VIDISHA MAITHANI

Vidisha Maithani received her Master’s degree in Neuropsychology from National Forensic Sciences University in Gujarat, where she worked on her dissertation on “Facial features based responses for emotion perception: A review of ERP studies”. She is currently a PhD candidate in IIT Roorkee working on the investigation of Threat Proximity in the Selection of Human Defense Responses. .

• B.Sc Psychology, Annamalai University Directorate of distance education, Tamil Nadu
• M.Sc in Neuropsychology, National (Gujarat) Forensic Sciences University, Gujarat

• Presented a poster on “An electrophysiological investigation of fight-flight defense responses in humans using 3D virtual reality environment” at 11th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS 11), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, on 13 December, 2024.
• Presented a Poster titled “An electrophysiological study to investigate fight-flight defense responses in humans using 3d virtual reality simulation” at XLII Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN-2024), NIMHANS, Bengaluru, on 14 November, 2024.
• Presented a Virtual Poster titled “ Exploring the conditioned pleasant and unpleasant auditory stimuli in the acquired equivalence paradigm” at Neuroscience 2024 hosted by the Society for Neuroscience(SfN), Chicago USA, on 07 October, 2024.
• Presented a Virtual Poster titled “An electrophysiological investigation of fight-flight defense responses in humans using 3d virtual reality environment” at Neuroscience 2024 hosted by the Society for Neuroscience(SfN), Chicago USA, on 08 October 2024.
• Presented a poster on “Investigation of Threat Proximity in the Selection of Human Defense Responses” on Institute Research Day at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, on 13 March 2024.
• Presented a poster on “Investigating Acquired Equivalence in Conditioned Pleasant and Unpleasant Stimuli” at 10th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS 10) on 10 December, 2023.
• Intern for project titled ‘Cognitive effects of Mantra chanting’ sponsored by Indian Knowledge System (IKS) Division, Ministry of Education.
• Attended NMC 2022: A conference for the computational neuroscience community Online | Hosted by Neuromatch.
• Attended an International conference on Environmental change and socio-cultural transformations in India. 2022 | IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand.
• International Conference on emerging trends in cognitive neurosciences: Forensic and Clinical applications. 2020| Gujarat. Hosted by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society of India (CNSI) and Gujarat Forensic Sciences University.
• Workshop on Reading and analysis of EEG and ERP signals: A hands-on experience. 2019 | Gujarat. Hosted by Axxonet.

• Indian Academy of Neuroscience(IAN) (Life Member)
• Society for Neuroscience(SfN) (2024)