Publications
Yousif, S. R. and Brannon, E. M. (In press). Intuitive network topology. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Yousif, S. R. and McDougle, S. D. (In press). Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception. Cognition.
Yousif, S. R., Forrence, A. D., and McDougle, S. D. (2023). A common format for representing spatial location in visual and motor working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Yates, T. S., Sherman, B. E., Yousif, S. R. (2023). More than a moment: What does it mean to call something an ‘event’? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Joo, S.*, and Yousif, S. R. (2022). Are we teleologically essentialist? Cognitive Science, 46, e13202.
Yousif, S. R. (2022). Redundancy and reducibility in the formats of spatial representations. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17, 1778-1793.
Yousif, S. R. and Keil, F. C. (2022). Quantity perception: The forest and the trees. Cognition. [A reply to a critique of our work on area perception]
Aboody, R., Yousif, S. R., Sheskin, M., and Keil, F. C. (2022). Says who? Children evaluate informants’ sources when deciding whom to believe. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 2481-2493.
Yousif, S. R., Alexandrov, E.*, Bennette, E.*, Aslin, R. N., and Keil, F. C. (2022). Do children estimate area using an 'Additive-Area Heuristic'? Developmental Science. 25, e13235.
Joo, S.*, Yousif, S. R., and Keil, F. C. (2022). Understanding ‘Why’: How implicit questions shape information preferences. Cognitive Science. 46. e13091.
Yousif, S. R. (2021) Numerosity, Area-osity, Object-osity? Oh my. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44. [Commentary on Clarke and Beck’s The Number Sense Represents (Rational) Numbers]
Joo, S.*, Yousif, S. R., and Knobe, J. (2021). Teleology beyond explanation. Mind and Language, 38, 20-41. [Learn more]
Liefgreen, A., Yousif, S. R., Keil, F. C., & Lagnado, D. A. (2021). Motive on the mind: Explanatory preferences at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process. Cognition, 217, 104892.
Yousif, S. R., Rosenberg, M. D., and Keil, F. C. (2021). Using space to remember: Short-term spatial structure spontaneously improves working memory. Cognition, 214, 104748.
Lin, Q.✝, Yousif, S. R.✝, Chun, M. M., and Scholl, B. J. (2021). Visual memorability in the absence of semantic content. Cognition, 212, 104714.
Aulet, L., Yousif, S. R., and Lourenco, S. F. (2021). Spatial-numerical associations from a novel paradigm support the Mental Number Line account. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 1829-1840.
Yousif, S. R. and Keil, F. C. (2021). How we see area and why it matters. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 554-557.
Bennette, E.*, Keil, F. C., and Yousif, S. R. (2021). A ubiquitous illusion of volume: Are impressions of 3D volume captured by an ‘Additive Heuristic’? Perception, 50, 462-469.
Yousif, S. R. and Keil, F. C. (2021). The shape of space: Evidence for spontaneous but flexible use of polar coordinates in visuospatial representations. Psychological Science, 32, 573-586. [Learn more]
Yousif, S. R., Aslin, R. N., and Keil, F. C. (2020). Judgments of spatial extent are fundamentally illusory: ‘Additive-area’ provides the best explanation. Cognition, 205, 104439.
Yousif, S. R. and Keil, F. C. (2020). Area, not number, dominates estimates of visual quantities. Scientific Reports, 10, 1-13. [Learn more]
Yousif, S. R., Chen, Y-C., and Scholl, B. J. (2020). Systematic angular biases in the representation of visual space. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3124-3143.
Yousif, S. R., Aboody, R., and Keil, F. C. (2019). The illusion of consensus: A failure to distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘false’ consensus. Psychological Science, 30, 1195–1204.
Ayzenberg, V., Chen, Y. Yousif, S. R., and Lourenco, S. F. (2019). Skeletal representations of shape in human vision: Evidence for a pruned medial axis model. Journal of Vision, 19, 1–21.
Yousif, S. R. and Keil, F. C. (2019). The ‘Additive-Area Heuristic’: An efficient but illusory means of visual area approximation. Psychological Science, 30, 495–503. [Learn more]
Yousif, S. R. and Scholl, B. J. (2019). The one-is-more illusion: Sets of discrete objects appear less extended than equivalent continuous entities in both space and time. Cognition, 185, 121-130.
Yousif, S. R. and Lourenco, S. F. (2017). Are all geometric cues created equal? Children’s use of distance and length for reorientation. Cognitive Development, 43, 159-169.
✝ Authors contributed equally.
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