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.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Honours
CBE
Sections
Psychology

Current post

Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry and MRC

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Dr Dr h.c. Wolfgang Prinz FBA

Relationships between cognition, action and consciousness; contributions of social practices and discourses to structure and function of the human mind

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Professor John Duncan FBA

Psychological and neural mechanisms of selective attention and general intelligence; with methods including cognitive psychology, studies of brain damage, functional brain imaging and neurophysiology

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Professor Zoltán Dienes FBA

Zoltán Dienes' research interests are scientific reform in publishing, and in how to obtain evidence that an effect does not exist; and consciousness science, especially how people can construct subjective experiences to suit their goals.

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