Bhoomika Rastogi Kar

Professor & Head

Email: bhoomika@cbcs.ac.in

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Education:

PhD, National Institute of Mental health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India

M. Phil (Medical and Social Psychology), Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India

M.A. (Psychology), Lucknow University, Lucknow, India

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Research Interests:

Cognitive control, affective control, Cognitive development, Dyslexia, Bilingualism and cognitive control, Cognitive and emotional ageing.

Research Projects:

• Behavioural and neural correlates of the Interaction between bilingualism and cognitive control
• Development of cognitive-socio-affective competence
• Effect of trait anxiety and pathological anxiety on dynamic adjustments in cognitive control
• Cognitive ageing and the Positivity effect
• Effect of obesity on inhibition and reward sensitivity

Representative Publications:

Edited volume

• Kar, B. R. (Editor). (2013). Cognition and Brain Development: Converging evidences from various methodologies. Washington: American Psychological Association.
• Tripathi, R.C., Kar, B. R., & Pande, N. (2022). Towards an Integrative Psychological Science: Issues, Approaches and Applications. Springer.

Journal Papers

• Mohindru, S., Nigam, R. & Kar, B. R. (2023). Cognitive and Emotional Aging Across the Life Span: Implications for Building the Cognitive Reserve and Resilience. In S. I. Rizvi (Editor). Emerging Anti-aging Strategies. Singapore: Springer. (pp 287-310)
• Kar, B. R. & Nigam, R. (2022). Interaction between affect and cognition as a function of ageing: Testing the positivity bias in Indian population. In R. C. Tripathi, B. R. Kar, & N. Pande. (Eds). Towards an Integrative Psychological Science: Issues, Approaches and Applications. Springer.
• Kar, B. C., Kumar, A., & Kar, B. R. (2022, December 30). Cognitive Mechanisms underlying sports performance of athletes engaged in strategic team sports. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rh8z5
• Nigam, R. & Kar B. R. (2021). Conflict monitoring and adaptation to affective stimuli as a function of ageing. Cognitive Processing, 22, 675-690. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-021-01042-5

• Rao, C., Sumathi, T. A., Midha, R. Oberoi, G., Kar, B. R., Khan, M., Vaidya, K., Midya, V., Raman, N., Gajre, M., & Singh, N. C. (2021). Development and Standardization of the DALI-DAB (Dyslexia Assessment for Languages of India – Dyslexia Assessment Battery). Annals of Dyslexia. doi: 10.1007/s11881-021-00227-z
• Joshi, G., Daksha, C. P., Pammi, V. S. C., & Kar, B. R. (2021, March 8^th). Standardization and Convergent Validation of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory with measures of Personality, Affective Control and, Risk Propensity. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/845bj
• Dash, & Kar, B. R. (2020). Behavioural and ERP correlates of bilingual language control and general-purpose inhibitory control predicted by L1 and L2 proficiency, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 56 doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100914.
• Nigam, Kar, B. R. (2020). Cognitive ageing in developing societies: An overview and a cross sectional study on young, middle-aged and older adults in Indian context. In the Special issue on Ageing in Developing Societies, Psychology and Developing Societies, https://doi.org/10.1177/0971333620937511
• Nithin, T. H., Parihar, P., & Kar, B. R. (2020). Language Proficiency, sociolinguistic factors and inhibitory In the special issue on Cognitive Consequences of Bilingualism, Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 4 (2), DOI: 10.1007/s41809-020-00065-2
• Kar, B. R., Nigam, R., Pammi, V.S.C., Gularia, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2019). Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of affective conflict adaptation: An event related fMRI study. Progress in Brain Research, Emotion and Cognition, 246,
• Singh, P. & Kar, B. R. (2018). Effect of language proficiency on proactive occulomotor control among bilinguals. PLoS One, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207904
• Kar, B. R., Srinivasan, N., Nehabala, Y., & Nigam, R. (2018). Proactive and reactive control depends on emotional valence: A Stroop study with emotional expressions and words. Cognition & Emotion, 32, 325-340.
• Kar, B. R. & Kenderla, P.K. (2017).Working Memory and Executive Attention: Insights from Developmental Studies and Implications for Learning and Education. Journal of Indian Institute of Science.
• Dash, T. & Kar, B. R. (2014). Behavioural and ERP correlates of bilingual language control and general purpose inhibitory control: evidence based on the identity negative priming paradigm. Behavioural Neurology, 679706.
• Khare, V., Verma, A., Kar, B. R., Srinivasan, N. & Brysbeart, M. (2013). Bilingualism and the increased attentional blink effect: Evidence that the difference between bilinguals and monolinguals generalizes to different levels of second language proficiency, Psychological Research, 77, 728-737.
• Gupta, R. & Kar, B. R. (2012). Attention and memory biases as stable abnormalities among currently depressed and currently remitted individuals with Unipolar Depression. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 3:99.
• Dash, T. & Kar, B. R. (2012). Characterizing language proficiency in Hindi and English: Implications for bilingual research.International Journal of Mind, Brain and Cognition.
• Kar, B.R., Rao, S.L., Chandrmouli, B.A., & Thennarasu, K. (2011). Growth patterns of neuropsychological functions in Indian children. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:240.
• Gupta, R., Kar, B.R., & Srinivasan, N. (2011). Cognitive-motivational deficits in ADHD: Development of a classification system. Child Neuropsychology, 17, 67-81.
• Kar, B. R., Rao, S. L., Chandramouli, B. A., Thennarasu, K., & Satishchandra, P. (2010). Neuropsychological lateralization of brain dysfunction in children with mesial temporal sclerosis: A presurgical evaluation. Journal of Child Neurology, 25, 705-714.
• Gupta R. & Kar, B. R. (2010). Specific Cognitive Deficits in ADHD: A Diagnostic Concern in Differential Diagnosis. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 19, 778-786.
• Gupta, R., Kar, B. R., & Srinivasan, N. (2009). Development of Task Switching and Error Monitoring in Children. Behavioral and Brain functions, 5; 38.
• Gupta, R. & Kar, B. R. (2009). Development of attentional processes in children with ADHD and normally developing children. Progress in Brain Research: 176. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Kar, B. R., Rao, S. L. & Chandramouli, B. A. (2008). Cognitive development in children with chronic protein energy malnutrition. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 4: 31.
• Kar, B. R., Rao, S. L., Chandramouli, B. A. & Thennarasu, K. (2004). NIMHANS Neuropsychological Battery for Children. Bangalore: NIMHANS publication division