Evie Malaia
Cognitive neurosciences
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Evie Malaia trained as a computational linguist and neuroscientist at Purdue University. Since graduating in 2005 she has been working in academic research, science and education policy. Throughout her research career, she investigates different aspects of co-evolution of cognitive and linguistic processing, both in atypically developing populations (gifted, those on autism spectrum, and deaf), and in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Her research uses complex systems and machine learning methods to model the co-development between cognition and linguistic ability in a complex environment. While in residence, Dr. Malaia wants to collaborate with research groups in Freiburg, Germany, and Austria on several projects, with the development and evolution of linguistic features as a result of brain-environment interaction, and its computational modeling using AI.
Research Interest
Her current research focuses on Role of visual and linguistic complexity in language development
Publications
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Malaia, E., Ranaweera, R., Wilbur, RB, Talavage. TM (2012). Event segmentation in a visual language: American Sign Language predicates. Neuroimage, 59 (4), 4094-4101.
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Malaia, E. (2014). It is not over: Event Boundaries in Language and Perception. Language and Linguistics Compass , 8 (3), 89-98.
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Malaia, E., Cockerham, D., Rublein, K. (2017). Visual integration of fear and anger emotional cues by children on autism spectrum and neurotypical peers: an EEG study. Neuropsychologia.
