Praveen Kenderla
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Cognitive development
- Social cognitive development
- Visual cognition
- Object and social categorisation
- Social essentialism
- Topological perception
Biography
Praveen Kenderla worked as a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, and the Developing Belief Network. Before joining the Azim Premji University, he worked as a freelance data analyst for Boston University Wheelock School of Education. He completed his PhD from Boston University under the mentorship of Dr Melissa M Kibbe.
His current research includes social and cognitive development, with an emphasis on children’s understanding of social categories (for example, gender, religion, socio-economic status) and how childhood adversity affects children’s cognitive development.
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Publications
Journal articles
- Williams-Gant, A. J., Weisman, K., Amin, T. G., Ghossainy, M. E., Soueidan, G., Nissel, J., … Developing Belief Network. (2025). Working across religions, cultures, settings, and development: Protocol for wave 2 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network. PLOS ONE, 20(9), e0330727. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330727
- Kenderla, P., Kim, S.-H., & Kibbe, M. M. (2023). Competition between object topology and surface features in children’s extension of novel nouns. Open Mind, 7, 93 – 110. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00073
- Kenderla, P., & Kibbe, M. M. (2023). Explore versus store: Children strategically trade off reliance on exploration versus working memory during a complex task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 225, 105535.
- Kar, B. R., & Kenderla, P. K. (2017). Working memory and executive attention: Insights from developmental studies and implications for learning and education. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 97(4), 497 – 510.