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 Michael Alexander Hogg FBA

The social psychology of group processes and intergroup relations, influence and leadership, and self and identity; as well as social conflict, societal extremism and social identity-framed language and communication

Michael Hogg FBA

Professor Timothy Shallice FBA

The development of information-processing and connectionist models of cognitive processes, particularly of executive functions, memory, knowledge, reading and writing and their application to understanding the cognitive consequences of brain damage

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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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