Dr. Chen Yu
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Contact Information
Office: PY 346
Office Phone: 856-0838
Lab: PY 183
Lab Phone:856-1920
E-mail:
Web site: Computational Cognition and Learning Lab
Educational Background
- 2004 - Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Rochester
Areas of Study
- Cognitive Science
- Developmental Psychology
Research Topics
- Cognitive Development
- Language Acquisition
- Perceptual intelligence
- Machine learning
Research Summary:
My research focuses on understanding human development and learning through both empirical studies and computational models with the hope to get a more complete picture. I am particularly interested in how language is grounded in sensorimotor experience and how language development depends on complex interactions among brain, body and environment. Based on computational models of human language acquisition and findings from empirical studies, my passion is to build anthropomorphic machines that learn and use language in human-like ways.Representative Publications
in press - Chen Yu and
Linda B. Smith, " Rapid Word Learning under
Uncertainty via Cross-Situational Statistics ", Psychological
Science.
in press - Chen Yu and
Dana H. Ballard, "A Unified Model of Early Word
Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues", Neurocomputing.
2005 - Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard and
Richard N. Aslin, "The Role of Embodied
Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition", Cognitive Science, 29(6),961-1005.
2005 - Chen Yu, "The
Emergence of Links between Lexical Acquisition and
Object Categorization: A Computational Study", Connection Science,
17(3-4),381-392.
2004 - Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard, "A Multimodal Learning Interface for Grounding Spoken Language in Sensory Perceptions", ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 1, 57-80.
2004 - Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard, "On the Integration of Grounding Language and Learning Objects", Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
2003 - Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard and Richard N. Aslin, "The Role of Embodied Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition", Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society. [The Marr Prize winner]
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