Dr. Lekhnath Sharma Pathak is an Assistant Professor at the Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, and Principal Investigator of the Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics Lab. His research focuses on bilingual and multilingual language processing, parallel language activation, cognitive control, literacy and cognition, child language acquisition, and the relationship between language and cognition.
PhD in Cognitive Science
Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India
Dissertation: Linguistic and Cognitive Processing in Bilinguals: Study in Kinematic Action Control
Assistant Professor, Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University.
Founder and Principal Investigator, Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics Lab.
Selected Publications
Pathak, L. S., Pathak, P., & Mishra, R. K. (2026). Immersion in second language does not always attenuate and attrite first language: Evidence from Nepali–English bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism, 30(2), 580–602. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069251331880
Pathak, L. S., Vulchanova, M., Pathak, P., & Mishra, R. K. (2025). Trilingual parallel processing: Do the dominant languages grab all the attention? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 28(1), 154–171. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000257
Coventry, K. R., Gudde, H. B., Diessel, H., Collier, J., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Vulchanova, M., Vulchanov, V., Todisco, E., Reile, M., Breunesse, M., Plado, H., Bohnemeyer, J., Bsili, R., Caldano, M., Dekova, R., Donelson, K., Forker, D., Park, Y., Pathak, L. S., … Durmaz Incel, O. (2023). Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(12), 2099–2110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01697-4
Pathak, L. S. (2022). Initiating and institutionalizing cognitive science and psycholinguistics in Nepal: A report. Gipan, 5(1), 52–62. https://doi.org/10.3126/gipan.v5i1.49542
Pathak, L. S., & Pathak, P. (2022). Bilingual Stroop effect in high and low proficient Nepali–English bilinguals. Nepalese Linguistics, 35(1), 128–136. https://doi.org/10.3126/nl.v35i01.46570
