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 Susan Gathercole FBA

The cognitive mechanisms of memory and learning in typical children and adults, their impairments in developmental disorders of learning, and methods of remediation

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Professor Barbara Sahakian FBA

Neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, neuroimaging and neuroethics. Focusing on cognition, motivation and their interaction in neurological and psychiatric disorders and brain injury.

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Professor Kate Nation FBA

The psychology of language, especially how children learn to read and process written language

Professor Kate Nation FBA (credit John Cairns)

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