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Visiting Faculty
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences






Biography

Sneh Jaswal was the Head of the Department of Psychology at MCM DAV College, Chandigarh from 1991 to 2005. In 2004, she was awarded a Chevening Fellowship to do a course on ‘Women in Leadership and Management’ in UK. This rekindled her interest in professional advancement and she went to UK again to pursue a PhD in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Now returning to India, she has joined IIT, Ropar, as a Visiting Professor in Psychology.

Research Interests

  • Interested in understanding human cognition using the experimental method drawing on insights from an eclectic mix of philosophical, physiological, computational, and empirical approaches
  • Current focus: Binding of visual features in Perception and Memory

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, UK
  • M.Phil., Panjab University, India (Distinction in dissertation, Placed 2nd in the University)
  • M.A., Panjab University, India
  • B.A. (Honours), Panjab University, India (Placed 24th in the University Merit List, 2nd in English Honours)

Selected Publications

1. Jaswal. S and Logie, R.H. (In Press, 2011) Configural encoding in visual feature binding. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. pdf

2. Logie, R.H., Brockmole, J.R., & Jaswal, S. (2011). Feature binding in visual short-term memory is unaffected by task-irrelevant changes of location, shape, and color. Memory and Cognition, 39(1), 24-36.pdf

3. Jaswal, S., and Dewan, A. (1997). The relationship between Locus of Control and Depression. Journal of Personality and Clinical Psychology, 13 (1-2), 25-27.pdf

4. Jaswal, S., and Jerath, J.M. (1991). Need for Achievement and Locus of Control as Predictors of Creativity among Males at Two Levels of Intelligence. Journal of Personality and Clinical Psychology, 7(2), 35-42.pdf

Chapter in a book

Jaswal, S. (2002). The Defense Mechanisms They Use. In Sukhdev Singh (Ed.) Kamloops Dian Machhian: Samvad Ate Samikhya. Chandigarh: Lokgeet. Pp. 238-251.pdf

Book Review

Jaswal, S. (2009). Pylyshyn's paradigms for Cognitive Science - A review of 'Computation, Cognition and Pylyshyn'. Perception, 38 (11), 1737-38.pdf

Other academic activities

  • Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Cognitive Science, for the Special Topic: Inhibition in Feature Binding
  • Adhoc Reviewer for ESRC, UK