Michael Erard

ORCID: 0000-0002-7721-781X
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Research Areas
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies
  • Linguistics and Cultural Studies
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Animal testing and alternatives
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Education Practices and Challenges
  • Media, Communication, and Education
  • Values and Moral Education
  • Narrative Theory and Analysis
  • China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
  • History of Emotions Research
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Australian Indigenous Culture and History
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

Maastricht University
2021-2024

Max Planck Society
2013-2019

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2013-2019

Maine Medical Center
2017-2018

Maine Medical Center Research Institute
2017-2018

The University of Texas at Austin
2003-2007

Despite significant advances in autism research, experts have noted that children severely affected by spectrum disorder (ASD) appear to been understudied. Rigorous analysis of this observation has limited, and the representation severity not well-described. We assessed three domains (communication ability, cognitive functioning, adaptive functioning) 367 treatment studies with ASD published 1991–2013. found proportion included population decreased significantly over time, as well wide...

10.1007/s10803-018-3844-y article EN cc-by Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2018-12-10

Abstract This article presents the theoretical concept of language de-socialization , which refers to processes through declining linguistic and interactive capacities an individual, as well loss personhood defined in a particular cultural setting, are managed language. The discusses extension forebear, socialization, has been “how young children others become communicatively culturally competent within their homes, educational institutions, other discourse communities, both local...

10.1017/sas.2025.6 article EN Signs and Society 2025-04-11

Science is currently under-utilized as a tool for effective policy and program design. A key part of this research-to-practice gap lies in the ineffectiveness current models science translation. Drawing on theory methods from anthropology cognitive linguistics, study explores role cultural metaphor practice communication Qualitative interviews group sessions, along with quantitative framing experiments, were used to design test effectiveness set explanatory metaphors translating executive...

10.1080/00909882.2013.836678 article EN Journal of Applied Communication Research 2013-10-21

Researchers working in remote China have uncovered dozens of languages that had been hidden by mountainous terrain and administrative practice.

10.1126/science.324.5925.332a article EN Science 2009-04-16

Naming research animals may improve their well-being—or bias experiments.

10.1126/science.347.6225.941 article EN Science 2015-02-27

Researchers are analyzing spoonerisms and other slips of the tongue to help understand how humans--and even apes--can comprehend use language.

10.1126/science.317.5845.1674 article EN Science 2007-09-20

Data-science is an interdisciplinary research working on data from different fields. When analyzing these data, scientists implicitly agree to follow the rules governing However, responsibilities of involved actors are not necessarily explicit. While novel frameworks supporting open-science being proposed, there currently no that focus within a data-science project. In this paper, we describe Transparency, Accountability, Privacy, and Societal Responsibility Matrix (TAPS-RM) as framework...

10.1080/23299460.2024.2414530 article EN cc-by Journal of Responsible Innovation 2024-12-02

10.1126/science.aaa7904 article EN Science 2015-02-26

Data science is an interdisciplinary research area where scientists are typically working with data coming from different fields. When using and analyzing data, the implicitly agree to follow standards, procedures, rules set in these However, guidance on responsibilities of other involved actors a project missing. While literature shows that novel frameworks tools being proposed support open-science, reuse, management, there currently no can fully express project. In this paper, we describe...

10.48550/arxiv.2302.01041 preprint EN cc-by arXiv (Cornell University) 2023-01-01

Animal studies suggest tameness was key to language evolution.

10.1126/science.361.6401.436 article EN Science 2018-08-03

10.1016/s0262-4079(08)60791-5 article EN The New Scientist 2008-03-01

Patterns of linguistic and interactional behavior by people at the very end their lives are not well described, partly because data is difficult to obtain. This paper analyzes descriptions 486 deaths gathered from 1900 1904 in first-ever clinical study dying noted Canadian physician, Sir William Osler. Only 16 patients were speaking, only four canonical last words reported. The most frequent observation medical staff was that quiet ( n = 30), though range other behaviors (e.g., moaning,...

10.1177/00302228211000938 article EN OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 2021-03-15

Bien que la mort et le mourir constituent un élément central de l’expérience humaine, les linguistes n’ont jamais mis leur science au service l’explication des phénomènes linguistiques communicationnels qui se produisent chevet mourants ou à proximité. Une série d’entretiens informels effectués avec permet comprendre pourquoi ont ignoré cette question : difficulté recueillir données, problèmes financement pour ce faire, d’autres navigation dans recherche moderne ; tabous entourant en tant...

10.7202/1083796ar article FR Anthropologie et Sociétés 2021-11-16

According to Aboriginal myth, the first person come Australia was a woman named Warramurrungunji. She emerged from sea and then headed inland, where she created children put each one in specific place on landscape, giving language as did so. That myth describes complexities of Australia9s linguistic which linguists have long struggled unravel. In recent years they begun borrow methods used biology derive evolutionary trees tease apart history language. This week approach takes major step...

10.1126/science.353.6306.1357 article EN Science 2016-09-22

10.1126/science.aad4626 article EN Science 2015-09-25
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