Postdoctoral Scholar
Cognitive Science
Email: ShuyuanYu@cunet.carleton.ca
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuyuan-Yu-4
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuyuan-yu-3a28a9b4/
Twitter: @yu_shuyuan
Previous Degrees:
M.A., Psychology, the Ohio State University; Ph.D., Psychology, the Ohio State University
Research Interests:
Shuyuan is a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Jo-Anne LeFevre. Shuyuan’s research investigates children’s mathematical development and learning mechanisms underlying conceptual changes. Her past research examines cognitive supports to facilitate fraction learning by analogy, e.g., spatial alignment between integers and fractions on number lines. She is also interested in interventions to help students with math learning disabilities. Her another research line explores the automaticity of spatial-numerical associations. Shuyuan’s current work explores early mathematics assessment to track developmental changes in early numerical skills and examine how individual differences in early numeracy profiles predict later math proficiency.
Selected Publications:
Yu, S., Kim, D., Fitzsimmons, C. J., Mielicki, M. K., Thompson, C. A., & Opfer, J. E. (2022). From integers to fractions: The role of analogy in developing a coherent understanding of proportional magnitude. Developmental Psychology, 58(10), 1912–1930. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/10.1037/dev0001398
Yu S, Li B, Zhang M, Gong T, Li X, Li Z, et al. (2020) Automaticity in processing spatial-numerical associations: Evidence from a perceptual orientation judgment task of Arabic digits in frames. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0229130. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229130