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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
Website
https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/asifa-majid

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Cognitive Science and Fellow, St Hugh's College

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Professor Peter Cooper FBA

The intergenerational transmission of psychopathology; child cognitive and socio-emotional development in the developing world; the development evaluation and dissemination of parenting interventions

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Professor Marcia Johnson FBA

Cognition and cognitive neuroscience: component processes of memory and cognition, reality/source monitoring (eg, distinguishing real from imagined events), executive function, emotion and cognition, the 'self' and cognition, aging and memory

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Professor Andrew Pickles FBA

Statistical modelling and analysis with a special focus on the cognitive, emotional and behavioural development of children who confront both biological and social challenges.

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