, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频, has been elected a foreign member of .
Founded in 1742 with the purpose of strengthening the position of science in Denmark as well as promoting interdisciplinary understanding, the Academy has approximately 250 Danish and 250 foreign members. Members are prominent scientists within both the humanities and social sciences as well as the natural sciences.
Christiansen鈥檚 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.
His many research projects include examining the difficulty of learning and using Danish as a first language; individual differences in language, statistical learning, and reading; and computational and experimental approaches to the cultural evolution of language. He is also the recipient of a New Frontier Grant, with Laurent Dubreuil, professor of Romance studies and comparative literature, (A&S). That project, titled "Poetry, AI and the Mind: A Humanities-Cognitive Science Transdisciplinary Exploration,鈥 aims to conduct empirical research on poetry, connecting the humanities, artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
Christiansen received his Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Edinburgh in 1995. He is the author of more than 225 scienti铿乧 papers and has authored two monographs and edited four books; his latest, 鈥,鈥 co-authored by Nick Chater, is forthcoming later this month.
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