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DYUTIMAN MUKHOPADHYAY website
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Email: dyutimanm@gmail.com
I am a cognitive scientist, writer, and fine arts practitioner—primarily fine-art photography, videography, and poetry. I am interested in how humans respond to constructs of representations and reality and I use the arts and sciences as exploratory tools for the same. My academic career transitioned from biological/biomedical sciences to experimental/cognitive aesthetics over the past twenty years. Currently, I focus more on exploring a-disciplinary questions that navigate the shared complexities of knowledge, bridging the realms of arts and sciences beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
The Indian philosophy of detached passion is my key artistic inspiration, along with world and Indian cinema, poetry, literature, and painting. Dream, desire, longing, separation, love, lust, death, illusion, obsession, delusion, faith, fate, and liberation—their inherent contradictions and commonalities—are the primary motifs in my art and literature.
I am a Professor in Information Arts & Information Design Practices (IAIDP) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (SMI), Bangalore, India. I was a former Adjunct Professor in the Consciousness Studies Programme (CSP) at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India. Before that, I worked as a British Academy Newton International Fellow and Honorary Research Associate (2018-2021) at University College London, UK (Experimental Psychology/Brain Sciences), studying emotion transfer across and within cultures using films.
My work on the neuropsychology of ‘aesthetic paradox’ where I proposed the ‘Dual-Phase-Oscillation hypothesis’ (Mukhopadhyay, 2014, Rev Gen Psychol.) has been featured in literary theory and emotion research, cited by experts like G. Gabrielle Starr, Louise Sundararajan, Zachary Simpson, Kim Devereux, and Maria Korusiewicz. My other major work deals with the characterisation of functional brain networks and emotion centres based on the Rasa theory of ancient Indian aesthetics (Mukhopadhyay et al., 2022; Tripathi, Mukhopadhyay et al., 2020). I also work on the cultural models of ‘Self’ and social appraisal using naturalistic stimuli like films through the lens of cross-cultural, social, and personality psychology (Mukhopadhyay, 2021, 2025).
I have a PhD in Biomedical Sciences, three postdoctoral tenures in Cognitive (experimental/neuro-aesthetics) and Biomedical Sciences (stress biology), a Master’s in Animal Biology, a postgraduate diploma in Bioinformatics, and an advanced diploma in Fine-Arts (painting). I received the T1 Exceptional Talent Work permit endorsed by the British Academy, UK (2019-2024). My photography received official selections and recognition at the Venice International Photo Contest, in Italy, at the International Photography Awards, in the USA, at the Prix de la Photographie, in Paris, and on the National Geographic website (Recognitions). I am also one of the founding artist contributors of the art subscription and sales company (Chadart, UK).
Research Tools:
Indian texts on Philosophy of Science, Religion, and Aesthetics (1500 BC–1000 AD), Poetry of the Ancient and Medieval East, Experimental Psychology, Eye-tracking, Electroencephalography (EEG), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Digital Art, Painting, Cinema, and Photography.
SELECTED Publications at art-science-philosophy confluence:
1. [In Press, Book Chapter] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2025) '"Indianness", the "Self", and the Validation Problem: Experimental Psychology in Conversation with Philosophy, Epic Narratives, and Aesthetics', in Handbook of Indic Philosophy and Religion: Classical Past and Modern Histories, Guha, N. and Mukherjee, S. (eds.), Bloomsbury.
2. [Book] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2025) 'The Third Embrace—Poems and Photo Essays', BAYSHOP INC-USA (Generis Publishing), ISBN: 979-8-89248-963-8.
3. [Journal Article] Mukhopadhyay, D., Bandyopadhyay, S., Venkatesh, E., and Menon, S. (2024) 'Exploring complexity-entropy, eye-tracking, experience, creativity, familiarity, and emotional responses to forty paintings of Raja Ravi Varma—father of Indian modern art', Int. J. Arts and Technology (Inderscience, Switzerland) Vol. 15, No. 2, pp.170–207, ISSN: 1754-8853, eISSN: 1754-8861, DOI: 10.1504/IJART.2024.143134.
4. [Dataset] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2024) 'Database: CEE Through Film', OSF (Center for Open Science, USA), DOI: https://osf.io/mrxpk/?view_only=6b0bbd429161421784d4e924ab911c18
5. [Dataset] Mukhopadhyay, D., Miyapuram, K.P., Pandey, P. and Tripathi, R. (2022) 'Movie watching—nine emotions EEG dataset', OSF (Center for Open Science, USA), DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/85N9U.
6. [note] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2022) ‘(Musings) Why I study aesthetics: an unwritten essay.’
7. [Journal Article] Sonawane, D., Pandey, P., Mukopadhyay, D., (sic: read Mukhopadhyay, D.) and Miyapuram, K.P. (2021) 'Movie identification from electroencephalography response using convolutional neural network', In: Mahmud, M., Kaiser, M.S., Vassanelli, S., Dai, Q. and Zhong N. (eds) Brain Informatics-BI 2021 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer Nature, Switzerland AG), Series: ISSN:0302-9743, eBook: ISBN:978-3-030-86993-9), Vol. 12960, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86993-9_25, WOSUID: WOS:000768819800025.
8. [Psycharchives Preprint] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2021a) 'Rethinking the psychology of film melodrama: a theoretical framework integrating social appraisal and cultural psychology', PsychArchives (Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), Germany), DOI: 10.23668/psycharchives.5282.
9. [Philarchive Preprint] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2021b) 'Dancing with nine colours: the nine emotional states of Indian Rasa theory', PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation, Canada-USA), https://philarchive.org/rec/MUKDWN.
10. [Philarchive Preprint (Short paper)] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2021c) 'Contradictions in Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda's idea of Karma Yoga (detached 'witness-consciousness' through action)', PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation, Canada-USA), https://philarchive.org/rec/MUKCIR.
11. [Book Chapter] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2021d, 2025) 'Science and the Elephant', first archived in PhilArchive (2021): https://philpapers.org/rec/MUKBCS. Revised and published as a chapter in The Third Embrace—Poems and Photo Essays, BAYSHOP INC-USA (Generis Publishing), pp.69–78, ISBN: 979-8-89248-963-8.
12. [Book Chapter] Tripathi, R., Mukhopadhyay, D., Singh, C.K., Miyapuram, K.P. and Jolad, S. (2020) 'Characterization of functional brain networks and emotional centers using the complex networks techniques', Complex Networks 2019, part of Studies In Computational Intelligence, Series ISSN:1860-949X, eBook ISBN:978-3-030-36683-4) Vol. 882, pp.854–867, in Cherifi, H. et al. (Eds.), Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII. (Springer Nature, Switzerland AG), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36683-4_68, WOSUID: WOS:000843839700068.
13. [Journal Article (Russian trans./English)] Мукхопадхьяй, Д. (2019) 'Нейрофилософияархетипаввизуальнойэстетик: отПлатонадоЗекиидалее', Журнал Юнгианский Анализ (jungjournal.ru), Альманах №3 2012-2015, (in Russian) (Jungian Analysis Journal, translated from English and published by Moscow Association of Analytical Psychology, Russia, No. 3, pp.153-192, ISSN:22259651 [Russian print publication of Mukhopadhyay, D. (2014b), 'The neuro-philosophy of archetype in visual aesthetics: from Plato to Zeki and beyond' (published in the journal PsyArt (The PsyArt Foundation, USA), ISSN:1088-5870, (online: English Version Open Access)].
14. [Proceedings Full Paper] Nath, S.S., Mukhopadhyay, D. and Miyapuram, K.P. (2019) 'Emotive stimuli-triggered participant-based clustering using a novel split-and-merge algorithm', Proceedings of the ACM-India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data (Association for Computing Machinery, USA), pp.277-280, ISSN:2168-4081, ISBN:978-1-4503-6207-8, DOI: 10.1145/3297001.3297040, WOSUID: WOS:000557252800039.
15. [Conference Abstract (Poster)] Tripathi, R., Singh, C.K., Mukhopadhyay, D., Jolad S. and Miyapuram, K.P. (2017) 'Modular structure of functional brain networks for different human emotions from EEG data'; Proceedings of Annual meeting of Brain Modes hosted by National Brain Research Centre, India, December 2017, p. 26 (Link).
16. [Short Conference Paper] Mukhopadhyay, D. and Miyapuram, K.P. (2016b) 'An eye-tracking study of nine facial emotional states (Nava Rasa) in the Indian classical dance genre of Bharatanatyam', 3rd Annual Conference on Cognitive Science, 3rd-5th Oct. 2016, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, catalogued in: IITGN Annual Report 2016-2017, p.96.
17. [Conference Abstract (Talk)] Mukhopadhyay, D. and Miyapuram, K.P. (2016a) 'EEG-based study on nine emotional states of Indian Rasa theory from popular Bollywood and Hollywood film segments', Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics at the University of Vienna (IAEA, Austria) (Aug. 29-Sep. 1, 2016) Proceedings link-p.55, also catalogued in: IITGN Annual Report 2016-2017, p.96.
18. [Conference Abstract (Poster)] Mukhopadhyay, D. and Miyapuram, K.P. (2015a) 'An eye-tracking study of nine emotional states (Rasas) from visual scans of facial close-ups of Indian mural paintings', International Conference on Emotion & Cognition, 14th-16th Dec. 2015, Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, Allahabad, India, catalogued in: IITGN Annual Report 2015-2016, p.89.
19. [Conference Abstract (Talk)] Mukhopadhyay, D. and Miyapuram, K.P. (2015b) 'Visual scan-paths of faces with happy and sad facial expressions support the Hemispheric Lateralization Hypothesis and zonal preference: an eye-tracking study', 2nd Annual Conference on Cognitive Science, 5th-8th Jul. 2015, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, catalogued in: IITGN Annual Report 2015-2016, p.89.
20. [Journal Article] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2015), 'The dual-phase oscillation hypothesis and the neuropsychology of docu-fiction film', Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (University of Lincoln, UK), Vol. 16, No. 1, ISSN:1470-5648. (online: Open Access).
21. [Journal Article] Mukhopadhyay, D. (2014a) 'Understanding the neuropsychology of aesthetic paradox: the dual-phase oscillation hypothesis', Review of General Psychology (American Psychological Association/ SAGE Publishing, USA), Vol. 18, No. 3, pp.237-248, ISSN:1089-2680. DOI: 10.1037/GPR0000009, WOSUID: WOS:000342503600007.
SELECTED Publications in biomedical sciences:
1. [Journal Article] De Chaudhuri, S., Mukhopadhyay, D. (2024) 'Chronic exposure to heavy metals results in significant changes in expression of stress proteins', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences (Springer Nature), Vol. 94, pp. 1137–1142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40011-024-01637-w, Print ISSN: 0369-8211.
2. [Journal Article] Mitra, A., Chakraborty, B., Mukhopadhay, D. (sic: read Mukhopadhyay, D.), Pal, M., Mukherjee, S., Banerjee, S. and Chaudhuri, K. (2012) 'Effect of smoking on semen quality, FSH, testosterone level, and CAG repeat length in androgen receptor gene of infertile men in an Indian city', Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine (Taylor & Francis-Informa, UK), Vol. 58, No. 5, pp.255-262, ISSN:1939-6368 (print) /1939-6376 (online). DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2012.684195, WOSUID: WOS:000308938100004.
3. [Journal Article] Mukhopadhyay, D., Varghese, A., Pal, M., Banerjee, S., Bhattacharyya, A., Sharma, R. and Agarwal, A. (2010) 'Semen quality and age-specific changes: a study between two decades on 3,729 male partners of couples with normal sperm count and attending an andrology laboratory for infertility-related problems in an Indian city', Fertility and Sterility (Elsevier, USA), Vol. 93, No. 7, pp.2247—2254, ISSN:0015-0282, DOI: 10.1016/J.FERTNSTERT.2009.01.135, WOSUID: WOS:000277608200022.
4. [Journal Article] Mukhopadhyay, D., Nandi, P., Varghese, A., Gutgutia, R., Banerjee, S. and Bhattacharyya, A. (2010) 'The in vitro effect of benzo [a] pyrene on human sperm hyperactivation and acrosome reaction', Fertility and Sterility (Elsevier, USA), Vol. 94, No. 2, pp.595-598. ISSN:0015-0282, DOI: 10.1016/J.FERTNSTERT.2009.02.031, WOSUID: WOS:000279758800028.
5. [Journal Article] Mukhopadhyay, D., Varghese, A., Nandi, P., Banerjee, S. and Bhattacharyya, A. (2010) 'CASA-based sperm kinematics of environmental risk factor-exposed human semen samples designated as normozoospermic in conventional analysis', Andrologia (Wiley & Hindawi, USA-UK), Vol. 42, No. 4, pp.242-246. Online ISSN: 1439- 0272, DOI: 10.1111/J.1439-0272.2009.00984.X, WOSUID: WOS:000279836500006.
6. [Journal Article] Mukhopadhyay, D., Mitra, A., Nandi, P., Varghese, A., Murmu, N., Chowdhury, R., Chaudhuri, K. and Bhattacharyya, A.K. (2009) 'Expression of metallothionein-1 (MT-1) mRNA in the rat testes and liver after cadmium injection', Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine (Taylor & Francis-Informa, UK), Vol. 55 No. 5-6, pp.188-192, ISSN:1939-6368 (print) /1939-6376 (online), DOI: 10.3109/19396360903114429, WOSUID: WOS:000272975100003.
7. [Journal Article] Varghese, A., Bragais, F., Mukhopadhyay, D., Kundu, S., Pal, M., Bhattacharyya, A. and Agarwal, A. (2009) 'Human sperm DNA integrity in normal and abnormal semen samples and its correlation with sperm characteristics', Andrologia (Wiley & Hindawi, USA-UK), Vol. 41, No. 4, pp.207-215, Online ISSN:1439-0272, DOI: 10.1111/J.1439-0272.2009.00917.X, WOSUID: WOS:000267656700002.
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