Ellis Cain
About
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Program in Computing at Kenyon College.
How do we learn and change across a lifespan? How does what individuals learn during their lifespan relate to what is passed down across generations? I study the relationship among language adaptation in the moment, cognitive development across the lifespan, and cultural transmission across generations. My work combines online and in-person behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and large-scale corpora analysis to better understand how individual minds both shape and are shaped by the broader communities that they belong to.
Areas of Study
- Lifespan Learning
- Aging and Cognitive Development
- Psychology of Language
- Cultural Transmission and Evolution