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

publication
News
  • 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
  • Results for MSR/PhD admissions 2022 are out. Congratulations to all recommended candidates.
    26 May, 2022
  • Interview schedule for Admission to PhD Programme 2022, click here
    06 May, 2022
  • Congrats to Mr. Ishan Singhal, who has been awarded the 2022 William James Prize by the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness!
    27 Apr, 2022
  • Interview schedules MSR (Cognitive Science) for the Academic Session 2022-23-I, click here
    26 Apr, 2022
  • List of Candidates shortlisted for MSR 2022, click here
    25 Apr, 2022
  • List of Candidates shortlisted for PhD 2022, click here
    19 Apr, 2022
  • Important dates for the application process (MS/PhD 2022), please click here
    18 Apr, 2022
  • The last date for receiving applications (MS/PhD 2022) in both offline and online modes is April 13 (Wednesday), 12:00 noon. For more info, please click here
    11 Apr, 2022
  • Congratulations to Dr. Pragathi Priyadarshini Balasubramani for who has been awarded the Anjali Joshi new faculty fellowship!
    24 Mar, 2022
news
Recent Publications
  • 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]
  • Balasubramani, P.P., Diaz-Delgado, J., Grennan, G., Alim, F., Zafar-Khan, M., Maric, V., Ramanathan, D. and Mishra, J., 2022. Distinct neural activations correlate with maximization of reward magnitude versus frequency. Cerebral Cortex.[link]
  • Balasubramani, P.P., Walke, A., Grennan, G., Perley, A., Purpura, S., Ramanathan, D., Coleman, T.P. and Mishra, J., 2022. Simultaneous Gut-Brain Electrophysiology Shows Cognition and Satiety Specific Coupling. Sensors, 22(23), p.9242.[link]
  • Mishra, S., Srinivasan, N., & Tiwary, U.S. (2022). Dynamic functional connectivity of emotion processing in beta band with naturalistic emotion stimuli. Brain Sciences, 12, 1106.
  • Chaumon, M., Rioux, P.-A., Herbst, S., ..., Mudumba, R., ..., Srinivasan, N., .., & van Wassenhove, V. (2022). The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during Covid-19. Nature Human Behaviour.
  • A Jublie, D Kumar (2022). Attentional Bias for Self-Face: Investigation using Drift Diffusion Modelling. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society [link]
  • Anjali Sifar and Nisheeth Srivastava. Over-precise predictions cannot identify good choice models, Computational Brain and Behavior.
  • Ankoju Bhanu Prakash and Nisheeth Srivastava. Sampling-based probability construction explains individual differences in risk preference. Proceedings of CogSci 2022.
  • Samarth Mehrotra and Nisheeth Srivastava. Selecting between visuomotor lotteries to measure mental effort in risky decisions. Proceedings of CogSci 2022.
  • Singhal, I., Mudumba, R., & Srinivasan, N. (2022). In search of lost time: Integrated information theory needs constraints from temporal phenomenology. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
  • Mishra, S., Srinivasan, N., & Tiwary, U.S. (2022). Cardiac-brain dynamics depend on context familiarity and their interaction predicts experience of emotional arousal. Brain Sciences, 12, 702.
  • Th'omas, S., & Srinivasan, N. (2022). Integration across levels of information processing: A case study with visual category learning. In R. C. Tripathi, B. R. Kar, & N. Pande (Eds.) Towards an Integrative Psychological Science (pp. 63-79), Springer: New Delhi.
  • Verma, A., & Kumar, D. (2022). Six Blind Men and the Proverbial Elephant: Integrating Multiple Methods in Psychology. In R. C. Tripathi, B. R. Kar, & N. Pande (Eds.) Towards an Integrative Psychological Science (pp. 19-43), Springer: New Delhi.
  • Divita Singh, Harish Karnick (2022). Self-Prioritization Effect in Children and Adults, Frontiers in Psychology.
  • Singhal, I., & Srinivasan, N. (2022). A wrinkle in and of time: Contraction of felt duration with a single perceptual switch. Cognition, 225, 105151.
  • Thomas, S., & Srinivasan, N. (2022). Accurate knowledge about feature diagnosticities leads to less preference for unidimensional strategy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
  • Van Leewen, F., ..., Srinivasan, N., ..., & Tybur, J. (2022). Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
  • Singhal, I., & Srinivasan, N. (2022). Is learning at task-relevant locations always better than task-irrelevant locations? It depends on the distractors. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 992–1003.