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Gibson
Edward
Ph.D.
Professor
Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Faculty Appointment
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Email
egibson@mit.edu
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8572226206
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    Research

    Research in the Gibson Lab (“TedLab”) is aimed at investigating (1) why human languages look the way they do; (2) the relationship between culture and cognition, including language; and, most generally, (3) how people learn, represent and process language.

    We use a variety of methods, including behavioral experiments (e.g., reading and listening studies, many simple methods in working with remote populations, dual-task experiments, individual differences studies), statistical modeling and corpus analyses. In collaboration with other labs we also use functional MRI, event-related potentials (ERPs) and eye-tracking.

    The major lines of research pursued in the lab:

    1. Information processing and cross-linguistic universals

    2. The relationship between culture and cognition / language

    3. Language processing

      1. What are the informational constraints that affect language processing? The informational constraints we have investigated include:
        • Syntactic information
        • Lexical information
        • Plausibility (world knowledge) information
        • Prosodic information
        • Pragmatic inference
        • Discourse coherence information
        • Information structure
      2. Resource constraints (the working memory system underlying language processing)
        • What is the nature of the resource constraints in language processing and what is the best way of quantifying them?
        • To what extent is the working memory system underlying language processing domain-specific? The language constraints?
      3. Methodological questions about this research
        • The value of doing quantitative research in syntax and semantics
        • Meta-analysis in syntactic priming research
    Teaching

    9.59J Laboratory in psycholinguistics
    9.012 Cognitive science

    Publications

    Gibson E, Fedorenko E. Weak quantitative standards in linguistics research. Trends Cogn Sci. 2010 Apr 1. [Epub ahead of print]

    Tily H, Fedorenko E, Gibson E. The time-course of lexical and structural processes in sentence comprehension. Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester). 2010 May;63(5):910-27. Epub 2009 Sep 10.

    Fedorenko E, Patel A, Casasanto D, Winawer J, Gibson E. Structural integration in language and music: evidence for a shared system. Mem Cognit. 2009 Jan;37(1):1-9.

    Frank MC, Everett DL, Fedorenko E, Gibson E. Number as a cognitive technology: evidence from Pirah� language and cognition. Cognition. 2008 Sep;108(3):819-24. Epub 2008 Jun 10.

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