About Us

The Language and Cognition Lab is a research lab in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. In this research space, all initiatives are bound to contribute to the understanding of the neuropsychological underpinnings of human language and the cognitive mechanisms underlying language comprehension and production.

In the current wave of research, the scholars are particularly focusing on how language comprehension happens in fluent native speakers of the Indian language families. The primary linguistic features being investigated in this wave is ergativity and its interplay with syntactic and semantic cues.

The techniques that we primarily adopt for our research are electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking.

Our research is generously funded by the institute (IIT Ropar)  and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India.