Anurag Rimzhim

Teaching Assistant Professor

School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Morton 331

Education

  • Ph.D. (2015) University of Connecticut (Experimental Psychology; Concentration: Language and Cognition)
  • M.A. (2012) University of Connecticut (Experimental Psychology; Concentration: Language and Cognition)
  • M.S. (2007) University of Allahabad (Cognitive Science)
  • B.S. (2005) University of Allahabad (Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics)

Research

I have two active areas of research. The first is in cognitive science and cognitive psychology, with two sustained lines of inquiry: (1) virtual reality (VR) and cognition, and (2) language and reading processes across writing systems. Across these lines of work, I investigate core mechanisms of human cognition using behavioral experimentation, cross-linguistic comparison, and human–computer interaction methods.

My second area of research is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, where I examine ways to improve teaching and student learning, with particular interest in the effective use of technology, including VR, in higher education.

Professional Service

  • Annals of Dyslexia Member, Editorial Review Board; manuscript reviewer
  • International Journal of Bilingualism Ad hoc manuscript reviewer
  • National Science Foundation Proposal Reviewer
  • Human Sentence Processing Conference Abstract Reviewer

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Pye, H. K.; Xia, D.; Sun, H.; Chen, Y.; Yi, K.; Song, M.; Sato, E.; Abasi, A. R.; Ballah, J.; Babarczy, A.; Bertram, R.; Biernacka, A.; Chan, M.; Civera, T.; Dubinina, I.; Erdene, D.; García, M.; Garib, A.; Häikiö, T.; HO, F.; Hung, L.; Joshi, R.; Kanerva, O.; Baath, K. K.; Köhnlein, B.; Kučera, D.; Luegi, P.; Mali, Y. C.; Medina, S.; Milosavljević, S.; Mirza, A.; Mwamzandi, M. Y.; Nami, F.; Niculescu-Gorpin, A.; Padilla, P.; Panayiotou, G.; Perea, M.; Perondi, L.; Pha.m, H.; Puggaard-Rode, R.; Rimzhim, A.; Sarkar, S.; Share, D. L.; Silva, G. V.; Simões, A. R.; Stormbom, C.; Suthiwan, T.; Tamaoka, K.; Tasseva-Kurktchieva, M.; Urbanik, P.; Van, A.; Phillips, K. M.; Sedaghat, A. R. (2026). Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test for global use.. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology. . Wiley.
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alr.70194?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=B2CJNL_MIS_1536100_ATP_PostPublication_SciComms_EM3.
  2. Siegelman, N.; Schroeder, S.; Bao, Y. B.; Acartürk, C.; Agrawal, N.; Bolliger, L. S.; Brasser, J.; Campos-Rojas, C.; Drieghe, D.; Filipović Đurđević, D.; Goldina, S.; Ibáñez Orellana, R.; Jäger, L. A.; Jóhannesson, Ó. I.; Khare, A.; Kharlamov, N.; Knudsen, H. B.; Kristjánsson, Á.; Lee, C. E.; Lee, J. R.; Leite, M. P.; Mancini, S.; Mihajlović, N.; Mišić, K.; Orekhova, M.; Parshina, O.; Popović Stijačić, M.; Protopapas, A.; Reich, D. R.; Rimzhim, A.; Rothe-Neves, R.; Sá, T. M.; Santana-Covarrubias, A.; Sekerina, I.; Sigurdardottir, H. M.; Smirnova, A.; Srivastava, P.; Teixeira, E. N.; Ugrinic, I.; Usal, K. A.; Vakulya, K.; Verma, A.; Vieira, J. M.; Wu, D. H.; Xue, J.; Zdravković, S.; Zhuo, J.; Ziaka, L.; Kuperman, V. (2025). Wave 2 of the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO): New text reading data across languages. Scientific Data (1 ed., vol. 12). Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05453-3.
  3. Kuperman, V.; Schroeder, S.; Acartürk, C.; Agrawal, N.; Alexandre, D. M.; Bolliger, L. S.; Brasser, J.; Campos-Rojas, C.; Drieghe, D.; Đurđević, D. F.; Gadelha de Freitas, L. V.; Goldina, S.; Orellana, R. I.; Jäger, L. A.; Jóhannesson, Ó. I.; Khare, A.; Kharlamov, N.; Knudsen, H. B.; Kristjánsson, Á.; Lee, C. E.; Lee, J. R.; Leite, M. P.; Mancini, S.; Mihajlović, N.; Mišić, K.; Orekhova, M.; Parshina, O.; Popović Stijačić, M.; Protopapas, A.; Reich, D. R.; Rimzhim, A.; Rothe-Neves, R.; Sá, T. M.; Santana Covarrubias, A.; Sekerina, I.; Sigurdardottir, H. M.; Smirnova, A.; Srivastava, P.; Teixeira, E. N.; Ugrinic, I.; Usal, K. A.; Vakulya, K.; Vieira, J. M.; Verma, A.; Wu, D. H.; Xue, J.; Zdravković, S.; Zhuo, J.; Ziaka, L.; Siegelman, N. (2025). New data on text reading in English as a second language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition (2 ed., vol. 47, pp. 677-695). Cambridge University Press (CUP).
    https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263125000105.
  4. Rimzhim, A.; Johri, A.; Kelty-Stephen, D. G.; Fowler, C. A. (2021). Transposition Effects in an Aksharic Writing System: The Case of Hindi. Language and Speech (4 ed., vol. 64, pp. 804-838). SAGE Publications.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920971315.
  5. Srivastava, P.; Rimzhim, A.; Vijay, P.; Singh, S.; Chandra, S. (2019). Desktop VR Is Better Than Non-ambulatory HMD VR for Spatial Learning. Frontiers in Robotics and AI (vol. 6). Frontiers Media SA.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00050.
  6. Rimzhim, A.; Katz, L.; Fowler, C. A. (2014). Brāhmī-derived orthographies are typologically Āksharik but functionally predominantly alphabetic. Writing Systems Research (1 ed., vol. 6, pp. 41-53). Informa UK Limited.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2013.855618.
  7. Rueckl, J. G.; Rimzhim, A. (2011). On the interaction of letter transpositions and morphemic boundaries. Language and Cognitive Processes (4-6 ed., vol. 26, pp. 482-508). Informa UK Limited.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2010.500020.

Courses

Introduction to Psychology;
Biological Psychology;
Cognitive Neuroscience