Nikhilesh Natraj, PhD
Researcher
Neurology
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Research and Innovation Fellowship - Statistical framework for the analysis of gaze patterns, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-2013
• Travel award - Society for Neuroscience, Annie Robinson Clough Grant, 2011
• Travel award - W.M Keck Foundation, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Atlanta, 2011

Education & Training

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• PhD, MS Neurophysiology, Bioengineering/Computing Georgia Institute of Technology 2015

Publications (14)

Top publication keywords:
Memory ConsolidationPosturePattern Recognition, VisualHand StrengthMotor SkillsParietal LobeHandTool Use BehaviorPsychomotor PerformanceVisual PerceptionLearningFrontal LobeAttentionSaccadesMovement

• Sleep Spindles Favor Emotion Regulation Over Memory Consolidation of Stressors in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
  Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2023 Natraj N, Neylan TC, Yack LM, Metzler TJ, Woodward SH, Hubachek SQ, Dukes C, Udupa NS, Mathalon DH, Richards A
• Compartmentalized dynamics within a common multi-area mesoscale manifold represent a repertoire of human hand movements.
  Neuron 2021 Natraj N, Silversmith DB, Chang EF, Ganguly K
• Plug-and-play control of a brain-computer interface through neural map stabilization.
  Nature biotechnology 2020 Silversmith DB, Abiri R, Hardy NF, Natraj N, Tu-Chan A, Chang EF, Ganguly K
• Flexible regulation of representations on a drifting manifold enables long-term stable complex neuroprosthetic control.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Natraj N, Seko S, Abiri R, Yan H, Graham Y, Tu-Chan A, Chang EF, Ganguly K
• Sleep spindles, stress and PTSD: The state of the science and future directions.
  Neurobiology of stress 2023 Natraj N, Richards A

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• Emergence of perceptuomotor relationships during paleolithic stone toolmaking learning: intersections of observation and practice.
  Communications biology 2021 Bayani KYT, Natraj N, Khresdish N, Pargeter J, Stout D, Wheaton LA
• Flexible constraint hierarchy during the visual encoding of tool-object interactions.
  The European journal of neuroscience 2021 Bayani KYT, Natraj N, Gale MK, Temples D, Atawala N, Wheaton LA
• The Role of Attention and Saccades on Parietofrontal Encoding of Contextual and Grasp-specific Affordances of Tools: An ERP Study.
  Neuroscience 2018 Natraj N, Alterman B, Basunia S, Wheaton LA
• Shaping Reality through Mental Rehearsal.
  Neuron 2018 Natraj N, Ganguly K
• Effects of somatosensory electrical stimulation on motor function and cortical oscillations.
  Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation 2017 Tu-Chan AP, Natraj N, Godlove J, Abrams G, Ganguly K
• The visual encoding of tool-object affordances.
  Neuroscience 2015 Natraj N, Pella YM, Borghi AM, Wheaton LA
• Coelectrodeposited Solder Composite Films for Advanced Thermal Interface Materials
  IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology 2013 Raj, P.M. Gangidi, P.R. ; Nataraj, N. ; Kumbhat, N. ; Jha, G.C. ; Tummala, R. ; Brese, N.
• Context and hand posture modulate the neural dynamics of tool-object perception.
  Neuropsychologia 2012 Natraj N, Poole V, Mizelle JC, Flumini A, Borghi AM, Wheaton LA
• One hand, two objects: emergence of affordance in contexts.
  Brain and cognition 2012 Borghi AM, Flumini A, Natraj N, Wheaton LA