Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur

The Department of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), invites applications from motivated students for admissions to their MSR, MTech and PhD programmes.
2024-25

Congratulation to Dr. Ishan Singhal on the successful defense his PhD dissertation titled 'Temporal Properties of Consciousness' completed under the supervision of Prof. Narayanan Srinivasan.
We wish Dr. Ishan Singhal the best of success going forward.

Congrats to Mr. Hariharan Purohit for being awarded the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) during the latest selection cycle.

Congratulations Mr. Pratyush Arya, an MS student at the Department of Cognitive Sciences, on winning the Best Student Paper award at the annual SBP-BRIMS conference held in Pittsburgh, USA, for his paper "Understanding Clique Formation
in Social Networks - An Agent-Based Model of Social Preferences in Fixed and Dynamic Networks".

Mr. Arya's paper, under the mentorship of Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava, tries to understand, using cognitive modelling, when networks of agents succeed and fail at arriving at consensus in their beliefs.

Ministry of Education Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur

We come to an end of an incredibly fruitful and remarkable tenth edition of ACCS.
Highlight was Prof. Anindita Bhadra's keynote session on dogs' interaction and their vital role in our ecosystem.

Huge congrats to Preetirupa Devi, Sudharshini B, Deepak Raya for winning the VS Chandrashekhar Pammi Award for Best Talk and Best Poster Presentation, respectively.

Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur

ACCSX Day 2 was full of insightful information. Prof. Mark Elliott explored the visual apperceptivr domain, While Prof. Sridharan Devarajan enthralled us with attention dynamics.
Another highlight was Prof. Rashmi Gupta from IIT Bombay studies of emotions and cognition. Scholars presented insights on Cognitive disorders and interventions, enriching our understanding of the mind's intricate workings.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur

ACCSX: Day 1 was full of unforgettable excitement!
The keynote talk by Marc Brysbaert and the exchange of thoughts between Dr. Abhay Karandikar and Professor Harish Karnick were the exciting highlights of the day.
Talks and posters on topics such (Attention, Perception, Learning and Memory) were displayed on the first day of ACCSX.
Enthusiastic participation, curious questions, good food and better weather characterised Day 1.
Can’t wait for you all to join us tomorrow for day 2.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Poster session 1, happening right now at Hall of Fame, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. See you all.

Prof Marc Brysbaert, from Ghent University, Belgium for keynote talk on "The limits of Popperian research: What psychology researchers must learn from engineers". Watch live at:

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