Chen Yu
@Chen_Yu_CY
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Professor of psychology and cognitive science at UT Austin, using computational approaches to studying human learning, development and communication.
Austin, TX
Joined June 2019
Thank you everyone for amazing contributions and discussions at this week's Dagstuhl seminar on #developmentalAI !!! This showed great new research opportunities and synergies at the crossroads of #AI #devpsychology #machinelearning 👶🤖💻🚀 https://t.co/FsUPS18358
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A beautiful writeup by Karen Adolph and Kelsey West highlighting our recent work on joint attention in autism during toy play (spoiler: hands matter more than eye contact). @YurkovicHarding @Chen_Yu_CY @BeccaCShaffer @DrKelliD
https://t.co/R0MjJNduIm
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We have a new paper out in @CurrentBiology where we found that children with ASD engage in joint attention at typical rates during naturalistic toy play! They use hand-following rather than gaze-following pathways to get there, similar to their TD peers. https://t.co/hVoWxAuAnG
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happy to share a new paper where @Chen_Yu_CY and I discuss benefits, challenges, and best practices in head-mounted eye tracking research:
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Using head-mounted cameras and head-mounted eye trackers has led to surprising findings to inform theories of development and learning. Excited to share this new paper, co-authored with Linda Smith, Yayun Zhang and Lauren Slone:
pnas.org
The learning of first object names is deemed a hard problem due to the uncertainty inherent in mapping a heard name to the intended referent in a c...
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Excited to join @UTPsychology Looking forward to engaging in research and teaching at @UTAustin 🤘
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