Asifa Majid, Ph.D., Professor of Cognitive Science

University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

2022-23 William Bentinck-Smith, Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Asifa Majid studies the relationship among language, culture, and mind.  Majid, who earned her PhD at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters...

Celeste Kidd, Ph.D., Assistant Professsor, University of California, Berkeley

The Kidd Lab studies the processes involved in learning and belief formation, starting in infancy, using a combination of computational and behavioral methods. The lab is one of few in the world that combine technologically sophisticated behavioral experiments with computational models in order to broadly understand knowledge acquisition. The Kidd Lab employs a range of methods,...

Lila Davachi, Professor of Psychology, Columbia University, New York

Davachi Memory Lab 

Encoding

How are memories formed? We have focused on understanding how the brain and, in particular, the medial temporal lobe (MTL)...