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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We're hoping to welcome a New PhD student F27. @mh-christiansen.bsky.social is looking for someone interested in conversation as it intersects with language processing, evolution, and/or statistical learning, approached using computational and/or behavioral methods. 👉 Email him if interested

Illustration of two people conversing with each other, with interpretation through pattern recognition involving the integration of multiple cues, including social cues (pointing), the visual environment, what they know about the person they’re talking with, knowledge about the world, prior discourse, cultural expectations, and communicative goals.

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

🥳 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

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

📣 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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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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" 👏

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📣Come see the two posters from the CSL Lab at #CogSci2025! 👀 👉 @elmlingersteven.bsky.social is presenting his on Friday 10:30AM-12PM 👉 Calen MacDonald is presenting his on Saturday 1-2:15PM

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

📣 New paper in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social by CSL-Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social and @yngwienielsen.bsky.social reappraising what structural priming tells us about the representation of language: it's about context — not grammar. Free download until Aug 8: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lIFK4sIRv...

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The paper is a collaborative effort with Ram Frost, @bogaertslab.bsky.social, Art Samuel, @jimmagnuson.bsky.social, and Lori Holt

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

New paper from CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social and colleagues, rethinking the goal of #StatisticalLearning as providing the baseline against which novelty can be detected by a cognitive information foraging system doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Results are presented from a lab-based cultural evolution, computational modeling, and psycholinguistic experimentation. Together, these studies suggest that cultural evolution, constrained by chunk-based learning and processing mechanisms, has shaped the emergence of linguistic structure 4/4

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

In September 2024, CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social gave a talk in the Language Circle series on how chunking affects language across multiple timescales with implications for the nature of language processing, acquisition, and evolution: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOD1... Abstract in 🧵 1/4

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

New CSL-Lab paper out by alumni Pablo Contreras Kallens and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social: Distributional Semantics: Meaning Through Culture and Interaction (including discussions of meaning in LLMs) 👉 Read it for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you're at #psynom24 go see the poster by CSL-Lab's Serene Wang about how to best measure real-time language skills: "Utterance Recall as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency: Cross-Linguistic Applicability and Fine-Grained Automatic Scoring" # 7028 in the poster session tonight, 7:45-9:15PM.

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