Dr. Matthew Cooper Borkenhagen is interested in how kids develop reading ability, the sources of knowledge that underlie that development, and what individuals can do to support it through intelligent changes in the environment. This includes more formal educational experiences, like instruction, but also less formal ones, like through reading books with kids. He investigates these issues using computational models (simulations) of learning, corpus-based methods, and behavioral experimentation.
Dr. Cooper Borkenhagen is currently accepting graduate student applications.