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Abhilasha Kumar

Affiliation: Psychology
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]
Abhilasha Kumar headshot

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