publications

refereed journal articles and conference proceedings

2026

  1. Task-dependent learning of non-adjacent dependencies: Success in a familiarity rating task but failure in a two-alternative forced-choice task
    Helen Shiyang Lu, and Toben H. Mintz
    Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2026
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2025

  1. Statistical word segmentation in unfamiliar speech.
    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2025
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2023

  1. Dynamic motion and human agents facilitate visual nonadjacent dependency learning
    Helen Shiyang Lu, and Toben H. Mintz
    Cognitive Science 2023
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  2. ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time.
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    Nature Human Behaviour (Stage 1 Report in-principle acceptance) 2023
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2021

  1. Learning non-adjacent rules and non-adjacent dependencies from human actions in 9-month-old infants
    Helen Shiyang Lu, and Toben H. Mintz
    Plos One 2021
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  2. Dynamic action facilitates learning of non-adjacent dependencies in visual sequences
    Helen Shiyang Lu, and Toben H. Mintz
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2021
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