Perception, Action & Cognition

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Lab members

Devpriya Kumar (devpriya [at] iitk.ac.in)

Assistant Professor (Cognitive Science), Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur

Primary research interest in the area of percpetion, action, self, and consciousness

Sumantran Ray

Graduate Student, Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur

Sumantran is working on intentional/ unintentional mind-wandering

Dhuniraj Chettri

Graduate Student, Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT Kanpur

Dhuniraj Chettri is currently investigating the underlying cognitive mechanism of the autism spectrum. He is also interested in understanding other neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD, LD etc. . He is a certified rehabilitation psychologist and has worked with children with the neurodevelopmental disorder before starting his PhD. He has completed his MPhil in rehabilitation psychology from NIMH(NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CURRENTLY KNOWN AS NIED). Outside the lab, he is engaged in mental health programs and advocacy. .

Shivani Pande

Graduate student, Department of Cognitive Science

Shivani is investigating the role of predictions on attention and awareness. Her primary research interests are attention, motivation and emotions.

Niteesh Sharma

MS-R student, Department of Cognitive Science

Niteesh is investigating the attentional mechanism underlying perception and action when guided by our intentions and, the role different intentions play during the inhibitory control process. 

Tanvi Padia

MS-R student, Department of Cognitive Science

Tanvi is currently studying affordances, object concepts and perception-action links. She has studied Psychology and English Literature in her Bachelor’s. Tanvi enjoys reading, mountains and chai.

Tanvi Wadhwani

MS-R student, Department of Cognitive Science

Tanvi did her bachelors in life sciences and biotechnology. She is interested in the intersection of perception, awareness and temporality. Currently, she is trying to understand how the brain rhythms influence the same. Her favourite past times are star gazing, trying out different physical and esports, exploring random and new stuff and watching anime.

Yashika Tiwari

Intern

Yashika is passionate about understanding how the minds work, particularly in the areas of perception and action control. She is enthusiastic about exploring the intricacies of human behavior and perception in the lab's research.

Lab Alumni

Aditi Jublie 

Assistant Professor, IISER Bhopal

Rujuta Pradhan

Post-Doctoral candidate, Kansas State University

Rasika Lokhande

MS-R student, Department of Cognitive Science

Abhijeet Kumar, MathWorks

Aditi Jain

Akanksha Malik

Vidushi Jaya, IIT Indore

Ganga Tiwari, CBCS, University of Allahabad

Arnab Biswas, Nanyang Institute of Technology 

Avinash Anand, Microsoft, Hyderabad

Akash Gupta