I am the Amarāvati-Hīrāmaṇi Professor (Research) at Vision Research Institute (USA) and Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana (India). After completing B.E. (Electrical Engg.) at M.A.C.T. Bhopal and Part I of M.Tech. at I.I.T. Kanpur in India, I moved to USA to do M.S. (Computer Science) at Iowa State University, Ph.D. (Biophysics) at University of Illinois, and postdoctoral fellowship in color vision psychophysics at University of Chicago. Further researches in visual psychophysics, neuroscience, and fMRI were at York University (Canada), New England College of Optometry (Boston), and Harvard Medical Schools (Schepens Eye Research Institute and McLean Hospital).
My research includes:
(1) Neurophysiology: sleep and purposive behavior, effects of multiple stimuli on ocular orientation by cats, effects of eye position on auditory localization and neural representation of space in superior colliculus of cats.
(2) Biophysics: biophysics of blood-brain barrier and cooperativity model in psychopathology.
(3) Psychophysics: flicker photometry, appearance of steadily viewed lights, central binocular mechanism affecting chromatic adaptation, foveal cone thresholds, apparent motion, spatiotemporal characteristics of Red-Green channel including orientation and spatial frequency tuned mechanisms and discrimination.
(4) Functional magnetic resonance related research: fMRI and voxel-based morphometry for MDMA users, fMRI study on lateral visual field stimulation and extrastriate cortical activation in the contralateral hemisphere, and fMRI activation in human suprachiasmatic nucleus.
(5) Psychiatry and Attention related research: Predicting epileptic seizures with a mental simulation task: A prospective study, visual attention, attention and emotion, and attention deficits in Schizophrenia, AD, and PTSD.
(6) Bioluminescence and phosphenes: ‘retinal phosphenes and discrete dark noises in rods’, and ‘ocular delayed bioluminescence as a possible source of negative afterimages’, ‘implications on visual apperception: energy, duration, structure and synchronization’, and ‘Ancient Historical Scripture and Color Vision’.
(7) Consciousness research: I have keen interest in mind-brain problem and consciousness research, which includes:
Proto-experiences and Subjective Experiences: Classical and Quantum Concepts (2008)
Matching and selection of a specific subjective experience: conjugate matching and subjective experience (2010)
Emergence in Dual-Aspect Monism (2013)
Necessary and sufficient conditions for consciousness: Extended Dual-Aspect Monism framework (2015)
Segregation and integration of information: extended Dual-Aspect Monism framework (2015)
Biological Naturalism in Extended Dual-Aspect Monism and Conscious Robots (2015)
Extended Dual-Aspect Monism framework: Criticisms addressed (2015)
Consciousness and the Structure of Matter
Attention and Emotion
Self: An adaptive pressure arising from self-organization, chaotic dynamics, and neural Darwinism
How Long is a Piece of Time? - Phenomenal Time and Quantum Coherence - Toward a Solution; and Phenomenal Time and its Biological Correlates
Catalysis, Perception and Consciousness
Dual Aspect Framework for Consciousness and Its Implications: West meets East for Sublimation Process
The Most Optimal Dual-Aspect-Dual-Mode Framework for Consciousness: Recent Development
Meanings attributed to the term 'consciousness': an overview
Quest for the Definition of Consciousness, Qualia, Mind, and Awareness
Necessary Ingredients of Consciousness: Integration of Psychophysical, Neurophysiological, and Consciousness Research for the Red-Green Channel
Pre-existence of Subjective Experiences in Type-B Materialism: Bridging Materialism and Anti-materialism via Dual-Aspect Optimal Framework
Subjective Experience Aspect of Consciousness Part I - Integration of Classical, Quantum, and Subquantum Concepts
Subjective Experience Aspect of Consciousness Part II: Integration of Classical and Quantum Concepts for Emergence Hypothesis
Towards a Theory of Everything Part I - Introduction of Consciousness in Electromagnetic Theory, Special and General Theory of Relativity
Towards a Theory of Everything Part II - Introduction of Consciousness in Schrödinger equation and Standard Model using Quantum Physics
Towards a Theory of Everything Part III - Introduction of Consciousness in Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory and Unification of Experiences with Fundamental Forces
Dependent Co-origination and Inherent Existence: Dual-Aspect Framework
Interpretation of Empirical Data of Samadhi State and the Dual-Aspect Dual-Mode Optimal Framework
Derivation of Subjective Experiences from a Proto-experience and three Gunas in the Dual-Aspect-Dual-Mode Framework
Quantum Interpretation of Vedic theory of Mind: an epistemological path and objective reduction of thoughts
Quantum Entanglement: can we "see" the Implicate Order? Philosophical Speculations
Transgenerational epigenetic mechanisms, unconscious creativity, and sensory deprivation: semi-Free Will in the extended dual-aspect monism framework
(8) Researches in spirituality and religions:
Meanings attributed to the term ‘Spirituality’ and Science underlying it: extended Dual-Aspect Monism
Metaphysics, Science, Religion, and Spirituality: Bringing them Closer via Extended Dual-Aspect Monism (Dvi-Pakṣa Advaita) (with S. Bhardwaj)
Scientific Hinduism: Bringing Science and Hinduism Closer through Extended Dual-Aspect Monism (Dvi-Pakṣa Advaita) (e-book)
PRIMAL ENTITY and SCIENTIFIC RELIGIONS: Science-Religion Unification through Extended Dual-Aspect Monism and its Novel Critiques (e-book)
I am the founder of Vision Research Institute (USA) and Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana (India). These institutes are non-profit research organizations, where all kinds of researches can be done; currently we are involved in color vision, fMRI, and consciousness researches. Relevant articles are uploaded in http://sites.google.com/site/rlpvimal/Home. Please feel free to download them; your comments and suggestions are most welcome.