Professor Kate Nation FBA

The psychology of language, especially how children learn to read and process written language
Headshot of Professor Kate Nation FBA (credit John Cairns)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Experimental Psychology

St John’s College, Oxford Fellow

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Professor Gerd Gigerenzer FBA

Decision-making under uncertainty; ecological rationality of heuristics; the intelligence of intuition; statistical thinking in health care; risk communication and risk literacy

Gerd Gigerenzer FBA

Professor Robert Ladd FBA

Phonology and phonetics, and the relation between them ("laboratory phonology"); intonation and prosody, including focus, emotion, pitch perception, tone languages, and links between language and music

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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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