Dieter Hillert

Dieter Gilberto Hillert (German: [ˈdi:tɐ gɪlbɐto hɪlɐt]) is a German-American biolinguist and cognitive scientist.

His research focuses on the human language faculty as a cognitive and neurological system.

He advocates comparative evolutionary studies of cognition, argues against tabula rasa models, and favors computational theories of mind.

His academic career started as a post-doc for neurolinguistics in France at the Centre Paul Broca[3] in Paris, in the United States at Boston University and MIT, in Canada at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

He received several awards from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.