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Stella F. Lourenco

Stella F. Lourenco

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Psychology

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34
Citations
5634
World Ranking
10154
National Ranking
5347

Overview

Stella F. Lourenco is a researcher affiliated with Emory University in the United States, whose work primarily focuses on neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including statistics and probability, developmental and educational psychology, education, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their main areas of study incorporate cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, face recognition and perception, visual perception and processing mechanisms, child and animal learning development, visual attention and saliency detection, mathematics education and teaching techniques, as well as spatial cognition and navigation.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Stella F. Lourenco include:

  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • No Participant Left Behind: Conducting Science During COVID-19, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Numerosity and cumulative surface area are perceived holistically as integral dimensions., 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Sixty years of gender representation in children's books: Conditions associated with overrepresentation of male versus female protagonists, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Skeletal representations of shape in the human visual cortex, 2021, Neuropsychologia

The venues where Lourenco frequently publishes include the Journal of Vision, with nine publications, followed by Cognition, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Frequent coauthors working alongside Lourenco are Vladislav Ayzenberg, Lauren S Aulet, Yaxin Liu, Kylee Novick, and June Gruber.

Best Publications

  • Socioeconomic Status Modifies the Sex Difference in Spatial Skill

    Susan C. Levine;Marina Vasilyeva;Stella F. Lourenco;Nora S. Newcombe

  • General Magnitude Representation in Human Infants

    Stella F. Lourenco;Matthew R. Longo

  • On the nature of near space: effects of tool use and the transition to far space.

    Matthew R. Longo;Stella F. Lourenco

  • The approximate number system and its relation to early math achievement: Evidence from the preschool years

    Justin W. Bonny;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Nonsymbolic number and cumulative area representations contribute shared and unique variance to symbolic math competence

    Stella F. Lourenco;Justin W. Bonny;Edmund P. Fernandez;Sonia Rao

  • Spatial attention and the mental number line: Evidence for characteristic biases and compression

    Matthew R. Longo;Stella F. Lourenco;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Sex differences in spatial cognition: advancing the conversation.

    Susan C. Levine;Alana Foley;Stella Lourenco;Stacy Ehrlich

  • The development of gender differences in spatial reasoning: A meta-analytic review.

    Jillian E. Lauer;Eukyung Yhang;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Space perception and body morphology: extent of near space scales with arm length.

    Matthew R. Longo;Matthew R. Longo;Stella F. Lourenco;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Threat modulates perception of looming visual stimuli

    Eleonora Vagnoni;Stella Lourenco;Matthew Longo

  • Near space and its relation to claustrophobic fear

    Stella F. Lourenco;Matthew R. Longo;Thanujeni Pathman

  • Transitive inference of social dominance by human infants

    Regina Paxton Gazes;Robert R. Hampton;Robert R. Hampton;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Common spatial organization of number and emotional expression: A mental magnitude line

    Kevin J. Holmes;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Spatial Processing in Infancy Predicts Both Spatial and Mathematical Aptitude in Childhood

    Jillian E. Lauer;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Development of spatial cognition

    Marina Vasilyeva;Stella F. Lourenco

  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science

    June Gruber;Jane Mendle;Kristen A. Lindquist;Toni Schmader

  • Origins and Development of Generalized Magnitude Representation

    Stella F. Lourenco;Matthew R. Longo

  • The plasticity of near space: Evidence for contraction

    Stella F. Lourenco;Matthew R. Longo

  • No Participant Left Behind: Conducting Science During COVID-19.

    Stella F. Lourenco;Arber Tasimi

  • Orienting numbers in mental space: Horizontal organization trumps vertical

    Kevin J. Holmes;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Representations of numerical and non-numerical magnitude both contribute to mathematical competence in children.

    Stella F. Lourenco;Justin W. Bonny

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew R. Longo
Matthew R. Longo Birkbeck, University of London
Janellen Huttenlocher
Janellen Huttenlocher University of Chicago
Susan C. Levine
Susan C. Levine University of Chicago
Robert R. Hampton
Robert R. Hampton Emory University
Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
Jessica F. Cantlon
Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis

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