Social Sciences

Dr Divita Singh is working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. She did her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Psychology at Banaras Hindu University and PhD in Cognitive Science at Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar. Her PhD thesis focused on understanding the attentional control mechanism underlying temporal selection with a specific focus on the interaction between attentional blink and emotion-induced blindness. Following PhD, she worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Cognitive Science at IIT Kanpur. During her postdoc, she worked on the effect of self on attentional prioritization. She uses behavioural experimental methodology to understand the intriguing realms of human cognition. Her specific area of research interest includes Visual Attention, Emotion, Self-referential processing, and working memory.

• Visual Attention
• Emotion
• Self-bias
• Working Memory

Journals

• Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2022). Spatial distribution of emotional attentional blink under top-down attentional control. Cognitive Processing, 1-7.
• Singh, D., & Karnick, H. (2022) Self-Prioritization Effect in Children and Adults. Front. Psychol. 13:726230. 
• Matkar, S., & Singh, D. (2022). Cognitive Load Has No Influence on Interference During Emotion-Induced Blindness. i-perception.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, M.M. (2020). Attention interacts with emotion to drive perceptual impairment of images in an RSVP task. Collabra: Psychology.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2017). Emotion Induced Blindness Is More Sensitive to Changes in Arousal as Compared to Valence of the Emotional Distractor. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1381.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, Meera M. M. (2015). (No) Role of Emotion in Emotion Induced Blindness. i-Perception.

Conference presentations

• Matkar, S., & Singh, D. (2022). Emotional Interference During Emotion-Induced Blindness Is Not Affected by Cognitive Load. 22nd conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. University of Lille.
• Singh, D., Mohan, O., & Karnick H. (2019). Newly learned social associations disrupt target search. Annual Conference of the Association of Cognitive Science. BITS Goa, IN.
• Singh, D. (2019). Self associated distractor does not influence search. 21st conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. University of La Laguna. Tenerife, Spain.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2017). The interplay of template matching and visual working memory in the emergence of Lag-1 sparing. Annual Conference of the Association of Cognitive Science. University of Hyderabad, IN.
• Chakravarty, L., Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2017). Using a modified Attentional Blink paradigm to study the scope of attention. Annual Conference of the Association of Cognitive Science. University of Hyderabad, IN.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2017). Lag-1 sparing in the attentional blink: Role of stimulus feature and visual working memory in integrating two events in a single attentional episode. "AttLis 2017: Attentive Listener in the Visual World". BITS Goa, IN.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2016). Emotional disruption or attentional capture? Causing impairment in Emotion-Induced Blindness. Annual Conference of the Association for Cognitive Sciences. IIT Gandhinagar, IN.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2015). Emotion or Attention? Deconstructing the Emotion Induced Blindness. International Conference on Emotion and Cognition. Centre of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, IN.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2015). Role of task requirement in the emergence of Lag-1 sparing. International Conference on Cognition Brain and Computation. Centre for Cognitive Science, IIT Gandhinagar, IN.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2015). (No) Role of Emotion in Emotion Induced Blindness. European Conference on Visual Perception. University of Liverpool, UK.
• Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2013). Emotion-induced Blindness: A Review. International Conference on Cognition, Emotion and Action. IIT Gandhinagar, IN.
• Singh, D. (2010), Problem and Suicidal Tendency among Youths: for the stress- ridden group. National Conference on Suicidal Tendency among Youths. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, IN.

• PSY101 - Introduction to Psychology
• PSY210 - Cognitive Psychology
• PSY416 - Psychology of Emotions