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Research description
My research focuses on the psychological mechanisms involved in aspects of language acquisition and use. I am particularly interested in evolutionarily ancient perceptual and memory mechanisms, and how they support a diverse set of computations in both artificial and natural grammar learning as well as in word learning. Ideally, this research will reveal some of the computational tools used by the language faculty, and indicate which of these are specific to humans and language.

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For the very curious, here is a biographical sketch and an ancient and undated version of my CV.

Selected publications
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Kovács, Á.M., Téglás, E. & Endress, A.D. (2010). The social sense: susceptibility to others' beliefs in human infants and adults. Science, 330(6012), 1830-1834.

Endress, A.D. & Hauser, M.D. (2010). Word segmentation with universal prosodic cues. Cognitive Psychology, 61(2), 177-199.

Endress, A.D., Nespor, M. & Mehler, J. (2009). Perceptual and memory constraints on language acquisition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(8), 348-353.

Endress, A.D. & Hauser, M.D. (2009). Syntax-induced pattern deafness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 106(49), 21001-21006.

Endress, A.D., Cahill, D., Block, S., Watumull, J. & Hauser, M.D. (2009). Evidence of an evolutionary precursor to human language affixation in a nonhuman primate. Biology Letters, 5(6), 749-751.

Endress, A.D. & Mehler, J. (2009). The surprising power of statistical learning: When fragment knowledge leads to false memories of unheard words. Journal of Memory and Language, 60(3), 351-367.

Last update: July 2011