Profile
Dr Kastoori KALAIVANAN
Research Fellow
Dr Kastoori Kalaivanan recently joined the School team as a Research Fellow. Kastoori’s background is in linguistics and cognitive psychology where for her PhD, she focused on understanding the link between bilingualism, executive functions, and learning. She also has extensive experience developing language learning intervention programmes for older adults targeted towards mitigating age-related cognitive decline. She previously joined CLIC in 2021 where she worked within the Cognition team and focused on piloting and developing the creativity measures currently being used by CLIC and putting together the other psychometric measures to assess cognitive flexibility. Following that, she joined the DUKE-NUS Medical School where she worked on projects trying to understand the link between healthy sleep and learning. Her other project involved working with big data where she used students’ Wi-Fi login patterns to approximate their sleep chronotypes and investigated how this influences grades in university students. Beyond this, she has an active interest in statistics and all things related to programming and machine learning.
Singapore - NTU
Researchers
CLIC
Research Interest
Key Publications
Google Scholar Link
Tong, Ke, Yuan Ni Chan, Xiaoqin Cheng, Bobby Cheon, Michelle Ellefson, Restria Fauziana, Shengchuang Feng, et al. 2023. ‘Study Protocol: How Does Cognitive Flexibility Relate to Other Executive Functions and Learning in Healthy Young Adults?’ Edited by Avanti Dey. PLOS ONE 18 (7): e0286208. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286208.
Leong, Victoria, Kausar Raheel, Jia Yi Sim, Kriti Kacker, Vasilis M Karlaftis, Chrysoula Vassiliu, Kastoori Kalaivanan, et al. 2022. ‘A New Remote Guided Method for Supervised Web-Based Cognitive Testing to Ensure High-Quality Data: Development and Usability Study’. Journal of Medical Internet Research 24 (1): e28368. https://doi.org/10.2196/28368.