Florencia studied neurobiology as an undergraduate
obtaining a B.S. from Universidad de la Republica (UdelaR), Uruguay, in 2000. In 2002 she obtained a M.S. from PEDECIBA, UdelaR, Uruguay. She entered graduate studies at
Cornell University where she began working on neural network modeling of
cognitive processes. Florencia works on modeling the interaction of
multiple statistical variables in language acquisition and language
processing. Using connectionist approaches, she has worked on the
development of simulations on language acquisition and language evolution.
She has also used corpus analysis methods in order to assess some basic
assumptions of poverty of stimulus argument for language acquisition.
Florencia is also interested in the interaction between visual perception
and linguistic processing, as well as the nature of neural representation
of vision and language.
Webpage : http://cnl.psych.cornell.edu/people/flo.html
PUBLICATIONS
Reali, F., Spivey, M., Tyler,
M., & Terranova, J. (in press). Difficult conjunction search made easy
by concurrent spoken delivery of target identity. To appear in Perception
& Psychophysics.
Christiansen, M., Reali, F.,
& Chater, N. (2006) The Baldwin effect works for functional but not
arbitrary features of language (pp. 27-34). In A. Cangelosi, A.D.M.
Smith and K. Smith (Eds.) The Evolution of Language. Toh Tuck Link
Singapore: Word Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Reali, F., Christiansen, M. H. (2005). Uncovering the richness of the stimulus: Structural dependence and indirect statistical evidence. Cognitive Science, 29, 1007-10018.
Reali, F., Dale, R., & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Reassessing "colorless green ideas sleep furiously." In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Valle-Lisboa, J.C, Reali, F., Anastasía, H., & Mizraji, E. (2005). Elman topology with sigma-pi units: an application to the modeling of verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia, Neural Networks, 18 (7), 863-877.
Reali, F., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2003). Phonological and Distributional Cues in Syntax Acquisition: Scaling up the Connectionist Approach to Multiple-Cue Integration. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 970-975).Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
PRESENTATIONS/POSTERS
Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Word-Chunk Frequency Affects the Processing of Relative Clauses. Poster presented at the Eighteenth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Tucson, Arizona.
Chater, N., Christiansen, M. H., & Reali, F. (2004). Is coevolution of language and language genes possible? Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Language Evolution. Leipzig, Germany.
Dale, R. & Reali, F. (2004). No "One" Is Alone: Comment on Lidz et al. (2004). Poster presented at the Language Universals Symposium, May. Cornell University.
Reali, F. & Christiansen, M. H. (2004).The Relative Role of Biological and Linguistic Adaptation in Language Evolution: A Computational Approach. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Language Evolution. Leipzig, Germany.
Christiansen M.H., Reali F., Monaghan P. & Chater N. (2003). Multiple-Cue Integration in Language Acquisition: The Differential Contribution of Phonological and Distributional Cues. Paper presented in the 9th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Glasgow, Scotland
Christiansen M.H., Reali F., Monaghan P., Chater N. (2003). Language Acquisition through Multiple-Cue Integration: Differential Contribution of Phonological and Distributional Cues. Paper presented in the 28th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, Massachusetts.