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Sameera Singh

MA Student and Rotman Institute Member

Department of Philosophy
Western University

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Sameera is an MA student in Philosophy at Western University. She completed her undergraduate degree at McMaster University with a combined honours in Philosophy and Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour (PNB). She has conducted empirical research exploring questions related to attention, perception, visual cognition, and social cognition in the past. Her philosophical interests span the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of psychology and she is currently thinking about how we can understand mental content in an embodied cognition framework. She is also interested in the history of philosophy (especially early modern thinkers), philosophy of medicine, and social epistemology.

• Risko, E.F., Bianchi, L., Singh, S., Tran, S., Ashburner, M., Lu, C., Wilson, K. (2021 – July 16) Adventures in Understanding the Effective Design of Recorded Lectures [Conference Presentation]. McMaster Conference in Education and Cognition 2021. McMaster University, ON, Canada.  
• Risko, E.F., Bianchi, L., Singh, S., Tran, S., Ashburner, M. (2021 – June 17) Adventures in Understanding the Effective Design of Recorded Lectures [Conference Presentation]. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science Annual Conference 2021. McGill University, QC, Canada.  
• Singh, S., Bianchi, L., Ashburner, M., Risko,E.F. (2020 – October 30) Effect of speed watching video lectures on comprehension, metacognition, and affect [Conference Presentation]. Psychology Discovery Conference, University of Waterloo 2020. Waterloo, ON, Canada.  
• Singh, S., Cochrane, B., Sun, H.J. (2019 – June 9) Failure to replicate Inhibition of Return through endogenous cues using an onset-detection task [Conference Presentation]. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science Annual Conference 2019. Waterloo, ON, Canada.  
• Brown, K., Singh, S., deBie, A. (2017 – November 1) We All Have A Role To Play: Partnering With Students To Facilitate Accessibility in The Classroom [Conference Presentation]. Research on Teaching and Learning Conference. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. ​