Welcome To Our Department
Cognitive Science is the study of the mind - how it comes to be, what it is, and what it does. Researchers and practitioners in cognitive science come from a variety of conventional academic disciplines. Computer scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, philosophers have all contributed to this exciting synthesis of insight into how the mind works. These insights are all the more useful now in trying to construct artificial human-like systems.
Latest News/Publications

News
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Congrats to Mr. Pratyush Arya (MS/CGS), who won the Best Student Paper award at the annual SBP-BRIMS conference held in Pittsburgh, USA for his paper "Understanding Clique Formation in Social Networks - An Agent-Based Model of Social Preferences in Fixed and Dynamic Networks".
26 Sep, 2023 -
The Jay Pullur Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Lab Inaugurated by Mrs. Nirmla Jay Pullur dedicated in the honour of Late Mr. Jay Pullur (1962-2021) Alumnus (MT/CSE/1987) in the gracious presence of Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Director on 21 July, 2023.
21 Jul, 2023 -
The names of the students have to be admitted for PhD/MSR/M.Tech 2023 are available here. Reporting date for new PG students would be July 21-23, 2023.
11 Jul, 2023 -
Results for MSR/PhD admissions 2023 are out. Congratulations to all recommended candidates.
02 Jun, 2023 -
List of Candidates Shortlisted for MSR 2023, click here
14 May, 2023 -
The interview schedule for MTech (Cognitive Systems) for the Academic Session 2023-24-I is available here
30 Apr, 2023 -
List of Candidates shortlisted for MTech 2023, click here
27 Apr, 2023 -
The MTech interviews will be conducted from 3rd to 5th May 2023. We will share the meeting schedule and the online link with the shortlisted candidates.
27 Apr, 2023 -
Important dates for the application process (MTech/MS/PhD 2023), please click here
21 Apr, 2023 -
New MTech in Cognitive Systems program starting this academic year 2023-24. For more information click here
09 Mar, 2023

Recent Publications
- Singhal, I., & Srinivasan, N. (2023). Temporal correspondence in perceptual organization: Reciprocal interactions between temporal sensitivity and figure-ground segregation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
- Mishra, S., Srinivasan, N., Asif, M., & Tiwary, U.S. (2023). Affective film dataset from India (AFDI): Creation and validation with an Indian sample. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.
- Rana, M., & Verma, A. (2023) Effects of Bilingualism on Inhibition Unlikely - Evidence from a bayesian Enquiry. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society.
- Roy, N, Ahmad, I, & Verma, A (2023). I Remember Me the Best, Always? Evidence for Self-Prioritization in Working Memory Binding using a Visa-Spatial Working Memory Task. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society.
- AV, Anjoom., Roy, N., & Verma, A (2023). Handedness Modulates Spatial Attention - Insights from Individual Variations in Lateralisation of Cognitive Functions. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society.
- Siegelman, N., ..., Agarwal, N., Khare, A., Verma, A. ...(2023). Rethinking First Language-Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights From the English Reading Online (ENRO) Project. Language Learning.
- Roy, N, Karnick, H., & Verma, A. (2023). Towards the self and away from the others: evidence for self-prioritization observed in an approach-avoidance task. Frontiers in Psychology (14).
- Pathak, D., & Srinivasan. N. (2023). Preference for happy Faces in emotion-based attentional priority in visual short term memory. Proceedings of the 45rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society.
- Arsiwalla, X. D.,Srinivasan, N., Simione, L., Kleiner, J., & Raffone, A. (2023). Editorial: Rising stars in Consciousness Research 2021, Frontiers in Psychology.
- Nisheeth Srivastava, Anjali Sifar and Narayanan Srinivasan. Statistical prediction alone cannot identify good models of behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023
- Pritam Laskar and Nisheeth Srivastava. Groups are better than individuals at solving optimum stopping problems. Proceedings of CogSci 2023
- Samarth Mehrotra and Nisheeth Srivastava. Measuring the time utility of mental effort. Proceedings of CogSci 2023
- Arjun Mitra, Narayanan Srinivasan and Nisheeth Srivastava. Unpredictability shortens planning horizons . Proceedings of CogSci 2023
- Revati Shivnekar and Nisheeth Srivastava. Measuring moral vacillations. Proceedings of CogSci 2023
- Shubhamkar Ayare and Nisheeth Srivastava. Tracking multiple objects without indexes. Proceedings of CogSci 2023
- Anjali Sifar, Hariharan Purohit and Nisheeth Srivastava. Measuring the completeness of race models for perceptual decision-making. Proceedings of CogSci 2023
- Srinivasan, N., Simione, L., Arsiwalla, X. D., Kleiner, J., & Raffone, A. (2023). Editorial: Insights in Consciousness Research 2021, Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1182690.
- Mo Z, Grennan G, Kulkarni A, Ramanathan D, Balasubramani PP, Mishra J. Parietal alpha underlies slower cognitive responses during interference processing in adolescents. Behav Brain Res. 2023 Apr 12. [link]
- Nair, S.S., Muddapu, V.R., Balasubramani, P.P., Mishra, J., Ramanathan, D.S. and Chakravarthy, V.S. A generalized reinforcement learning based deep neural network agent model for diverse cognitive constructs. Sci Rep 13, 5928 (2023). [link]
- Madhira, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2023). Letting it go: The interplay between mind wandering, mindfulness, and creativity. Progress in Brain Research.[link]