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Dr. David M. Sidhu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at University College London, funded by SSHRC. His research focuses on multimodal language processing, sound symbolism, and embodied cognition, exploring how language sounds connect to sensory and conceptual meanings.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Calgary
- Postdoctoral Research, University College London (SSHRC-funded)
Research Interests:
- Sound symbolism and iconicity in language
- Cross-modal associations (e.g., shape-sound mappings)
- Embodied cognition and conceptual metaphor theory
- Name symbolism and social perception
- Language evolution and lexical development
Funded by NSERC and SSHRC, his CLaSSI Lab investigates topics like the bouba/kiki effect, vowel symbolism in size perception, and the cognitive mechanisms behind name stereotypes. Recent work includes studies on temporal semantics and affective sound congruence.
Lab & Collaborations: Director of the CLaSSI Lab, collaborating with institutions internationally. Research emphasizes experimental methods and large-scale language analyses.
