Publications (by year)

2025

Present-Focused Behavior as a Rational Adaptation to Precarity.
Mitra, Arjun, and Srinivasan, Narayanan, and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
Open Mind, Volume 9, 2025.
Keywords: Time Preference, Resource Scarcity, Rational Adaptation

Perceived time mediates the effect of unpredictability on intertemporal choices.
Mitra, Arjun and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
47th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
Keywords: Delay Discounting, Subjective Time, Uncertainty, Intertemporal Choice

Re-evaluating the Numerical-Perceptual Distinction in the Attraction Effect.
Rath,Tapas Marupudi,Vijay.
47th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
Keywords: Attraction Effect, Context Effect, Asymmetric Dominance, Mathematical Cognition

A Metacognitive appraisal of quitting.
Purohit, Hariharan and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
47th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
Keywords: Decision Making, Metacognition, Optimal Stopping Problem, Quitting, Resilience

Gaze signatures of cognitive conflict while choosing and solving.
Shivnekar, Revati Vijay and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
47th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
Keywords: Cognitive Conflict, Measurement, Reasoning, Eye Tracking

2024

Tracking Conflict in Reasoning.
Shivnekar, Revati Vijay.
PhD Thesis. 2024
Keywords: Measurement, Decision Making, Morality, PhD Theses

Measuring vacillations in reasoning.
Shivnekar, Revati Vijay and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
Judgment and Decision Making, Volume 19, 2024.
Keywords: Measurement, Decision Making, Morality

How robust are fMRI and EEG data to alternative specifications in representational similarity analyses?.
Sharma, Satwick Sen and Boruah, Gouravmoy and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
46th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
Keywords: Specification Curve Analysis, fMRI, EEG, Metascience

Learning to Play Video Games with Intuitive Physics Priors.
Jaiswal, Abhishek and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
46th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
Keywords: Affordances, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Learning, Vision

Multiple Object Tracking Without Pre-attentive Indexing.
Shubhamkar Bajrang Ayare.
Masters Thesis. 2024
Keywords: Multiple Object Tracking, Vision, MS Theses

Incidental statistical learning and its limitations.
Anish Thankachan.
Masters Thesis. 2024
Keywords: Statistical Learning, Incidental Learning, Learning, MS Theses

Multiple Object Tracking Without Pre-attentive Indexing.
Ayare, Shubhamkar and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
Open Mind, Volume 8, 2024.
Keywords: Multiple Object Tracking, Vision, Attention

2023

Measuring Mental Effort with Visual estimation tasks.
Mehrotra, Samarth.
Masters Thesis. 2023
Keywords: Mental Effort, Measurement, Attention, MS Theses

Using Learnable Physics for Real-Time Exercise Form Recommendations.
Jaiswal, Abhishek and Chauhan, Gautam and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2023
Keywords: Recommendation Systems, Machine Learning, Deep Learning

Understanding Clique Formation in Social Networks - An Agent-Based Model of Social Preferences in Fixed and Dynamic Networks.
Arya, Pratyush and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2023
Keywords: Preferences, Social Cognition, Polarization

Statistical prediction alone cannot identify good models of behavior.
Srivastava, Nisheeth and Sifar, Anjali and Srinivasan, Narayanan.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 46, 2023.
Keywords: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Metascience, Vision

Measuring the time utility of mental effort.
Mehrotra, Samarth and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
45th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
Keywords: Measurement, Decision Making, Learning from Experience, Vision

Unpredictability shortens planning horizons.
Mitra, Arjun and Srivastava, Nisheeth and Srinivasan, Narayanan.
45th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
Keywords: Risk, Learning from Experience, Decision Making

Groups are Better than Individuals at Solving Optimum Stopping Problems.
Laskar, Pritam and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
45th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
Keywords: Decision Making, Social Cognition

Measuring the completeness of race models for perceptual decision-making.
Sifar, Anjali and Purohit, Hariharan and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
45th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
Keywords: Race Models, Drift Diffusion, Random Dot Motion Discrimination, Vision, Decision Making

Measuring Moral Vacillation.
Shivnekar, Revati Vijay and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
45th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
Keywords: Morality, Decision Making, Measurement

Tracking Multiple Objects without Indexes.
Ayare, Shubhamkar and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
45th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
Keywords: Multiple Object Tracking, Vision

2022

Sampling-based probability construction explains individual differences in risk preference.
Ankoju, Bhanu Prakash.
Masters Thesis. 2022
Keywords: Risk, Working Memory, Prospect Theory, Probability Judgments, MS Theses

Over-precise Predictions Cannot Identify Good Choice Models.
Sifar, Anjali and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
Computational Brain & Behavior, Volume 5, 2022.
Keywords: Choice Models, Risk, Learning from Experience, Metascience

Sampling-based probability construction explains individual differences in risk preference.
Ankoju, Bhanu Prakash and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
44th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022
Keywords: Risk, Working Memory, Prospect Theory, Probability Judgements

Selecting between visuomotor lotteries to measure mental effort in risky decisions.
Mehrotra, Samarth and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
44th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022
Keywords: Risk, Decision Making, Measurement, Learning from Experience

2021

Imprecise Oracles Impose Limits to Predictability in Supervised Learning.
Sifar, Anjali and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-21, 2021
Keywords: Choice Models, Decision Making, Metascience

One and known: Incidental probability judgments from very few samples.
Singhal, Ishan and Srinivasan, Narayanan and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
43th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021
Keywords: Incidental Learning, Few-shot Learning, Learning from Experience

Draw, Don’t Look: Motor Representations for Few-shot Object Recognition.
Sharma, Aastha.
Masters Thesis. 2021
Keywords: Program Learning, Representation Learning, Motor Representations, MS Theses

2020

Limits on Predictability of Risky Choice Behavior.
Sifar, Anjali and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
42th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020
Keywords: Choice Models, Risk, Learning from Experience Decision Making, Metascience

Inducing preference reversals by manipulating revealed preferences.
Balakrishnan, Harish and Jagga, Shobhit and Sriva and Srivastava, Nisheeth.
42th Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020
Keywords: Preferences, Decision Making, Learning from Experience

2012

A computational investigation of being in the world.
Srivastava, Nisheeth.
PhD Thesis. 2012
Keywords: Preferences, Preference Formation, Decision Making, Reinforcement Learning, Morality, PhD Theses