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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

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News
  • Dr. Anveshna Srivastava has been appointed the 2025 Chair of the Doctoral Student Consortium (DSC), which will be conducted as part of the 33rd International Conference on Computers in Education at IIT Madras from December 1st to December 5th, 2025.
    25 Apr, 2025
  • The Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur invites applications for its MTech. program for the 2025-26 session. Click here to visit the application portal (deadline for applications: 16th April, 2025).
    03 Apr, 2025
  • The Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur invites applications for its MS (R) and PhD programs for the 2025-26 session. Click here to visit the application portal (deadline for applications: 16th April, 2025 2:00 pm). Announcement for MTech admissions will follow soon.
    03 Apr, 2025
  • Dr. Anveshna Srivastava delivered a talk on 'Learning by Linking: Nurturing through Building Conceptual Connections' in a workshop on 'Early Childhood Education and Care', organized by Kislaya Nursery School at IIT Kanpur.
    29 Mar, 2025
  • Prof. Narayanan Srinivasan was invited to deliver the Durganand Sinha Memorial Lecture at the annual conference of NAOP, held at Christ (Deemed to be University), Ghaziabad.
    27 Feb, 2025
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Recent Publications
  • Srinivasan, N. (2025). Consciousness and cognition: A personal journey from functionalism to phenomenology. In I. Segev, A. Berkovich-Ohana, O. Raphael, E. Shulman, & D. Rudrauf (Eds.), Perspectives on Consciousness, MIT Press.
  • Hopkins, N., Reicher, S., & Srinivasan, N. (2025). Being a Kalpwasi: Pilgrimage and identity on the banks of the Ganga. In P. Singh & G. Misra (Eds.), Social Psychology in the Globalizing Era: Engaging with Disciplinary and Societal Challenges, Routledge, India.
  • Singhal, I., & Srinivasan, N. (2025). Deciphering temporal scales of visual awareness: Insights from flicker frequency modulation in continuous flash suppression. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 11(1):niaf005.
  • Mitra, A., Srinivasan, N., & Srivastava, N. (2025). Present-focused behavior as a rational adaptation to precarity. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science.
  • Mukherjee, S., Khan, O., & Srinivasan, N. (2025). The role of magnitude in loss aversion. Decision.
  • Thanissery, N., Arshad, F., Khokhar, S., Kenchaiah, R., Singh, V., Ramakrishnan, S., Srinivasan, N., Bapi, R. S., & Alladi, S. (accepted). Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
  • Thomas, S., Kapoor, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2025). Combination and differentiation theories of categorization: A comparison using participants’ categorization descriptions. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 9, 266-289.
  • Sharika, K. M., Thaikkandi, S., Nivedita, & Platt, M. L. (2024) Interpersonal heart rate synchrony predicts effective information processing in a naturalistic group decision-making task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(21), e2313801121.
  • Srinivasan, N., & Mudumba, R. (2024). Alpha suppression in the context of cross-frequency interactions between fast and intermediate timescales. Physics of Life Reviews, 51, 11-12.
  • Shivnekar, R., & Srinivasan, N. (2024). Choosing between bad and worse: Investigating the utilitarian choice through the lens of control. Cognitive Processing.



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