Sukhbinder Kumar, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department
Neurosurgery
Biography
Current Positions
- Research Assistant Professor - Neurosurgery
Education
- PhD, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
- Master of Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science , Pilani, (India).
- Bachelor of Technology, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (India)
- Bachelor of Science, B.Sc, Punjabi University Patiala (India)
Research Interests
- Representation and processing of respiration and cardiac signals in the brain (Interoception)
- Emotions processing and its brain mechanism: a. Role of expectations and beliefs (topdown factors) in modulating emotional experience. b. What are the brain areas/mechanism which mediate this modulation?
- Interoception and its relation to emotions processing.
- Disorder of emotion processing and its relation to Interoception: Brain mechanism of misophonia (a disorder in which ordinary day-today- stimuli, typically sounds cause abnormally high distress
Research areas
- Misophonia
- Auditory cortex
- Auditory working memory
- Hearing loss
- Emotion
- Emotions processing
- Interoception
- Electrocorticography