Jennifer Culbertson
Professor at The University of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJennifer Culbertson is a Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh who investigates language as a window into how humans learn and represent complex structured systems. With over a decade of academic experience and a PhD from Johns Hopkins, she studies language acquisition and change across children and adults, using experimental linguistics and miniature artificial languages to probe learning biases and cross-linguistic similarities. Her work spans word and morpheme order, noun classification, grammatical gender, case marking, and agreement systems, and she is known for developing novel experimental methodologies. Based in Edinburgh, she combines theoretical rigor with hands-on experimental design to reveal how diverse linguistic backgrounds shape shared mental representations.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Cognitive Science at Brown University
Github Skills (12)
linguistics8
experimental-design7
psychology7
neuroscience7
experiment7
sbml7
electrophysiology6
python6
science6
psychopy6
cognitive-science6
philosophy4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jennifer-culbertson/jennifer-culbertson.github.io
Sep 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:101 commits, 78 pushes in 8 years 4 months
jennifer-culbertson/oels2025
Jul 2025 - Nov 2025
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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