Hello, I’m Mrudula
Pursuing cognitive behavioural research through my PhD in Friedrich-Schiller University Jena in Germany. Current research themes include exploring the role of automatic behavioural responses and conscious awareness during learning (inspired from higher order Pavlovian Conditioning). I have worked with reaction time, accuracy and eye tracking data to analyze and interpret how people learn under various learning scenario involving multiple cues.
The Journey so far
What interested me the most about cognitive psychology is how the day-to-day behavioural actions can be explained and research beyond to understand the scope of our actions. While pursuing a Masters degree, I learnt more about language processing and explored how we communicate among one another. This in turn was useful to envision the scope and relatable nature of cognitive psychology which inspired me to do more research. Post Masters I spent a year working at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Cultural Brain Lab performing experiments to investigate how (il)literacy influences the way our brain sees the world.
Currently I am working on my PhD in Jena in Germany funded by the DFG for a project on **Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC). We aim to explore how the stimuli and responses we face in our everyday environment integrate to perform actions. My project specifically connects these automatic responses driven by short term stimulus response associations to long term learning phenomena. Check the wikipedia page for more information on this project.
M.Sc (Research Masters) in Cognitive Neuroscience - Radboud University ∙ 2018
B.Sc. in Psychology - Madras School of Social Work ∙ 2016
Research Assistant - Cultural Brain Lab ∙ 2018-2019
A Project Portfolio To Grow
Cultural Influence on Cognition
Before my PhD, I worked for a year at the Max Planck Institue for Psycholinguistics as a Research Assistant at the Cultural Brain Lab in the Department of Psychology of Language.
Read moreBinding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC)
This page contains information on the research topic that I contribute to as a part of my PhD
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Mrudula Arunkumar
Cognitive Research Scientist
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