Sakshi Dhawan
Position: Ph.D Student, Sixth Year
Email: sdhawan31@gatech.edu
Education:
M.Phil. (2019) Management, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India
Thesis: Behavioural and Physiological measures of differences in buying and selling behaviour of consumers
MBA (2016) Marketing and Information Systems, Thapar University, India
B.Tech (2013) Coputer Engineering, Punjabi University, India
Fun Fact About Me:
Currently navigating life as an International student in USA.
About Me
I am currently a Ph.D student in the Cognition & Brain Science program.
Research Interests
- Attentional Control
- Decision making and Consumer Behavior
- Dynamic network connecitvtiy
Presentations
- 2024 – The effect of sleep quality on dynamic network connectivity during rest and n-back task performance – Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
- 2023 – EEG evidence for the involvement of the self in selling rather than buying – American Psychological Association (APA)
- 2023- Investigating the relationship between sustained attention and quasi-periodic brain activity patterns with the psychomotor vigilance task – Neuro Next Launch Event
- Studied how low frequency fluctuation patterns in brain mediate sustained attention using behavioral and brain data.
- 2022 – Investigating how task representation mediates dual-task interference from a neuroimaging perspective – Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
- Analyzed behavioral and brain data to understand the dual task interference by manipulating the task and keeping stimuli and responses constant.
- 2022 – Psychological factors in buy-sell asynchrony – Indian Academy of Applied Psychology (IAAP)
- Studied the behavioral and physiological factors that influence buy-sell asynchrony.
- Implemented Eye-tracking and EEG as tools to explore the mere ownership effect and self-reference effect.