Narayanan Srinivasan
Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 September 2010 01:22
Professor & Head
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Personal webpage: http://facweb.cbcs.ac.in/nsrini
Education :
PhD (Psychology), University of Georgia, Athens, USA
MS (Psychology), University of Georgia, Athens, USA
ME (Electrical Engg), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
BSc (Physics), University of Madras, Chennai, India
Areas of research:
Attention, Consciousness, Emotions, Perceptual Organization, Decision Making, Creativity, Language Processing
Representative Publications: [For a larger list, see my publications page]
Edited Books and Special Issues
- R. K. Mishra & N. Srinivasan (in press). Language-Cognition Interface. Munich: Lincom Europa.
- Srinivasan, N., Kar, B. R., & Pandey, J. (2010) Advances in Cognitive Science: Volume 2. New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.

- Raffone, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2010). Special Issue on Neuroscience of Meditation and Consciousness, Cognitive Processing, Springer.

- Srinivasan, N. (2009). Progress in Brain Research: Attention, 176, Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Srinivasan, N., Gupta, A.K., & Pandey, J. (2008). Advances in Cognitive Science: Volume 1. New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.
Selected Publications
- Gupta, R., Kar, B.R., & Srinivasan, N. (in press). Cognitive-motivational deficits in ADHD: Development of a classification system. Child Neuropsychology.
- Srivastava, P., Kumar, D., & Srinivasan, N. (in press). Time course of visual attention across perceptual levels and objects. Acta Psychologica.
- Mishra, R., Pandey, A., & Srinivasan, N. (in press). Revisiting the scrambling complexity hypothesis in sentence processing: A self-paced reading study on anomaly detection and scrambling in Hindi. Reading & Writing.
- Rao, C., Vaid, J., Srinivasan, N., & Chen, H. (in press). Orthographic characteristics speed Hindi word naming but slow Urdu naming: Evidence from Hindi/Urdu biliterates. Reading & Writing.
- Baijal, S., & Srinivasan, N. (in press). Emotional and hemispheric asymmetries in shifts of attention: an ERP study. Cognition & Emotion.
- Srinivasan, N., & Hanif, A. (2010). Global-happy and local-sad: Perceptual processing affects emotion identification. Cognition & Emotion, 24, 1062-1069. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699930903101103).
- Raffone, A., Tagini, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2010). Mindfulness and the cognitive neuroscience of attention and awareness. Zygon, 45, 627-646.
- Ranjan, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2010). Dissimilarity in creative categorization. Journal of Creative Behavior, 44, 71-83.
- Chandrasekaran, S., Athreya, D., & Srinivasan, N. (2010). Investigating prospective control: when and how actions supporting cognition are generated. International Journal of Mind, Brain, and Cognition, 1, 93-114.
- Srinivasan, N., & Mukherjee, S. (2010). Attribute preference and selection in multi-attribute decision making: Implications for unconscious and conscious thought. Consciousness & Cognition, 19, 244-252. (doi:10.1016/j.concog.2010.03.002)
- Srinivasan, N., & Gupta, R. (2010). Emotion-attention interactions in recognition memory for distractor faces. Emotion, 10(2), 207-215.
- Raffone, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2010). The exploration of meditation in the neuroscience of attention and consciousness. Cognitive Processing, 11, 1-7.
- Baijal, S., & Srinivasan, N. (2010). Theta activity and meditative states: Spectral changes during Sahaj Samadhi meditation. Cognitive Processing, 11, 31-38.
- Srivastava, P., & Srinivasan, N. (2010). Time course of visual attention with emotional faces. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 369-377. [doi:10.3758/APP.72.2.369]
- Baijal, S., & Srinivasan, N. (2009). Types of attention matter for awareness: A study with color afterimages. Consciousness & Cognition, 18, 1039-1048. [doi:10.1016/j.concog.2009.09.002]
- Srinivasan, N., Srivastava, P., Lohani, M., & Baijal, S. (2009). Focused and distributed attention. Progress in Brain Research, 176, 87-100. [doi:10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17606-9]
- Raffone, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2009). An adaptive workspace hypothesis about the neural correlates of consciousness: insights from neuroscience and meditation studies. Progress in Brain Research, 176, 161-180.
- Gupta, R., Kar, B. R., & Srinivasan, N. (2009). Development of task switching and post-error-slowing in children. Behavioral & Brain Functions, 5, 38.
- Gupta, R. & Srinivasan, N. (2009). Emotions help memory for faces: Role of whole and parts. Cognition & Emotion, 23, 807-816.[doi:10.1080/02699930802193425]
- Srinivasan, N. & Pariyadath, V. (2009). GRAPHIA: A computational model for identifying phonological jokes. Cognitive Processing, 10, 1-6.
- Srinivasan, N. (2008). Interdependence of Attention and Consciousness. Progress in Brain Research, 168, 65-75.
- Srinivasan, N. & Baijal, S. (2007). Concentrative meditation enhances pre-attentive processing: A MMN study. Neuroreport, 18, 1709-1712.
- Srinivasan, N. (2007). Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity: EEG based Approaches. Methods, 42, 109-116.
- Dietrich, A. & Srinivasan, N. (2007). The optimal age to start a revolution. Journal of Creative Behavior, 41, 54-74.
- Srinivasan, N. & Brown, J.M. (2006). Effects of endogenous spatial attention on the detection and discrimination of spatial frequencies. Perception, 35, 193-200.
Other Information:
- Associate Editor, Psychological Studies
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Mind, Brain and Cognition
- Coordinator (India) - MELA Project
- Advisory Board Member, Emerging Technologies (Magazine)
- Executive Committee Member, NAOP (India)


