Cognitive Science Programme

April 29, 2022

Institute lecture on Functional Imaging of the Human Brain
Prof. Kanwisher, Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of CognitiveNeuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT would be giving the IIT Delhi institute lecture on Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window…
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March 30, 2022

CogSci Colloquium Talk:
Searching for the elusive whole object using its parts
Dr. SP Arun
Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
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March 22, 2022

CogSci Colloquium Talk:
The sharing of motor memories across effectors
Dr. Pratik Mutha
Jibaben Patel Chair Associate Professor, Biological Engineering & Cognitive and Brain Science, IIT Gandhinagar
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March 11, 2022

CogSci Colloquium Talk:
Colour Vision: How colours are generated in the brain
Dr. Semir Zeki
Professor of Neuroaesthetics, University College London (UCL)
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Linguistic Complexity and Planning Effects on Word Duration in Hindi Read Aloud Speech
Faculty: Sumeet Agarwal Abstract Our study investigates the impact of linguistic complexity and planning on word durations in Hindi read aloud speech. Reading aloud involves both comprehension and production processes,…
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Locality and expectation effects in Hindi preverbal constituent ordering
Faculty: Sumeet Agarwal Abstract We investigate the relative impact of two influential theories of language comprehension, viz., Dependency Locality Theory (Gibson, 2000; DLT) and Surprisal Theory (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008),…
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Psychophysiological impact of spinal cord injury: Depression, coping and heart rate variability.
Faculty: Varsha Singh Abstract We examined the association of post-injury heart rate variability (HRV), coping with injury (fighting-acceptance), and depression symptoms in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Participants were…
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Surprisal and Interference Effects of Case Markers in Hindi Word Order
Faculty: Sumeet Agarwal Abstract Based on the Production-Distribution-Comprehension (PDC) account of language processing, we formulate two distinct hypotheses about case marking, word order choices and processing in Hindi. Our first…
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Institute lecture on Functional Imaging of the Human Brain