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Leslee Lazar

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Leslee Lazar

Associate Teaching Professor, Cognitive and Brain Sciences

  • BSc: Loyola College, Chennai, India, 1998
  • MSc: University of Madras, India, 2000
  • PhD: National Brain Research Centre, India, 2013

Email: leslee.lazar -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : https://labs.iitgn.ac.in/taper

Office: 5/315 A
VOIP: 2717


  • Selected Publications

    1. Kottu, S. R., and Lazar, L. Lack of Visual Experience Leads to Severe Distortions in the Hand Representation of the Body Model. (2024). Cortex . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.09.015

    2. Bulusu, V., & Lazar, L. (2024). Crossmodal associations between naturally occurring tactile and sound textures. Perception, 53(4), 219-239. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231224557

    3. Lazar L, Chand P, Rajan R, Mohammed H, Jain N. Somatosensory cortex of macaque monkeys is designed for opposable thumb. 2022. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac061

    4. Lazar L. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Design Creativity. Journal of Experimental Neuroscience. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/1179069518809664 PMID: 30450006; PMCID: PMC6236478.

    5. Tandon S, Kambi N, Lazar L, Mohammed H, Jain N. Large-scale expansion of the face representation in somatosensory areas of the lateral sulcus after spinal cord injuries in monkeys. J Neurosci. 2009 Sep 23;29(38):12009-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2118-09.2009. PMID: 19776287

    6. Kambi N, Tandon S, Mohammed H, Lazar L, Jain N. Reorganization of the primary motor cortex of adult macaque monkeys after sensory loss resulting from partial spinal cord injuries. J Neurosci. 2011 Mar 9;31(10):3696-707. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5187-10.2011 .PMID: 21389224

  • Work Experience

    • Associate Teaching Professor - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar (2023 t0 Present)
    • Assistant Teaching Professor - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar (Dec 2019 to 2023)
    • Visiting Faculty - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar (Dec 2016 – Dec 2019)
    • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Harvard Medical School (BIDMC) (Jan 2014 - July 2015)
    • Research Associate - National Brain Research Centre, India (Aug 2013 – Jan 2014)