Sahana Murali

Sahana Murali

Virtual Intern

I am a physiotherapy graduate currently pursuing a Master’s in Psychology from IGNOU, with research interests at the intersection of neuroscience and neurodiversity. My work focuses on autism through predictive processing frameworks, with particular emphasis on sensory processing across auditory, visual, and interoceptive modalities, as well as music cognition.

I previously worked as a research intern at Axxonet Brain Research Laboratory, Bangalore, where I conducted an independent EEG study on environmental complexity in first- and second-order mismatch negativity (MMN). I am currently part of Project 5: Are We in Sync Yet? under Zane Karai, working on EEG hyperscanning and inter-brain synchrony.

In future I intend to pursue a Master’s in Integrative Neuroscience to deepen my training in computational and systems neuroscience, and to further investigate how predictive processing and neural dynamics can inform more inclusive, brain-based approaches to autism and social interaction.