Asifa Majid -

Publications

Journal articles

• Majid, A., & Levinson, S. C. (in press). WEIRD languages have misled us too [Comment on Henrich et al.]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• De Vignemont, F., Majid, A., Jola, C., & Haggard, P. (2009). Segmenting the body into parts: Evidence from biases in tactile perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 500-512. more >
• Mitterer, H., Horschig, J. M., Müsseler, J., & Majid, A. (2009). The influence of memory on perception: It's not what things look like, it's what you call them. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(6), 1557-1562. more >
• Malt, B. C., Gennari, S., Imai, M., Ameel, E., Tsuda, N., & Majid, A. (2008). Talking about walking: Biomechanics and the language of locomotion. Psychological Science, 19(3), 232-240. more >
• Majid, A., Boster, J. S., & Bowerman, M. (2008). The cross-linguistic categorization of everyday events: A study of cutting and breaking. Cognition, 109(2), 235-250. more >
• Pickering, M. J., & Majid, A. (2007). What are implicit causality and consequentiality? Language and Cognitive Processes, 22(5), 780-788. more >
• Stivers, T., & Majid, A. (2007). Questioning children: Interactional evidence of implicit bias in medical interviews. Social Psychology Quarterly, 70(4), 424-441. more >
• Majid, A., Gullberg, M., Van Staden, M., & Bowerman, M. (2007). How similar are semantic categories in closely related languages? A comparison of cutting and breaking in four Germanic languages. Cognitive Linguistics, 18(2), 179-194. more >
• Majid, A., Bowerman, M., Van Staden, M., & Boster, J. S. (2007). The semantic categories of cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective. Cognitive Linguistics, 18(2), 133-152. more >
• Majid, A., Sanford, A. J., & Pickering, M. J. (2007). The linguistic description of minimal social scenarios affects the extent of causal inference making. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43(6), 918-932. more >
• Enfield, N. J., Majid, A., & Van Staden, M. (2006). Cross-linguistic categorisation of the body: Introduction. Language Sciences, 28(2-3), 137-147. more >
• Majid, A. (2006). Body part categorisation in Punjabi. Language Sciences, 28(2-3), 241-261. more >
• Majid, A., Sanford, A. J., & Pickering, M. J. (2006). Covariation and quantifier polarity: What determines causal attribution in vignettes? Cognition, 99(1), 35-51. more >
• Van Staden, M., & Majid, A. (2006). Body colouring task. Language Sciences, 28(2-3), 158-161. more >
• Majid, A., Bowerman, M., Kita, S., Haun, D. B. M., & Levinson, S. C. (2004). Can language restructure cognition? The case for space. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(3), 108-114. more >
• Van Gompel, R. P. G., & Majid, A. (2003). Antecedent frequency effects during the processing of pronouns. Cognition, 90(3), 255-264. more >

Book chapters

• Majid, A., & Enfield, N. J. (in press). Mereology and the body. In H. Burkhardt, J. Seibt, & G. Imaguire (Eds.), Handbook of mereology. Munich: Philosophia.
• Majid, A. (2010). Words for parts of the body. In B. C. Malt, & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the Mind: How words capture human experience (pp. 58-71). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Levinson, S. C., & Majid, A. (2009). The role of language in mind. In S. Nolen-Hoeksema, B. Fredrickson, G. Loftus, & W. Wagenaar (Eds.), Atkinson and Hilgard's introduction to psychology (15th ed.). London: Wadworth/Thomson Learning.

Special issues

• Majid, A., & Bowerman, M. (Eds.). (2007). Cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective [Special Issue]. Cognitive Linguistics, 18(2). more >
• Majid, A., Enfield, N. J., & Van Staden, M. (Eds.). (2006). Parts of the body: Cross-linguistic categorisation [Special Issue]. Language Sciences, 28(2-3).

Proceedings papers

• Majid, A., Van Staden, M., Boster, J. S., & Bowerman, M. (2004). Event categorization: A cross-linguistic perspective. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Tegier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 885-890). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. more >
• Majid, A., Van Staden, M., & Enfield, N. J. (2004). The human body in cognition, brain, and typology. In K. Hovie (Ed.), Forum Handbook, 4th International Forum on Language, Brain, and Cognition - Cognition, Brain, and Typology: Toward a Synthesis (pp. 31-35). Sendai: Tohoku University. more >

Commentaries and reviews

• Majid, A., & Levinson, S. C. (2008). Language does provide support for basic tastes [Commentary on A study of the science of taste: On the origins and influence of the core ideas by Robert P. Erickson]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 86-87. more >
• Majid, A. (2008). Conceptual maps using multivariate statistics: Building bridges between typological linguistics and psychology [Commentary on Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis by William Croft and Keith T. Poole]. Theoretical Linguistics, 34(1), 59-66. more >
• Majid, A., & Huettig, F. (2008). A crosslinguistic perspective on semantic cognition [commentary on Precis of Semantic cognition: A parallel distributed approach by Timothy T. Rogers and James L. McClelland]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(6), 720-721. more >
• Majid, A. (2004). [Review of the book The new handbook of language and social psychology ed. by W. Peter Robinson and Howard Giles]. Language and Society, 33(3), 429-433.
• Majid, A. (2004). An integrated view of cognition [Review of the book Rethinking implicit memory ed. by J. S. Bowers and C. J. Marsolek]. The Psychologist, 17(3), 148-149.
• Majid, A. (2002). Frames of reference and language concepts. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(12), 503-504. more >

Other

• Majid, A., & Sutton, J. (2009). Adventures in the jungle of language. The Psychologist, 22(4), 312-313.
• Majid, A. (2004). Coned to perfection. The Psychologist, 17(7), 386-386.
• Majid, A. (2004). Developing clinical understanding. The Psychologist, 17, 386-387.
• Majid, A. (2004). Out of context. The Psychologist, 17(6), 330-330.
• Majid, A. (2004). Data elicitation methods. Language Archive Newsletter, 1(2), 6-6. more >
• Majid, A. (2003). Towards behavioural genomics. The Psychologist, 16(6), 298-298.
• Majid, A. (2003). Into the deep. The Psychologist, 16(6), 300-300.