Anglia Ruskin University

Post Doctoral Researcher

Profile:
Dr Raju P Sapkota obtained his Bachelor's degree in Optometry from Nepal in 2002 AD. Following his two and half years service as an optometrist at a Health Institute in Nepal, Dr Sapkota came to the United Kingdom to pursue Higher Education. Dr Sapkota obtained his Masters degree in Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science (IOVS) from the University of Manchester in 2006 AD, and a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University in 2010 AD. Since then Dr Sapkota has been working as a post doctoratal researcher within Vision & Eye Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University's Postgraduate Medical Institute.

Research interests:
Dr Sapkota's research interests range from purely clinical domains such as amblyopia and refractive status of cataract operated patients to more theoretical ones such as binocular summation, exta-foveal perception, visuo-spatial short-term memory, eye movements, and attention. In his current research, Dr Sapkota is investigating the effect of age on visual short-term memory including unimodal, ploymodal and cross-modal binding, with an aim of developing a new screening tool for early detection of Alzheimer's Disease.

Journal Papers:
Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., van der Linde, I. (2012). Manual tapping enhances visual short-term memory performance where visual and motor coordinates correspond. British Journal of Psychology, doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.2012.02115.x.

Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., & van der Linde, I. (2011). The impact of extra-foveal information on visual short-term memory for object-position. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23(5), 574-585.

Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., & van der Linde, I. (2011). Object-position binding in visual short-term memory for sequentially presented unfamiliar stimuli. Perception, 40(5), 538-548.

Selected Conference Presentations
Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., & van der Linde, I. (2012). A load-specific influence of stimulus category on short-term memory for object and position. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.

Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., & van der Linde, I. (2011). Priming effects in visual short-term memory for object position: Evidence for name-addressable object files? European Conference on Visual Perception. Perception, 40, 82.

Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., & van der Linde, I. (2010). Feature binding across visual and manual domains: Evidence from a VSTM study. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting. Journal of Vision, 10(7), 766.

Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., & van der Linde, I. (2010). Object-position binding in visual short-term memory for serially presented unfamiliar stimuli. AVA Xmas Meeting. Perception, 39(2), 271.

Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., & van der Linde, I. (2009). Extra-foveal processing in visual short-term memory: Facilitatory or inhibitory? AVA Xmas Meeting.Perception, 38(3), 467.

Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., & van der Linde, I. (2009). Dual impact of extra-foveal processing in human visual short-term memory. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting. Journal of Vision, 9(8), 596.

Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., Tavassoli, A., & van der Linde, I. (2008). Visual short-term memory for unfamiliar visual stimuli. British Congress for Optometry and Vision Science. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 28(1), 99.

Thesis/dissertation
R Sapkota (2010). Human visual short-term memory for unfamiliar stimuli: visual, spatial and motor binding, PhD Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

R Sapkota (2006). Binocular summation for luminance and contrast modulated targets, MSc dissertation, The University of Manchester, Manchester.

Grants and Awards:

1. Recipient of the Applied Vision association (AVA) travel grant, 2008.
2. Recipient of the Experimental Psychology Society's Grindly Grant, 2009.
3. Best paper presentation at the research student conference, Anglia Ruskin University, 2010.
4. University research funding award to recruit a summer student, 2011.
5. Recipient of the ?Guarantors of Brain' travel grant, 2012.

Contact Details:
Office: Eastings 204
Telephone no: 0845 196 2642
E-mail: Raju.Sapkota@anglia.ac.uk