Journal Articles  

• Ramachandra V, Sugimoto K, Ziskind K, Verma A, Ahmad I, Godoy M, Watanabe K. 2025 The influence of iconicity and autistic traits on novel word learning: a cross-cultural investigation. R. Soc. Open Sci. 12: 242161. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242161 

• Kalra S., Agrawal, N. & Verma, A. 2025. Orthographic Complexity Moderates Eye Movements While Reading in Hindi, Along with Length & Frequency. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,

• Baba, A., & Verma, A. (2025). Scroll-Time and Echo-Chambers: Effect of Mass Media on In-group Bias and Polarization. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

• Kuperman, V., Schroeder, S., Acartürk, C., Agrawal, N., Alexandre, D. M., Bolliger, L. S., Brasser, J., Campos-Rojas, C., Drieghe, D., Đurđević, D. F., De Freitas, L. V. G., Goldina, S., Orellana, R. I., Jäger, L. A., Jóhannesson, Ó. I., Khare, A., Kharlamov, N., Knudsen, H. B. S., Kristjánsson, Á., Verma, A. . . Siegelman, N. (2025). New data on text reading in English as a second language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263125000105

• Siegelman, N., Elgort, I., Brysbaert, M., Agrawal, N., Amenta, S., Arsenijevic Mijalkovic, J., Verma, A.… Kuperman, V. (2024). Rethinking first language-second language similarities and differences in English proficiency : insights from the English reading online (ENRO) project. LANGUAGE LEARNING, 74(1), 249–294. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12586

• Baba, A., & Verma, A. (2024). Holier-Than-Thou: Can Contextual Information About Minimal Groups Modulate the Robust In-Group Bias Effect. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

• Rana, M., & Verma, A. (2024). Effects of Bilingualism on Sustained Attention and Inhibition: A Bayesian Enquiry. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

• Kumar, S., Khare, A. & Verma, A. (2024). Is there flexibility in Letter-Position Encoding in Hindi? Evidence from a masked form-priming study. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

• Mukherjee, D., Verma, A., & Velaga, N. R. (2024, August). Do emotions affect driving? Exploring the effects of emotional states on driving behaviour. In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY (Vol. 59, pp. 774-774). THE ATRIUM, SOUTHERN GATE, CHICHESTER PO19 8SQ, W SUSSEX, ENGLAND: JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD.

• Thahir, Anjoom A V., Roy, N. & Verma. A. (2023). Handedness Modulates Spatial Attention – Insights From Individual Variations In Lateralization Of Cognitive Functions. Proceedings of 45rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

• Agrawal, A., Agrawal, N., & Verma, A. (2023). Outcome of Globalization: Evidence for a Second Language Advantage in Reading and Comprehension from An Eye Tracking Study. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qd7s07r

• Verma, A., & Jain, A. (2023, December). Self-Bias in perceptual matching: A cross-cultural investigation. In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY (Vol. 58, pp. 955-955). THE ATRIUM, SOUTHERN GATE, CHICHESTER PO19 8SQ, W SUSSEX, ENGLAND: JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD.

• Rana, M. & Verma. A. (2023). Effects of bilingualism on inhibition unlikely- Evidence from a Bayesian Inquiry.Proceedings of 45rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

• Roy, N., Ahmad, I.  & Verma. A. (2023). I Remember Me the best, always? Evidence for Self-Prioritization in Working Memory Binding using a Visuo-Spatial Working Memory Task. Proceedings of 45rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

• Roy, N., Karnick, H., & Verma, A. (2023). Evidence for the Generalization of the Self-Prioritization Effect Based on Similarity. Acta Psychologica (under review)

• Verma, A., & Roy, N. (2023, December). Evidence for rule-based generalisation of the self-reference effect based on visual features. In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY (Vol. 58, pp. 214-214). THE ATRIUM, SOUTHERN GATE, CHICHESTER PO19 8SQ, W SUSSEX, ENGLAND: JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD.

• Siegelman, N., Elgort, I., Brysbaert, M., Agrawal, N., Amenta, S., Arsenijević Mijalković, J., Chang, C.S., Chernova, D., Chetail, F., Clarke, A.J.B., Content, A., Crepaldi, D., Davaabold, N., Delgersuren, S., Deutsch, A., Dibrova, V., Drieghe, D., Filipović Đurđević, D., Finch, B., Frost, R., Gattei, C.A., Geva, E., Godfroid, A., Griener, L., Hernández-Rivera, E., Ivanenko, A., Järvikivi, J., Kawaletz, L., Khare, A., Lee, J.R., Lee, C.E., Manouilidou, C., Marelli, M., Mashanlo, T., Mišić, K., Miwa, K., Palma, P., Plag, I., Rezanova, Z., Riimed, E., Rueckl, J., Schroeder, S., Sekerina, I.A., Shalom, D.E., Slioussar, N., Slosar, N.M., Taler, V., Thériault, K., Titone, D., Tumee, O., Wetering, R.v.d., Verma, A., Weiss, A.F., Wu, D.H. and Kuperman, V. (2023), Rethinking First Language–Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights From the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project. Language Learning. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12586

• Roy, N., Karnick, H., & Verma, A. (2023). Towards the self and away from the others: evidence for self-prioritization observed in an approach avoidance task. Frontiers in Psychology https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1041157

• Verma, A., Sikarwar, V., Yadav, H., Jagannathan, R., & Kumar, P. (2021) Shabd: A psycholinguistic database for Hindi. Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01625-2

• Verma, A., Jain, A., & Srinivasan, N. (2021). Yes! I love my mother as much as myself: Self- and mother-association effects in an Indian sample. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211033118.

• Roy, N., Karnick, H., & Verma, A. (2020). Evidence of Self Referential Prioritization on the basis of Visual Features:Attributing Salience to Rule - Learning. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 42. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47s195wt

• Verma, A. & Brysbaert M. (2015). A Validated set of tool pictures with matched objects and non – objects for laterality research. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition 20(1): 22 – 48. 

• Verma, A., van der Haegen L., & Brysbaert M. (2013). Symmetry Detection in Typically and Atypically Lateralized Individuals: A Visual Half – Field Study. Neuropsychologia, 51(13), 2611 – 2619. 

• Khare, V., Verma, A., Kar, B., Srinivasan, N., & Brysbaert, M. (2013). Bilingualism and the Increased Attentional Blink Effect: Evidence that the difference between bilinguals and monolinguals generalizes to different levels of second language proficiency. Psychological Research, 77(6), 728 – 737. 

• Verma, A. & Brysbaert, M. (2011). A right visual field advantage for tool – recognition in the visual half –field paradigm. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2342 – 2348. 

  Conference Presentations  

• Dipanjali., & Verma. A. (2025).  How Temporal Order Judgement Affects Early Attentional Processing in the Self-Prioritization Effect (Poster presentation) - ESCOP 2025 - 25th Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Singh, N., Ahmad, I., & Verma. A. (2025). Seeing "Me" First: The Cognitive Edge of Self-Prioritization (Poster presentation) - ESCOP 2025 - 25th Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Ahmad, I., & Verma. A. (2025). Leveraging Self-Prioritization to Enhance Performance in Dynamic working memory Tasks (Talk) - ESCOP 2025 - 25th Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Baba, A., & Verma. A. (2025). Curated Realities: The influence of Ingroup Bias on Media Processing and Behavioral Discourse (Talk) - ESCOP 2025 - 25th Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Khare, A., Naaz, M., & Verma. A. (2025).  Are Letters Basic Units for All orthographies? Evidence of Cost involved  with Maatraa Processing in Hindi (Blitz talk) - ESCOP 2025 - 25th Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Ahmad, I., Verma, A. (2025). Self-Association makes it easier to track multiple objects but within capacity limitations: A Multiple-Object Tracking Investigation. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, 2025. (Poster, Abstract Booklet)

• Baba, A., Tripathi, A., Verma, A. (2025). Scroll-time and Echo-Chambers: Effect of Mass Media on Ingroup Bias and Polarization. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, 2025. (Poster, Conference Proceedings with full paper)

• Mukherjee, D.,  Verma, A. (2025).Modelling the Effects of Emotional States on Driving speed and Crashes. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, 2025. (Poster, Abstract Booklet)

• Sinha, P., Shah, T.D., Yadav, P., Khare, A., Verma, A. (2025). Universals in Visual Word Recognition: Investigating the Optimal Viewing Position for Visual Words in Hindi. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, 2025. (Poster, Abstract Booklet)

• Kalra S., Agrawal, N. & Verma, A. (2025). Orthographic Complexity Moderates Eye Movements While Reading in Hindi, Along with Length & Frequency. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, 2025. (Poster, Conference Proceedings with full paper)

• Kumar, S., Khare, A., Verma A. (2025). Existing Models May Not be Able to Explain Letter-Position Encoding in Hindi: Evidence from a Priming Study. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, 2025. (Poster, Abstract Booklet)

• Khare A., Sunny, A., Verma A. (2025). Flexibility in letter position encoding in Hindi. The 9th Annual Conference for the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia, Cebu, 2025. (Talk, Abstract Booklet)

• Baba, A., & Verma, A. (2025). “Identity and Bias: The Primacy of Endowed Over Agentic Group Memberships”. 16th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Croatia, 2025. (Poster, Abstract Booklet)

• Baba, A., & Verma, A. (2025). Chosen or Assigned: Exploring the Notion of Choice in the Manifestation of the Ingroup Bias. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, 2025. (Poster, Abstract Booklet)

• Baba, A., & Verma, A. (2025). Curated Realities: The Influence of In-group Bias on Media Processing and Behavioral Discourse. 24th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sheffield, 2025. (Talk, Abstract Booklet)

• DIPANJALI, & Verma, A. (2024). Does familiarity drive the self-prioritization effects in attentional processing? Evidence from the Attentional Blink Task. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 2024. (Poster Presentation)

• Kumar, P., Khare, A., Agrawal, N., Sikarwar, V., Verma, A. (2024). New social media-based corpora for Hindi with better frequency estimates. AMLaP Asia 2024, Singapore, 2024. (Oral paper presentation)

• DIPANJALI, & Verma, A. (2024). Does familiarity drive the self-prioritization effects in attentional processing? Evidence from the Attentional Blink Task. 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic, 2024. (Oral paper presentation)

• Baba, A., & Verma, A. (2024). “Holier-Than-Thou: Can Contextual Information About Minimal Groups Modulate the Robust In-Group Bias Effect?” Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 2024. (Poster, Conference Proceedings)

• A. Baba and A. Verma, “The role of information/misinformation on our perceptual judgments of minimal groups.” 33rd International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Prague, 2024. (Talk, Abstract Booklet)

• Baba, A., & Verma, A. (2024). “The Dichotomy of Bias Behavior: Inhibition of Automaticity in Ingroup Bias for Deliberative Decisions?” 11th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS 11), IIT Bombay, 2024. (Poster, Abstract Booklet)

• Thahir, Anjoom A V., Roy, N. & Verma. A. (2023). The Handedness Continuum Captures Individual Variations In The Lateralization Of Global-local, Word And Face Processes (oral presentation) - ESCOP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• A. Baba and A. Verma, “Is mine always better? Evidence for ingroup bias moderation through information dynamics in group relations.” 10th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS X), IIT Kanpur, 2023. (Talk, Abstract Booklet)

• Dipanjali and A. Verma, “Does familiarity drive the self-prioritization effects in attentional processing? Evidence from the Attentional Blink Task.” 10th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS X), IIT Kanpur, 2023. (Talk)

• Ahmad War F. & Verma. A. (2023). Evidence That Anxiety Induces An Engagement Bias Towards Negative Information (poster presentation) - ESCOP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Rana, M. & Verma. A. (2023). Examining Effects of Bilingualism for Sustained Attention and Inhibition with Robust Tasks (poster presentation) - ESCOP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Roy, N., Ahmad, I.  & Verma. A. (2023). I Remember Me the best, always? Evidence for Self-Prioritization in Working Memory Binding using a Visuo-Spatial Working Memory Task. (oral presentation) - ESCOP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Agrawal, N. & Verma, A. (2023). Hilex – A Quick Test To Measure Lexical Proficiency In Hindi (poster presentation) - ESCOP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Agrawal, A., Agrawal, N. & Verma, A. (2023). Outcome of Globalization: Evidence for a Second Language Advantage in Reading and Comprehension from An Eye Tracking Study (poster presentation) - CogSci 2023 - 45rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

• Thahir, Anjoom A V., Roy, N. & Verma. A. (2023). Handedness Modulates Spatial Attention – Insights From Individual Variations In Lateralization Of Cognitive Functions (poster presentation) - CogSci 2023 - 45rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

• Rana, M. & Verma. A. (2023). Effects of bilingualism on inhibition unlikely- Evidence from a Bayesian Inquiry (poster presentation) - CogSci 2023 - 45rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

• Roy, N., Ahmad, I.  & Verma. A. (2023). I Remember Me the best, always? Evidence for Self-Prioritization in Working Memory Binding using a Visuo-Spatial Working Memory Task. (poster presentation) - CogSci 2023 - 45rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

• Mukherjee, D., Verma, A. & Velaga, N. (2022). Working Memory Modality And Load Effects On Driving Speed: A Study In A Driving Simulator (poster presentation) - ESCOP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology

• Thahir, Anjoom A V., Roy, N. & Verma. A. (2022). Does the handedness continuum capture individual variations in the lateralization of cognitive functions? (poster presentation) - ACCS 2022 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, IIT Delhi

• Kumar, P., Khare, A., Agrawal, N., Sikarwar, V. & Verma. A. (2022). Representativeness of the language register determines its predictive power for visual word recognition performance: Evidence from social – media-based corpora in Hindi (poster presentation) - ACCS 2022 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, IIT Delhi

• Mukherjee, D., Verma, A. & Velaga, N. (2022). Too much on your mind? Evidence for the moderation of driving performance with an increase in working memory load (poster presentation) - ACCS 2022 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, IIT Delhi

• Roy, N., Ahmad, I.  & Verma. A. (2022). I Remember Me the Best, always? Evidence for Self-Prioritization in Working Memory Binding using a visuo-spatial working memory task (poster presentation) - ACCS 2022 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, IIT Delhi

• Rana, M. & Verma. A. (2022). Bilingualism does not moderate inhibitory control: Evidence from a multifactorial study across tasks (oral presentation) - ACCS 2022 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, IIT Delhi

• Roy, N., Karnick, H., & Verma, A. (2022). Approaching the Self & Avoiding Others: Evidence for Self-Prioritization using the Manikin-Based AAT Task in an Online Study (oral presentation) - ACCS 2022 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, IIT Delhi

• Roy, N., Jain, A. & Verma, A. (2022). Switching Association to Mother can disrupt Gains and Loss patterns from Self-preference (oral presentation) - ACCS 2022 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, IIT Delhi

• Agrawal, N. & Verma, A. (2022). HiLex - A quick test to measure lexical proficiency in Hindi (oral presentation) - ACCS 2022 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, IIT Delhi

• Agrawal, N., Vaish, T. & Verma, A. (2022). न-Shabd: A Pseudoword Generator for Hindi and other Indic languages (poster presentation) - ACCS 2022 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, IIT Delhi

• Agrawal, N. & Verma. A. (2019). Lateralization during perception of emotions: comparison of different models. (poster presentation) At ACCS 2019 - Annual Conference for Cognitive Sciences, BITS Goa

• Verma, A. & Sikarwar, V., Yadav, J. Ranjith, & Kumar, Pawan (2018). SHABD: A Psycholinguistics Database for Hindi Words.

• Verma, A. & Warda, S. (2017) Role of Eccentricity in Perception of Symmetry on & Off – Fixation. Accepted for Oral Presentation. At the 4th Annual Conference of the Association for Cognitive Science (ACCS), India. 

• Verma, A. & Jain, A. (2017) Self – Bias in Perceptual Matching: A Cross Cultural Approach. Accepted for Poster Presentation. At the 4th Annual Conference of the Association for Cognitive Science (ACCS), India. 

• Verma, A. & Brysbaert, M. (2016). Lateralization of Cognitive Functions: A Visual Half – Field Approach. Invited Lecture at the Young Researcher’s Conference at the Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad. 

• Verma, A. & Brysbaert M. (2015) Symmetry Perception & lateralization. Invited Lecture in a Symposium on Symmetry Perception at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 at University of Liverpool, U.K.