He has previously taught at the Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad. Dr. Mishra has published internationally and has edited/co-edited books in the areas of psycholinguistics, language-vision interaction and attention. His areas of interest include language-attention interaction, visual processing and action control. He has been a scientific visitor to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Dalhousie University and the Institute for Cognitive Science Studies, Tehran, among others. Dr. Mishra is on the editorial board of PLOS One, Frontiers in Cognition, and Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. He is also a co-editor of the cognitive science journal Brain, Cognition and Culture. Dr. Mishra is a fellow of the Psychonomic Society, USA.