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 Ian Apperly FBA

Ian Apperly is an experimental psychologist. He studies social understanding, its cognitive and neural basis, how it develops, and why it varies between people.

Portrait picture of Professor Ian Apperly FBA

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

Professor Tim Dalgleish FBA

The understanding and development of transdiagnostic psychological interventions for mood, anxiety and stressor-related disorders in children, adolescents and adults, using translational insights from basic science.

Tim Dalgleish FBA

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