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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Asifa Majid is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and has a substantial body of work in psychology and neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, sensory systems, nutrition and dietetics, biomedical engineering, and social psychology.

The main areas of study covered by Majid include:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Categorization, Perception, and Language
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication

Majid has published frequently in several academic venues, notably:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Language and Cognition
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cognition

Among their recent notable papers are:

  • "Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science" (2022), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology" (2020), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "The perception of odor pleasantness is shared across cultures" (2022), published in Current Biology
  • "Expertise Shapes Multimodal Imagery for Wine" (2020), published in Cognitive Science
  • "Nature and human well-being: The olfactory pathway" (2024), published in Science Advances

Collaboration has been an important aspect of Majid's research activities, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Laura J. Speed
  • Artin Arshamian
  • Ewelina Wnuk
  • Claudia Mazzuca
  • Simeon Floyd

Majid has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with more than 75 publications, and to neuroscience, with over 30 publications. The subfields where their work is most concentrated include experimental and cognitive psychology, which accounts for 59 publications, and sensory systems, which include 23 publications.

In recognition of their work, Majid was made a Member of Academia Europaea in 2013.

Best Publications

  • WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]

    Asifa Majid;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Can language restructure cognition? The case for space

    Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • Odors are expressible in language, as long as you speak the right language

    Asifa Majid;Niclas Burenhult;Niclas Burenhult

  • Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science

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  • Differential coding of perception in the world's languages

    Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid;Seán G. Roberts;Ludy Cilissen;Karen Emmorey

  • The Thickness of Musical Pitch Psychophysical Evidence for Linguistic Relativity

    Sarah Dolscheid;Shakila Shayan;Asifa Majid;Daniel Casasanto

  • The cross-linguistic categorization of everyday events: A study of cutting and breaking

    Asifa Majid;James S. Boster;Melissa Bowerman

  • How thought is mapped into words

    Barbara C. Malt;Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid

  • Cross-linguistic categorisation of the body: Introduction

    N. J. Enfield;Asifa Majid;Miriam Van Staden

  • The Senses in Language and Culture

    Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid;Stephen C. Levinson;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Revisiting the limits of language: The odor lexicon of Maniq

    Ewelina Wnuk;Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid

  • Olfaction in Aslian ideology and language

    Niclas Burenhult;Asifa Majid

  • Differential Ineffability and the Senses

    Stephen C. Levinson;Stephen C. Levinson;Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid

  • Vision verbs dominate in conversation across cultures, but the ranking of non-visual verbs varies

    Lila San Roque;Kobin H. Kendrick;Elisabeth Norcliffe;Penelope Brown

  • The semantic categories of cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective

    Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Miriam Van Staden;James S. Boster

  • Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences

    Asifa Majid

  • Prelinguistic Infants Are Sensitive to Space-Pitch Associations Found Across Cultures

    Sarah Dolscheid;Sarah Dolscheid;Sabine Hunnius;Daniel Casasanto;Asifa Majid

  • Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology

    Asifa Majid

  • Vision dominates in perceptual language: English sensory vocabulary is optimized for usage.

    Bodo Winter;Marcus Perlman;Asifa Majid

  • Questioning children: Interactional evidence of implicit bias in medical interviews

    Tanya Stivers;Asifa Majid

  • Talking About Walking Biomechanics and the Language of Locomotion

    Barbara C. Malt;Silvia Gennari;Mutsumi Imai;Eef Ameel

  • Segmenting the body into parts: Evidence from biases in tactile perception

    F. De Vignemont;Asifa Majid;C. Jola;P. Haggard

  • WEIRD languages have misled us, too.

    Asifa Majid;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    A Majid;Martin Pickering;A J Stewart

  • Differential ineffability and the senses

    Asifa Majid

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Anthony J. Sanford
Anthony J. Sanford University of Glasgow
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Daniel Casasanto
Daniel Casasanto Cornell University
Barbara C. Malt
Barbara C. Malt Lehigh University
Mutsumi Imai
Mutsumi Imai Keio University
Lera Boroditsky
Lera Boroditsky University of California, San Diego
Anna M. Borghi
Anna M. Borghi Sapienza University of Rome
Sabine Hunnius
Sabine Hunnius Radboud University
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society

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