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Helen Shiyang Lu 吕诗扬
| Position | Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC (2024 - Now) |
| Languages | English (fluent), Mandarin (native), Cantonese (listening proficiency), Spanish (beginner) |
| Pronouns | she/her/hers |
| CV | Download here |
Education
- 2018 - 2024
PhD in Developmental Psychology (minor in Quantitative Methods)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US
- Dissertation: The effects of language experience on statistical learning in infants and adults
- 2018 - 2020
MA in Psychology
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US
- 2014 - 2018
BA with Majors in Psychology and Linguistics, Specialization in Computing
University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US
- Graduated with Department Highest Honors and Summa Cum Laude
Recent Conference Presentations
- August 2025
Statistical word segmentation in unfamiliar speech
Talk to be presented at CogSci 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA
- June 2025
Sgmenting words in two languages Cue weighting of prosodic vs. statistical information in English and Cantonese
Poster to be presented at Ensuring Full Literacy 2025 Annual Meeting, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- May 2025
How language experience shapes sensitivity to non-adjacent dependencies in 12-month-old infant
Poster to be presented at SRCD 2025 Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- June 2024
Task-dependent learning outcomes Successful non-adjacent dependency learning in a rating task but not in 2AFC
Poster presented at Interdiscpiplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain
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Publications
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Under Revision
- Lu and Mintz. Task-dependent learning of non-adjacent dependencies Success in a familiarity rating task versus failure in a two-alternative forced-choice task.
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In prep
- Lu and Mintz. Second language learning facilitates non-adjacent dependency learning Effects moderated by specific language.
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In-principle acceptance
- Stage 1 Registered Report. ManyBabies 5 A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Nature Human Behaviour.
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2025
- Lu, Werker, and Black (2025). Statistical word segmentation in unfamiliar speech. To appear in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
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2023
- Lu and Mintz (2023). Dynamic motion and human agents facilitate visual nonadjacent dependency learning. Cognitive Science, 47(9), e13344.
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2021
- Lu and Mintz (2021). Dynamic action facilitates learning of non-adjacent dependencies in visual sequences. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43).
- Lu and Mintz (2021). Learning non-adjacent rules and non-adjacent dependencies from human actions in 9-month-old infants. Plos One, 16(6), e0252959.
Awards
- 2025
- SRCD 2025 Biennial Meeting Early Career Travel Award (US$500)
- 2024
- Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, UBC
- 2023
- NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Award - Lingusitics (BCS-2234422, Co-PI, US$18,949)
- Frederick and Dorothy Quimby Memorial Scholarship
- USC Department of Psychology Doctoral Research Grant Award (US$1,365)
- 2022
- USC Department of Psychology Doctoral Research Grant Award (US$1,600)
- 2020
- USC Graduate School Summer Research and Writing Grant (US$5,000)
- USC Department of Psychology Doctoral Research Grant Award (US$3,200)
- USC Department of Psychology Research Continuity Fund (US$945)
- 2018
- USC Dornsife PhD Fellowship (2018-2023)
- UCLA Summa cum Laude
- UCLA Department of Psychology Highest Honors
- 2017
- UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars Fellowship (US$5,000)