PhD students

Garima Joshi

Garima did her Masters in Cognitive science from CBCS and joined the doctoral program at CBCS in 2014. Her doctoral work focuses on how anxiety modulates dynamic adjustments in cognitive control by investigating these mechanisms in trait anxious young adults and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) patients to study their cognitive control processes. She uses questionnaires, psychophysical experiments and EEG/ERP for her studies.

Supervisor: Dr. Bhoomika R. Kar

Anurag

Anurag did his B.A. (hons) in psychology from University of Delhi and M.Sc (cognitive science) from CBCS, University of Allahabad and he joined the Doctoral program in 2018-19. His research areas are language processing and anticipation during sentence comprehension. He mostly uses eye-tracking methods.

Supervisor: Dr. Niharika Singh

Swati Kushwaha

Swati did her master’s in cognitive science from Centre of Behavioural & Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad. She joined CBCS as a PhD student in 2017-18 academic year, she proposes to investigate the effect of attention on syntactic planning for free and fixed word order languages, using behavioural & Eye Tracking methods.

Supervisor: Dr. Niharika Singh

Sanchita Mohindru

Sanchita did her masters is in Cognitive Science from Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad. She worked on the following research areas- attention, emotions and perception as part of her master’s thesis, specifically her topic of research was ‘Global- local bias mediates the effect of sadness on global local attention’. She has used OpenSesame to design behavioural and psychophysical experiments.

Supervisor: Dr. Bhoomika R. Kar

Tripti Verma

Tripti completed her Masters in Cognitive Science from Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad. Her research area is in cognitive development. Currently she is working on the topic of development of flexible cognitive control in children. Mostly she uses behavioural experiments.

Supervisor: Dr. Bhoomika R. Kar

Ganga Tiwari

Ganga has a master’s degree in Cognitive Science. Her current research area is social – emotional development in pre-schoolers and school going children. She has predominantly used behavioural/psychophysical methods and eye tracking methodology for her studies.

Supervisor: Dr. Bhoomika R. Kar

Shailendra Patel

Shailendra is from Varanasi, UP, India. He holds a B.Tech. in Information Technology from KIT, Varanasi (aff. to AKTU, Lucknow), and a master’s degree in Cognitive Science from CBCS (UoA), where he worked with Dr. Narayanan Srinivasan. He has also worked at IIT Delhi as a Jr. Project Assistant under Dr. Sumitava Mukherjee. Currently, Shailendra is exploring the intersections of cognitive development, emotions, and predictive coding with Dr. Bhoomika Rastogi Kar.

Supervisor: Dr. Bhoomika R. Kar

Poulami Kar

Poulami is from Kolkata. She has completed her bachelor’s in physics, Mathematics and Statistics. After that she decided to join cognitive science for her interest in neuroscience, human mind and artificial intelligence. During her M.Sc. she worked on Bayesian approach to decision making using Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement with Prof. Supriyo Ray where she established that two different neuronal distributions (strike neurons and ball neurons) control the mechanisms for go and no-go decisions using Bayesian technique. After her M.Sc. she worked on Saccadic Chronostasis(Stopped Clock Illusion) with Prof. Ray where she tried to look into the threshold which triggers the phenomenon of Chronostasis. After joining PhD, she’s currently working under Prof. Bhoomika R. Kar, on neural correlates of music cognition where she’s trying to see normative variation in music perception on the basis of instrumental and vocal training. She is also trying to look into effects of cultural and linguistic aspects on music perception. She’s also strongly interested in Time Perception, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning. She’s skilled in data interpretation and data analysis. In her free time, you’ll find her going through various range of literatures (in fact got herself a master’s in English Literature), learning different musical instruments, debating about not-so-common movies and anime. That’d be all.

Supervisor:  Dr. Bhoomika R. Kar

Sumani Pushkarna

I did my B.tech Biotechnology from VIT Vellore and M.Sc Cognitive Science from CBCS Allahabad. For my master’s thesis I worked on the “Effect of perceptual grouping on utterance planning” under the supervision of Dr. Niharika Singh. My PhD work is on cognitive control and code-switching in bilingual communication. I take a multimethod approach for finding answers to my research questions.