Dyutiman Mukhopadhyay

Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, India (Manipal Academy of Higher Education) · Information Arts and Information Design Practices (Law Environment & Planning)

Aesthetic delight is a unique and paradoxical psychological experience of simultaneous emotional exaltation and a state of serenity toward a percept when an individual experiences the percept with the approach of an art experiencer or artist. The primary drawback of neuroscientific investigation of art is that it fails to trace the functional coher...

In this work, we construct functional networks of the human brain using the coherence measure on the EEG time-series data, in response to external audiovisual stimuli. These stimuli were nine different movie clips selected to evoke different emotional states. The constructed networks for each emotion were characterized using network measures such a...

Note: This paper only elaborates my own theoretical viewpoint behind an experimental work currently in progress. Based on this theoretical framework, I formulated a project proposal that might test the culture-appraisal-interaction model of emotion reactivity. I was subsequently awarded the Newton International Fellowship by the British Academy in...

This is a brief review of the Rasa theory of Indian aesthetics and the works I have done on the same. A major source of the Indian system of classification of emotional states comes from the ‘Natyasastra’, the ancient Indian treatise on the performing arts, which dates back to the 2nd Century AD (or much earlier, pg. LXXXVI: Natyasastra, Ghosh, 195...

Data Description: The Institute Ethical Committee (IEC) of Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, approved this study. Prior to conducting experiments, all of the participants provided informed consent. Participants: The study involved 20 healthy (mean age: 26 years, 16 males, 4 females), right-handed students from Indian Institute of Techno...

The following discourse is a brief yet appealing comparative analysis of two viewpoints on the same subject of Karma Yoga (detached 'witness–consciousness' through action) written separately by two stalwarts of Indian philosophy: Rabindranath Tagore (1915) and Swami Vivekananda (1896).

Visual, audio, and emotional perception by human beings have been an interesting research topic in the past few decades. Electroencephalography (EEG) signals are one of the ways to represent human brain activity. It has been shown, that different brain networks correspond to processes corresponding to varieties of emotional stimuli. In this paper,...

This is a brief conceptual analysis of the limitations of 'scientific' empiricism which I tried to convey without any possible scientific or philosophical jargon which are commonly used by scientists or philosophers and which are difficult for others to understand. The terms which appear as jargon here do not need to be understood literally as they...

In this work, we construct functional networks of the human brain using the coherence measure on the EEG time-series data, in response to external audio-visual stimuli. These stimuli were nine different movie clips selected to evoke different emotional states. The constructed networks for each emotion were characterized using network measures such...

In this work, we construct functional networks of the human brain using the coherence measure on the EEG time-series data, in response to external audio-visual stimuli. These stimuli were nine different movie clips selected to evoke different emotional states. The constructed networks for each emotion were characterized using network measures such...

EEG signal analysis is a powerful technique to decode the activities of the human brain. Emotion detection among individuals using EEG is often reported to classify people based on emotions. We questioned this observation and hypothesized that different people respond differently to emotional stimuli and have an intrinsic predisposition to respond....

In Indian history of arts, Rasas are the aesthetics associated with any auditory, visual, literary or musical piece of art that evokes highly orchestrated emotional states. In this work, we study the functional response of the brain to movie clippings meant to evoke the Rasas through network analysis. We extract functional brain networks using cohe...

In Indian history of arts, Rasas are the aesthetics associated with any auditory, visual, literary or musical piece of art that evokes highly orchestrated emotional states. In this work, we study the functional response of the brain to movie clippings meant to evoke the Rasas through network analysis. We extract functional brain networks using cohe...

Modular structure of functional brain networks for different human emotions from EEG data Richa Tripathi, Chakresh Kr. Singh, Dyutiman Mukhopadhyay, Shivakumar Jolad, Krishna Miyapuram Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar We explore the topological structure of functional networks of emotional brain across various frequency bands of brain...

Abstract: Introduction: The ancient Indian aesthetic theory, which is still widely followed in classical Indian performing arts, classifies emotions into nine different emotional states or Rasas which are: Sringaram (love, attractiveness), Hasyam (laughter, mirth, comedy), Raudram (anger, fury), Veeram (Heroism), Adbhutam (wonder, surprise, amazeme...

Abstract: The dual phase oscillation (DPO) hypothesis recently proposed by Mukhopadhyay (2014), is based on the neural correlate of aesthetic paradox; the paradox referring to a state of simultaneous heightened emotional experience and a state of detached composure during art appreciation. The hypothesis proposed that aesthetic delight is the dynam...

The definition of ‘Archetype’ typically refers to an original which has been imitated. The origin of the concept of Archetype in the traditional sense of the term refers to the primitive, universal perceptual imprint – a theory that dates back to Plato. The idea of the archetypal image is conceptually integrated with the aesthetics of visual arts a...

The definition of ‘Archetype’ typically refers to an original which has been imitated. The origin of the concept of Archetype in the traditional sense of the term refers to the primitive, universal perceptual imprint – a theory that dates back to Plato. The idea of the archetypal image is conceptually integrated with the aesthetics of visual arts a...

This study was conducted as part of an epidemiological survey of 126 nonsmokers and 178 smokers, showing primary infertility residing around Kolkata region of Eastern India. Their lifestyle history including smoking habits along with semen and blood were collected. The study examined the association of cigarette smoking with the risk of infertility...

This study was conducted after an initial epidemiological survey of patients in and around Calcutta, India, concerning their lifestyle history, degree of risk exposure and semen analysis based on conventional WHO criteria. It was found that a large group of exposed patients were showing normozoospermic semen parameters in conventional semen analysi...

Metallothioneins (MTs) belong to the family of stress proteins that are present in the majority of living organisms. The MTs play an important task in detoxifying heavy metals. The mammalian scrotal testis is known to be susceptible to cadmium (Cd) exposure. The present work focuses on the MT-1 isoform and aims to ascertain and confirm previous fin...

Reports indicate an increase in the incidence of DNA fragmentation in male factor infertility and its role in the outcome of assisted reproductive techniques (ART). However, reports are conflicting between the relationships of sperm DNA integrity with conventional semen parameters. We examined the relationship between conventional sperm parameters...

To evaluate the in vitro effect of benzo[a]pyrene on sperm hyperactivation and acrosome status in normozoospermic semen samples of nonsmokers analyzed by computer-assisted semen analysis (CASA). Experimental in vitro study. Andrology laboratory. Thirteen proven fertile, normozoospermic, and nonsmoking men. Spermatozoa were washed free of seminal pl...

To compare the semen quality and age-specific changes in men between the 1980s and 2000s. Prospective study. Andrology laboratory, University of Calcutta, India. A semen sample was obtained from 3729 men presenting for infertility problems in two distinct decades, that is, between 1981-85 and 2000-2006. Subjects with sperm count >20 x 10(6)/mL with...

Tobacco combustion yields about 4000 compounds and one of the most harmful components of it is benzo-α-pyrene. The aim of this study was to evaluate the in-vitro effect of benzo-α-pyrene on sperm hyperactivation in normozoospermic semen samples of non-smokers analyzed by CASA (computer-assisted-semen-analysis).

Sperm processing methods with repeated centrifugal pelleting of unselected spermatozoa for assisted conception have been reported to result in sperm damage due to enhanced generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) resulting in subsequent failure of pregnancy in some cases. The main objective of the present study was to assess the effect of in vit...

Effect of N-acetyl glucosamine and β glycerophosphate supplementation in cryopreservation media on post thaw sperm functional characteristics. Objective: The cryosurvival rates of human spermatozoa remain poor despite of modern cryopreservation methods for human semen. This is due to factors such as membrane damage and sub lethal damage at chromati...