attention, attention and emotion, and attention deficits in Schizophrenia, AD, PTSD, retinal phosphenes and discrete dark noises in rods, and ocular delayed bioluminescence as a possible source of negative afterimages. I have keen interest in mind-brain problem and consciousness research, which includes a novel dual-aspect-dual-mode proto-experience and subjective experience optimal framework and conjugate matching, ‘consciousness, it’s necessary ingredients, and the Red-Green channel’, phenomenal time, self, consciousness and structure of matter, ‘catalysis, perception and consciousness’, the definition of consciousness, subjective experience aspect of consciousness at classical, quantum and subquantum level, and the interpretation of empirical data of Samadhi state. I am the founder of Vision Research Institute (USA) and Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana (India).
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