Professor Joydeep Bhattacharya PhD, FRSA
Position held:
Professor of Psychology
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7334
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7919 7873
Email:
j.bhattacharya (@gold.ac.uk)
Website:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/bhattacharya/
Room 1-14 Ben Pimlott Building,
Department of Psychology
Goldsmiths, University of London,
New Cross, SE146 NW
London, United Kingdom
Office hours:
By appointment
Teaching
In the coming academic year (2011-12) I will co-ordinate the following course: Methods & Techniques in Neuroscience (MSc - CCN/ MMB)
Additionally I give lectures to different courses in MSc-CCN, MMB, RMIP.
Presentations and exhibitions
Selected Reports in Media
On our research on Eureka/ Aha!
Wall Street Journal – “A wandering mind heads straight toward insight” 19-06-09
New Scientist – “Let your mind wander” 06-05-09
The Economist – “Incognito: Conscious and unconscious thought” 16-04-09
The New Yorker – “The Eureka Hunt” (28-08-08)
Times Online – “Can everyone be an Einstein?” (16-11-08)
ABC: Good Morning America – “Science behind mental blocks” (TV report)
BBC World Service (Radio Interview)
The Daily Telegraph – “Relax the brain for that Eureka! moment” (23-01-08) (see also the editorial note)
ABC News – “Memory block? Forget about it” (24-01-08)
NewsWeek – “Eureka! How the brain has Aha moments’ (22-01-08)
Cosmos Magazine – “Secret to problem solving: don’t think too hard” (06-02-08)
Science News – “Insight may lie at the end of a chain of neural reactions” (22-03-2008)
Scientific American – “What are we thinking when we (try to) solve problems?” (25-01-08)
Wissenschaft.de (Germany) “Anatomie des Aha-Erlebnisses „ (23-01-08)
ANSA News (Italy) - “Sei disttratto? Arriva lampo di genio” (01-02-08)
La Vanguardia (Spain) “Un estudio neurológico muestra cómo ayudar al cerebro a tener grandes ideas” (23-01-08)
Die Presse (Austria) – “Hirnforschung: Wie das Denken aus Sackgassen ausbricht„ (19-12-2005)
Handelsblatt (Germany) – “Die Anatomie der Gesitesblitze„ (March, 2008)
Le Monde (France) – “Quand l'encéphale prépare l'illumination du "Eurêka !" “ (09-05-09)
On our research on Music induced Emotion
Scientific American - "Why does music make use feel" 15-09-2009
Wall Street Journal - "The mystery of music" 17-10-2009
The Daily Telegraph – “Cheerful music can make everyone around you look happy” 08-05-09
The Daily Mail – “Upbeat music makes you think everyone is happy” 08-05-09
The LondonPaper – “Happy music like Girls Aloud rather than The Smiths puts everyone in a better mood” 08-05-09
Iran Daily – “Cheerful music makes everyone appear happy” 10-05-09
The Evening Times (Glasgow) – “Do you have a feelgood tune that cheers you up?” 11-05-2009
DeMorgen (Belgium)/ HLN (Belgium) – “Iedereen lijkt vrolijker dankzij vrolijke muziek” 10-05-09
DeTijd (Belgium) – “Luisteren naar vrolijke muziek doet ook anderen vrolijker lijken” 10-05-09
Cuget Liber (Romania) – “Simfoniile lui Beethoven îi înveselesc pe oameni, jazz-ul îi mâhneşte” 12-05-09
Live Radio Interviews on numerous radio stations including BBC-5 Live, BBC – Wales, BBC – Shieffield, BBC – Manchester, City Talk Radio – Liverpool, Radioi105 – Ireland.
Research interests
EEG; Music cognition; Problem solving; Emotion; Choice and decision making; Creativity; Multisensory interaction; Cognitive biases; Network; Chaos and Complexity theory
Selected publications
Carrus, Elisa, Koelsch, Stefan and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2011. Shadows of music-language interaction on low frequency brain oscillatory patterns. Brain and language, 119(1), pp. 50-57. ISSN 1090-2155 [Article]
Marin, Manuela M, Gingras, Bruno and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2011. Crossmodal transfer of arousal, but not pleasantness, from the musical to the visual domain. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), xxx-xxx. ISSN 1931-1516 [Article]
Reiterer, Susanne, Pereda, Ernesto and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2011. On A Possible Relationship between Linguistic Expertise and EEG Gamma Band Phase Synchrony. Frontiers In Cognition, xxx-xxx. [Article]
Lindsen, Job P, Moonga, Gurpreet, Shimojo, Shinsuke and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2011. Swayed by the music: Sampling bias towards musical preference distinguishes like from dislike decisions. Consciousness and cognition, xx-xx. ISSN 1090-2376 [Article]
Pereda, Ernesto, Reiterer, Susanne and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2011. Topography of functional connectivity in human multichannel EEG during second language processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7023, xxx-xxx. [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2010. Seeing red: Colour modulation and photosensitive epilepsy. Epilepsy Professional(18), pp. 26-29. [Article]
Lindsen, Job P and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2010. Correction of blink artifacts using independent component analysis and empirical mode decomposition. Psychophysiology, 47(5), pp. 955-60. ISSN 1540-5958 [Article]
Panischev, O.Yu., Demin, S.A. and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2010. Cross-correlation markers in stochastic dynamics of complex systems. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 389(21), pp. 4958-4969. ISSN 03784371 [Article]
Timashev, S. F., Polyakov, Yu. S., Yulmetyev, R. M., Demin, S. A., Panischev, O. Yu., Shimojo, S. and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2010. Frequency and phase synchronization in neuromagnetic cortical responses to flickering-color stimuli. Laser Physics, 20(3), pp. 604-617. ISSN 1054-660X [Article]
Marin, Manuela M. and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2010. Music Induced Emotions: Some Current Issues and Cross-Modal Comparisons. In: Joao Hermida and Mariana Ferreo, eds. Music Education. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 1-38. ISBN 978-1-60876-655-0 [Book Section]
Lindsen, Job P., Jones, Rhiannon, Shimojo, Shinsuke and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2010. Neural components underlying subjective preferential decision making. NeuroImage, 50(4), pp. 1626-1632. ISSN 10538119 [Article]
Pereda, Ernesto, Gonzalez, Julian, Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Rial, Ruben. 2010. Nonlinear Analysis of Biomedical Data. Tenerife, Spain: University of La Laguna Press. ISBN 978-84-7756-806-3 [Book]
Pearce, Marcus T., Ruiz, María Herrojo, Kapasi, Selina, Wiggins, Geraint and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2010. Unsupervised statistical learning underpins computational, behavioural, and neural manifestations of musical expectation. NeuroImage, 50(1), pp. 302-313. ISSN 10538119 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Pereda, Ernesto. 2010. An index of signal mode complexity based on orthogonal transformation. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 29(1-2), pp. 13-22. [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Increase of universality in human brain during mental imagery from visual perception. PloS one, 4(1), e4121. ISSN 1932-6203 [Article]
Timashev, Serge, Polyakov, Yuriy, Yulmetyev, Renat M., Demin, Sergey, Panischev, Oleg, Shimojo, Shinsuke and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Analysis of biomedical signals by flicker-noise spectroscopy: Identification of photosensitive epilepsy using magnetoencephalograms. Laser Physics, 19(4), pp. 836-854. ISSN 1054-660X [Article]
Logeswaran, Nidhya and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Crossmodal transfer of emotion by music. Neuroscience Letters, 455(2), pp. 129-133. ISSN 03043940 [Article]
Ruiz, María Herrojo, Koelsch, Stefan and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Decrease in early right alpha band phase synchronization and late gamma band oscillations in processing syntax in music. Human brain mapping, 30(4), pp. 1207-1225. ISSN 1097-0193 [Article]
Karkare, Siddharth, Saha, Goutam and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Investigating long-range correlation properties in EEG during complex cognitive tasks. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 42(4), pp. 2067-2073. ISSN 09600779 [Article]
Bhagat, Mayank, Bhushan, Chitresh, Saha, Goutam, Shimjo, Shinsuke, Watanabe, Katsumi and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Investigating neuromagnetic brain responses against chromatic flickering stimuli by wavelet entropies. PloS one, 4(9), e7173. ISSN 1932-6203 [Article]
Reiterer, Susanne, Pereda, Ernesto and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Measuring second language proficiency with EEG synchronization: how functional cortical networks and hemispheric involvement differ as a function of proficiency level in second language speakers. Second Language Research, 25(1), pp. 77-106. ISSN 0267-6583 [Article]
Balli, Tugce, Palaniappan, Ramaswamy and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Minimising prediction error for optimal nonlinear modelling of EEG signals using genetic algorithm. 4th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 2009. NER '09., pp. 363-366. [Article]
Sheth, Bhavin R., Sandkühler, Simone and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Posterior Beta and Anterior Gamma Oscillations Predict Cognitive Insight. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(7), pp. 1269-1279. ISSN 0898-929X [Article]
Sandkühler, Simone and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2008. Deconstructing Insight: EEG Correlates of Insightful Problem Solving. PLoS ONE, 3(1), e1459. ISSN 1932-6203 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Watanabe, Katsumi, Shimojo, Shinsuke, Haenggi, Peter, Yulmetyeva, Dinara G., Khusaenova, E.V. and Yulmetyev, Renat M.. 2008. Dynamic effects and information quantifiers of statistical memory of MEG's signals at photosensitive epilepsy. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 6(1), pp. 189-206. ISSN 1551-0018 [Article]
Yulmetyev, Renat M., Khusaenova, E.V., Yulmetyev, Renat M., Haenggi, Peter, Shimojo, Shinsuke, Watanabe, Katsumi and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2008. STATISTICAL MEMORY OF MEG SIGNALS AT PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 18(09), pp. 2799-2805. ISSN 0218-1274 [Article]
Wehling, Simone, Simion, Claudiu, Shimojo, Shinsuke and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2007. Assessment of connectivity patterns from multivariate time series by partial directed coherence. Chaos and Complexity Letters, 2(2-3), pp. 413-433. ISSN 1555-3995 [Article]
Hlaváčková-Schindler, Katarina, Paluš, Milan, Vejmelka, Martin and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2007. Causality detection based on information-theoretic approaches in time series analysis. Physics Reports, 441(1), pp. 1-46. ISSN 03701573 [Article]
Mukherjee, Prabir K. and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2007. Phenomenological theory of the nematic to lamellar phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 126(2), 024901-024906. ISSN 00219606 [Article]
Yulmetyev, Renat M., Hänggi, Peter, Yulmetyeva, Dinara G., Shimojo, Shinsuke, Khusaenova, E.V., Watanabe, Katsumi and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2007. Relaxation and phase space singularities in time series of human magnetoencephalograms as indicator of photosensitive epilepsy. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 383(2), pp. 443-454. ISSN 03784371 [Article]
Yulmetyev, Renat M., Yulmetyeva, Dinara G., Hänggi, Peter, Shimojo, Shinsuke and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2007. Strong memory in time series of human magnetoencephalograms can identify photosensitive epilepsy. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, 104(4), pp. 644-650. ISSN 1063-7761 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Petsche, Hellmuth and Pereda, Ernesto. 2006. Co-operation in the brain in higher cognitive functioning. In: Ali Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam, eds. Unifying Themes in Complex Systems. MA, USA: Springer, pp. 103-110. ISBN 3-540-35864-1 [Book Section]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Kanjilal, Partha.P. and Nizamie, Sohaib H.. 2006. In search of scaling in the brain. In: Ali Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam, eds. Unifying Themes in Complex Systems. IIIB MA, USA: Springer , pp. 93-101. ISBN 3-540-35864-1 [Book Section]
Kanjilal, Partha.P., Bandyopadhyay, Sharba and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2006. On analysis of the periodicity attributes of the photo-plethysmograph signal to assess the cardiovascular state. In: Ali Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam, eds. Unifying Themes in Complex Systems. MA, USA: Springer, pp. 233-240. ISBN 3-540-35864-1 [Book Section]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Edwards, J, Mamelak, Adam N. and Schuman, Erin M.. 2005. Ongoing hippocampal neuronal activity in human: is it noise of correlated fractal process? In: Gabriele Losa, Danilo Merlini, Theo Nonnenmacher and Ewald Weibel, eds. Fractals in Biology and Medicine: Volume IV. Basel: Birkhäuser, pp. 95-106. ISBN 978-3764371722 [Book Section]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Petsche, Hellmuth. 2005. Drawing on minds canvas: Differences in cortical integration patterns between artists and non-artists. Human Brain Mapping, 26(1), pp. 1-14. ISSN 10659471 [Article]
Pereda, Ernesto, Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2005. Nonlinear multivariate analysis of neurophysiological signals. Progress in Neurobiology, 77(1-2), pp. 1-37. ISSN 03010082 [Article]
Shams, Ladan, Iwaki, Sunao, Chawla, Aman and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2005. Early modulation of visual cortex by sound: an MEG study. Neuroscience Letters, 378(2), p. 76. ISSN 03043940 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Edwards, J, Mamelak, Adam N. and Schuman, Erin M.. 2005. Long-range temporal correlations in the spontaneous spiking of neurons in the hippocampal-amygdala complex of humans. Neuroscience, 131(2), pp. 547-555. ISSN 03064522 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Petsche, Hellmuth. 2005. Phase synchrony analysis of EEG during music perception reveals changes in functional connectivity due to musical expertise. Signal Processing, 85(11), pp. 2161-2177. ISSN 01651684 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Watanabe, Katsumi and Shimojo, Shinsuke. 2004. Nonlinear dynamics of evoked neuromagnetic responses signifies potential defensive mechanisms against photosensitivity. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos [in Applied Sciences and Engineering], 14(8), pp. 2701-2720. ISSN 02181274 [Article]
Feldmann, Ute and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2004. Predictability improvement as an asymmetrical measure of interdependence in bivariate time series. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos [In Applied Sciences and Engineering], 14(2), pp. 505-514. ISSN 02181274 [Article]
Andrade, Paolo. E. and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2003. Brain tuned to music. JRSM, 96(6), p. 284. ISSN 0141-0768 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Pereda, Ernesto and Petsche, Hellmuth. 2003. Effective detection of coupling in short and noisy bivariate data. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics), 33(1), pp. 85-95. ISSN 1083-4419 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Petsche, Hellmuth. 2002. Shadows of artistry: cortical synchrony during perception and imagery of visual art. Cognitive Brain Research, 13(2), pp. 179-186. ISSN 09266410 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Shams, Ladan and Shimojo, Shinsuke. 2002. Sound-induced illusory flash perception: role of gamma band responses. NeuroReport, 13(14), pp. 1727-1730. ISSN 0959-4965 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Petsche, Hellmuth. 2001. Universality in the brain while listening to music. Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 268(1484), pp. 2423-33. ISSN 0962-8452 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Pereda, E. and Petsche, H.. 2001. Long-range synchrony in the gamma band: Role in music perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 21(16), pp. 6329-6337. ISSN 15292401 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Kanjilal, Partha.P. and Muralidhar, Varanasi. 2001. Analysis and characterization of photo-plethysmographic signal. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 48(1), pp. 5-11. ISSN 00189294 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Pereda, Ernesto, Kariyappa, Rangaiah and Pratim Kanjilal, Partha. 2001. Application of Non-linear Analysis to Intensity Oscillations of the Chromospheric Bright Points. Solar Physics, 199(2), pp. 267-290. ISSN 00380938 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2001. Detection of weak chaos in infant respiration. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics), 31(4), pp. 637-642. ISSN 10834419 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Petsche, Hellmuth, Feldmann, Ute and Resche, Brigitte. 2001. EEG gamma-band phase synchronization between posterior and frontal cortex during mental rotation in humans. Neuroscience Letters, 311(1), pp. 29-32. ISSN 03043940 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Petsche, Hellmuth. 2001. Enhanced phase synchrony in the electroencephalograph γ band for musicians while listening to music. Physical Review E, 64(1), 012902. ISSN 1063-651X [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Petsche, Hellmuth and Pereda, Ernesto. 2001. Interdependencies in the spontaneous EEG while listening to music. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 42(3), pp. 287-301. ISSN 01678760 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Petsche, Hellmuth. 2001. Musicians and the gamma band: a secret affair? NeuroReport, 12(2), pp. 371-374. ISSN 0959-4965 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2001. Reduced degree of long-range phase synchrony in pathological human brain. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 61(4), pp. 309-318. [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2000. Complexity analysis of spontaneous EEG. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 60(4), pp. 495-501. [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Kanjilal, Partha.P. and Nizamie, Sohaib H.. 2000. Decomposition of posterior alpha rhythm. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 47(6), pp. 738-747. ISSN 00189294 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Kanjilal, Partha.P.. 2000. Revisiting the role of correlation coefficient to distinguish chaos from noise. The European Physical Journal B, 13(2), pp. 399-403. ISSN 1434-6028 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Kanjilal, Partha.P.. 1999. Assessing determinism of photo-plethysmographic signal. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, 29(4), pp. 406-410. ISSN 10834427 [Article]
Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Kanjilal, Partha.P.. 1999. On the detection of determinism in a time series. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 132(1-2), pp. 100-110. ISSN 01672789 [Article]
Kanjilal, Partha.P. and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 1999. Revisited Measles and Chickenpox Dynamics through Orthogonal Transformation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 197(2), pp. 163-174. ISSN 00225193 [Article]
Kanjilal, Partha.P., Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Saha, Goutam. 1999. Robust method for periodicity detection and characterization of irregular cyclical series in terms of embedded periodic components. Physical Review E, 59(4), pp. 4013-4025. ISSN 1063-651X [Article]
Kanjilal, Partha.P. and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 1997. An instrument for noninvasive continuous measurement of blood pressure using a finger cuff. Journal of Anaesthesiology & Clinical Pharmacology, 13, pp. 283-289. ISSN 0970-9185 [Article]