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Institute of Psychology
Institute of Psychology

Photo: UHH/Aleksandra Gaus

Dr. Gargi Majumdar

Postdoc / Alexander von Humboldt Fellow

Address

University of Hamburg
Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology
Von-Melle-Park 11
20146 Hamburg

Office

VMP 11
Room: 216

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-2621

Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon, India 2018 – 2024
Project Assistant University of Calcutta, India 2016 – 2018
MSc (Zoology) University of Calcutta, India 2014 – 2016
BSc (Zoology) University of Calcutta, India 2011 – 2014


Research Experience

  • Established the setup and optimization of clinical fMRI and eye-tracking protocols, piloting of visual perception paradigms at Lucid Medical Diagnostics
 Eye and Brain Lab, LVPEI, Hyderabad, India Mar 2024 – Sep 2024
  • Explored dynamic interplay of emotions in resting period using behavioral (memory tasks and mental-health inventory) and fMRI analyses on naturalistic paradigm (N=23).
  • Established fMRI setup for naturalistic experimental designs (3T MAGNETOM, 12 and 64 channel coil)

National Brain Research Centre (NBRC)

(Graduate School)

 2023 – 2024
  • Modelling emotion dynamics using large scale behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) data
  • Computational modelling using Bayesian hierarchical models to explore emotion dynamics in normal and healthy aging cohorts
  • Implementation of state-of-the-art activity, connectivity and pattern analyses on neuroimaging data

National Brain Research Centre (NBRC)

(Graduate School)

 2018 – 2024
 
  • Probabilistic encoding model of a virtual-world learning task across three domains and neural underpinnings of learning and inference of these tasks. Multivoxel pattern analysis and model-based fMRI analysis
  • Intersubject connectivity and shared multivoxel pattern analyses in naturalistic stimuli spanning multiple sensory modalities
  

University of Edinburgh

(Collaboration)

  2022 – Present

 

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for MSc and PhD Neuroscience course

  • fMRI – MR Physics, fMRI acquisition and analysis (basic and advanced)
  • Designing fMRI experiments and statistical analysis (I & II)
 NBRC, India 2019 – 2023

 

Mentorship

Topic: Uncertainty representation in Emotion Dynamics (Mentee: Rishi Dey Chowdhury)

Summer Internship for Bachelor in Statistics (2022), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI Kolkata), IIT Jodhpur, India

 

Collaborators

Dr. Fahd Yazin (MBBS) working as a PhD student with Dr. Paul Hoffman and Dr. Neil Bramley in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh (UK)

Publications

Submitted publication with peer review process

  1. Yazin, F., Majumdar, G., Bramley, N., & Hoffman, P. (2025). Fragmentation and Multithreading of Experience in the Default-Mode Network. bioRxiv, 2024.10.24.620113. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.24.620113v2.full (in communication )
  2. Majumdar, G., Yazin, F., Banerjee, A., & Roy, D. (2024). Altered orbitofrontal cortex neural variability underlies idiosyncratic experiences during aging. bioRxiv, 2024.04.22.590523. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590523v3.full (in communication )

Publication with peer review process

  1. Majumdar, G., Yazin, F., Banerjee, A., & Roy, D., (2023). Emotion dynamics as hierarchical Bayesian inference in time, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 33, Issue 7, 1 April 2023, Pages 3750–3772,  https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac305

Publication without peer review process

  1. Yazin, F., Majumdar, G., Bramley, N., & Hoffman, P. Fragmentation and Multithreading of Consciousness in the Default-Mode Network. (2024). Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Conference, Boston, U.S., August 6-9, 2024##

Awards and Honors

  • Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral fellowship (2 years), 2024
  • Recipient of Merit Abstract Award winner, OHBM, Montreal, Canada, 2023
  • Recipient of Travel Stipend Abstract Award winner, OHBM, Montreal, Canada, 2023
  • Recipient of Travel Grant, EMBO, IIT Gandhinagar, India, 2022
  • Recipient of Best Poster Award, EMBO, IIT Gandhinagar, India, 2022

Conferences

  • Poster Presentation, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), Vienna, Austria, 2024
  • Poster Presentation, Centre for High Impact neuroscience and Translational Applications (CHINTA), Kolkata, India, 2024
  • Oral Presentation (Virtual*) and Poster Presentation, Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Montreal, Canada, 2023
  • Poster Presentation, Symposium on Brain, Behavior and Symposium, NBRC, Gurgaon, India, 2023
  • Poster Presentation and Blitz Talk, Noninvasive brain stimulation: Advances in research and clinical practice (EMBO), IIT Gandhinagar, India, 2022
  • Oral Presentation, Annual Conference of Cognitive Sciences (ACCS), IIT Delhi, India, 2022
  • Oral Presentation, Annual Conference of Cognitive Sciences (ACCS), IISc Bangalore, India, 2020
  • Poster Presentation, Annual Conference of Cognitive Sciences (ACCS), BITS Goa, India, 2019

Invited Talks

"Navigating the unknown in Emotion Dynamics", CCC Colloquium, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2024. Invited by: Professor Dr. Jozsef Fiser.