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RCP Lab
Department of Cognitive & Brain Sciences
IIT Gandhinagar
How do minds act in an uncertain, changing world?
By inferring context and adapting perception, planning, and learning within finite computational resources.
Welcome to RCP Lab
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A short journey to a gate reveals perception, planning, learning, context, and resource rationality working together.
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The RCP framework
One framework. Many research subspaces.
RCP Lab is a newly established research group. Until the lab’s own projects mature, the work showcased here primarily reflects the PI’s previous research. These projects illustrate the range of questions, methods, and computational approaches that shape the lab’s current research directions.
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The lab
Think deeply. Build carefully. Learn broadly.
Sabyasachi Shivkumar
Principal Investigator
About
Sabyasachi is the principal investigator of RCP Lab. He studies perception, planning, learning, contextual inference, and resource-rational cognition using behavioral experiments and computational models.
Sanket Houde
PhD student (co-advised with Pratik Mutha)
About
Sanket is an incoming PhD student (co-advised with Prof. Pratik Mutha) and is interested in understanding the role of reward in motor control and learning.
Prakriti Singh
Master's student
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Prakriti is interested in active sensing and investigates the computational principles underlying information gathering through implicit vision and active touch-based exploration.
Smruti Shubhadarshini Behera
Master's student
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Smruti studies context-dependent evidence integration, examining how contextual cues guide perceptual decisions in a random dot motion discrimination task.
Shrikant Swami
Master's student
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Shrikant is interested in the interactions between perception and learning and investigates how they shape behavior using a multiple object tracking task.
Sahil Sahu
Master's student
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Sahil is interested in computational philosophy and investigates the fundamental nature of perception from a computational perspective.
Join / Connect
There are many ways to engage with the RCP Lab.
Work with us, take part in a study, collaborate on research, or invite us to speak.
You are always welcome to email sabyashiv@iitgn.ac.in. Using the relevant form below is encouraged and will usually help us respond more promptly.
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