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Bittu Kaveri Rajaraman

Publications from 2024- 2026:

  • Singh, A., Kumari, K., Kalra, S., Bhattacharya, A., Pal, S., & Rajaraman, B. K. (2026). Sex and order of presentation influence the decoy effect in shoal size preference task in adult zebrafish. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 13(2), 116-140
  • Rajaraman, B.K.,  Aghi, K.,  Anderson, BM., Castellano, BM., Cunningham, A., Delano M., Dickinson, ES., von, Diezmann L., Forslund-Startceva, SK., Grijseels, DM., Groh ,SS., Guthman, EM.,  Jayasinghe, I., Johnston, J., Long, S.,  McLaughlin, JF.,  McLaughlin, M., Miyagi, M., Sancheznieto, F., Scheim ,AI., Sun, SED., Titmuss, FD.,  Walsh, RJ.,  Weinberg , ZY. (March 2024). “Rigorous science demands support of transgender scientists.” Cell. 187(6):1327-1334. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.02.021. PMID: 38490174.
  • Singh A., Sharma P., Jain M., Mahajan P., Bajaj. J., Gupta V., Dingemanse N. J., and Rajaraman B.K. 2025. State or personality trait: Determinants of boldness and shoal size preference in adult zebrafish. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 37 (6): 780–799,DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2025.2563567 and also available at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637681v1.abstract.
  • Grijseels DM, Banqueri M, Iyer K, Hanlin L, Ortiz Alvarez de la Campa M, Pagliaccio D, Rajaraman BK, Schechtman E; ALBA Network Gender & Sexual Diversity Working Group. Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers. PLoS Comput Biol. 2025 May 28;21(5):e1013091. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013091. PMID: 40435118; PMCID: PMC12118915.

Best 5 publications:

  • Rajaraman B. K., Godthi V., Pratap R. and Balakrishnan R. 2015. A novel multimodal duet in a paleotropical bushcricket. Journal of Experimental Biology 218: 3042-3050. Online ISSN: 1477-9145; Print ISSN: 0022-0949. 
  • Ghosh A., Jaiswara R., Moonal, Sabhwarwa S., Dasoju V., Bhattarcharjee A. and Rajaraman B. K. 2023. Description of three new species of predatory Genus Hexacentrus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from India, with bioacoustic and morphological characterizations. Zootaxa, 5249(3), 335–356. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5249.3.2 
  • Ghosh A., Dasoju V., Borgohain J., Rahman A. and Rajaraman B. K. 2024. Syntopic call diversity among morphologically similar calling morphs of the paleotropical katydid of genus Mecopoda (Tettigoniidae) from an Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. Bioacoustics, 34(3), 221–259.
  • Singh A., Sharma P., Jain M., Mahajan P., Bajaj. J., Gupta V., Dingemanse N. J., and Rajaraman B.K. 2025. State or personality trait: Determinants of boldness and shoal size preference in adult zebrafish. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 37 (6): 780–799, DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2025.2563567
  • Singh, A., Kumari, K., Kalra, S., Bhattacharya, A., Pal, S., & Rajaraman, B. K. (2026). Sex and order of presentation influence the decoy effect in shoal size preference task in adult zebrafish. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 13(2), 116-140
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Dipanjan Ray

Publications from 2024- 2026:

  • Ray, D., Ravishankar, A., & Das, M. (2026). The Network Landscape of Non-Clinical Eating Behaviors in India. medRxiv, 2026-03.
  • Nara, S., Baliki, M. N., Friston, K. J., & Ray, D. (2025). The Functional Anatomy of Nociception: Effective Connectivity in Chronic Pain and Placebo Response. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(25).
  • Ray, D., Shyamchand Singh, S., Mukherjee, A., Raghunathan, P. and  Banerjee, A. (2024). “High segregation and diminished global integration in large-scale brain functional networks enhances the perceptual binding of cross-modal stimuli.” Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 34(8), bhae323. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae323.

Krishna Melnattur

Publications from 2024- 2026:

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Mary Jane Arneaud

Best 5 publications:

  • Alea, N., Ali, S., & Arneaud, M. J. (2017). What I value and why I remember: Values and the functions of memory in a Trinidadian lifespan sample. International Journal of Reminiscence and Life Review, 4(2), 67-78. https://journals.radford.edu/index.php/IJRLR/article/view/146
  • Arneaud, M. J., Alea, N., & Espinet, M. (2016). Identity development in Trinidad: Status differences by age, adulthood transitions, and culture. Identity, 16(1), 59-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2015.1121818
  • Arneaud, M. J. & Alea, N. (2013). Identity development in the Caribbean: Measuring socio-historic structures with psychological variables. Revista Interamericana de Psicología/Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 47(2), 339-346. https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/284/28430082017.pdf
  • Alea, N., Arneaud, M. J., & Ali, S. (2013). The quality of self, social, and directive memories: Are there adult age group differences? International Journal of Behavioural Development, 37(5), 395-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025413484244
  • Alea, N., Ali, S., & Arneaud, M. J. (2012). Over the hill and still “liming”: Psychological well-being in young, middle-aged, and older adult Trinidadians. Journal of the Department of Behavioural Sciences, 2(1), 63-89. https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/jbs/article/view/316
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Nandini Chatterjee Singh

Publications from 2024- 2026:

  • Psychology Student at Ashoka Asks — Can Fish Do Math? (2018)
    https://medium.com/the-edict/psychology-student-at-ashoka-asks-can-fish-do-math-eed143502044
  • Rawat, S., Tiwari, S., Sharma, M., & Singh, N. C. (2024). The digital pedagogy competence scale (DiPeCoS): Development and validation. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning
    https://doi.org/10.58459/rptel.2024.19018
  • Carmona, M., Sharma, M., & Singh, N. C. (2024). Global citizenship identity mediates the relationship of knowledge, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills with engagement towards global issues. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 22209.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-72658-8
  • Sharma, M., Chakraborty, A., & Singh, N. C. (2024). Measuring teacher beliefs about factors that promote classroom social and emotional learning (CSEL). Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 3, 100049.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sel.2024.100049
  • Singh, N. C., Gilead, T., Chakraborty, A., Van Herwegen, J., van Atteveldt, N., et al. (2025). A new education agenda based on the international science and evidence based education assessment. npj Science of Learning, 10(1), 24.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00288-w
  • Chakraborty, A., Sharma, M., Gupta, H., & Singh, N. C. (2026). Equilibrium in empathic concern and personal distress predict identification with all humanity (IWAH) in Indian adolescents. Scientific Reports, 16(1), 8814.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-37436-8
  • Gupta, H., Carstensen, B., Klusmann, U., & Singh, N. C. (2026). Bringing situations to life: Validating the TRUST comic version, a situational judgement test of teachers’ social-emotional competence. Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 100218

Best 5 publications:

  • Singh, N. C., & Theunissen, F. E. (2003). Modulation spectra of natural sounds and ethological theories of auditory processing. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114(6), 3394-3411.
    https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1624067
  • Sharda, M., Midha, R., Malik, S., Mukerji, S., & Singh, N. C. (2015). Fronto-temporal connectivity is preserved during sung but not spoken word listening, across the autism spectrum. Autism Research, 8(2), 174-186.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1437
  • Das, T., Padakannaya, P., Pugh, K. R., & Singh, N. C. (2011). Neuroimaging reveals dual routes to reading in simultaneous proficient readers of two orthographies. NeuroImage, 54(2), 1476-1487.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.022
  • Mathur, A., Vijayakumar, S. H., Chakrabarti, B., & Singh, N. C. (2015). Emotional responses to Hindustani raga music: The role of musical structure. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 513.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00513
  • Singh, N. C., Gilead, T., Chakraborty, A., Van Herwegen, J., van Atteveldt, N., et al. (2025). A new education agenda based on the international science and evidence based education assessment. npj Science of Learning, 10(1), 24.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00288-w
  • Hartzell, J. F., Davis, B., Melcher, D., Miceli, G., Jovicich, J., Nath, T., Singh, N. C., & Hasson, U. (2016). Brains of verbal memory specialists show anatomical differences in language, memory and visual systems. NeuroImage, 131, 181-192.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.027
  • Rao, C., T. A., S., Midha, R., Oberoi, G., Kar, B., Khan, M., Vaidya, K., Midya, V., Raman, N., Gajre, M., & Singh, N. C. (2021). Development and standardization of the DALI-DAB (Dyslexia Assessment for Languages of India – Dyslexia Assessment Battery). Annals of Dyslexia, 71(3), 439-457.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-021-00227-z
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Robin Sharma

Publications from 2024- 2026:

  • Sharma, R., Tan, C., Gomez, D., Xu, C., & Dubé, A. K. (2025). Guiding teachers’ game-based learning: How user experience of a digital curriculum guide impacts teachers’ self-efficacy and acceptance of educational games. Teaching and Teacher Education, 155, 104915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104915
  • Sharma, R., & Dubé, A. (2025). Effects of theory-based, narrative games on geometry learning among adolescents. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, USA. https://doi.org/10.3102/2185335
  • Sharma, R., Tan, C., Gomez, D., Xu, C. & Dubé, A. (2025). Teachers’ game-based knowledge and their user experience of curriculum guides for digital games. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, USA. https://doi.org/10.3102/2184298
  • Sharma, R. & Dubé, A. K. (2024). A Systematic Review of Approaches for Building Adolescents’ Geometrical Understanding. In Lindgren, R., Asino, T. I., Kyza, E. A., Looi, C. K., Keifert, D. T., & Suárez, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – ICLS 2024 (pp. 955-958). International Society of the Learning Sciences. http://dx.doi.org/10.22318/icls2024.318074

Best 5 publications:

  • Sharma, R., Tan, C., Gomez, D., Xu, C., & Dubé, A. K. (2025). Guiding teachers’ game-based learning: How user experience of a digital curriculum guide impacts teachers’ self-efficacy and acceptance of educational games. Teaching and Teacher Education, 155, 104915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104915
  • Sharma, R., & Dubé, A. (2021). Towards the use of commercial games as educational tools. The Blue DOT, 13, 11–14. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000375559.locale=en
  • Xu, C., Sharma, R., & Dubé, A. K. (2023). Discovery Tour Curriculum Guides to Improve Teachers’ Adoption of Serious Gaming. In E. Champion & J. Francisco Hiriart Vera (Eds.), Assassin’s Creed in the Classroom History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark? (pp. 35–64). De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111253275-003
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Simantini Ghosh

Publications from 2024- 2026:

  • Sen, M., Rajvanshi, S., Khandelwal, S., & Ghosh, S. (2026). SPECTRA: A Conceptual Framework to Bridge Praxis and Remap Relational Violence in India Using a Complex Trauma Lens. Behavioral Sciences, 16(5), 814. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16050814 
  • Tiwari S, Mohammad Z, Atta SR, Tiwari A, Yadav E, Chopra A, Singh I, Ghosh S* (2026).A TRIM21–GSDMD axis links psychosocial stress to IL-1β-driven neuroinflammation and blood-brain barrier dysfunction in a rat model of repeated social defeat. ACS chemical neuroscience, 17(7), 1345–1361. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.5c00993
  • Tiwari, S., Mohammed, Z., Tiwari, A., Yadav, E., Atta, S. R., Kaushik, S., Chopra, A., Singh, I., & Ghosh, S*. (2026). The caspase 11/Gasdermin D pathway is a key driver of stress-induced neuroinflammation and behavioral dysfunction in rats. Neurochemistry International, 195, 106139. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuint.2026.106139
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