There is good news to share at our end.

22nd June, 2023: Congratulations to Firdous for finishing his Open seminar successfully!!! Best wishes to him for defense. 💐💐

23rd May, 2023: English Reading Online (ENRO) collaborative project with (Noam Siegelman and Victor Kuperman) is now published in Language Learning. It contains N>7000 first- and second-language speakers.

08th May, 2023: Many Congratulations to Anjoom for securing 1000 $ Diversity & Inclusion Award at Cog Sci 2023.

05th May, 2023: Frontiers

26th April, 2023: Congratulations to Irfan for a nicely done SOTA!

23rd December, 2022: Many many congratulations to Moulshree!! She will pusure PhD at Donders Centre, Radboud University with Kristin Lemhöfer.

Recently, we published "Shabd: A psycholinguistic database for Hindi" in the journal Behavior Research Methods. Shabd is the first psycholinguistic database for Hindi language. This database is composed of 1.4 billion word tokens and 2.3 million word types. We provide information about word frequency, word length (akshara, matra, phoneme, syllable), part-of-speech tags (with frequency), contextual diversity etc. 

The entire database is freely available for use by researchers who may be interested in using Hindi words in their research. You may be able to access the full paper on the publications page on this website.

Also, we published "Yes! I love my mother as much as myself: Self- and Mother-Association Effects in an Indian Sample" in the journal Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. In this paper, we demonstrate that the so-called self-prioritization effect indeed varies across cultures. To begin with, we demonstrated that in Indian participants, as with Chinese (and other oriental cultures) participants do not show a preferential processing for self- relative to mother; but show advantages in processing relative to the friend. Moreover, we demonstrate that the processing for the self-associated stimuli gets modulated in a dynamic context and the nature of modulation depends upon the label in contrast, in a given situation. You may be able to access the full paper on the publications page on this website.