Professor Mark Johnson FBA

The typical & atypical development of social & cognitive skills in children over the early years, particularly with respect to structural & functional brain development.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2011
Subjects
Psychology
Sections
Psychology

Current post

Professor of Experimental Psychology (1931) and Head of Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Constantine Sedikides FBA

The experimental analysis of self and identity (including motivated self-enhancement and narcissism), sense of authenticity and the emotion of nostalgia

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Professor Kate Nation FBA

The psychology of language, especially how children learn to read and process written language

Professor Kate Nation FBA (credit John Cairns)

Professor Russell Alan Poldrack FBA

The cognitive neuroscience of decision making and executive control, and the development of tools and methods to improve the reproducibility of scientific research

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