Colin Phillips combines linguistics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to understand how language is mentally and neurally encoded, and how children learn language effortlessly. His research team studies linguistic illusions to reveal how linguistic representations are encoded and navigated in memory. He serves as Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, directing the Language Science Center, which brings together language scientists from 17 academic units. He is also Associate Director of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program. He has received multiple awards for innovative interdisciplinary graduate programs. His research has investigated 15 languages, and he directs Langscape, an online portal for language diversity that combines interactive mapping with resources for 6400 languages.
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