معرفی
Vera Da Silva Sinha is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Her work bridges anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive psychology through fieldwork with Amazonian indigenous communities. She focuses on time/number cognition, ecological cognition, ethnomathematics, and indigenous teaching methodologies. Currently collaborates with Professor Asifa Majid on a British Academy-funded project exploring Amazonian perspectives of time and number cognition.
Research Interests
Dr. Sinha's research interrogates how cultural contexts shape cognitive processes, particularly in non-Western settings. Key themes include:
- Sociocultural structuring of time beyond spatial metaphors
- Embodied cognition in Amazonian languages
- Ethnomathematical systems and their pedagogical applications
- Autobiographical/collective narrative constructions in indigenous communities
Grants & Collaborations
- Principal investigator on British Academy-funded project (202X-202X)
- Co-editor of International Journal of Language and Culture
Key Themes in Publications
Her work emphasizes:
- Decolonizing cognitive science methodologies
- Language revitalization through community-based education
- Critical examination of universalist assumptions in time cognition theories
