M. (Moss) Shukla PhD

Lecturer

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Programme group Brain and Cognition

Area of expertise: Language and cognition, language acquisition, phonology, statistical learning, near-infrared spectroscopy

Visiting address

Nieuwe Achtergracht 129

Postal address

Postbus 15915
1001 NK Amsterdam

Contact details

m.shukla@uva.nl

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Mohinish (Moss) Shukla is a Lecturer in the Brain & Cognition program group in the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Originally trained as a biologist, he received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. Subsequently, following post-doctoral training at the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Rochester, NY, USA, he was an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA, where he was one of three co-PIs of the UMass Boston Baby Lab.

In his research, Moss has primarily focused on the relation of language, particularly language acquisition, with the rest of cognition. He is interested in how language is situated in the human mind.
Research
Research methods

online experimentation

remote eyetracking

webcam-based eyetracking

near-infrard spectroscopy
Teaching & PhD supervision
BA

Co-coordinator and lecturer for Memory, Language, Emotions (Language component)

Co-coordinator and supervisor of Bachelor’s Theses

Supervisor for Reviews (Psychobiology)

Toolbox Python programming

MA

Coordinator & lecturer for Brain & Minds in Business & Society

Supervisor for Master’s Internships

Supervisor for Master’s Theses
Publications
- refereed (8)
- recognitions (1)
2024

Schreiner, M. S., Zettersten, M., Bergmann, C., Frank, M. C., Fritzsche, T., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hamlin, K., Kartushina, N., Kellier, D. J., Mani, N., Mayor, J., Saffran, J., Shukla, M., Silverstein, P., Soderstrom, M., & Lippold, M. (2024). Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment. Developmental Science, 27(6), Article e13551. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13551 [details]
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Developmental Science - 2024 - Schreiner - Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference
Supplementary files
desc13551-sup-0001-suppmat

2023

Mariani, B., Nicoletti, G., Barzon, G., Ortiz Barajas, M. C., Shukla, M., Guevara, R., Suweis, S. S., & Gervain, J. (2023). Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain. Science Advances, 9(47), Article eadj3524. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj3524 [details]
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Supplementary files
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2021

Choi, M., & Shukla, M. (2021). A new proposal for phoneme acquisition: Computing speaker-specific distribution. Brain Sciences, 11(2), 1-12. Article 177. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11020177

Shukla, M., & de Villiers, J. (2021). The role of language in building abstract, generalized conceptual representations of one- and two-place predicates: A comparison between adults and infants. Cognition, 213, Article 104705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104705

2019

Shukla, M., Rasmussen, E. C., & Nestor, P. G. (2019). Emotion and decision-making: Induced mood influences IGT scores and deck selection strategies. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 41(4), 341-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2018.1562049

2015

Aslin, R. N., Shukla, M., & Emberson, L. L. (2015). Hemodynamic correlates of cognition in human infants. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 349-379. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115108

2011

Shukla, M., Wen, J., White, K. S., & Aslin, R. N. (2011). SMART-T: A system for novel fully automated anticipatory eye-tracking paradigms. Behavior Research Methods, 43(2), 384-398. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-010-0056-6

Shukla, M., White, K. S., & Aslin, R. N. (2011). Prosody guides the rapid mapping of auditory word forms onto visual objects in 6-mo-old infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(15), 6038-6043. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1017617108
Journal editor

Shukla, M. (editor) (2022-). Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance (Journal).
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