Dr Pratik Bhandari

🙏 Welcome!

I’m a cognitive scientist passionate about understanding human cognition — behaviour, brain, and language. I study topics such as cognitive consequences of multilingualism, language processing, executive control, and neurodiversity among others.

Below, you’ll see my academic qualifications. A full list of academic publications, presentations, and talks is available here. And here, you can find the academic research projects I have undertaken.

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Education and training

Saarland University | Germany
PhD – magna cum laude | Nov 2018 - Jan 2023

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language | Spain
Master in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language | Sep 2017 - Sep 2018

Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad | India
Research Intern | Dec 2015 - May 2017

Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University | Nepal
Bachelor in Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology | Nov 2010 - April 2015


While you’re here, explore my writings in Substack – From river to the sea and back.

These are some of my posts:

  1. 16/12/2023: Identity enigma (Part 1)

  2. 14/08/2023: Reflections on farewells and returns

  3. 21/01/2023: PhD defence: An afterthought

  4. 08/08/2022: Speaking fast and slow

  5. 25/07/2022: Attention is mostly what you need

  6. 26/10/2021: In the operating room


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