Abhilasha Kumar
Assistant Professor of Psychology, on leave for the 2025–2026 academic year
I am interested in how we learn the meaning of words, how we communicate as social agents, and how search unfolds within our mental lexicon. Research in the lexicon lab uses a combination of traditional and gamified experiments, computational modeling, and psychological theory to study memory, language, reasoning, and complex cognition.
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Course websites for classes I teach are available below (content changes every year):
- [PSYC 2520]
- [PSYC 2040]
- [PSYC 2740]
- [PSYC 3043]

Education
- Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
- M.A., Washington University in St. Louis
- M.A., Ashoka University
- Integrated M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi