Professor Lynne Murray FBA

The functional architecture of early parent-infant relationships; their role in child development in clinical contexts and conditions of adversity; the development of parenting interventions to prevent adverse child outcome
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Sections
Psychology

Current post

Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Reading

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Charles Nelson III FBA

Development and neural bases of processing social information (eg facial emotion); trajectories to autism, with a particular focus on populations at high risk for developing autism (eg, infants with an older sibling with autism; children with various single gene mutations that appear to confer risk for developing autism); effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development, including exposure to both psychosocial adversities and biological adversities

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Professor Simon Baron-Cohen FBA

The neuropsychology of autism (in particular, the phenomenon of mindblindness); the psychology of sex differences in humans; the role of foetal testosterone in neurocognitive development

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