Akshita Srinivasan, a student of University of Hyderabad (UoH), has been selected for the prestigious Ph. D programme at Harvard and is one of the 15 students who have been accepted from around the world.
Akshita, who did her Integrated Master’s in Health Psychology at the UoH. will be working in the area of Developmental Psychology with Dr. Elizabeth Spelke.
Her lab in general focuses on uniquely human cognitive capacities like our understanding of objects, actions, people, places, number, and geometry. It gets at this using behavioural research with infants and children.
The work that Akshita will be doing during her Ph. D is related to children’s understanding of number.
Children who sell fruits and vegetables in Indian markets are so good and quick at arithmetic, but the same children do not do well when tested in school-based arithmetic.
Akshita’s research tries to examine this discrepancy and aims at creating interventions that can be used to help improve mathematics education, a press release said.
