Perception Action Cognition Lab

Greetings! I am an associate professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Our lab investigates the cognitive processes of perception and action, how they are linked with each other, and how this interaction influences our experience of events occurring in the environment? Some of the questions we look at include:

How do we exercise control and how it is linked with the sense of agency?
How do we perceive emotions and how it is mediated by processes of attention and intentionality?
How intentionality of action influences our experience?
How online control of actions, influence attention and awareness of actions?

If you want to know more about my work you may visit the links in the banner.

Check our lab page for a list of members, their research interest and any open RA/ Project positions for IIT Kanpur students and for outside students

News

Congratulations to Dhuniraj for joining as a lecturer (rehabilitation psychology) at NIEPID, Sikandarabad.

Congratulations to Aditi Jublie on joining IISER Bhopal as an assistant professor (psychology).

Congratulations to Rujuta Pradhan for joining as a postdoc at Kansas State University.

Congratulations to Aditi Jain on Joining the University of Nottingham as a doctoral student

Congratulations to Aditi Jublie on joining the OP Jindal School of Psychology as an assistant professor.

Rujuta's Paper titled Event boundaries as gateways or Indexes? Investigating the mechanism of access to information bound within an event has been accepted for inclusion in the 2023 International Conference on Learning and Memory (LEARNMEM2023) scientific program.

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

Rujuta's submission entitled "Event boundaries influence event memory representation updating only for contextually homogenous events." has been accepted as a talk in ESCoP, 2022

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.