Person

Padakannaya, Prakash

[19XX]

Prakash Padakannaya is a professor of Psychology at Christ University, Bengaluru, India. He was trained in psycholinguistics and cognition during his Ph.D. at Utkal University, India, and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, London, United Kingdom. His Ph.D., focusing on Reading Development in Oriya was the first study that showed that phonemic awareness is not so crucial for learning to read Indian alpha-syllabary