Amrita Puri

Amrita Puri is Associate Professor of Biology at University of Central Arkansas, teaching Principles of Biology, Neuroscience, and Sensation & Perception. Holds PhD in Neuroscience (UC Davis) and dual BS degrees in Biology/Chemistry (UNO). Research examines visual cognition and sensory integration.

Key research areas:

• Crossmodal transfer between echolocation, vision and haptics
• Attentional mechanisms in numerical/physical size processing
• Anxiety effects on facial emotion perception
• Neural correlates of visual attention allocation

Publications demonstrate strong methodological diversity, employing psychophysics, eye-tracking, fMRI, and auditory perception paradigms. Recent work explores sensory substitution mechanisms and perceptual resolution in echolocation.