Max Louwerse, PhD., is a linguist, a cognitive psychologist, and an artificial intelligence researcher. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and became full professor in Psychology and Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, where he also directed the interdisciplinary Institute for Intelligent Systems. He is currently Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Louwerse has published his interdisciplinary research in over 130 articles in literary studies, linguistics, psychology, computer science, and artificial intelligence. His work has been cited over 6,500 times, and his research has been awarded almost 30 million dollars in research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the European Union. Most recently he founded Mind Labs (www.mind-labs.eu), a research hub to bring research to society, the general public and industry.
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"A delightful tour of our amazing collective ability to spin the web of language. Sparkles with insights, striking metaphors, and wonderful examples of how language is both utterly familiar and full of mysteries." -Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Warwick and the author of The Mind is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain