This resume was last updated on 2022-01-31.
Source code, based on the datadrivencv and vitae r packages.
Interests
- Open, equitable, and robust scientific practices!
- FAIR data sharing and management
- Online experiments for children & families
- Cognitive development & language acquisition
Education
2009 - 2015: Ph.D. in Brain & Cognitive Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Committee: Laura Schulz; Ted Gibson; Jesse Snedeker; Josh Tenenbaum
Thesis title: Who did what to whom: Developmental perspectives on the meaning and communication of transitive events
2004 - 2008: Sc.B. in Cognitive Science
Brown University
Advisor: Katherine Demuth
Thesis title: Syntactic generalization with novel intransitive verbs: Who is pilking?
Published Articles
Nosek, B. A., Hardwicke, T. E., Moshontz, H., Allard, A., Corker, K. S., Dreber, A., … Vazire, S. (2022). Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science. Annual Review of Psychology, 73(1), 719–748. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-114157
Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, A. S. M., Bergmann, C., Black, A. K., Brown, A., Carbajal, M. J., … Wermelinger, S. (2021). A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4(1), 251524592097462. doi:10.1177/2515245920974622
Byers-Heinlein, K., Bergmann, C., Davies, C., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Kline, M., … Soderstrom, M. (2020). Building a collaborative psychological science: Lessons learned from ManyBabies 1. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 61(4), 349–363. doi:10.1037/cap0000216
ManyBabies Consortium. (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(1), 24-52.
Scott, K. M., & Kline, M. (2019). Enabling Confirmatory Secondary Data Analysis by Logging Data Checkout. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(1), 45–54. doi:10.1177/2515245918815849
Moshontz, H., Campbell, L., Ebersole, C. R., IJzerman, H., Urry, H. L., Forscher, P. S., … Antfolk, J. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 501–515. doi:10.1177/2515245918797607
Kline, M., Schulz, L., & Gibson, E. (2017). Partial Truths: Adults Choose to Mention Agents and Patients in Proportion to Informativity, Even If It Doesn’t Fully Disambiguate the Message. Open Mind, 2(1), 1–13. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00013
Frank, M. C., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., … Yurovsky, D. (2017). A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building. Infancy, 22(4), 421–435. doi:10.1111/infa.12182
Kline, M., Schulz, L., & Gibson, E. (2017). Partial Truths: Adults Choose to Mention Agents and Patients in Proportion to Informativity, Even If It Doesn’t Fully Disambiguate the Message. Open Mind, 2(1), 1–13. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00013
Kline, M., Snedeker, J., & Schulz, L. (2016). Linking Language and Events: Spatiotemporal Cues Drive Children’s Expectations About the Meanings of Novel Transitive Verbs. Language Learning and Development, 13(1), 1–23. doi:10.1080/15475441.2016.1171771
KLINE, M., & DEMUTH, K. (2013). Syntactic generalization with novel intransitive verbs. Journal of Child Language, 41(3), 543–574. doi:10.1017/s0305000913000068
Kline, M., & Demuth, K. (2010). Factors Facilitating Implicit Learning: The Case of the Sesotho Passive. Language Acquisition, 17(4), 220–234. doi:10.1080/10489223.2010.509268
Demuth, K., & Kline, M. (2006). The distribution of passives in spoken Sesotho. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 24(3), 377–388. doi:10.2989/16073610609486426
Other Manuscripts
Preprints
Affourtit, J…Kline Struhl, M.,…Fedorenko, E. (Under Review). LanA (Language Atlas): A probabilistic atlas for the language network based on fMRI.
Kline Struhl., M., Galleé, J., Balewski, Z., & Fedorenko, E. (Under Review). Understanding jokes relies on the Theory of Mind system. Link
Alipourfard, N., Arendt, B., … Kline Struhl, M., … Wu, J. (Preprint). Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE). Link
Kline, M., Salinas, M., Lim, E., Fedorenko, E., & Gibson, E. Word order patterns in gesture are sensitive to modality-specific production constraints Link
Kline, M., Gibson, E. & Schulz, L. Young children choose informative referring expressions to describe the agents and patients of transitive events Link
Preregistrations
Kline, M. & members of the ManyBabies Consortium (2018) ManyBabies 1: Secondary analysis of ‘lab factors’ and fuss-out rates Link
Kline, M., Geojo, A., de Rechteren van Hemert, A., & Snedeker, J. (2016) MannerPathPriming - Testing generalization of event semantics across domains Link
Proceedings
Wittenberg, E., Kline, M. & Hartshorne, J. (2016) Learning to talk about events: Grounding language acquisition in intuitive theories and event cognition. Proceedings of the Thirty- Eighth Annual Conference3 of the Cognitive Science Society
Kline, M., Snedeker, J. (2015). 2-year-olds use syntax to infer actor intentions in a rational- action paradigm. Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Kline, M., Muentener, P. & Schulz, L.E. (2013). Transitive and periphrastic sentences affect memory for simple causal scenes. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Kline, M., Snedeker, J., & Schulz, L.E. (2011). Children’s comprehension and production of transitive sentences is sensitive to the causal structure of events. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Conference Posters & Presentations
Kline, M. (2018). ManyBabies - Using larg(er) experimental datasets for methodological and theoretical questions. Society for Research on Child Development, Special Meeting on Secondary Data in Developmental Science. Phoenix, AZ.Kline. M. and the ManyBabies Consortium. (2018). Analysis of “fussout effects” in the ManyBabies1 dataset. 21st Biennial Congress of the International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
Kline, M. (2018). Machine-readable, human-friendly data standardization for psychological science. Lightening talk & Hackathon. Third meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Sciences, Grand Rapids, MI.
Kline, M. & Snedeker, J. (2018). How are events represented for language? Eigth annual meeting of the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
Kline, M. & Snedeker, J. (2017) Do children appreciate parallels in means/ends event structure across semantic fields? 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Austin, TX.
Kline, M. (2017). We need an open database for psychological stimuli (all of them) - Lightening talk & Hackathon. Second meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Sciences, Charlottesville, VA.
Kline, M. (2017). Language, Space & Time. Workshop on Cognitive Universals, CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 2017
Kline, M. (2016) Which semantic primitives and why those ones? Workshop talk, Learning to Talk About Events, 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Kline, M., Snedeker, J. (2015). 2-year-olds use syntax to infer actor intentions in a rational-action paradigm. 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA
Mahowald, K., Kline, M., Fedorenko, E. & Gibson, T. (2015). Informativity and efficient compression of sentences. Poster presented at the Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY 2015. Los Angeles, CA
Kline, M., Snedeker, J. (2014) Daxing my toy or Daxing TO my toy? Two-year-olds use syntax to override rational imitation effects. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Kline, M., Muentener, P. & Schulz, L.E. (2013). Transitive and periphrastic sentences affect memory for simple causal scenes. 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.
Kline, M., Snedeker, J. & Schulz, L.E. (2013) Representations of causality in verb learning. 2013 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Seattle, WA.
Kline, M., Snedeker, J., & Schulz, L.E. (2011). Preschoolers prefer to map novel transitive verbs to events with spatiotemporal features that mark causation. 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Kline, M., Snedeker, J., & Schulz, L.E. (2011). Children’s comprehension and production of transitive sentences is sensitive to the causal structure of events. 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.
Friel, D., Kline, M., Seed, A., & Schulz, L. (2011). It’s okay to judge a block by its color: Toddlers’ use of symbolic and intrinsic cues to objects’ causal powers. Poster presented at the Seventh Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Kline, M. & Demuth, K. (2008). Syntactic generalization with novel intransitive verbs: Who is pilking? 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Kline, M. & Demuth, K. (2008). Frequency and structural priming in the input: Implications for learning the passive. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) 3, Storrs, CT.
Kline, M. & Demuth, K. (2006). Learning passives from the input: Evidence from Sesotho. 2nd Bantu Acquisition Workshop, Northampton, MA.
Employment
2021 - Present: Executive Director
Lookit, MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences
2019 - 2021: Research Scientist
Center for Open Science
Supervisor: Tim Errington
2018 - 2019: Postdoctoral Associate
MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences
PI: Joshua Tenenbaum
2018 - 2018: Senior Teaching Fellow
Harvard Extension School, Department of Psychology
Supervisor: Jesse Snedeker
2016 - 2017: Postdoctoral Associate
MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences
PI: Evelina Fedorenko
2015 - 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University, Department of Psychology
PI: Jesse Snedeker
Awards
2015: Harvard University Foundations of Human Behavior Grant ($40,000)
2012 - 2014: NSF SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
Project title: Causal Representations in Children’s Transitive Sentences; $12,000
2011 - 2014: NSF Graduate Student Fellowship
2010 - 2011: Norman B. Leventhal Fellowship
2009 - 2010: Singleton Graduate Fellowship
Teaching
2010 - 2019: Supervisor , 4 masters’ students, 10 full time and 34 part time/semester undergraduate research assistants, including one senior thesis supervision
2018: Senior Teaching Fellow, Harvard Extension School Human Development (Graduate/Undergraduate level)
2013 - 2014: Project consultant, MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences ‘Special Topics’ independent research students
2013: Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Science of Living Systems 20/Introduction to Psychological Science
2011 - 2012: Graduate Student Teaching Certificate Program, MIT
2011: Teaching Assistant, MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences Infant & Early Childhood Cognition
2011: Teaching Assistant, MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Higher-Level Cognition
2008 - 2009: Americorps: After-school science educator, Providence Children’s Museum
2006: Teaching Assistant, Brown University Models of Computation
Service
2017 - Present: Steering Committee, PsyArxiv
2015 - Present: Governing Board, ManyBabies
Ongoing: Peer Reviewer, Autism Research, Collabra: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Developmental Science, Infant Behavior & Development, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Language Cognition & Neuroscience, Language Learning and Development, Semantics and Pragmatics (Journals); Society for Research in Child Development, Cognitive Science, CUNY Sentence Processing Conference (Conferences)
2018 - 2021: Executive Committee, Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
2021: Invited participant, MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences 9.S914 Tools for Robust Science
2017: Organizing Committee, CUNY Sentence Processing Conference
2016: Co-Chair, Events in Language & Cognition Workshop
2016: Co-Organizer, Learning to Talk About Events Workshop
2010 - 2011: CogLunch Coordinator, MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences