Bhoomika R. Kar

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Personal webpage : http://facweb.cbcs.ac.in/bkar

 

Education:

 

PhD, National Institute of Mental health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India

M. Phil (Medical and Social Psychology),  Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India

M.A. (Psychology), Lucknow University, Lucknow, India

 

Research Interests:

 

Cognitive development, Dyslexia, Bilingualism and cognitive control

 

Representative Publications:

 

• Srinivasan, N., Kar, B. R., & Pandey, J. (Eds.). Advances in Cognitive Science: Volume 2, Delhi: Sage Publications.

• Posner, M. I. & Kar, B. R. Brain networks for attention and preparing for school subjects. In N. Srinivasan, B. R. Kar, & J. Pandey, (Eds). Advances in Cognitive Science: Volume 2, Delhi: Sage Publications.

• Kar, B. R., Rao, S. L., Chandramouli, B. A., Thennarasu, K., & Satishchandra, P.  (In press). Neuropsychological lateralization of brain dysfunction in children with mesial temporal sclerosis: A presurgical evaluation. Journal of Child Neurology.

• Gupta, R., Kar, B. R., & Srinivasan, N. (2009). Development of Task Switching and Error Monitoring in Children. Behavioral and Brain functions, 5; 38.

• Gupta, R. & Kar, B. R. (2009). Development of attentional processes in children with ADHD and normally developing children. Progress in Brain Research: Attention, Vol. 176. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

• Kar, B. R., Rao, S. L., Chandramouli, B. A., Thennarasu, K. (2009). Clinical Validation of the NIMHANS Neuropsychological Battery for Children. Psychological Studies, 53, 271-277.

• Tripathi, N. & Kar, B. R. (2009). Simultaneous and successive processing in children with reading and writing difficulties. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology.

• Kar, B. R., Rao, S. L. & Chandramouli, B. A. (2008). Cognitive development in children with chronic protein energy malnutrition. Behavioural and Brain Functions, 4: 31.

• Khetrapal, N., Kar, B. R & Srinivasan, N. (2008). Development of Visuospatial Working Memory in the context of load and task difficulty. Psychological studies, 53, 170-174.

• Agarwal, S. & Kar, B. R. (2007). Neuropsychological deficits in children with dyslexia. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 34, 112-122.

• Shukla, M. & Kar, B. R. (2006). Neurophysiological correlates of remediation in dyslexia. In U. Kumar and S. Mukherjee (Eds). Recent developments in Psychology. New Delhi: DIPR.

• Kar, B. R., Rao, S. L., Chandramouli, B. A. & Thennarasu, K. (2004). NIMHANS Neuropsychological Battery for Children- Manual. Bangalore: NIMHANS publication division.

 

Other Information:

Research Projects

 

• Mechanisms of the interaction between bilingualism and cognitive control (funded by the Department of Science and Technology, India under the Cognitive Science Research Initiative)

• Automaticity in reading and visual word form in Hindi and English (in collaboration with Prof. Michael Posner, University of Oregon, USA)

• Spatial processing in dyslexia (in collaboration with Thomas Lachmann, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

• Effect of biliteracy on reading acquisition in Hindi and English language among dyslexics

• Development of attentional modulation of emotion

• Diagnostic markers of ADHD based on impairments in attentional processes (in collaboration with Prof. Narayanan Srinivasan, CBCS)