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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
Website
https://stanford.edu/~jlmcc/

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 Charles Nelson III FBA

Development and neural bases of processing social information (eg facial emotion); trajectories to autism, with a particular focus on populations at high risk for developing autism (eg, infants with an older sibling with autism; children with various single gene mutations that appear to confer risk for developing autism); effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development, including exposure to both psychosocial adversities and biological adversities

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Professor Cecilia Heyes FBA

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

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Professor Alan Baddeley FBA

Basic and applied cognitive psychology, with particular reference to human memory

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