Professor Asifa Majid FBA

The relationship between language, culture and cognition, particularly how different languages and cultures shape and reflect the mind.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Sections
Psychology

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Cognitive Science and Fellow, St Hugh's College

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Patrick Haggard FBA

Control of human voluntary action and sense of agency; somatosensation and bodily awareness: relations between neural information-processing and subjective experience

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Professor Gordon Brown FBA

Human memory; decision-making in context; the incommensurability of value; money and happiness; polarisation; relationship between income inequality, conspicuous consumption, and nationalism.

Gordon Brown FBA

Dr Karalyn Patterson FBA

The organisation of language and memory in adult humans, as revealed primarily by the impact of brain disease or injury, and including comparisons of English and Japanese languages

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