Last updated: 22 May 2025

PhD IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE



Potential Research Projects (a sample list):


  • Using whole person cognitive electrophysiology to develop a predictive tool for identifying of treatment success, and guide recommendation of precise and personalized treatment strategy in Depression.
  • Understanding the effects of planning and rehearsal on stimming and social cognition in autism, using a virtual scheduling and (avatar based) communication interface.
  • Using whole person cognition and motor evaluation for recommending medicine dosage, and building computational models of non-invasive brain stimulation like intervention in Parkinson’s Disease
  • Developing cognitively adaptable brain machine interfaces for stroke
  • Effect of Virechana Karma on Vagal tone, microbiome, and metabolic parameters in Schizophrenia<

For more details, please visit TRANSiT Lab


  • How do prediction and memory constraints interact at the individual level?
  • The role of cue weighting in sentence comprehension.
  • The distortion-preactivation-retrieval theory of sentence comprehension.
  • Working memory constraints and predictability maximization as opposite pressures to explain the variability in structural preferences across languages.
  • A unified theory of sentence processing in individuals with Aphasia and in controls.

For more details, please visit Language Processing Lab


  • To extract the conceptual milestones from the learning process, identify and make explicit the underlying cognitive strategies, and connect them with learning outcomes.
  • To study these strategies by closely observing and studying learners' thinking and reasoning processes as they try to make sense of concepts, resulting in the discovery of learning pathways that have both diagnostic and pedagogical implications.
  • To use this linkage between the processes and the outcomes to design efficient pedagogical resources.

For more details, please visit CLIP (Cognition, Learning and Innovation in Pedagogy) Lab


  • To investigate the cognitive and physiological mechanisms of productive social interactions in healthy and atypical populations.
  • To gain a physiological understanding of the role of affective processing in producing behavioral symptoms in affective disorders like depression (namely, anhedonia, amotivation and rumination) and how interventions like exercise may help alleviate it.

For more details, please visit Social and Affective Cognition Lab


Please feel free to explore other potential research themes and projects by visiting individual lab websites under Areas of Research.







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