Professor Jay McClelland FBA

Neural network models of human learning, memory and development in linguistic, semantic and mathematical cognition; Complementary learning systems in the brain and the effects of brain damage on cognition
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2017
Sections
Psychology

Current post

Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, and Director, Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation, Stanford University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Cecilia Heyes FBA

Experimental and theoretical psychology: evolutionary, developmental and cultural origins of cognitive processes; animal cognition; social cognition; social learning; imitation

cecilia-heyes.jpg

Professor Elena Lieven FBA

Children’s language development: the emergence and construction of grammar in typologically different languages; the relationship between input and the process of language development; variation in children’s communicative and linguistic environments.

Elena Lieven FBA

Professor Nicholas Frank Pidgeon FBA

Environmental risk perception, risk communication and engaging citizens with sustainability and technology policy choices and behaviours; including climate change, low carbon energy, net zero technologies, and emerging technologies

Nicholas Frank Pidgeon FBA (credit Cardiff University)

Sign up to our email newsletters

Join our mailing list to explore the ideas and impact of the British Academy. Get updates on research, funding, policy, international collaborations, and events that bring the humanities and social sciences to life.