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Morten H. Christiansen is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Cornell University, Professor in Cognitive Science of Language at Aarhus University, Denmark, and a Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs. His research focuses on the interaction of biological and environmental constraints in the evolution, acquisition and processing of language. He employs a variety of methodologies, including computational modeling, corpus analyses, statistical learning, psycholinguistic experiments, and neuroimaging. Christiansen is the author of over 250 scientific papers and has edited books on Connectionist Psycholinguistics, Language Evolution, Language Universals, and Cultural Evolution. He has authored Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing published by MIT Press in 2016. His newest book The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World is aimed at a general reader.
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