Professor Mark Johnson elected Fellow of leading interdisciplinary scientific society
Professor Mark Johnson has become a Fellow of the distinguished Cognitive Science Society
Professor Mark Johnson has become a Fellow of the distinguished Cognitive Science Society for his research into the study of thinking.
The Director of Birkbeck's Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development was praised for the “distinction” of his contributions and the “esteem” in which his work is held by the cognitive science community.
The Cognitive Science Society is the leading US-based society for cognitive science. It promotes the scientific exchange of research across many disciplines, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience and Education.
Johnson, of Birkbeck's Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Science, specialises in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience – the study of functional brain development over the first years of life. He said: “I am delighted to be elected to this fellowship, and to join such an illustrious group of other cognitive scientists. This recognition would not have been possible without some fantastic colleagues and collaborators over the years, many of whom are at Birkbeck.”
Professor Mike Oaksford, Head of the Department of Psychological Sciences, added: “Becoming a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society is to join a small elite group of people who have been recognised as research leaders in their fields over a sustained period. It is thoroughly appropriate that Mark should join this group. The award highlights the excellence of the research in the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, which Mark created, and that of the Department of Psychological Sciences, of which it is a part.”