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 Steven Tipper FBA

Perception and action; the role of selective attention in perceptual and motor processes, understanding other people via motor simulation processes, the influence of perception and action on emotion.

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Professor Mahzarin Banaji FBA

Social cognition as it operates without conscious awareness or control and dissociated from intention and values; implicit bias arising from group memberships (age, class, ethnicity, gender, religion, nationality)

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