Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen received his PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1995. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University as well as Professor in Cognitive Science of Language, School of Communication and Culture and Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University and Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs. His research focuses on the interaction of biological and environmental constraints in the evolution, acquisition and processing of language. He employes a variety of methodologies, including computational modeling, corpus analyses, psycholinguistic experiments, and neuroimaging. Christiansen is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and has edited volumes on Connectionist Psycholinguistics, Language Evolution, Language Universals, and Cultural Evolution.
His newest book is Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing published in 2016 by MIT Press.
His newest book is Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing published in 2016 by MIT Press.
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