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Martin Zettersten

Assistant Professor

Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Science Department at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, he was a NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University and a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology. Martin’s research focuses on curiosity-driven statistical learning mechanisms that support language development, and how language learning shapes cognition and communication. He approaches these questions using an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach that combines experimental and computational techniques and interweaves insights from cognitive psychology, developmental science, and psycholinguistics. Martin is passionate about building collaborative research communities and establishing large-scale team science projects (such as ManyBabies and the Peekbank eye-tracking database) to address fundamental questions in cognitive developmental science at a broad scale. With Jessica Kosie, he received the Early Career Award from the Einstein Foundation Berlin in 2021.