Upcoming

• Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society, Colorado, USA (14th November 2025)

• European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) 2025, University of Sheffield, UK (1st September 2025)

Past

• Language and Cognition Research: Contemporary Issues, by Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti at Berhampur University (12th March 2025)

• Current Developments on Language - Cognition Research, by Bharatiya Bhasha Samithi at IIT Delhi (1st March 2025)

• Narrow and broad diversity mindset: A model for culture/individual differences interaction in cognitive science, at IIT Kanpur (February 2025)

• Cognitive Diversity and Unity at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (January 2025)

• The Association for Cognitive Science, at IIT Bombay (December 2024)

• Eye-Tracking and Language research in Real-world at IIT Jammu (November, 2024)

• A 3-day Continuing Education programme on Cognitive interactions in the Multilingual Mind, at IIT Patna (November 2024)

• Quo vadis psychology: the Mengzi series at Shandong Normal University, China (October, 2024)

• Nature of human diversity and cognitive science at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (July 2024)

• A social Cognitive model of bilingualism at Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany (June 2024)

• Diversity, Cognition, and Bilingualism: How does it work in India? at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (June 2024)

• Buddhism and Cognitive Science: a reappraisal at Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur (March 2024)

• Exploring New Dimensions in Cognition, at IIT Bhubaneswar, (March 2024)

• Context, interlocutors and the cognitive psychology of bilingualism ACCS, IIT-Kanpur (December 2023)

• Bilingualism and literacy in the real-world ISBC, BITS, Goa, India (November 2023)

• Bilingualism, Evolution and Cognitive Control ISBC, BITS, Goa, India (October 2022)

• Context and control in bilingual experience. Bilingualism, Literacy and Language Special Interest Group (Nov 2021, virtual)

• Attention and the mind: Implications for cognitive disorders. IBRO APRC school on Modern interventional tools to improve Cognitive behaviour in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. NEHU Shillong (October 2021, virtual)

• The unbearable lightness of interdisciplinarity. In Innovation in Cognitive Science Curriculum, University of Hyderabad (August 2021, online)

• Eyetracking: a practical introduction. Organised by NeuroNet Center for Mind, Brain and Behaviour along with Asia-Pacific Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (June 2021, online)

• Controlling “unconscious” attention capture: When, and when not? In International Conference on Recent Advances in Cognition (April 2021, online)

• Attention in Cognition. BITS Pilani, Goa (September 2020, online)

• Pandemic, Embodied cognition, and Languages. COVID-19 pandemic and endangered languages, National Law University, Delhi. Webinar (July 2020, online)

• Crafting a proposal: Shastri Mobility Programme. Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, webinar (June, 2020)

• Language, Mind & Cognition. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Cognitive Neurosciences – Forensic and Clinical Applications. Cognitive Neuroscience Society India (CNSI) and Institute of Behavioural Science (IBS), Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (GFSU) at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India (January, 2020)

• Looking at Language through vision. Appreciating Linguistics: An interdisciplinary approach. IIT Madras, Chennai, India (October 2019)

• Language and cognition. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, India (September 2019)

• The cognitive science of conscious and unconscious processing. BITS, Goa, India. (September 2019)

• Revealing the language-attention interface with eye movements. GIAN course on “The Science and Significance of Attention” (August 2019)

• Symposium on Frontiers of Research on Speech and Music (FRSM). Allen house Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (July 2019, declined)

• Invited to be an expert member at Sensitization meeting/workshop for applicants to DST Women Scientists Scheme. CR Rao AIMSCS, University of Hyderabad Campus (April 2019)

• Eye-tracking in multimodal attention research. Eye-tracking workshop. University of Hyderabad (April 2019)

• Attention and the Mind. Junior Science Club, University of Hyderabad (Mar 2019)

• What is cognition and what is cognitive science? BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus (Feb 2019)

• Cognitive Science of Reading. Cognitive Science in Education: Capacity Building for teacher education. University of Hyderabad. (Jan 2019)

• Keynote lecture: Context, control &bilingual cognitive flexibility. Conference on Multilingualism, Ghent University, Belgium (Dec 2018)

• Unconscious to Conscious: Processing beyond awareness. Pondicherry University. (Nov 2018)

• The effect of enhanced second language proficiency on executive control: Now you see it, now you don’t. International Symposium on Bilingualism and Cognition, BITS Pilani, Goa campus (Nov 2018)

• Lecture on Cognitive Science. IIT Guwahati (Oct 2018)

• Keynote lecture: Using visual cognition to study language and cognitive disorders. Recent advances in the Physiology of Cognition. APPICON- DC (Delhi chapter), Delhi (Sept. 2018)

• Experimental methods: Eye tracking methodology. Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics, IIT – BHU, Varanasi (Jun 2018)

• TEDx talk on bilingualism, plasticity and cognitive advantages. TEDxVNRVJIET, Hyderabad (Mar 2018)

• Keynote lecture: Eye-tracking for maximising advertising impact. Neuromarketing Workshop. Department of Psychology, CHRIST, deemed to be University (Mar 2018)

• Panelist. Workshop on “Mind, Consciousness and Beyond: Building on Vedantic Metaphysics”. CSIR-NISTADS, Delhi (Mar 2018)

• Keynote lecture: Studying the bilingual mind. Bridging Research On Cognition And Speech (BROCAS). IIT Ropar, India (Feb 2018)

• Keynote lectures. Workshop on Augmented reality and Cognitive Science. VNR VJIET. Hyderabad (Jan 2018)

• Eye tracking to use cognition. Experimental Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience. BITS Pilani, Goa (Dec 2017)

• Paradigms in Psycholinguistics. Paradigm shifts in Indian Linguistics and its implications for applied disciplines. Indian Institute for advanced studies, Shimla, India (Oct 2017)

• Use of eyetracking in psycholonguistic research. CognEx workshop 2.0, IIT Kanpur, India (July 2017)

• Interactive class on conference presentation: Style and techniques. LingPhil Summer School. Oslo, Norway (June 2017)

• Working memory load and nonselective activation in bilinguals. McGill University, Canada (April 2017)

• Contextual inflluences on bilingual speech production and control. National Symposium on Cognitive Science. IIT Guwahati, India (Mar 2017)

• Language-Cognition interface. JNU, Delhi (Jan 2017)

• Brain plasticity in hearing impaired population: Effects on conscious and unconscious visual processing. At the symposium “Computatinal Bioengineering”. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (Jan 2017)

• Individual differences, brain plasticity, and cognition: The case of illiteracy. Andhra Pradesh Science Congress, Vijayawada, India (Nov 2016)

• Challenges of conducting research among illiterate population. Workshop on “Research Methodology: Focus on vulnerable population”, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India (Oct 2016)

• Bilingualism from a cognitive science perspective. GIAN course on “Cognition: An interdisciplinary perspective”, IISER Mohali (Aug 2016)

• The Enigma of being a bilingual. IIT Ropar, India (Aug 2016)

• Writing experimental research. CognEx workshop, IIT Kanpur, India (Aug 2016)

• Behavioural Experimentation in Psycholinguistics. CognEx workshop, IIT Kanpur, India (Aug 2016)

• The Enigma of being a bilingual. Gosta Ekman Laboratory. Center for Bilingualism. University of Stockholm (Jun 2016)

• The Enigma of being a bilingual. Center for Bilingualism. University of Stockholm (Jun 2016)

• Bilingualism: What we know and what we should know? Department of Linguistics and literature. NTNU. Trondhiem. Norway (Jun 2016)

• The Geo-politics of Bilingual advantage. Young Researchers' Conference in Cognitive Science, UOH (Mar 2016)

• Cognition of Bilingualism. Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (Feb 2016)

• Lectures at Annamalai University, UGC SAP (Feb 2015)

• Keynote address. National Institute of Hearing Handicapped, Hyderabad (Feb 2015)

• Lecture at Academic Staff College, Hyderabad (Jan 2015)

• International Symposium on Advances in Language-Cognition Research, UOH (Oct 2013)

• EFLU, Hyderabad (Sept 2013)

• Attention control in bilinguals. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands (Jun 2013)