Abstract:
        Rashmi Gupta research focuses on the role of attention and emotion inhuman visual cognition, particularly distractions that evoke emotions. Assuch, her work blends efforts to advance theoretical understanding with attempts to highlight the implications of such research for safety and well-being in everyday society.In her research, she specifically investigated, 1) the role of emotion and motivation in attention, memory, and perception, 2) attentional processesin children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and normalcontrol; development of attentional processes in ADHD and normal control, 3) cognitive biases in individuals with unipolar depression and remitteddepressives using behavioural, eye-tracker, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and Electroencephalography (EEG) methods.The main contributions showed, for instance, that role of positive andnegative emotional distractors on target processing under low (distributedattention) and high (focused attention) attention load conditions. she foundthat it is easier to ignore negative images than positive ones when focusing on other things.This effect was paralleled by another study that showed that irrelevanthappy faces are better recognized than sad faces under conditions of distributed attention.

     The study provides evidence that attentional "style"(focused or distributed attention) interacts with the emotional content of stimuli in a scene to determine subsequent memory for that scene (Srinivasan & Gupta, 2010; Srinivasan & Gupta, 2011). In her other set ofexperiments on value learning, She have examined the processing of value-coded faces and its neural correlates. She found that stimuli associated with high motivational value (relative to low) capture moreattention and are right hemisphere biased. Moreover, these stimuli also modulate primary visual cortex neural activity.Her other previous work examined the cognitive processes in children withADHD and individuals with unipolar depression. For example, She havedeveloped a computed based classification system (classification accuracy = 97.8%) for children with ADHD aged 6-9 years. In line of this research, She alsoexplored the development of cognitive processes in normal and ADHD children. Her other clinical work explored the attention and memory biases inindividuals with unipolar depression and remitted depressives. She found thatattention and memory biases still exist in remitted depressives even afterrecovery.

             Rashmi Gupta is a Cognitive Neuroscientist. She is anexpert in Experimental Cognitive Psychology. She conducted research onvarious research topics such as cognition and emotion, attention, memory,perception, cognitive disorders and child development. She received undergraduate degree in Psychology and masters and PhD in CognitiveSciences from the University of Allahabad. Rashmi Gupta was the firstperson who received a PhD degree in Cognitive Sciences in India. She worked with renowned scientist in the filed at various leading universities acrossthe world. She went to work at the Bangor University, UK, University of California San Diego, USA, University College London, UK and the Universityof Geneva, Switzerland. She received highly prestigious and competitiveresearch grants such as grants from the International Brain Research Organization, Marie Curie Actions, National Science Foundation and so on.She published her research at various leading journals in the field.