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Overview

Chen Yu is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on the field of psychology, with specialization in developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, human-computer interaction, clinical psychology, and education.

Their work covers various topics, including child and animal learning development, language development and disorders, hearing impairment and communication, gaze tracking and assistive technology, reading and literacy development, autism spectrum disorder research, and child development and digital technology.

Chen Yu has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Children with ASD establish joint attention during free-flowing toy play without face looks, 2022, Current Biology
  • What are the building blocks of parent-infant coordinated attention in free-flowing interaction?, 2020, Infancy
  • Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real-time learning of new words, 2022, Developmental Science
  • The infant's view redefines the problem of referential uncertainty in early word learning, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Using head-mounted eye tracking to examine visual and manual exploration during naturalistic toy play in children with and without autism spectrum disorder, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chen Yu include:

  • Linda B. Smith
  • Sara E Schroer
  • Chi-hsin Chen
  • Drew H. Abney
  • Yayun Zhang

Chen Yu often publishes in venues such as Infancy, Developmental Science, Cognitive Science, Advances in Child Development and Behavior, and Current Biology. The majority of their publications appear in Infancy, with five papers in this journal alone.

Best Publications

  • Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics

    Linda Smith;Chen Yu

  • Rapid Word Learning Under Uncertainty via Cross-Situational Statistics:

    Chen Yu;Linda B. Smith

  • Generic Atmospheric Correction Model for Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Observations

    Chen Yu;Zhenhong Li;Nigel T. Penna;Paola Crippa;Paola Crippa

  • Embodied attention and word learning by toddlers.

    Chen Yu;Linda B. Smith

  • Joint attention without gaze following: human infants and their parents coordinate visual attention to objects through eye-hand coordination.

    Chen Yu;Linda B. Smith

  • Lending A Hand: Detecting Hands and Recognizing Activities in Complex Egocentric Interactions

    Sven Bambach;Stefan Lee;David J. Crandall;Chen Yu

  • Interferometric synthetic aperture radar atmospheric correction using a GPS-based iterative tropospheric decomposition model

    Chen Yu;Zhenhong Li;Nigel T. Penna

  • Live migration of virtual machine based on full system trace and replay

    Haikun Liu;Hai Jin;Xiaofei Liao;Liting Hu

  • CloudThings: A common architecture for integrating the Internet of Things with Cloud Computing

    Jiehan Zhou;Teemu Leppanen;Erkki Harjula;Mika Ylianttila

  • Generation of real-time mode high-resolution water vapor fields from GPS observations

    Chen Yu;Nigel T. Penna;Zhenhong Li

  • A unified model of early word learning: Integrating statistical and social cues

    Chen Yu;Dana H. Ballard

  • The Developing Infant Creates a Curriculum for Statistical Learning

    Linda B. Smith;Swapnaa Jayaraman;Elizabeth Clerkin;Chen Yu

  • The role of embodied intention in early lexical acquisition

    Chen Yu;Dana H. Ballard;Richard N. Aslin

  • Not your mother's view: the dynamics of toddler visual experience

    Linda B. Smith;Chen Yu;Alfredo F. Pereira

  • Real-world visual statistics and infants' first-learned object names.

    Elizabeth M. Clerkin;Elizabeth Hart;James M. Rehg;Chen Yu

  • A bottom-up view of toddler word learning.

    Alfredo F. Pereira;Linda B. Smith;Chen Yu

  • The Social Origins of Sustained Attention in One-Year-Old Human Infants

    Chen Yu;Linda B. Smith

  • A multimodal learning interface for grounding spoken language in sensory perceptions

    Chen Yu;Dana H. Ballard

  • Infant sustained attention but not joint attention to objects at 9 months predicts vocabulary at 12 and 15 months

    Chen Yu;Sumarga H. Suanda;Linda B. Smith

  • What you learn is what you see: using eye movements to study infant cross-situational word learning

    Chen Yu;Linda B. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda B. Smith
Linda B. Smith Indiana University
Hai Jin
Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology
David J. Crandall
David J. Crandall Indiana University
Richard M. Shiffrin
Richard M. Shiffrin Indiana University
Dana H. Ballard
Dana H. Ballard The University of Texas at Austin
Laurence T. Yang
Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University
Bennett I. Bertenthal
Bennett I. Bertenthal Indiana University
Xiaohong Jiang
Xiaohong Jiang Future University Hakodate
James M. Rehg
James M. Rehg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mianxiong Dong
Mianxiong Dong Muroran Institute of Technology

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