Cory Shain
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2704-7197
https://twitter.com/coryshain
https://coryshain.github.io

James H. Clark Center
Room W100A
318 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305

I’m an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. I use computational and experimental methods to study language in the mind and brain, particularly (1) the cognitive processes that allow us to understand the things we hear and read so quickly, (2) the role played by real-time information processing constraints in shaping language learning and comprehension, and (3) the brain basis both of these abilities and of closely-related domain-general abilities related to perception, memory, problem-solving, and social reasoning. My work intersects machine learning, cognitive (neuro)science, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and (psycho)linguistics.

Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT, supervised by Ev Fedorenko. I did my PhD in computational linguistics at Ohio State, where I was advised by William Schuler and Micha Elsner.