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In the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Cornell
University, we aim to produce a comprehensive account of
the evolution, acquisition and processing of language. Our research
is conducted within a unified framework for
understanding language across multiple time-scales: the
time-scale of thousands of years, over which languages
themselves evolve; the time-scale of years, over which children
acquire the language of their community; and the time-scale of
seconds, in which particular utterances are spoken and
understood. We approach language acquisition using a variety of
methods, including neuroimaging, molecular
genetics, eye-tracking, behavioral experiments, corpus analyses,
and computational modeling as well as with different subject
populations, ranging from infants to adults with and without
language impairments.
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Dr. Christiansen will be a plenary speaker at the
International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July, 14-18, 2014.
Dr. Christiansen will be a keynote speaker at the
2013 European Conference on Complex Systems(ECCS’13), Barcelona, Spain, September 16-20, 2013.
M.H. Christiansen: Darwin’s Insight: The Cultural Evolution of
Language. Invited public lecture to be delivered at the Institute of
Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, May 27,
2013.
Dr. Christiansen will deliver a public lecture at the National Central
University, Taiwan, May 10, 2013.
The American Scholar published a piece reporting Dr. Christiansen's recent paper in PLoS ONE:
The biological origin of linguistic diversity March, 2013.
The ScienceDaily published a piece on Dr. Christiansen's recent paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences:
How hierarchical is language use? on September 25, 2012.
Congrats to Dr. Jennifer B. Misyak who successfully defended her PhD and will be taken up a
postdoc position in the Behavioural Science Group at the Warwick Business School in the UK.
Dr. Christiansen was a keynote speaker at the
Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics at the University of
Beijing, China, November 9-11, 2012.
Dr. Christiansen appeared on the Danish Radio program P1
Morgen on July 16, 2012, discussing language acquisition and robotics in the segment
“Robot lærer sprog som babyer” (click here to play the segment).
Dr. Christiansen was interviewed for piece on language acquisition and robotics,
"Den talende babyrobot”, in the July 13, 2012, issue of Weekendavisen.
Drs. Arnon and Christiansen received a grant from the
Binational Science Foundation for the project Starting
Big: The differential role of multi-word chunks in first and
second language learning.
Congrats to lab alumnus, Thomas Farmer, who will take up a
position as Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychology at the University of Iowa, July 2012.
Congrats to lab alumnus, Chris Conway, who will take up a
position as Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychology at Georgia State University, July 2012.
Dr. Christiansen and Dr. Richerson (UC Davis) co-chaired an Ernst Strüngmann Forum on
Cultural Evolution, Frankfurt, Germany, May 27 - June 2, 2012.
News Archive
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H. Jolsvai, S.M. McCauley & M.H. Christiansen: The
Relative Importance of Meaning and Frequency in the
Processing of Formulaic Expressions. Talk to be presented in
the Bridging the Methodological Divide: Cognitive Linguistic
and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Formulaic Language theme
session at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics
Conference, Edmonton, Canada, June 25, 2013.
S.M. McCauley & M.H. Christiansen: Acquiring
formulaic language: A Cross-Linguistic Model of Children's
Comprehension and Production. Talk to be presented in the
Bridging the Methodological Divide: Cognitive Linguistic and
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Formulaic Language theme
session at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics
Conference, Edmonton, Canada, June 25, 2013.
M.H. Christiansen: Computational Investigations of Multiword Chunks in
Language Learning. Talk to be presented at a symposium on Multiword
Sequences as Building Blocks for Language: Insights into First and Second
Language Learning at the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society, Berlin, Germany, August 1-3, 2013.
H. Jolsvai, S.M. McCauley & M.H. Christiansen: Meaning Overrides
Frequency in Idiomatic and Compositional Multiword Chunks. Talk to be
presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Berlin, Germany, August 1-3, 2013.
M.H. Christiansen & J.B. Misyak: Individual Differences in Implicit
Statistical Learning and Language. Invited talk to be presented at a paper
symposium on Implicit Learning Out of the Lab: Language and Music at the 35th
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany, August
1-3, 2013.
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Baronchelli, A., Ferrer i Cancho,, R., Pastor-Satorras, R., Chater, N. &
Christiansen, M.H. (in press). Networks in cognitive science. Trends in
Cognitive Sciences.
McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (in press).
Towards a unified account of comprehension and production in language development.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences [commentary].
Baronchelli, A., Chater, N., Christiansen, M.H. & Pastor-Satorras, R. (2013).
Evolution in a changing environment. PLoS ONE, 8(1): e52742.
Baronchelli, A., Chater, N., Pastor-Satorras, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012).
The biological origin of linguistic diversity. PLoS ONE, 7(10): e48029.
de Vries, M.H., Geukes, S., Zwitserlood, P., Petersson, K.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012).
Processing multiple non-adjacent dependencies: Evidence from sequence learning.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367, 2065-2076.
Frank, S.L., Bod, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012).
How hierarchical is language use? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 297, 4522-4531.
Heimbauer, L.A., Conway, C.M., Christiansen, M.H., Beran, M.J. & Owren, M.J. (2012).
A Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task
with symmetrical joystick responding for nonhuman primates. Behavior Research Methods, 44, 733–741.
Van den Bos, E., Christiansen, M.H. & Misyak, J.B. (2012). Statistical learning of probabilistic
nonadjacent dependencies by multiple-cue integration. Journal of Memory and Language, 67,
507-520.
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