Greetings!
I did bachelors in science from university of Allahabad with Psychology, Computer Science and Mathematics. I did Master’s in Cognitive Science from, University of Allahabad at Center for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. I did PhD in Psychology from University of Mysore Under the supervision of Prof Prakash Padakannaya. I worked as senior research fellow at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, NIMHANS Bangalore. I taught to Undergraduate and Postgraduate students at Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous) bangalore. Later I was Postdoctoral fellow at IISc Bangalore for two years.
In 2022, I joined IIT Bhubaneswar as Assistant Professor. At IIT Bhubaneswar, I am aspired to establish a cutting edge state of the art laboratary in the field of Cognitive Science. I plan to bring out the latest technology to understand human brain and behaviour.

Institute Grant “Investigating Role of Emotion in Processing Language using Behavioural Measures”

Understanding Human Behavior (Spring 2023)
Emotional Intelligence (Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024)
Social Psychology (Spring 2023. Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024, Spring 2024)
Brain and Language Processing (Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
Introduction to Cognition (Spring 2025)
Human Cognitive Process (Autumn 2024, Spring 2025)

1. Aparna Pandey & Prakash Padakannaya. (2022) Perceptual Span in Reading Kannada Alphasyllabary. Reading & Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal
2. Padakannaya, P., Pandey, A., Saligram, D., & Rao, S. R. Visual- orthographic complexity of akshara and eye movements in reading: A study in Kannada alphasyllabary. Writing Systems Research, 8 (1), 32-43. (2015). doi: 10.1080/17586801.2015.1071235.
3. Pandey, A., & Padakannaya, P. Splintered Text and Eye Movements in Reading. The Journal of Psychosocial Research. Vol. 9 Issue 2, p203-209. (2014).
4. Winskel, H., Padakannaya, P., & Pandey, A. (2014). Eye movements and reading in the alphasyllabic scripts of South and Southeast Asia. In H. Winskel & P. Padakannaya (Eds.). South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics (pp. 315-328). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2014). https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084642.035
5. Mishra, R., Singh, N., Pandey, A. & Huettig, F. Spoken language-mediated anticipatory eye-movements are modulated by reading ability – Evidence from Indian low and high literates. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 5, 1-10. (2012). https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.5.1.3
6. Ramesh Mishra, Aparna Pandey & Narayanan Srinivasan. (2011). Revisiting the Scrambling Complexity Hypothesis in Sentence Processing: A self-paced reading study on anomaly detection and scrambling in Hindi. Reading & Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 24, 709-727.

1. Aparna Pandey “Emotional face primes enhancing visual search efficiency” Two-day International conference 100 years of Psychology Reflections and Moving Forward, 7-8 March 2025, DOS in Psychology, University of Mysore
2. Aparna Pandey and Prakash Padakannaya, Eye movements in biliterate children with and without dyslexia in reading English and Kannada 22nd European Conference on Eye Movements, ECEM 2024 (25-29 August, 2024), at Maynooth University, Ireland.
3. Aparna Pandey and Prakash Padakannaya, Developmental trajectory of eye movement patterns during reading in English and Kannada, as part of symposium, Studies on Language and Reading Development. 33rd Annual Converting National Academy Psychology, NAOP 2024 (14-16 February 2024) GITAM Deemed-to-be-University, Visakhapatnam.
4. Aparna Pandey and Prakash Padakannaya: Reading from beginning to skilled readers: A comparison between alphabetic and alpha-syllabary writing systems 10th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS10 9-11 December 2023) IIT Kanpur.
5. Aparna Pandey, Georgin Jacob, & S. P. Arun: Speech attributes combine additively towards sound dissimilarity. 9th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS9 8-10 December 2022) IIT Delhi.
6. Aparna Pandey and Prakash Padakannaya: Effect of meaningfulness and syntactic complexity on eye movement measurements: Comparing Kannada and English XXI Annual Convention of the National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), (December 12-14, 2011). Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat.
7. Shubratha KP, Aparna Pandey and Prakash Padakannaya: Position-in-the-string and compound word processing: a priming study in English XVII Annual Conference of National Academy of Psychology (March 6-9, 2010), Department of Psychology, Bangalore University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
8. Aparna Pandey, Priyanka Pandey, Ramesh Mishra: Anticipatory eye movements and cognitive processing: Gender marked adjectives in Hindi XVIII Annual Conference of National Academy of Psychology (December 14-17, 2008). Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.
9. Aparna Pnadey and Prakash Padakannaya: Reading Headway in Children with Dyslexia. 53rd National & 22nd International Conference of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology (IAAP-2018, 16-18 February) Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University
10. Aparna Pnadey and Prakash Padakannaya: Perceptual span in Kannada 17th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), (August 11-16, 2013), Humanities Lab, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
11. Aparna Pnadey and Prakash Padakannaya: Orthographic Complexity and Reading: An Eye Tracking Study 12th International Congress of Psychology (ICP), (July 22-27, 2012), Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
12. Aparna Pandey and Prakash Padakannaya: Edit Distance Hypothesis and Performance in Phoneme Awareness Tasks International Conference on Cognitive Development (ICCD – 2010) December 10-13, 2010, Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), University of Allahabad, India.
13. Aparna Pandey, Ramesh Mishra and Narayanan Srinivasan: Anomaly Detection in Scrambled Sentences: Eye Movement Data from Hindi International Conference on Language Cognition Interface: State of the Art, (December 10-13 2010) Centre of Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences, University of Allahabad, India.
14. Ramesh Mishra, Aparna Pandey and Priyanka Pandey: On-Line dynamics of linguistics and Conceptual activation as a function of literacy: Evidence from eye tracking in Hindi. International Conference on Attention 2008 (December 8- December 10) Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, India.

1. Jayadevan, S. C., Shailjaa, Sunsunwal, I., Singh, A., & Pandey, A. (2025, February 7). Representation of emotions through social media: A systematic review. Psychology in a Globalized World (NCPGW), Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
2. Jayadevan, S. C., & Pandey, A. (2025, February 19). Unravelling emotional injuries: Validating the Emotional Injury Assessment Scale (EIAS). 34th Annual Conference, National Academy of Psychology, Christ Deemed to be University, Delhi NCR.
3. Aparna Pandey, Ramesh Mishra, Narayanan Srinivasan: Word order interaction with grammatical status XVIII Annual Conference of National Academy of Psychology (December 14-17, 2008). Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

Assistant Professor at IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, 2022 (1/11/2022-Present);

Assistant Professor at Jain-deemed-to-be-University, Bangalore, 2022 (11/7/2022-31/10/2022);

Post-doctoral fellow as Vision lab CNS, IISc Bangalore (March 2020-December 2021);

Guest faculty at Christ University, Bangalore, (June 2019-November 2019);

Assistant Professor at CMR University, Bangalore, 2018 (1/2/2018-23/April/2018);

Assistant Professor at Kristu Jayanti College from January 2017 to November 2017 (2/1/2017-30/11/2017);

Senior research fellow at National Institute of mental health and neurosciences, 2016 (23/May/2016-29/12/2016)

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