Publications
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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.
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.
2021
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