2026 Morten H. Christiansen: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	74	1859	1677	1096	966	258	24453
Engineering and Technology	61	2009	1918	639	582	217	16610

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

1319
Citations
Reassessing Working Memory: Comment on Just and Carpenter (1992) and Waters and Caplan (1996)

Maryellen C. MacDonald;Morten H. Christiansen

1178
Citations
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper

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

1169
Citations
Arbitrariness, Iconicity, and Systematicity in Language

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

785
Citations
The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language.

Morten H. Christiansen;Nick Chater

774
Citations
Modality-constrained statistical learning of tactile, visual, and auditory sequences.

Christopher M. Conway;Morten H. Christiansen

708
Citations
Language evolution: consensus and controversies.

Morten H. Christiansen;Simon Kirby

646
Citations
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

638
Citations
Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance

Morten H Christiansen;Nick Chater

624
Citations
Experience and Sentence Processing: Statistical Learning and Relative Clause Comprehension.

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

593
Citations
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

593
Citations
Learning to Segment Speech Using Multiple Cues: A Connectionist Model

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

552
Citations
Processing of relative clauses is made easier by frequency of occurrence

Florencia Reali;Morten H. Christiansen

447
Citations
Individual Differences in Language Acquisition and Processing

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

430
Citations
Sequential learning in non-human primates

Christopher M. Conway;Morten H. Christiansen

404
Citations
Statistical Learning and Language: An Individual Differences Study

Jennifer B. Misyak;Morten H. Christiansen

401
Citations
Networks in Cognitive Science

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

382
Citations
Statistical Learning Within and Between Modalities Pitting Abstract Against Stimulus-Specific Representations

Christopher M. Conway;Morten H. Christiansen

365
Citations
How arbitrary is language

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

358
Citations
The differential role of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation

Padraic Monaghan;Nick Chater;Morten H. Christiansen

337
Citations
Phonological typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension

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

319
Citations
Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages.

Karen Emmorey

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Chater University of Warwick

Padraic Monaghan Lancaster University

Evan Kidd Australian National University

Ram Frost Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Simon Kirby University of Edinburgh

Riccardo Fusaroli Aarhus University

Rick Dale University of California, Los Angeles

J. Bruce Tomblin University of Iowa

Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles

Maryellen C. MacDonald University of Wisconsin–Madison

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