Computational Cognition and Learning Laboratory

2012

Yu, C., & Smith, L.B.( in press). Embodied Attention and Word Learning by Toddlers. Cognition.
Yu, C., & Smith, L.B.(2012). Modeling Cross-Situational Word-Referent Learning: Prior Questions. Psychological Review,119(1),21-39.
Smith, L.B. & Yu, C. (in press). Visual Attention is not enough: Individual differences in Statistical Word-Referent Learning in Infants. Language Learning and Development.
Busey, T., Yu, C., Wyatte, D., Vanderkolk (in press). Temporal sequences quantify the contributions of individual fixations in complex perceptual matching tasks. Cognitive Science .
Yurovsky, D., Smith, L.B., & Yu, C. (in press). Statistical Word Learning at Scale: The Baby's View is Better. Developmental Science .
Yurovsky, D., Yu, C., & Smith, L.B. (in press). Competitive processes in cross-situational word learning. Cognitive Science .
Yurovsky, D., Boyer, T.W., Smith, L.B., & Yu, C. (in press). Probabilistic Cue combination: less is more. Developmental Science .
Yurovsky, D., Yu, C., & Smith, L.B. (2012). Statistical speech segmentation and word learning in parallel: Scaffolding from child-directed speech. Frontier in Psychology, 3, 374 .
Yu, C., Zhong, Y., & Fricker, D. (2012). Selective attention in cross-situational statistical learning: evidence from eye tracking. Frontier in Developmental Psychology, 3, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00148.
Yu, C., Schermerhorn, P. & Scheutz, Matthias (2012). Adaptive Eye Gaze Patterns in Interactions with Human and Artificial Agents. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent System, 1(2), 13:1--13:25.
Yu, C., Yurovsky, D., Xu, T. (2012). Visual Data Mining: An Exploratory Approach to Analyzing Temporal Patterns of Eye Movements. Infancy, 17(1), 33-60.
Kachergis, G., Yu, C., and Shiffrin, R. M. (2012). An Associative Model of Adaptive Inference for Learning Word-Referent Mappings. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(2), 317-324.
Kachergis, G., Yu, C., and Shiffrin, R. M. (2012). Cross-situational Word Learning is Better Modeled by Associations than HypothesesCross-situational Word Learning is Better Modeled by Associations than Hypotheses. IEEE Conference on Development and Learning / EpiRob 2012 [ Prize for Best Paper with Experiment Combined with Computational Model ]
Kachergis, G., Yu, C., and Shiffrin, R. M. (2012). Actively Learning Nouns Across Ambiguous Situations. . In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [ The Marr Prize winner ]
Yu, C., & Smith, L.B.(in press). Hypothesis Testing and Associative Learning in Cross-Situational Word Learning: Are They One and the Samed? In T. Mintz (Eds.) Statistical Approaches to Language Acquisition. Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.
Yu, C., & Smith, L.B.(in press). A Sensorimotor Solution to Word-Referent Learning. In L. Gogate & G. Hollich (Eds.) Theoretical and Computational Models of Word Learning: Trends in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence.
Yurovsky, D., Smith, L.B., & Yu, C. (2012) Does Statistical Word Learning Scale? It's a Matter of Perspective. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

2011

Yu, C. & Smith, L.B. (2011). What You Learn is What You See: Using Eye Movements to Study Infant Cross-Situational Word Learning. Developmental Science,14(2), 165-180.
Smith, L.B., Yu, C. & Pereira, A.F. (2011). Not your mother's view: The dynamics of toddler visual experience.. Developmental Science, 14(1) , 9-17.
Busey, T., Yu, C., Wyatte, D., Vanderkolk, J. R., Parada, F. J., & Akavipat, R. (2011). Consistency and variability among latent print examiners as revealed by eye tracking methodologies. Journal of Forensic Identification, 60(1), 60-91.
Yu, C. & Smith, L.B. (in press). Rapid Learning of Infancy. Norbert Seel (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning.
Yu, C., Sui, J. & Zhu, X. (2011) Word Learning through Sensorimotor Child-Parent Interaction: A Feature Selection Approach. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Choi, H., Yu, C., Smith, L.B. & Sporns, O. (2011) From Data Streams to Information Flow: Information Exchange in Child-Parent Interaction. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Boyer, T. W., Smith, T. G., Yu, C., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2011). Visual attention and change detection. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Fricker, D., Hui, Zhang & Yu, C. (2011) Sequential Data Mining of Multimodal Data Streams from Dyadic Interactions. In Proceedings of IEEE 10th International Conference in Development and Learning (ICDL 2011).
Xu, T., Yu, C., Smith, L.B. (2011). It's the Child's Body: The Role of Toddler and Parent in Selecting Toddler's Visual Experience. In Proceedings of IEEE 10th International Conference in Development and Learning (ICDL 2011).
Yurovsky, D., Fricker, D., Yu, C., & Smith, L. B. (2011) Model selection for eye movements: assessing the role of attentional cues in infant learning. In E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), onnectionist models of neurocognition and emergent behavior: From theory to applications (pp. 58-75). Singapore: World Scientific.

2010

Yu, C., Smith, T.G., Hidaka, S., Scheutz, M., Smith, L.B. A Data-Driven Paradigm to Understand Multimodal Communication in Human-Human and Human-Robot Interaction . In P.R. Cohen, N.M. Adams, M.R. Berthold (Eds.) Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis IX,LNCS 6065 (pp. 232-244). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Verlag
Yu, C., Scheutz, M., & Schermerhorn, P., (2010). Investigating Multimodal Real-Time Patterns of Joint Attention in an HRI Word Learning Task. In Proceeding of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp 309-316). ACM, NY, USA.
Zhang, H., Fricker, D., & Yu, C. (2010). A Multimodal Real-Time Platform for Studying Human-Avatar Interactions. In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2010).
Zhang, H., Fricker, D., Smith, T.G., & Yu, C. (2010). Real-Time Adaptive Behaviors in Multimodal Human-Avatar Interactions. In Proceedings of ACM 12th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and 7th Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI 2010).
Hidaka, S., & Yu, C. (2010). Analyzing Multimodal Time Series as Dynamical Systems. In Proceedings of ACM 12th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and 7th Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI 2010).
Hidaka, S., & Yu, C. (2010). Spatial-Temporal Symbolization of Multidimensional Time Series . In Proceedings of International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining (SSTDM-10).
Yu, C., Busey, T. & Vanderkolk, J. (2010). Discovering Correspondences between Fingerprints based on the Temporal Dynamics of Eye Movements from Experts ; In Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF 2010).
Yurovsky, D., Yu, C., & Smith, L.B. (2010). Statistical Speech Segmentation and Word Learning in Parallel. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA.: Cascadilla Press.
Yurovsky, D., Hidaka, S., Yu, C., & Smith, L.B. (2010). Linking Learning to Looking: Habituation and Association in Infant Statistical Language Learning. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yurovsky, D., Fricker, D., Yu, C., & Smith, L.B. (2010). The Active Role of Partial Knowledge in Cross-Situational Word Learning. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Chen, C., Yu, C., Fricker, D., Yu, & Smith, T.G. (2010). Time Course of Visual Attention in Statistical Learning of Words and Categories. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Kachergis, G., Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. (2010). Adaptive Constraints and Inference in Cross-Situational Word Learning. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Kachergis, G., Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. (2010). Cross-Situational Statistical Learning: Implicit or Intentional? . In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Gangwani, T., Kachergis, G., & Yu, C. (2010). Simultaneous Cross-situational Learning of Category and Object Names. . In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Richert, M., Yu, C., Favata, A. (2010). Joint Attention through the Hands: Investigating the Timing of Object Labeling in Dyadic Social Interaction ; In Proceedings of IEEE 10th International Conference in Development and Learning (ICDL 2008).
Shen, H., Baker, T., Candy R., Yu, C., & Smith, L. B. (2010). Using the Head to Stabilize Action: Reaching by Young Children ; In Proceedings of IEEE 7th International Conference in Development and Learning (ICDL 2008).

2009

Yu, C., Smith, L.B., Shen, H., Pereira, A.F., & Smith, T.G. (2009). Active Information Selection: Visual Attention Through the Hands. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Vol2, 141-151
Yu, C., Zhong, Y., Smith, T., Park, I. & Huang, W.(2009). Visual Data Mining of Multimedia Data for Social and Behavioral Studies. Information Visualization vol. 8, 56-70.
Klein, K. & Yu, C. (2009) Joint or Conditional Probability in Statistical Word Learning: Why decide?. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, J. Nerbonne, & L. Schomaker (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Kachergis, G., Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2009) Frequency and Contextual Diversity Effects in Cross-Situational Word Learning. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, J. Nerbonne, & L. Schomaker (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Kachergis, G., Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2009) Temporal Contiguity in Cross-Situational Statistical Learning. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, J. Nerbonne, & L. Schomaker (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Chen, C., Yu, C., Wu, C.-Y., & Cheung, H (2009) Statistical Word Learning and Object Categorization: A Cross-Linguistic Study in English and Mandarin . In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, J. Nerbonne, & L. Schomaker (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Pereira, A.F., Yu., C., Smith, L.B., Shen, H. (2009) A First-Person Perspective on a Parent-Child Social Interaction During Object Play. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, J. Nerbonne, & L. Schomaker (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

2008

Smith, L.B., & Yu, C. (2008). Infants Rapidly Learn Word-Referent Mappings via cross-situational Statistics. Cognition, 106, 333-338.
Yu, C. (2008). A Statistical Associative Account of Vocabulary Growth in Early Word Learning . Language Learning and Acquisition, 4(1), 32-62.
Pereira, A.F., Smith, L. B. & Yu, C. (2008)Social Coordination in Toddler's Word Learning: Interacting Systems of Perception and Action. Connection Science, 20(2-3), 73-89.
Yurovsky, D. & Yu, C. (2008) Mutual Exclusivity in Cross-Situational Statistical Learning. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 715-720). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Klein, K. & Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. (2008) Prior Knowledge Bootstraps Cross-Situational Learning In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1930-1935). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yu, C., Smith, L. B. & Pereira, A. F. (2008) Grounding Word Learning in Multimodal Sensorimotor Interaction. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1017-1022). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yu, C. and Smith, L. B. (2008) What You Learn is What You See: Using Eye Movements to Study Infant Cross-Situational Word Learning. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1023-1028). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yu, C., Zhong, Y., Smith, T., Park, I. & Huang, W.(2008). Visual Data Mining of Multimedia Data. In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST 2008).
Yu, C., Smith, L. B. & Pereira, A. F. (2008). Embodied Solution: The World from a Toddler's View ; In Proceedings of IEEE 7th International Conference in Development and Learning (ICDL 2008).
Yu, C. & Smith, L. B. (2008). Statistical Cross-Situational Learning in Adults and Infants. In Proceedings of the 32th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 562-573). Somerville, MA.: Cascadilla Press.

2007

Yu, C. and Smith, L. B. (2007) Rapid Word Learning under Uncertainty via Cross-Situational Statistics. Psychological Science, 18(5), 414-420.
Yu, C. and Ballard, D. H. (2007) A Unified Model of Early Word Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues. Neurocomputing, 70(13-15), 2149-2165.
Yu, C., Smith, L.B., Klein, K. & Shiffrin, R.M. (2007) Hypothesis Testing and Associative Learning in Cross-Situational Word Learning: Are They One and the Same? In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 737-742). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yu, C., Smith, L.B., Christensen, M. & Pereira, A.F. (2007) Two Views of the World: Active Vision in Real-World Interaction . In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 731-736). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Smith, L.B. & Yu, C. (2007) Infants Rapidly Learn Word-Referent Mappings via cross-situational Statistics. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 653-658). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Smith, L.B., Yu, C. & Pereira, A.F. (2007). From the Outside-In: Embodied Attention in Toddlers. In Proceedings of 9th European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL2007) (pp. 445-454).
Yu, C. (2007). Embodied Active Vision in Language Learning and Grounding. In Paletta, L. & Rome, E. (Ed.) Attention in Cognitive Systems (pp.75-90). Berlin, Germany:Springer.

2006

Yu, C. & Smith, L. B. (2006). Statistical Cross-Situational Learning to Build Word-to-World Mappings. In R. Sun (Eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 918-923). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yu, C. (2006) Learning Syntax-Semantics Mappings to BootstrapWord Learning. In R. Sun (Eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 924-929). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Kalagher, H. & Yu, C. (2006) The Effects of Deictic Pointing in Word Learning. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Development and Learning.
Yu, C., Smith. L. B. & Brandfon, S. (2006) Statistical Word Learning Based on Cross-Situational Observation. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Development and Learning.
Yu, C., Zhang, H & Smith, L. B. (2006). Learning through Multimodal Interaction. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Development and Learning.
Zhang, H., Yu, C., & Smith, L.B. (2006) An Interactive Virtual Reality Platform for Studying Embodied Social Interaction. In Proceedings of the CogSci06 Symposium Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science.

2005

Yu, C., Ballard, D. H. & Aslin, R.N. (2005) The Role of Embodied Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition. Cognitive Science , 29(6),961-1005.
Yu, C. (2005). The Emergence of Links between Lexical Acquisition and Object Categorization: A Computational Study . Connection Science, 17(3-4),381-392.
Yu, C. (2005) A Statistical Model of Developmental Changes in Early Word Learning. In Bara, B. G., Barsalou, L. & Bucciarelli,M. (Ed.) Proceeding of the 27th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2422-2427).
Yu, C. & Smith, L. B. (2005) What is culture made of? Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 28(4), 515-516.
Yu, C. & Ballard, D. H.(2005) Language Evolution: the body of evidence ;, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(2), 148-149.

2004 and Earlier

Yu, C. & Ballard, D. H. (2004). A Multimodal Learning Interface for Grounding Spoken Language in Sensorimotor Experience. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception ,1, 57-80.
Yu, C. & Ballard, D. H. (2004). On the Integration of Grounding Language and Learning Objects. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 488-494 ).
Yu, C. & Ballard, D. H. (2004). A Unified Model of Early Word Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Development and Learning .
Yu, C., Gu, X. & Ballard, D. H. (2004). Learning to Perform Actions Through Multimodal Interaction. In AAAI-04 Workshop on Supervisory Control of Learning and Adaptive Systems .
Yu, C., Aoki, P. M. & Woodruff, A. (2004) Detecting User Engagement in Everyday Conversations. In Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 1329-1332).
Yu, C., Ballard, D. H. & Aslin, R. N. (2003). The Role of Embodied Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition. In Alterman, R. and Kirsh, D. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1293-1298). [ The Marr Prize winner ]
Yu, C. and Ballard, D. H. (2003). Exploring the Role of Attention in Modeling Embodied Language Acquisition. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2003).
Yu, C. & Ballard, D. H. (2003). A Multimodal Learning Interface for Grounding Spoken Language in Sensory Perceptions. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interface (pp. 164-171).
Ballard, D. H. and Yu, C., ; A Multimodal Learning Interface for Word Acquisition. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (pp. 784-787).
Yu, C., Ballard, D. H., & Zhu, S. (2002). Attentional Object Spotting by Integrating Multimodal Input. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interface (pp.287-292).
Yu, C. & Ballard, D. H. (2002). Understanding Human Behaviors Based on Eye-head-hand coordination. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (pp. 611-619).
Yu, C., & Ballard, D. H. (2002). Learning to Recognize Human Action Sequences. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (pp.28-34).
Yu, C., & Ballard, D. H. (2002). Learning Spoken Words from Multisensory Input. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'02) (pp.998-1001).

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