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Dr. Morten H. Christiansen: director

Morten H. Christiansen received his PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1995. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University as well External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on the interaction of biological and environmental constraints in the processing, acquisition, and evolution of language, which he approaches using a variety of methodologies, including computational modeling, corpus analyses,  psycholinguistic experiments, neuroimaging, and molecular genetics. Christiansen is the author of more than 130 scientific papers and has edited volumes on Connectionist Psycholinguistics, Language Evolution, and Language Universals. 

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Dr. Morten H. Christiansen

Cornell University