Morten H. Christiansen's guest appearances

Morten H. Christiansen

The Innovation Show

The Armen Show

Speaking of Language

Daniel Kahneman

Steven Pinker

Robert Sapolsky

Steven C. Hayes

Daniel Z. Lieberman

Robert Greene

Steve Magness

Rachel Hart

Richard Wrangham

Robin Hanson

Safi Bahcall

Daniel Pink

Farnoosh Brock

Yancey Strickler

Adam Rogers

OwlTail

Nick Chater

The story of language is the story of humanity; the new understanding of language that our guests outline in this book radically revises our conception of ourselves.In today’s book, our guests outline a revolutionary perspective that overhauls almost everything we thought we knew about language. We will hear how the game of charades reveals deep insights into how language works. We’ll hear how our brain can improvise linguistic ‘moves’ at an astonishingly rapid rate. We’ll hear how languages are in continual flux, how people without a common tongue can rapidly create a language from scratch, and why it’s likely that language has been independently reinvented countless times. We will realise how the creation of language is not only important in itself – it also changed the nature of evolution.It’s a pleasure to welcome the authors of The Language Game- How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World., Nick Chater and Morten H. ChristiansenFind Nick here: https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/ https://twitter.com/nickjchaterFind Morten here: https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu https://twitter.com/mh_christiansen

The story of language is the story of humanity; the new understanding of language that our guests outline in this book radically revises our conception of ourselves. In today’s book, our guests outline a revolutionary perspective that overhauls almost everything we thought we knew about language. We will hear how the game of charades reveals deep insights into how language works. We’ll hear how our brain can improvise linguistic ‘moves’ at an astonishingly rapid rate. We’ll hear how languages are in continual flux, how people without a common tongue can rapidly create a language from scratch, and why it’s likely that language has been independently reinvented countless times. We will realise how the creation of language is not only important in itself – it also changed the nature of evolution. It’s a pleasure to welcome the authors of The Language Game- How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World., Nick Chater and Morten H. Christiansen Find Nick here: <a href="https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/nickjchater" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/nickjchater</a> Find Morten here: <a href="https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mh_christiansen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/mh_christiansen</a>

The Language Game - Nick Chater and Morten H. Christiansen

Morten Christiansen explains how language is like charades while discussing his new book, The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World. He also reassures us that we shouldn’t fear artificial intelligence taking over the world, or the field of poetry. The Language Game: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/morten-h-christiansen/the-language-game/9781541674981/ Cognitive Science of Language Lab: https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu/ Twitter: @mh_christiansen #kamalåså

Morten Christiansen explains how language is like charades while discussing his new book, The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World. He also reassures us that we shouldn’t fear artificial intelligence taking over the world, or the field of poetry. The Language Game: <a href="https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/morten-h-christiansen/the-language-game/9781541674981/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/morten-h-christiansen/the-language-game/9781541674981/</a> Cognitive Science of Language Lab: <a href="https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu/</a> Twitter: @mh_christiansen #kamalåså

S9E8 - Morten H. Christiansen - The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

Improvisation has taken language a far distance from its origination, with what we make up as we go adjusting the language over time. A delightful discussion on this topic ensues here with both past guest Professor Nick Chater and new guest Professor Morten H. Christiansen, co-authors of The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World. I was glad to have both on episode 338 of the show for a group discussion on topics from the book.Morten H. Christiansen is a Danish cognitive scientist known for his work on the evolution of language, and connectionist modeling of human language acquisition. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University as well Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs and Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University.His research has produced evidence for considering language to be a cultural system that is shaped by general-purpose cognitive and learning mechanisms, rather than from innate language-specific mental structures.Nick Chater is a cognitive psychologist who is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School and has held chairs in psychology at Warwick and at University College London. He has written over 250 publications, has won four national awards for psychological research, and has served as associate editor for the journals Cognitive Science, Psychological Review, and Psychological Science. His previous trade book, The Mind is Flat, won the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Best Book in Clinical Psychology, 2018, and was the topic of our previous discussion.Links: The Language Game | Morten’s Faculty Page | Nick’s Faculty Page

Improvisation has taken language a far distance from its origination, with what we make up as we go adjusting the language over time. A delightful discussion on this topic ensues here with both past guest Professor Nick Chater and new guest Professor Morten H. Christiansen, co-authors of The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World. I was glad to have both on episode 338 of the show for a group discussion on topics from the book.Morten H. Christiansen is a Danish cognitive scientist known for his work on the evolution of language, and connectionist modeling of human language acquisition. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University as well Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs and Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University.His research has produced evidence for considering language to be a cultural system that is shaped by general-purpose cognitive and learning mechanisms, rather than from innate language-specific mental structures.Nick Chater is a cognitive psychologist who is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School and has held chairs in psychology at Warwick and at University College London. He has written over 250 publications, has won four national awards for psychological research, and has served as associate editor for the journals Cognitive Science, Psychological Review, and Psychological Science. His previous trade book, The Mind is Flat, won the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Best Book in Clinical Psychology, 2018, and was the <a href="http://www.armenshirvanian.com/podcast/236-nick-chater-perceptual-limitations-and-mental-depth-illusion-in-the-mind-is-flat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">topic of our previous discussion</a>.Links: Th<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Language-Game-Improvisation-Created-Changed/dp/1541674987" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">e Language Game</a> | <a href="https://psychology.cornell.edu/morten-h-christiansen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Morten’s Faculty Page</a> | <a href="https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nick’s Faculty Page</a>

338: Morten H. Christiansen & Nick Chater | The Role Of Improvisation In “The Language Game”