Published Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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In Press

• ​Yu, C. L., Stanzione, C. M., Branum-Martin, L., Wellman, H. M., & Lederberg, A. R. (In Press). Conversational-communicative experience and theory of mind: A study of diverse deaf child samples. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

2025

• Yu, C. L., Eggleston, R., Zhang, K., Nickerson, N., Sun, X., Marks, R., Hu, X. S., Brennan, J. R., Wellman, H. M., & Kovelman, I. (2025). Neural processing of children’s theory of mind in a naturalistic story-listening paradigm. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20 (1), nsaf022.​

• Xu, Y., Thomas, T., Yu, C. L., & Pan, Z. (2025). What Makes Children Perceive or Not Perceive Minds in Generative AI? Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 4, 100135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2025.100135​

• Zhang, K., Sun, X., Flores-Gaona, Z., Yu, C. L., Eggleston, R., Nickerson, N., Caruso, V., Tardif, T., & Kovelman, I. (2025). Cross-linguistic transfer in bilingual children’s phonological and morphological awareness skills: A longitudinal perspective. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000439

2024

• Yu, C. L., & Wellman, H. M. (2024). A meta-analysis of progressions in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory-of-mind scale findings across different contexts. Developmental Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2024.10116

• Nickerson, N., Sun, X., Caruso, V., Zhang, K., Yu, C. L., Eggleston, R., Chaku, N., Hu, X. S., Satterfield, T. & Kovelman, I. (2024). What’s in the sound? Common and language-specific patterns in brain activation and functional connectivity for phonological awareness in Spanish-English bilinguals. Mind, Brain, and Education, 18 (3), 295-306.  https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12410

• Eggleston, R., Marks, R., Sun, X., Yu, C. L., Zhang, K., Nickerson, N., Caruso, V., Hu, X. S., & Kovelman, I. (2024). Brain bases of morphological awareness differ between typical readers and children with dyslexia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67 (7), 2269-228. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00293

• Hong, S., Yu, C. L., Rousson, A., Bender, A., Fedina, L., & Herrenkohl, T. (2023). Exploring the impact of adversity history on internalizing symptoms in adulthood: Analysis of types, repetition, variety, and timing of past adversity. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39(3-4), 569-586. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231198056

 

2023

• Yu, C. L., & Wellman, H. M. (2023). Where do differences in theory-of-mind development come from? An agent-based model of social interaction and theory-of-mind. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdpys.2023.1237033

• Zhang, K., Sun, X., Yu, C. L., Eggleston, R., Marks, R., Nickerson, N., Caruso, V., Hu, X. S., Tardif, T., Chou., T. L., Booth, J. R. & Kovelman, I. (2023). Phonological and morphological literacy skills in English and Chinese: A cross-linguistic neuroimaging comparison of Chinese-English bilingual and monolingual English children. Human Brain Mapping, 44(13), 4812–4829. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26419

• Yu, C. L., & Wellman, H. M. (2023). All humans have a “theory of mind.” Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 2531–2534. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05584-1

• Sun, X., Marks, R., Eggleston, R., Zhang K., Yu, C. L., Nickerson, N., Caruso, V., Chou., T. L., Hu., X. S., Tardif, T., Booth, J.R., Beltz, A.M., & Kovelman, I. (2023). Sources of heterogeneity in functional connectivity during English word processing in bilingual and monolingual children. Neurobiology of Language, 4(2), 198-220. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00092

• Sun, X., Marks, R., Eggleston, R, Zhang, K., Lau, C., Yu, C. L., Nickerson, N., & Kovelman, I. (2023). Impacts of the COVID-19 disruption on the language and literacy development of monolingual and heritage bilingual children in the United States. Reading and Writing, 36(2), 347-375. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10388-x

• Marks, R., Labotka, D., Sun, X., Nickerson, N., Zhang, K., Eggleston, R., Yu, C. L., Uchikoshi Y., Hoeft F., & Kovelman, I. (2023). Morphological awareness and its role in early word reading in English monolinguals, Spanish–English, and Chinese–English simultaneous bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(2), 268-283. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000517

• Sun, X., Marks, R., Zhang, K., Yu, C. L., Eggleston, R., Nickerson, N., Chou, T. L., Hu, X. S., Tardif, T., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2023) Brain bases of English morphological processing: A comparison between Chinese-English, Spanish-English bilingual, and English monolingual children. Developmental Science, 26(1), e13251. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13251

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2022

• Yu, C. L., & Wellman, H. M. (2022). Young children treat puppets and dolls like real persons in theory of mind research: A meta-analysis of false-belief understanding across ages and countries. Cognitive Development, 63, 101197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101197

• Wellman, H. M., & Yu, C. L. (2022). Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022). Cognitive Development, 63, 101218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101218

• Marks, R. A., Eggleston, R. L., Sun, X., Yu, C. L., Zhang, K., Nickerson, N., Hu, X. S., & Kovelman, I. (2022). The neurocognitive basis of morphological processing in typical and impaired readers. Annals of Dyslexia, 72(2), 361–383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-021-00239-9

• Sun, X., Zhang, Z., Marks, R., Karas, Z., Eggleston, E., Nickerson, N., Yu, C. L., Wagley, N., Hu, X. S., Caruso, V., Chou, T. L., Satterfield, T., Tardif, T., & Kovelman, I. (2022). Morphological and phonological processing in English monolingual, Chinese-English bilingual, and Spanish-English bilingual children: An fNIRS neuroimaging dataset. Data in Brief, 42, 108048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108048

• Sun, X., Zhang K., Marks, R., Nickerson, N., Eggleston, R., Yu, C. L., Chou., T. L., Tardif, T., & Kovelman, I. (2022). What’s in a word? Cross-linguistic influences on Spanish-English and Chinese-English bilingual children’s word reading development. Child Development, 93(1), 84-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13666

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2021

• Yu, C. L., Kovelman, I., & Wellman, H. M. (2021). How bilingualism informs us about theory of mind development. Child Development Perspectives, 15(3), 154-159. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12412

• Yu, C. L., Stanzione, C. M., Wellman, H. M., & Lederberg, A. R. (2021). Theory of mind development in young deaf children with early hearing provisions. Psychological Science, 32(1), 109-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620960389

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2020 & Before

• Yu, C. L., Chen, C. C., Yang, Z. Y., & Chou, T. L. (2020). Multi-time points analysis: A time course analysis with functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Behavior Research Methods, 52(4), 1700–1713. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01344-9

• Chen, D. Y., Yu, C. L. (co-first), Su, C. W., Liao, K. H., & Hsiao, H. Y. (2019). Cognitive abilities in the game of go during the opening, middle, and endgame phases: When experimental psychology meets artificial intelligence. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 61(3), 173-196. https://doi.org/10.6129/CJP.201909_61(3).0001

• Yu, C. L., & Chou, T. L. (2018). A dual route model of empathy: A neurobiological perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(2212), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02212

• Yu, C. L., & Sheu, C. F. (2018). EFAshiny: An user-friendly shiny application for exploratory factor analysis. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(22), 567. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00567

• Yu, C. L., Wang, M. Y., & Hu, J. F. (2016). Valence processing of first impressions in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex: a near-infrared spectroscopy study. NeuroReport, 27(8), 574-579. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0000000000000571