Here is good news to share at our end:

5th September, 2025: Dr. Ark Verma received Excellence in Teaching Award at IIT Kanpur on the occasion of Teachers' day! 💐🥳

3rd September, 2025: Irfan gave a talk titled Leveraging Self-Prioritization to Enhance Performance in Dynamic Working Memory Tasks at conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP '25), Sheffield. Congratulations! 🎉💐

16th August, 2025: Dr. Ark Verma delivered a lecture titled, "Cognitive Aspects of Teaching", at the Teaching Assistant and Staff Workshop organized by Center for Educational Research and Teaching Excellence at IIT Kanpur.

7th August, 2025: Many congratulations to Abhishek for being granted the Fellowship for Academic and Research Excellence (FARE) by IIT Kanpur!🎉💐

17th July, 2025: Dr. Ark Verma delivered the keynote address as Chief Guest during the orientation program at Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur 

27th June, 2025: Congratulations to Vivek on successfully completing his PhD Open Seminar! 💐

25th June, 2025: Dr. Ark Verma gave a talk titled "In Search of Universal Models of Reading: Why research in Indian Languages is Required?", at 3rd Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics (EEL'25), IIT Kanpur.

20th May, 2025: Congratulations to Neetu for defending her MS-R Thesis titled, "Investigating Perceptual Boundaries of Self-prioritization Effect in the Abstract Shape Paradigm Using Priming Studies".🎉💐🥳  

February 27-28, 2025: Anuraag gave a talk titled "Flexibility in letter position encoding in Hindi" at the Association for reading and Writing in Asia Conference (ARWA 2025), held at Cebu, Philippines. Congrats!💐🎉

February 18, 2025: Congratulations to Firdous on successfully completing his PhD Open Seminar! 💐

February 15–16, 2025: Two-day Bhartiya Bhasha Parivar Symposium was organized by Dr. Ark Verma and Dr. Himanshu Yadav, in collaboration with Bhartiya Bhasha Samiti, Ministry of Education, Government of India.The symposium provided a unique platform for experts across disciplines to explore the complexities of Indian languages, their cognitive processing, and their significance in artificial intelligence and education.

February 12, 2025: Congratulations to Abhishek on successfully completing his PhD Open Seminar! 💐🎉

December 13 - 15, 2024: Our lab members presented research posters and gave talks during 11th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS-XI) held at IIT Bombay:

Talks and the presenters*:

• ShabdGyaan: A pilot study precursor to mega-study on word recognition, individual differences and vocabulary size estimation by Singh, Ansh; Agrawal, Niket*; Verma, Ark

• Investigating perceptual boundaries of Self-Prioritization effect in Abstract Shape Paradigm using Priming effect by Singh, Neetu *; Ahmad, Irfan; Verma, Ark 

Posters' title and presenters*:

• Emotions and Driving: Effect of Emotions on Speed During Sudden Pedestrian Crossing Event by Debaparna

• The Dichotomy of Bias Behavior: Inhibition of Automaticity in In-group Bias for Deliberative Decisions by Abhishek 

• Self-prioritization modulates the multiple object tracking performance by Irfan

• Weighted LD1NN Algorithm for Detecting Bias in Lexical Decision Experiments for Abugida Systems and Indian Languages. Ansh Singh*, Niket Agrawal and Ark Verma

Congratulations to everyone! 🎉

December 5th-7th, 2024:  Vivek gave an oral presentation titled, "New social media-based corpora for Hindi with better frequency estimates",  at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP) 2024 conference at National University of Singapore. Congratulations! 💐

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.🎉

26th April, 2023: Congratulations to Irfan for a nicely done State of the Art Seminar (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.

We also published another paper titled, "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.