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The research in the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Cornell
University 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 aim to produce a comprehensive account of
language evolution, acquisition and processing based on evidence
from a variety of methods, including neuroimaging, molecular
genetics, eye-tracking, behavioral experiments, corpus analyses,
and computational modeling as well as from different subject
populations, ranging from infants to adults with and without
language impairments.
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Dr. Christiansen will be delivering a plenary talk at the 8th Evolution of Language
Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 2010.
Dr. Christiansen will be giving the 2009
Nijmegen Lectures December 7-9 at the Max Planck Institute
for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands.
Congrats to Jennifer Misyak for winning the Marr Prize for Best Student
Paper at the 31st Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference,
July/August 2009, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Dr. Christiansen was elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
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J.B. Misyak, M.H. Christiansen & J.B. Tomblin:
Statistical Learning Skill Predicts Language Performance:
On-line Data from Nonadjacency Learning and Relative Clause
Processing. Paper to be presented at the 50th Annual
Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, November 21,
2009.
M.H. Christiansen: A Possible Division of Labor between
Arbitrary and Systematic Sound-Meaning Mappings in Language. Invited
talk to be presented at a workshop on “Sound Symbolism: Challenging the
Arbitrariness of Language”, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 26-27, 2010.
M.H. Christiansen: Brains, Genes and Language Evolution: A New Synthesis.
Invited colloquium to be presented to the Center for Mind, Brain, and
Culture, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 24, 2010.
M.H. Christiansen: Brains, Genes and Language Evolution: A
New Synthesis. Invited lecture at the Third Graduate Summer Institute in
Cognitive Science: On the Origin of Language, Cognitive Science
Institute, l'Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 29, 2010.
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Beckner, C., Blythe, R., Bybee, J., Christiansen, M.H., Croft, W., Ellis, N., Holland, J., Ke, J.,
Larsen-Freeman, D. & Schoenemann, T. (in press).
Language is a complex adaptive system. To appear in a
special issue of Language Learning on "Language as a complex adaptive system".
Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (in press).
Language acquisition meets language evolution. Cognitive
Science.
Christiansen, M.H. & MacDonald, M.C. (in press).
A usage-based approach to recursion in sentence processing. Language Learning.
Misyak, J.B., Christiansen, M.H. & Tomblin, J.B. (in press). Sequential
expectations: The role of prediction-based learning in language. Topics
in Cognitive Science.
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