Mind-Brain-Body-Society Lab 

"The truth is the whole" 

-Hegel, Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit

MBBS lab is organised around two emerging themes in contemporary cognitive (neuro)science:

I. Different "descriptions" of cognition -at neural, behavioural, bodily, and social levels-are complementary to each other and individually offers only a partial explanation of the integrated whole.  A comprehensive understanding of cognition depends on the analysis of the interactions among different levels of the organisation and the emergence of new properties at each level. 

II. Cognition is an active process. It is not a mere (re)presentation of the "external" reality and depends on past experiences, prior expectations, and psychological and social contexts among other things.

These two commitments — to integration across levels, and to an active brain — run through everything we do. We move freely between empirical work (behavioural paradigms, neuroimaging, immersive VR environments), computational modelling, and theoretical analysis, using whichever combination a question demands rather than staying inside one methodological comfort zone. Our researchers arrive from physiology, physics, computer science, medicine, and psychology, which is less an accident of hiring and more a reflection of how seriously we take the idea that the whole is different from the sum of its parts. 

Contact

Room no 0348, AC04

Ashoka University, NH 44, Rajiv Gandhi Education City, Sonipat, Haryana 131029 

email id: dipanjan.ray@ashoka.edu.in

Phone number: 0130 230 0000 Ext 5422