Publications

Under review

• Yuan, L., Byrge, L., Mix, K.S., & Smith, L.B. Statistical learning and the development of knowledge systems: Regularities, idiosyncrasies, and connections.

• Mix, K.S., Bower, C., Yuan, L., & Smith, L.B. Predictive relations between early place value understanding and multi-digit calculation. 

In prep

• Yuan, L., Johns, E., Mix, K. S., & Smith, L. B. Multiple pathways to place value knowledge but prior symbol knowledge matters. 

• Yuan, L., Novack, M., Ybarra, A., Uttal, D. H., & Franconeri, S. L. Language enhances relational representation by guiding attention.

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

• Yuan, L., Prather, R., Mix, K., & Smith, L. (2021). The First Step to Learning Place Value: A Role for Physical Models? Frontiers in Education, 6, 354. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.683424

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2020

• Yuan, L., Xiang, V., Crandall, D., & Smith, L. (2020). Learning the generative principles of a symbol system from limited examples. Cognition, 200, 104243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104243

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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

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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

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2016

• Yuan, L., Uttal, D. H., & Franconeri, S. L. (2016) Are spatial relations encoded by shifting visual attention between objects? PloS one, 11(10), e0163141. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163141

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2014

• Uttal, D. H., & Yuan, L. (2014) Using symbols: developmental perspectives. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. http://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1280