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Principal Investigator (PI)

  • Dr. Neeraj Kumar Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences

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PhD Students

Adith Deva Kumar S
2021 Autumn Batch

Adith has a bachelor's in Neurotechnology from JIPMER, Pondicherry, and a master's in Neural and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Hyderabad. For his PhD, he aims to understand how the various underlying mechanisms of motor learning interact.

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Adarsh K. Verma
2021 Autumn Batch

Adarsh is a Ph.D. scholar (JRF, PMRF) at the University of Hyderabad and a Joint-PhD at IIT Hyderabad. His primary focus lies in unraveling the complexities and intricacies of the brain, behavior, and cognition, with a specific emphasis on addiction and sensorimotor learning.

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Rahul Pal
2022 Winter Batch

Rahul has a bachelor's and master's in Psychology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is interested in understanding the interaction between working memory and motor learning.

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Varnika Khare
2023 Autumn Batch

Varnika received her master's degree in psychology from Banaras Hindu University. She is intrigued by the relationship between emotions and sensorimotor learning because both entail the interaction of cognitive and affective processes in the brain.

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Riddhi Jain
2025 Winter Batch

Riddhi holds a Master's degree in Psychology from Banaras Hindu University. She is interested in understanding and exploring the nature of context in motor learning and memory formation. - View Profile

Research Staff

Sumit Sannamath
August 2024-Present

Sumit received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Ashutosh College, University of Calcutta, and a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science from the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), Allahabad. His research focuses on the mechanisms that govern the transition of motor memories, particularly how consolidated motor memories are modified during reconsolidation. He is broadly interested in how latent motor representations interface with action selection to yield stable behaviour.

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Rajneet Kaur
March 2025-Present

Rajneet has always been curious about human behaviour, and this curiosity has guided her academic journey where she pursued Bachelors in Psychology and Masters in Cognitive Science. She is particularly interested in the neural basis of human cognition. She is a project assistant at Sensorimotor Plasticity Lab exploring the neural mechanisms underlying motor memory reconsolidation.

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Alumni

Shraddha Matkar

JRF in a DST-CSRI project [July 2023 - Jan 2024]
Currently working as a research trainee at Department of Neurophysiology, NIMHANS

Shristi Chourasiya

Summer Research Intern [2023]
Currently working as RA at IISc