Seema Prasad

Research associate
NameMs Dr. Seema Prasad
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Research focus
- Attentional control, awareness and individual differences.
- Bilingualism and language-vision interaction.
seit 12.2021 | present. Postdoctoral fellow, TU Dresden, Germany. Host: Bernhard Hommel. |
05.2021 - 11.2021 | Senior Project Associate, Institute of Eminence project, University of Hyderabad, India. |
2015 - 2021 | Doctorate in Cognitive Science, Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. Thesis title: Attentional control over masked visual processing. Thesis supervisor: Prof. Ramesh Mishra. (Language: English). |
01.2014 - 10.2016 | Junior Research Fellow, University of Hyderabad in the DST-funded project titled “The influence of attention and memory during language-vision interaction” |
2008 - 2013 | MSc in Physics, University of Mysore, India. Thesis title: Waves in Electromagnetism and Linearized Gravity. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Bala Iyer, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India. (Language: English) |
2021 | Humboldt postdoctoral research fellowship |
11.2019 | Women in Cognitive Science Travel & Networking Award for 2019 awarded by Women in Cognitive Science (WiCS) in association with Psychonomic Society at the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, Canada |
11.2019 | International travel award from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India to present at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Canada |
04.2017 - 06.2017 | Erasmus plus Global mobility award to visit Charite Medical Hospital, Berlin |
05.2016 | International travel award from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India to present at the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada |
On attention and visual cognition
2022
Prasad, S.G.*, Patil, G.S., Somashekarappa, V., Mishra, R.K. (2022). Attention capture by brief abrupt-onset cues in deaf individuals. Neuropsychologia. 2022 Jan 18;167:108157. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108157. [Online ahead of print]
2021
Prasad, S.*, Mishra, R. K., Klein, R. M. (2021). Re-examining attention capture at irrelevant (ignored?) locations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Ramgir, A., Prasad, S., Mishra, R. K. (2021). Probability cueing induced bias does not modulate attention-capture by brief abrupt-onset cues. Visual Cognition, 1-23.
2020
Prasad, S. G.*, Mishra, R. K. (2020). Reward Influences Masked Free-Choice Priming. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2938.
Prasad, S.* Mishra, R. K. (2020). To look or not to look: Subliminal abrupt-onset cues influence constrained free-choice saccades. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 13(4):2
2019
Prasad, S.*, Mishra, R.K (2019). The Nature of Unconscious Attention to Subliminal Cues. Vision, 3, 38.
2017
Prasad, S., Patil, G. S., Mishra, R. K. (2017). Cross-modal plasticity in the deaf enhances processing of masked stimuli in the visual modality. Scientific reports, 7(1), 8158.
2015
Prasad, S., Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Mishra, R. K. (2015). Made you look! Temporal and emotional characteristics of shift towards gazed locations. Cogent Psychology, 2(1), 1115614.
Prasad, S.*, Patil, G. S., Mishra, R. K. (2015). Effect of Exogenous Cues on Covert Spatial Orienting in Deaf and Normal Hearing Individuals. PloS One, 10(10), e0141324.
On bilingualism and language-vision interaction
2020
Bhandari, P., Prasad, S., Mishra, R. K. (2020). High proficient bilinguals bring in higher executive control when encountering diverse interlocutors. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 4(2), 201-215.
Prasad, S., Mishra, R. K. (2020) Concurrent verbal working memory load constrains cross-linguistic translation activation: A visual world eye-tracking study on Hindi–English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-30.
2019
Singh, J. P., Prasad, S., Mishra, R. K. (2019) Language proficiency in bilinguals enhances action preparedness and control. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 1-16.
Prasad, S., Viswambharan, S., Mishra, R. (2019). Visual working memory load constrains language non-selective activation under task-demands. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
2018
Mishra, R. K., Padmanabhuni, M., Bhandari, P., Viswambharan, S., Prasad, S. (2018). Language proficiency does not modulate executive control in older bilinguals. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 1-32.
2017
Bhatia, D., Prasad, S., Sake, K., Mishra, R. K. (2017). Task Irrelevant External Cues Can Influence Language Selection in Voluntary Object Naming: Evidence from Hindi-English Bilinguals. Plos One, 12(1), e0169284.
2016
Roychoudhuri, K. S., Prasad, S., Mishra, R. K. (2016). Iconic Native Culture Cues Inhibit Second Language Production in a Non-immigrant Population: Evidence from Bengali-English Bilinguals. Frontiers in psychology, 7.