Summary
Jennifer 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.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Cognitive Science at Brown University