In the CSL-Lab at Cornell, we study the evolution, acquisition and processing of language from a cognitive science perspective. Directed by Morten H. Christiansen.
Website: https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu
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🥳 Congrats to CSL Lab member, Kate Constan, who presented her excellent Cognitive Science honors project
"The Impacts of Impact: Head Trauma’s Relationship to Statistical Learning" at the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board's Spring Symposium. 👏
Next, Kate will present her work at #IASL26 in June
CSL alumna @erin-isbilen.bsky.social answering questions about her presentation on word search as a measure of statistical learning at the SL conference in San Sebastián
#IASL26
CSL lab member Cris Rivera presenting his work showing that there’s not a single uniform statically-based chunking mechanism at the SL conference in San Sebastián
#IASL26
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CSL Lab alumni @fffrinsel.bsky.social is delivering her talk about using eye tracking to study cue integration during real-time statistical learning at the conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning
#IASL26
CSL lab member Kate Constant presenting her excellent honors thesis work on the effect of head trauma on statistical learning at the SL conference #IASL26 in San Sebastián
Many congrats to Dr. Serene Wang @sere-yu-wang.bsky.social -- the newest PhD to come out of the @csl-lab.bsky.social. 🥳
She expertly defended her dissertation on "Chunking In the Second Language: Connecting Sentence Processing, Proficiency, and Memory Outcomes" 👏
Exciting new paper from the CSL Lab by @yngwienielsen.bsky.social and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social showing that we mentally represent abstract non-hierarchical structure during language use.
Here's a short write-up about the paper:
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news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
Specially, in 4 pre-registered experiments and 2 corpus analyses we find that sequences of Parts-of-Speech elements (such as noun and verb) can be primed in language processing and production
The paper itself can be read freely here: rdcu.be/eZ26u
CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social is featured in a Danish article, discussing what bird alarm calls and Large Language Models can tell us about the evolution of human language and whether our unique communicative abilities relies on an innate language module
blog.minlaering.dk/blogindlaeg/...
📣 Another BBS paper from the CSL Lab!
This paper w/alumni @dr-severinehex.bsky.social and @erin-isbilen.bsky.social + Daniel Rubenstein and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social argues that multimodality is key to safeguarding honesty in communication in humans and other animals
👉 doi.org/10.1017/S014...
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Nature Human Behaviour - Language is often thought to be represented through hierarchically structured units. Nielsen and Christiansen find that non-hierarchical structures are present across...
We can improvise new sentences so readily, language scientists believe, because we have acquired mental representations of the patterns of language that allow us to combine words into sentences.
