Biography

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Education:

fMRI4CNS Workshop on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Boston, MA, 1997
Ph.D. Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1992
MSc Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1987
MA Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, 1982
BA (Hons) Mathematics, Panjab University, Ludhiana, India, 1980

Role

International Foundation Year Link Tutor - Life Sciences
Psychology Visiting & Exchange Advisor for Americas
Member of Senate
Member Collaborative Provision Committee
Member Scholarships and Bursaries Committee

I am a member of the Cognitive Research Group and have received formal training in Mathematics and Cognitive Psychology. My interests lie in visual cognition, specifically in the areas of visual attention, face processing, and visual memory. My research in attention attempts to ascertain which aspects of the environment are registered by humans without effort or attention; which aspects require attentive processing; and how these interact to provide a coherent representation of the visual world. I also investigate the role of attention in motion perception. My work in face processing is geared toward understanding the nature and function of mental representations used in the processing of human faces using methods such as visual priming, gender categorization, and recognition memory.

Wed & Thurs 1-2 pm

Habibi, Ruth and Khurana, Beena (2012) Spontaneous gender categorization in masking and priming studies: key for distinguishing Jane from John Doe but not Madonna from Sinatra. PloS ONE, 7 (2). e32377. ISSN 1932-6203

Parkinson, Jim, Dyson, Benjamin J and Khurana, Beena (2010) Line by line: the ERP correlates of stroke order priming in letters. Experimental Brain Research, 201 (3). pp. 575-586. ISSN 0014-4819

Khurana, Beena, Habibi, Ruth, Po, Joanna and Wright, Daniel (2009) Jane versus John: facial evaluation as a function of informative eye gaze. Social Cognition, 27 (1). pp. 150-160. ISSN 0278-016X

Khurana, Beena (2008) What's in a name change? Visual prediction makes extrapolation real and functional. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31 (2). pp. 207-208. ISSN 0140-525X

Parkinson, Jim and Khurana, Beena (2007) Temporal order of strokes primes letter recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60 (9). pp. 1265-1274. ISSN 1747-0218

Nieman, Dylan, Nijhawan, Romi, Khurana, Beena and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2006) Cyclopean flash-lag illusion. Vision Research, 46 (22). pp. 3909-3914. ISSN 0042-6989

Khurana, Beena, Carter, R McKell, Watanabe, Katsumi and Nijhawan, Romi (2006) Flash-lag chimeras: The role of perceived alignment in the composite face effect. Vision Research, 46 (17). pp. 2757-2772. ISSN 0042-6989

Khurana, Beena (2005) Book Review: Functional neuroimaging of visual cognition: attention and performance XX. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19 (7). pp. 969-971. ISSN 0888-4080

Watanabe, Katsumi, Nijhawan, Romi, Khurana, Beena and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2001) Perceptual organization of moving stimuli modulates the flash-lag effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27 (4). pp. 879-894. ISSN 0096-1523

Khurana, Beena, Smith, W C and Baker, M T (2000) Not to be and then to be: Visual representation of ignored unfamiliar faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26 (1). pp. 246-263. ISSN 0096-1523