Research

Ongoing projects

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Past projects

NCCS researchers have led or been a part of studies across various domains of health and cognition.

Speech comprehension in adverse listening conditions: See Bhandari et al. (2024), Bhandari et al. (2022), Bhandari et al. (2021), Bhandari (2022)

Psychological response to covid-19 pandemic: See Lieberoth et al. (2021)

Executive control in bilinguals: See Bhandari et al. (2020), Mishra et al. (2019)

Neurodiversity: Bhandari & Khanal (2016)

References

Bhandari, P. (2022). Interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes in spoken-language processing [PhD thesis]. Saarland University.

Bhandari, P., Demberg, V., & Kray, J. (2021). Semantic predictability facilitates comprehension of degraded speech in a graded manner. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 714485. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.714485

Bhandari, P., Demberg, V., & Kray, J. (2022). Predictability effects in degraded speech comprehension are reduced as a function of attention. Language and Cognition, 14(4), 534–551. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2022.16

Bhandari, P., Demberg, V., & Kray, J. (2024). Speaking fast and slow: How speech rate affects contextual facilitation in degraded speech comprehension. PsyArXiv Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/seybg

Bhandari, P., & Khanal, P. (2016). Pride in autistic diversity: Against treatment or for inclusion? The Lancet, 388(10059), 2477. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32176-6

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, 201–215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-020-00060-7

Lieberoth, A., Lin, S.-Y., Stöckli, S., Han, H., Kowal, M., Gelpi, R., Chrona, S., Tran, T. P., Jeftić, A., Rasmussen, J., et al. (2021). Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: Relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey. Royal Society Open Science, 8(2), 200589. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200589

Mishra, R. K., Padmanabhuni, M., Bhandari, P., Viswambharan, S., & Prasad, S. G. (2019). Language proficiency does not modulate executive control in older bilinguals. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 26(6), 920–951. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2018.1562029