Dr. Morten Christiansen

Biography

Morten H. Christiansen is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. His research is centered on the interaction of biological and environmental constraints in the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language. He employs a variety of methodologies, including computational modeling, corpus analyses, statistical learning, psycholinguistic experiments, and neuroimaging to investigate these complex processes. Current projects in his lab examine the roles of chunking and memory in language learning, the statistical learning properties of multiword chunks, and the individual differences in language acquisition and reading. He also explores the computational and experimental approaches to cultural evolution in language. His contributions are significant in the fields of cognition and neuroscience, particularly in understanding how language is learned and processed in diverse contexts.

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