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The Department of Cognitive Science is hosting the 4th Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics (EEL) 2026 from July 1 to July 5, 2026. EEL is primarily a methods workshop focused on psycholinguistic experiment design and statistical inference. The workshop features two parallel tracks: the Experimental Track (experiment design and data analysis using R) and the Modeling Track (Bayesian inference and computational cognitive models).T Feel free to join if you have an interest in any of the tracks. The venue is L8. Also, there will be Keynote talks every day, 5-6 PM. You are welcome to attend the talks. The schedule is available on the website [Link] .
01 Jul, 2026 -
MindCheck Goes Live at IIT Kanpur Working closely with CMHW, we launched the MindCheck app along with a Cognitive Kiosk at IIT Kanpur. This initiative aims to improve access to cognitive health screening through innovative digital tools. For more information, visit here.
01 Jul, 2026 -
Applications are invited for MSR Admission (2026-2027-I) through Walk-in Mode (Sponsored Category) at the Department of Cognitive Science. The applicants must submit the Application Form along with all the required documents in a single PDF file to dpgc_cgs@iitk.ac.in with the subject "MSR Admissions (2026-27): Walk-in Mode" by June 30, 2026. For more details, please refer to the Eligibility Criteria, Advertisement, and Information . The last date for submission of documents is the end of the day on June 30, 2026. The online interview will be held on July 1, 2026, between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM. The interview will be conducted online via Zoom. The interview link is provided below. Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 890 0753 5520, Passcode: 676026).
30 Jun, 2026 -
We congratulate our UG intern students, Vaneesha S. Kumar and Nischay Patel, on being selected for the Ranjan Kumar Memorial Awards in recognition of their outstanding translation work on the topic of major depression in our department.
29 Jun, 2026 -
Congratulations to Mr. Tapas Rath for receiving a student Travel Award (USD 1500 grant) and a complimentary registration to present his paper "A Self-directed Expanded Judgment Paradigm: Isolating the Pairwise Mechanism of the Attraction Effect" that has been accepted as a talk at CogSci 2026. in Rio, Brazil, 22-25 July, 2026.
25 Jun, 2026
Recent Publications
- Santrupti, S, Shevatekar, P., Sarvagya, S., &, Srivastava, A. (Forthcoming, October, 2026). Supportive, but Not Standalone: Learner Interactions with AI-Feedback in a STEM Game. Proceedings of the Frontiers In Education Conference, Cyprus.
- Tyagi, K., Pandey, V., &, Srivastava, A. (Forthcoming, July 2026). When Motion Wins: Hierarchies of Cognitive Efficiency in Perceptual Grouping. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- A self-directed expanded judgment paradigm-Isolating the pairwise mechanism of the attraction effect. Rath, Tapas and Srivastava, Nisheeth and Srinivasan, Narayanan. 48th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2026
- Number feature distortion causes grammaticality illusion in Hindi Sentences. Gaurja Aeron, Himanshu Yadav, and Mukund Chaudhary. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 2026.
- Slow readers capitalize on predictive processing. Himanshu Yadav and Samar Husain. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 2026.
- Predictive memory activation attenuates similarity-based interference in verb-final languages. Kanika Sachdeva and Himanshu Yadav. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 2026.
- Predictive re-activation of the upcoming verb explains (anti-)locality effects in Hindi. Bhaj Gobindh Raj and Himanshu Yadav. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 2026.
- A predictive memory activation model of sentence comprehension. Himanshu Yadav, Bhaj Gobindh Raj, and Kanika Sachdeva. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 2026.
- Basu, S., & Srinivasan, N. (2026). Measurement of metacognition of emotional dimensions: A ROC based measurement method for metacognition of valence and arousal. Frontiers in Psychology, 17:1761622.[Link]
- Francis, Bajpai, Balasubramani, Tiwari, Singh, Chawla, Singh, Chaudhari and Balasubramani (2026). Subtyping Depression using Brain-Gut Electrophysiology for Early Prediction of Antidepressant Response. [Link]