Publications

Publications

Meng, L., Gao, Y., Tan, W., Zhang, J., Lee, J., Lin, H., Shen, L., Duan, Y., & Christie, S. (2025). Tortoise Attention Algorithm: A novel computational tool for measuring children’s concentration. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47).

Fang, Y., Yang, H.A., Christie, S. (2025). Early experiences shape children’s explore‑exploit decisions: Evidence fromtherural‑urban gap. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47).

Wang, Z., Yang, X., Christie, S., & Shi, R. (2025). The role of input cues in acquiring unaccusative and unergative verbs: Verb learning experiments with Mandarin-speaking toddlers. First Language, 01427237251329969.

Frick, A., Belletier, C., Tan, W., Meng, N., Zhou, Q., Christie, S., & Camos, V. (2025). The effects of an unfamiliar experimenter on proactive and reactive control in children. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 5860.

Xu, T., Snyder, W., & Christie, S. (2024). You ‘again’: an acquisition study on its restitutive reading with goal-PPs. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 9(1).

 Fang, Y., Yang, H., & Christie, S. (2024). The Effect of Perceived vs. Factual Knowledge on Exploration. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46)

 Koo, C., Bai, H., Luo, A., & Christie, S. (2024). How does comparing (dis) similar objects affect young children’s creative idea generation? Exploring the role of diversity in facilitating creativity. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).

Xu, T., Snyder, W. & Christie, S. (2024). Investigating children’s acquisition of Mandarin you ‘again’with goal-PPs.Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 53).

Christie, S., Jinyun, L., & Yang, G. (2024). Parent-Friendly City: Urban Design as a Solution to the Aging Population Problem. China City Planning Review, 33(1).

Xu, T., Tieu, L., & Christie, S. (2024). Mandarin-Acquiring Children’s Interpretation of Presuppositional you ‘again’.Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Hespos, S., Gentner, D., Christie, S., Ma, Q., Jee, B., Anggoro, F., & Forbus, K. (2023). Relational Learning: Common Signatures Across Four Different Contexts. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45).

Stella Christie.(2023) 人工智能时代教育系统应着力培养三种核心能力. 人民论坛·学术前沿 (18),44-51. doi:10.16619/j.cnki.rmltxsqy.2023.18.005. 

Ren, Y., Cui, G., & Christie, S. (2023). Facts in counterfactuals-cognitive representations of Chinese counterfactuals. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 23064..

Long, B., Wang, Y., Christie, S., Frank, M. C., & Fan, J. E. (2023). Developmental changes in drawing production under different memory demands in a US and Chinese sample. Developmental Psychology, 59(10), 1784.

白红红,高杨 & 蒋黛兰.(2023).转变一点点，就能大不同——如何在当前的教育环境下保持孩子的创造力.人民教育(11),40-44. 

Xu, Ting, William Snyder & Stella Christie. To appear. Investigating children’s acquisition of Mandarin you ‘again’ with goal-PPs. Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society(NELS 53)

Lyu, J., Yang, Hui., & Christie, S. (2023) Mommy, Can I Play Outside? How Urban Design Influences Parental Attitudes on Play. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(6)
Liu, R., Zhang, Y., & Christie, S. (2023). Diversity vs. ingroup: How children generalize for the common good. Acta Psychologica, 234, 103864.
Gao, Y., Que, K., Tan, Z., Zhang, Y., & Christie, S. (2022). Analogy Use in Parental Explanation. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,  (Vol. 44, No. 44). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4w58m1v

白红红 & Stella Christie. (2022).如何培养早期儿童的创造力. 早期儿童发展, 1: 36-48.

高杨., 阙可鑫., & Stella Christie. (2022). 为什么婴幼儿爱问“为什么”. 早期儿童发展, 2022(1): 24-35.

吕金云., 方艺瑾., 樊薇薇., 杨慧颖., & Stella Christie. (2022). 早期玩耍是终身学习的基础. 早期儿童发展, 1: 9-23.

Zhang, Y., & Harris, P. L. (2022). Talking about people who are not there: Children’s early references to absent caregivers and absent friends. First Language. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221074141
Christie, S. (2021). Why play equals learning: Comparison as a learning mechanism in play. Infant and Child Development, e2285. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2285

Zhang, J., & Christie, S. (2021). East-west revisited: Is holistic thinking relational thinking?. In Fitch, T., Lamm, C., Leder, H., & Teβmar-Raible, K., (Eds.) Proceedings of the 43th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1635-1641

Christie, S. (2021). Learning Sameness: Object and Relational Similarity Across Species. Current Opinion of Behavioral Science, 37, 41-46.

Christie, S., Gao., Y. & Ma, Q. (2020). Development of Analogical Reasoning: A Novel Perspective from Cross-Cultural studies. Child Development Perspectives, 14(3), 164-170.

Christie, S., Lyu,J., Fang,Y. & Han, X. (2020). The Cognitive Science of Designing Urban Spaces for Children. Landscape Architecture Frontiers 2(8), 84-99
Orticio, E., & Christie, S. (2020). Object Bias Disrupts Rule-Based Generalization Across Domains. In Denison, S., Mack, M, Xu, Y., & Armstrong, B. C., (Eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 837-843.
Christie, S. (2017). Structure mapping for social learning. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9, 758-775.

Christie, S., Gentner, D., Call, J., & Haun, D. (2016). Sensitivity to relational similarity and object similarity in apes and children. Current Biology, 26(4), 531-535.

Noyes, A. & Christie, S. (2016). Children prefer diverse samples for inductive reasoning in the social domain. Child Development, 87(4), 1090-1098.

Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2014). Language helps children succeed on a classic analogy task. Cognitive Science, 38(2), 383-397.

Hespos, S.J., Dora, B., Rips, L.J. & Christie, S. (2011). Infants make quantity discriminations for substances. Child Development, 83(2), 554-567.

Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2010). Where hypotheses come from: Learning new relations by structural alignment. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11(3), 356-373. 2010 Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article.

Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2010). Mutual bootstrapping between language and analogical processingLanguage and Cognition, 2(2), 261-283.

Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2008). Relational language supports relational cognition in humans and apes. Brain and Behavioral Science, 31, 2.
Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2007). Relational similarity in identity relation: The role of language. In Vosniadou, S. & Kayser, D. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science. 
Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2006). Using numbers to structure space. In Sun, R. & Miyake, N. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Jameson, J. Gentner, D., Day, S., Christie, S. Colhoun, J. & Bartels, D. (2005). Clarifying the role of alignability in similarity comparisons. In Bruno, B.G., Barsalou, L. & Buciarrelli, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1048-1053.

Mast, F.W., Ganis, G., Christie, S. & Kosslyn, S.M. (2003). Four types of mental imagery processing in upright and tilted observers. Cognitive Brain Research, 17, 209-213.

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Books

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Masters, A. S., Christie, S., Gibbs, H. M., Evans, N. S., Fletcher, K. K., Pesch,
A., Yang, H., Fan, W., Todaro, R. D., Golinkoff, R. M., & Xu, F. (2022).Where global science meets playful
learning: Implications for home, school, and city planning. [White paper]. The Lego Foundation and the
Yidan Foundation.

张旎, & 蒋黛兰. (2022). 解密儿童博物馆, 激发孩子学习潜能. 北京师范大学出版社

Christie, S. (2020). Multiple Exemplars of Relations. In Childers, Jane B. (Ed.), Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood (pp. 221-245). Springer, Cham.
Christie, S. (2018). Analogical Reasoning. In: M. Bornstein, M. Arterberry, K. Fingerman, & J. Lansford (Eds.) SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development, Sage Publication.
Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2012). Language and cognition in development. In: M.M. Spivey, K. McRae, & M. Joanisse, (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press.
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