0000-0002-7776-8048 About
I have a background in Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Science. My work integrates behavioural and computational approaches to understand the cognitive mechanisms that underlie attentional processes and language learning in infants and children. Using behavioural methodologies like naturalistic observations of caregiver interactions and eye tracking my work focuses on studying the multimodal attentional processes and word-mapping in high-risk infants. My work on embodied connections in early verb learning, involves studying the associations between body parts and actions in Telugu and Hindi children as well as native Tamil speakers. I also built a corpus of early verbs in Telugu and collecting speech samples from mother-child conversations for computational analysis of speech during infancy. Currently, my lab is also involved in analyzing data on narrative macrostructure in Hindi-English bilingual children. My work on early language acquisition and developmental linguistics aims to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and an understanding of how children acquire speech and language in a multilingual Indian context.
Furthermore, to mitigate the effects of risks arising from early adversity, I am also involved in the designing interventions and assessment of intervention outcomes of children and families in low resource settings. Eventually, the goal is to harness emerging empirical insights from developmental science to support translational efforts and promote evidence-based clinical practices.
Employment
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Krea University Associate Professor2024 - Present
Education
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Osmania University PhD2001 - 2006
Projects & Funding
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Publications (9)
- Sociocentric and Cosmocentric Coping: Cultural Logics of Parenting During Crisis in Low-Resource Indian Families Save
- The effectiveness of a community-based video-facilitated parenting intervention for child development integrated into routine maternal and child care services in India Save
- Preprint- Cultural Logics of Parenting and Coping in Crisis Save
- Lending a voice to the expressions of children with cerebral palsy in an Indian context: ICF-CY based content-analysis of environmental factors influencing participation at home, school, and community settings Save
- Bilingual versus monolingual infants’ novel word-action mapping before and after first-word production: Influence of developing noun-dominance on perceptual narrowing Save
- The Origins of Verb Learning: Preverbal and Postverbal Infants' Learning of Word–Action Relations Save
- The Dynamics of Infant Attention: Implications for Crossmodal Perception and Word-Mapping Research. Save
- Cross-cultural evidence for multimodal motherese: Asian Indian mothers' adaptive use of synchronous words and gestures. Save
- Preterm and term infants’ perception of temporally coordinated syllable–object pairings: implications for lexical development. Save