I have wide interests in cognitive science and dabbled in many topics. 

Research areas and projects

• Consciousness

• Mindfulness and meditation

• Emotion and cognition

• Decision making

• Mela project

Our research has been possible through generous support from multiple sources to me or my collaborators including:

• Department of Science & Technology, India

• University Grants Commission, India

• Defence Research & Development Organization, India

• BIAL Foundation

• Unilever Limited

Grants

• Transformative power of monastic debate and analytical meditation on cognition, emotion and brain (Team Member), BIAL Foundation, Portugal, 2023-2026.

• Assessment and extension of subsumption architecture in the context of adaptive shielding of mobile asset using a multi-robot system (Co-PI). DRDO, India, 2020-2021 

• Meditation, mind wandering, cognition and affect: A comprehensive study of multiple processes (PI). Department of Science & Technology, India, 2020-2023.

• Neural basis of cognitive reserve: Role of bilingualism and education (Co-PI), Department of Science & Technology – India, 2018-2021.

• Testing the explanatory limits of limited value representations (Co-PI), Department of Science & Technology – India, 2018-2021.

• DST FIST Phase I (PI), Department of Science & Technology – India, 2018-2023.

• Attentional inhibition, identity and affective evaluation (Co-PI), Department of Science & Technology - India, 2016-2019.

• Extensive Cognitive Neuroimaging (PI), Department of Science & Technology - India, 2016-2021.

• Religious infusion and asymmetric group conflict (Consultant) with Carolyn Warner, Steven Neuberg, and David Siroky, (PIs), Arizona State University, USA. National Science Foundation, USA, 2014-2017.

• Study on effects of cognitive styles on perception of products and product benefits (PI), Unilever Ltd, 2013-2016.

• Flexible perception and action in the context of naturalistic scenes (PI) with David Melcher (University of Trento, Italy), Indo-Trento Program for Advanced Research (ITPAR) – Phase III, Department of Science & Technology – India, 2013-2016.

• Effects of meditation on scope of attention (PI), Department of Science & Technology - India, 2011-2014.

• Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of conflict adaptation and affective control: A multimodal neuroimaging investigation (Co-PI), Department of Science & Technology - India, 2011-2014.

• Interaction of emotion and attention in decision making (Co-PI), Department of Science & Technology - India, 2010-2013.

• Mela Project - Collective Participation and Social Identification: A Study of the Individual, Interpersonal and Collective Dimensions of Attendance at the Magh Mela (Coordinator - India) with Universities in UK and Ireland, 2009-2012 (funded by ESRC, UK).

• Exploring the neural mechanisms in online language comprehension using EEG in Hindi-English bilinguals (PI), Department of Science & Technology - India, 2009-2013.

• Camouflage Detection (PI), Defense Institute of Psychological Research, 2004–2005.

• Video Indexing (PI), All India Council for Technical Education, 2000-2001.