Morten H. Christiansen is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Cornell University as well a Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs and a Professor in Cognitive Science of Language at the School of Communication and Culture and the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research focuses on the interaction of biological and environmental constraints in the evolution, acquisition and processing of language. Christiansen is the author of over 200 scientific papers as well as the co-editor of several collections and author of several books.  With Nick Chater, he recently published The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World (Basic Books: 2022). Please check the website of Christiansen’s Cognitive Neuroscience Lab for more information on the research he conducts.

In relation to the Humanities Lab, Morten Christiansen is, together with Laurent Dubreuil, the co-creator and co-teacher of a class offered every other year at Cornell on “Culture, Cognition, Humanities .” Christiansen and Dubreuil also co-lead the Poetry & Artificial Intelligence research project.