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Morten H. Christiansen

Morten H. Christiansen

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
74
Citations
24453
World Ranking
1857
National Ranking
1096

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
61
Citations
16610
World Ranking
2011
National Ranking
640

Morten H. Christiansen publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 258 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Morten H. Christiansen D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Morten H. Christiansen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Morten H. Christiansen is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of psychology and computer science, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cultural studies.

The scientist's work addresses a wide range of topics, including:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Morten H. Christiansen has published extensively, contributing to multiple papers in prominent journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Large Language Models Demonstrate the Potential of Statistical Learning in Language" (2023) in Cognitive Science
  • "Statistically Induced Chunking Recall: A Memory-Based Approach to Statistical Learning" (2020) in Cognitive Science
  • "Quantifying the interplay of conversational devices in building mutual understanding." (2022) in Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Statistical Learning of Language: A Meta-Analysis Into 25 Years of Research" (2022) in Cognitive Science
  • "Affective Arousal Links Sound to Meaning" (2020) in Psychological Science

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Language Learning

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Pablo Contreras Kallens
  • Riccardo Fusaroli
  • Erin S. Isbilen
  • Christina Dideriksen
  • Kristian Tylén

The scope and diversity of Morten H. Christiansen's research indicate a multifaceted approach to understanding language, cognition, and learning processes, integrating experimental, computational, and theoretical perspectives across disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Language as shaped by the brain

    Morten H. Christiansen;Nick Chater

  • Reassessing Working Memory: Comment on Just and Carpenter (1992) and Waters and Caplan (1996)

    Maryellen C. MacDonald;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper

    Clay Beckner;Richard Blythe;Joan Bybee;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Arbitrariness, Iconicity, and Systematicity in Language

    Mark Dingemanse;Damián E. Blasi;Gary Lupyan;Morten H. Christiansen

  • The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language.

    Morten H. Christiansen;Nick Chater

  • Modality-constrained statistical learning of tactile, visual, and auditory sequences.

    Christopher M. Conway;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Language evolution: consensus and controversies.

    Morten H. Christiansen;Simon Kirby

  • Domain generality versus modality specificity: the paradox of statistical learning

    Ram Frost;Ram Frost;Blair Armstrong;Noam Siegelman;Morten Hyllekvist Christiansen;Morten Hyllekvist Christiansen;Morten Hyllekvist Christiansen

  • Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance

    Morten H Christiansen;Nick Chater

  • Experience and Sentence Processing: Statistical Learning and Relative Clause Comprehension.

    Justine B. Wells;Morten H. Christiansen;David S. Race;Daniel J. Acheson

  • Sound-meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages.

    Damián E. Blasi;Damián E. Blasi;Søren Wichmann;Harald Hammarström;Peter F. Stadler;Peter F. Stadler;Peter F. Stadler

  • Learning to Segment Speech Using Multiple Cues: A Connectionist Model

    Morten H. Christiansen;Joseph Allen;Mark S. Seidenberg

  • Processing of relative clauses is made easier by frequency of occurrence

    Florencia Reali;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Individual Differences in Language Acquisition and Processing

    Evan Kidd;Evan Kidd;Seamus Donnelly;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Sequential learning in non-human primates

    Christopher M. Conway;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Statistical Learning and Language: An Individual Differences Study

    Jennifer B. Misyak;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Networks in Cognitive Science

    Andrea Baronchelli;Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Nick Chater

  • Statistical Learning Within and Between Modalities Pitting Abstract Against Stimulus-Specific Representations

    Christopher M. Conway;Morten H. Christiansen

  • How arbitrary is language

    Padraic Monaghan;Richard C. Shillcock;Morten H. Christiansen;Simon Kirby

  • The differential role of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation

    Padraic Monaghan;Nick Chater;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Phonological typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension

    Thomas A. Farmer;Morten H. Christiansen;Padraic Monaghan

  • Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages.

    Karen Emmorey

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Padraic Monaghan
Padraic Monaghan Lancaster University
Evan Kidd
Evan Kidd Australian National University
Ram Frost
Ram Frost Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Simon Kirby
Simon Kirby University of Edinburgh
Riccardo Fusaroli
Riccardo Fusaroli Aarhus University
Rick Dale
Rick Dale University of California, Los Angeles
J. Bruce Tomblin
J. Bruce Tomblin University of Iowa
Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles
Maryellen C. MacDonald
Maryellen C. MacDonald University of Wisconsin–Madison

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