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In Prep
- Yuan, L., Zhu L., Johns, E., Mix K, & Smith, L (In prep) Road to transfer and generalization: the role of knowledge "hub".
Zhu L. & Yuan, L., (In prep) Cross-linguistic differences without cross-cultural confounds: Modeling the effect of linguistic systematicity on learning.
Hopkins, T. & Yuan, L., (In prep) From visual features to hand-eye coordination: an eye-tracking study with musical notations.
Under Review
Yuan, L., Byrge, L., Mix, K. S., & Smith, L. B. (Under review) From chaos to coherence: The emergence of compositional systems from local to rule-like generalization.
2024
- Yuan, L. (2024). Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs. Trends in cognitive sciences.
- Bower, C. A., Mix, K. S., Hancock, G. R., Yuan, L., & Smith, L. B. (2024). Smart Errors in Learning Multidigit Number Meanings. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1-24.
2023
- Mix, K. S., Bower, C. A., Yuan, L., Hancock, G. R., & Smith, L. B. (2023). Predictive relations between place value understanding and multidigit calculation: Approximate versus syntactic measures. Educational Psychology.
- Yuan, L., Novack, M, Uttal, D., & Franconeri, S. (2023). Language systematizes attention: How relational language enhances relational representation by guiding attentioCognition.
2022
Bower, C.A., Mix, K.S., Yuan, L., & Smith, L.B. (2022) A Network Analysis of Children’s Emerging Place Value Concepts. Psychological Science.
Mix, K.S., Bower, C.A, Hancock, G., Yuan, L., & Smith, L.B. (2022). The development of place value concepts: approximation before principles. Child Development.
2019
Yuan, L., Prather, R. W., Mix, K. S., & Smith, L. B. (2019). Number representations drive number line estimates. Child Development, 00(0), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13333
Yuan,L., Prather, R.W., Mix, K.S., & Smith, L.B. (2019) Preschoolers and multi-digit numbers: A path to mathematics through the symbols themselves. Cognition. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.0132017
2018
Yuan, L., Xu, L., Yu, C., & Smith, L. B. (2018) Sustained visual attention is more than seeing—The dynamics of gaze during manual actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.11.020
Yuan, L., Haroz, S., & Franconeri, S. L. (2018) Perceptual proxies for extracting averages in data visualizations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/ 10.3758/s13423-018-1525-7
2017
Yuan, L., Xu, L., Yu, C., & Smith, L. B. (2017) Seeing is not enough for sustained visual attention. In the proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK.
Yuan, L., Uttal, D. H. (2017) Analogy lays the foundation for two crucial aspects of symbolic development: intention and correspondence. Topics in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12273
Yuan, L., Uttal, D. H., & Gentner, D. (2017) Analogical reasoning in children’s understanding of spatial representations. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000302
