Research on how babies learn to talk by former Johns Hopkins doctoral student Jenny Culbertson
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Barbara Landau's Williams Syndrome research featured in Arts & Sciences Magazine
The Cognitive Science Department collaborates with the Walters Art Museum on the exhibit,
Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist's Journey through Amnesia. Find out more>>
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New Summer 2013 Courses for Undergraduates
- Lab-based Survey of Cognitive Science
- Semantics I
Postdoc position available
Language Acquisition
Based in Paris, France
Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning
April 13, 2013
Johns Hopkins University
The Optimality Theory workshop (November 9-10, 2012) focused on recent developments coming from both theoretical and psycholinguistic investigations (including acquisition) in syntax/semantics. The workshop was co-organized by Géraldine Legendre (JHU) and Mike Putnam (Penn State). The program is available here.
Jennifer Culbertson has been awarded a 2012 Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Cognitive Science for her PhD Thesis "Learning Biases, Regularization, and the Emergence of Typological Universals in Syntax" - précis
More about the Glusko dissertation prize