Dr. Morten H. Christiansen is
an Associate Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. His
research integrates connectionist modeling, statistical analyses,
behavioral experimentation, and event-related potential (ERP) methods
in the study of statistical learning and processing of complex
sequential structure, in particular as related to the acquisition,
processing and evolution of language. He received his PhD in Cognitive
Science from the University of Edinburgh and has previously been a
McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Philosophy, Neuroscience and
Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis, an Advanced
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Neural, Informational and
Behavioral Sciences Program at the University of Southern California,
and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychology and
Linguistics at Southern Illinois University before joining Cornell
University.
He is the editor of Connectionist Psycholinguistics (with Nick Chater, Ablex, 2001) and Language Evolution (with Simon Kirby, Oxford Universiy Press, 2003). Moreover, Dr. Christiansen is currently in the process of writing a monograph (with Nick Chater, for Oxford Universiy Press), Creating language: Towards a unified framework for language acquisition, processing and evolution, tying together his research on language. Another monograph, Statistical Learning: Sensitivity to Statistical Structure across Cognition, is also underway (with Chris Conway and Luca Onnis, for Oxford University Press), aiming to provide a broad framework for understanding the computational, behavioral and neural underpinnings of statistical learning. Finally, an edited volume in progress, Language Universals (with Chris Collins and Shimon Edelman, for Oxford University Press), will provide a cross-disciplinary perspective on linguistic universals.
