Adjunct Faculty

Anindya Sinha

Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies

Phone : +91 80 2218 5117
E-Mail : asinha[at]nias.res.in, anindya.rana.sinha[at]gmail.com
Website: http://www.nias.res.in/professor/anindya-sinha

Research Areas

Nonhuman cognitive ethology and psychology


Research Details

  • Social cognition in nonhuman primates
  • Intentionality and referentiality in nonhuman communication
  • Distributed cognition, embodiment, and affect in nonhumans
  • Mammalian social learning and cultural traditions
  • The conception of the self and consciousness in nonhuman primates
  • Cognition and behavioural decision-making in fish
  • Mechanical cognition, object play and tool use in nonhumans
  • Philosophy of mind and consciousness

Select Publications

Research Papers

Binoy V V, Ingle B J, Bhattacharya A and Sinha A., (2019), Can living with an alien invasive fish, Tilapia, influence the shoaling decision-making and exploratory behaviour of an air-breathing freshwater fish, the climbing perch?, bioRxiv, 839563, https://doi.org/10.1101/839563

Binoy V V, Rakesh V B and Sinha A., (2019), Inter-ecosystem variation in the food-collection behaviour of climbing perch Anabas testudineus, a freshwater fish, bioRxiv, 573600, https://doi.org/10.1101/573600

Gupta S and Sinha A., (2019), Gestural communication of wild bonnet macaques in the Bandipur National Park, southern India, Behavioural Processes, 168:, 103956

Deshpande A, Gupta S and Sinha A., (2018), Intentional communication between wild bonnet macaques and humans, Scientific Reports, 8:, 5147

Sinha A., (2017), Knowledge of the self in a nonhuman primate, Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 97:, 567-582

Gupta S and Sinha A., (2017), Not here, there! Possible referential gesturing during allogrooming by wild bonnet macaques, Macaca radiata, Animal Cognition, 19:, 1243-1248

Binoy V V, Kasturirangan R and Sinha A, (2015), Sensory cues employed for the acquisition of familiarity-dependent recognition of a shoal of conspecifics by climbing perch (Anabas testudineus Bloch), Journal of Biosciences, 40:, 225-232

Book Chapters

Ghuman S S, Kasturirangan R and Sinha A. 2015. The role of human creativity in understanding animal cognition. In: Cognition, Experience and Creativity (eds Manjaly J A and Indurkhya B). Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, pp 261-271

Gupta S and Sinha A. 2014. Executive functions as a path to understanding nonhuman consciousness: Looking under the light. In: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self (eds Menon S, Sinha A and Sreekantan B V). Springer India, New Delhi, pp 101-116

Gupta S, Kasturirangan R and Sinha A. 2015. Creativity and experience in nonhuman primate communication. In: Cognition, Experience and Creativity (eds Manjaly J A and Indurkhya B). Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, pp 244-260

Sinha A. 2014. Experientially acquired knowledge of the self in a nonhuman primate. In: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self (eds Menon S, Sinha A and Sreekantan B V). Springer India, New Delhi, pp 81-99

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