Garga Chatterjee Date of birth: 8th February 1981 Email: [email protected] Qualification brief: MBBS (Calcutta), PhD (Harvard) Present status: Assistant Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Primary research themes in Cognitive Science and Psychology: Face and object recognition (including disorders), Statistical aspects of psychophysical test development, Visual awareness, Large population psychological testing, Development of visual cognition after signal deprivation. Since 2012, my publications have been cited 647 times. H-index = 11. Academic & Professional qualifications: 2011 - 2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012 - 2013: Lecturer, Lesley University 2011 - 2013: Teaching Fellow and Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University 2011: Postdoctoral Research scholar, Wellesley College 2011: Doctor of Philosophy – Psychology (Cognition, Bain and Behavior) (PhD from Harvard University) 2009: Master of Arts in Psychology - Cognition, Brain and Behavior (A.M. from Harvard University * Degrees in all disciplines in the School of Arts and Sciences are named after the ‘Arts’) 2005: Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with First Class (M.B.,B.S., from Medical College, University of Calcutta) 1999: Ranked 2nd in the merit list of West Bengal Joint Entrance examination (WBJEE) 1999: Passed Higher Secondary Examination 1997: Passed West Bengal Secondary examination (*Ranked 14th in West Bengal). Teaching experience: 2015: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) 2013: Guest lecturer in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's course 9.675 titled “The Development of Object and Face Recognition“ 2013: Invited faculty in the 1st Resonance Summer School in Neuroscience, to be held in New Delhi in June-July 2013 – a three-way collaboration between Harvard, MIT and IIT-Delhi. 2012: Introduction to Psychology (as Lecturer in Lesley University) 2009-2012: Senior Thesis Workshop leader – Harvard University program in Mind, Brain and Behavior 2009-2012: Methods of Behavioral research (in different years with Prof. George Alvarez, Prof. Ken Nakayama, Dr. Justin Lehmiller and Dr. Christine Ma Kellams) 2008-2009: The Human Mind- Introduction to Mind, Brain and Behavior (in different years with Prof. Steven Pinker and Prof. Jason P Mitchell) 2007: Psychopharmacology – Your Brain on Drugs (with Prof. Scott E Lukas) 2008-present: Non-Resident Tutor in Psychology (Lowell House and Winthrop House, Harvard University) Pre-PhD research experience: 2005: RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan with Dr.Manabu Tanifuji (Integrative Neural Systems Lab) 2004: New York University (NYU) with Dr.Denis G Pelli (Visual Perception Lab) 2003-2005: Medical College, University of Calcutta with Dr.Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Professor of Neurology 2002-2004: NCBS (TIFR), Bangalore with Dr.Sumantra (Shona) Chattarji Publications (in peer-reviewed journals) –oldest first: 1. Chatterjee G. Indian objection to export of human tissue for research. British Medical Journal (2003), 326(7382):224 2. Sengupta M, Chatterjee G, et al. Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in the Ganga-Padma-Meghna-Brahmaputra Plain of India and Bangladesh. Archives of Environmental Health (2003), 58(11):701-2. 3. Mukherjee A, Chatterjee G, et al. Are some animals more equal than others? Toxicology (2005), 208(1): 165-9. 4. Chatterjee G. Applied cognitive neuroscience – the pitfalls. Current Science (2005), 89(9),1454 5. Mitra R, Vyas A, Chatterjee G & Chattarji S. Chronic-stress induced modulation of different states of anxiety-like behavior in female rats. Neuroscience Letters (2005), 383(3): 278-83. 6. Ahamed S, Chatterjee G, et al.Arsenic groundwater contamination and its health effects in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in upper and middle Ganga plain, India: A severe danger. Science of the Total Environment (2006), 370(2-3): 310-22. 7. Wilmer JB, Germine L, Chabris CF, Chatterjee G, Williams M, Loken E, Nakayama K & Duchaine B. Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2010), 107(11):5238-41. 8. Wilmer JB, Germine L, Chabris CF, Chatterjee G, Williams M, Loken E, Nakayama K & Duchaine B. Is human face recognition ability entirely genetic : Response to Thomas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2010), 107(24) E101 9. Chatterjee G, Wu DA & Sheth BR. Phantom flashes caused by interactions across visual space. Journal of Vision (2011), 22; 11(2) 10. Russell R, Chatterjee G & Nakayama K. Developmental prosopagnosia and super-recognition: no special role for surface reflectance processing. Neuropsychologia (2012), 50(2): 334-40 11. Germine L, Nakayama K, Duchaine BC, Chabris CF, Chatterjee G & Wilmer JB. Is the Web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from Web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (2012),19(5):847-57. 12. DeGutis J, Chatterjee G & Nakayama K. Face gender recognition in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence for holistic processing and use of configural information. Visual Cognition (2012) 13. Wilmer JB, Chatterjee G et al. Capturing specific abilities as a window into human individuality: example of face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology (2012) Jul;29(5-6):360-92 14. Chatterjee G. & Nakayama K. Normal facial age and gender perception in developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology (2012) Jul;29(5-6):482-502 15. Sinha P, Chatterjee G, Gandhi T & Kalia A. Restoring vision through "Project Prakash": the opportunities for merging science and service. PLoS Biology (2013) Dec; 11(12):e1001741 16. Kalia A, Chatterjee G et al. Development of pattern vision following early and extended blindness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014) Feb 4;111 (5):2035-9. 17. Ganesh S, Chatterjee G et al. Results of late surgical intervention in children with early-onset bilateral cataracts. British Journal of Ophthalmology (2014) Oct; 98(10):1424-8. 18. Chatterjee G. Ophthalmology beyond Ophthalmologists and Also Including Ophthalmologists. Current Indian Eye Research (2014), 1(1): 42-43 19. Chakraborty N & Chatterjee G. Neural and behavioral correlates of face recognition in human infants. Current Indian Eye Research (2016), 3(1): 10 20. Chatterjee G, Kalia A et al. Assessing the impact of a program for late surgical intervention in early-blind children. Public Health (2017), 146: 15-23 21. Singh D & Chatterjee G. The evolution of religious belief in humans: A brief review with focus on cognition. Journal of Genetics. (Accepted) 22. Moitra T & Chatterjee G. Parenting behavior and juvenile delinquency among low income families Victims and Offenders. (Accepted) 23. Chakrabarty M, Chatterjee G, et al. Hemispheric asymmetry in attention and its impact on our consciousness: A review with reference to altered consciousness in Right hemisphere damaged subjects. Journal of Consciousness Studies. (Accepted) Book Chapter: 1. Cognitive neuroscientist’s approach to death. Ed: Makarand Paranjape (Samvad India Foundation) Conference proceedings: 1. Emergence of face-localization abilities following extended congenital blindness.Vision Science Society (VSS). Journal of Vision (2013) 2. Global motion coherence performance after extended congenital blindness: stretching the window. Vision Science Society (VSS). Journal of Vision (2013) 3. Development of Contrast Sensitivity Following Extended Congenital Blindness.Vision Science Society (VSS). Journal of Vision (2013) 4. Heterogeneity in cognitive maturation and aging: Why there is no such thing as an adult control. Vision Science Society (VSS). Journal of Vision (2013) 5. Global motion coherence performance after extended blindness: stretching the window. European Conference on Visual Perception, Alghero, Italy. Perception (2012) 6. Measurements of Contrast Sensitivity Functions Show Recovery from Extended Blindness. European Conference on Visual Perception, Alghero, Italy. Perception (2012) 7. Early susceptibility to visual illusions after treatment for early-onset blindness. European Conference on Visual Perception, Alghero, Italy. Perception (2012) 8. Development of face-localization after extended congenital blindness. European Conference on Visual Perception, Alghero, Italy. Perception (2012) 9. Measurements of Contrast Sensitivity Functions Show Recovery from Extended Blindness. Sixth Annual Berkeley Conference on Translational Research 2012. 10. Developmental prosopagnosia: A childhood case study. Vision Science Society (VSS). Journal of Vision (2011) 11. Holistic processing of face gender in developmental prosopagnosia. Vision Science Society (VSS). Journal of Vision (2011) 12. Phantom flashes caused by interactions across visual space. European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland. Perception (2010) 13. Perceptual and cognitive processes in face recognition deficits – the case of prosopagnosia. Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Taipei, Taiwan. Vision (2010) 14. Non-identity based facial information processing in developmental prosopagnosia. Vision Science Society (VSS). Journal of Vision (2010) 15. Psychophysics of face processing in childhood: A developmental perspective. Vision Science Society (VSS). Journal of Vision (2010) 16. A genetic basis for face memory: Evidence from twins. Vision Science Society (VSS). Journal of Vision (2010) 17. Downloadable science: Comparing data from internet and Lab-based psychology experiments.