Jesse Winter
Morten H. Christiansen
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology; Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab; Codirector of the Cognitive Science Program
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Contact Information
228 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Morten H. Christiansen
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology; Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab; Codirector of the Cognitive Science Program
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Evolution, acquisition and processing of language; chunking, learning and memory; statistical learning; computational models of language; corpus analyses; cognitive science of language; neuroimaging of language; genetics of language
Current Research Interest
Understanding the implications of the here-and-now nature of language for the acquisition and processing of first and second languages; the difficulty of learning and processing Danish for native speakers; statistical learning in human and nonhuman primates; understanding the role of arbitrariness in sound-meaning relationships; individual differences in language, memory and cognition; mathematical, computational, and experimental approaches to language evolution
Distinction
Cornell University Graduate and Professional Student Assembly's Faculty Teaching, Advising, and Mentorship Award
Cognitive Science Society Fellow
Danish Council for Independent Research Awardee
Association for Psychological Science Fellow
Psychonomic Society Fellow
British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section Award
Selected Publications
McCauley, Stewart M., and Morten H. Christiansen. “Language Learning as Language Use: A Cross-Linguistic Model of Child Language Development.” Psychology Review 126, no. 1 (2019): 1-51.
Christiansen, Morten H. and Nick Chater. Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition and Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2016.