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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.
The Cognitive Science program at IIT Kanpur seeks to leverage the technical talent and infrastructure available at our institute to push forward the frontiers of research in cognitive science using a combination of computational and behavioral research.
We invite students and researchers interested in cognitive science to join our growing program. Applications to our PhD and MS programs , are generally advertised in December. Undergraduate students at IIT Kanpur have the option to pursue a minor in Cognitive Science, as well as interesting project work opportunities. Inquiries about post-doctoral positions may please be directed to individual faculty members.
In keeping with CIC transparency guidelines, the latest department statistics and procedures are also available separately here.
Welcome To Our Programme
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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IITK has started a new Department of Cognitive Science on December 7, 2020.
21 Jan, 2021 -
Registration Information for Cognitive Science Joint Entrance Test [COGJET]-2021 Portal
04 Jan, 2021 -
Announcement for COGJET 2021 click here
27 Dec, 2020 -
List of MS and PhD candidates selected for admission released
03 Jul, 2020 -
Final schedule for PhD interviews for 2020 admissions released
26 Jun, 2020 -
Final schedule for MS interviews for 2020 admissions released
14 Jun, 2020 -
New Information for COGJET 2020 can be found here
11 Jun, 2020

- Tewari, S., Makwana, M., & Srinivasan, N. (2020). Group congruent labelling leads to subjective expansion of time. Royal Society Open Science, 7:201063.
- Melcher, D., Kumar, D., & Srinivasan, N. (2020). The role of action intentionality and effector in the subjective expansion of temporal duration after saccadic eye movements. Scientific Reports, 10:16922.
- Srinivasan, N., Tripathi, S., & Singhal, I. (2020). Meditators exercise better endogenous and exogenous control of visual awareness. Mindfulness, 11, 2705-2714.
- Srinivasan, N. (2020). Consciousness without content: A look at evidence and prospects. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1992.
- Chiarella, S. G., Makwana, M., Simione, L., Hartkamp, M., Calabrese, L., Raffone, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2020). Mindfulness meditation weakens attachment to self: Evidence from a self vs other binding task. Mindfulness, 11, 2411-2422.
- A Srivastava, N Srivastava, S Chandrasekaran Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Building strategies affect concept map quality, 2020 in press.
- Aarush Mittal, Diksha Gupta, Amrita Singh, Andrew Lin, Nitin Gupta Multiple network properties overcome random connectivity to enable stereotypic sensory responses. Nature Communications, 2019, Vol. 11 page 1023.
- Tal Dalal, Nitin Gupta, Rafi Haddad Bilateral and unilateral odor processing and odor perception. Communications Biology, 2020 Vol. 3 page 150.
- P. Singh, P. Agrawal, A. Nandanwar, L. Behera, Nishchal K. Verma, S. Nahavandi, and M. Jamshidi Multivariable Event-Triggered Generalised Super-Twisting Controller for Safe Navigation of Non-Holonomic Mobile Robot. IEEE Systems Journal, 2020.
- N. K. Dhar, Nishchal K. Verma, and L. Behera An Online Event-Triggered Near Optimal Controller for Nash Solution in Interconnected System. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020.
- Pawan Kumar, Dhanajit Kumar,, Harish Karnick, Piyush Rai Deep Attentive Ranking Networks for Learning to Order Sentences., AAAI New York, 2020.
- Rithwik Cherian, Harish Karnick Color Categorization and Naming in Normal, Deficient, and Mixed Populations Using Agent Based Modelling, Poster, CogSci 2020, Toronto.
- Neelabja Roy, Ark Verma, Harish Karnick Evidence of Self – Referential Prioritization on the basis of Visual Features: Attributing Salience to Rule - Learning, Poster CogSci 2020, Toronto.
- Nishchal K. Verma, A. Salour Intelligent Condition Based Monitoring: For Turbines, Compressors, and other Rotating Machines. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-981-15-0512-6.
- Umair Ahmed, Renuka Sindhgatta, N Srivastava, Amey Karkare Characterizing the Pedagogical Benefits of Adaptive Feedback for Compilation Errors by Novice Programmers. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, 2020, Seoul, S Korea.
- A Sifar, N Srivastava Limits on Predictability of Risky Choice Behavior. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020, Toronto, Canada.
- H Balakrishnan, S Jagga, N Srivastava Inducing Preference Reversals by Manipulating Revealed Preferences. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020, Toronto, Canada.
- Devpriya Kumar, A Malik Dynamics of spatio-temporal scope of attention: Temporal Correlations in reaction time data. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020, Toronto, Canada.
- A Jublie, Devpriya Kumar Self-reference effect for faces is mediated by attention Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020, Toronto, Canada.
- R Pradhan, Devpriya Kumar Encoding or Post Encoding Mechanisms Invoke Enhanced Memory for Event Boundaries? Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020, Toronto, Canada.
- A Jublie, Devpriya Kumar Attentional Capture of Self-face: Perceptual enhancement or Top-down bias. International Congress of Psychology, 2020, Prague, Czech Republic.