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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
- 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 review
- 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)