Publications

Peer-reviewed

  • Liu, Y., Wolfe, J. M., & Trueblood, J. S. (accepted) Risky hybrid foraging: the impact of risk, reward value, and prevalence on foraging behavior in hybrid visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [link]
  • Hasan, E., Liu, Y., Owens, N., & Trueblood, J. (accepted). A registered report on presentation factors that influence the attraction effect. Decision. [link]
  • Ramsey, A. T., Liu, Y., Trueblood, J.S. (2024). Can invalid information be ignored when it is detected? Psychological Science. [link]
  • Liu, Y., Trueblood, J.S. (2023). The impact of experience on preference formation and context effects in multi-alternative, multi-attribute choice. Cognition. [link]
  • Liu, Y., Townsend, J.T., & Wenger, M. J. (2022). Don’t be a square: the processing mechanisms characterizing the elemental dimensions of width and height. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. [link]
  • Townsend, J.T., & Liu, Y.* (2022). Varieties of Selective Influence: Toward a more complete taxonomy and implications for systems identification. Mathematics, 10(7),1059. [link]
  • Wenger, M.J., Townsend, J.T., Stefano, L.A., & Liu, Y. (2021). Effects of shifts in response preferences on characteristics of representation and real-time processing: An application to the Hering illusion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(1), 101-123.[link]
  • Townsend, J.T., & Liu, Y.*(2020). Can the wrong horse win: the ability of race models to predict fast or slow errors. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 97, 102360. [link]
  • Townsend, J.T., Liu, Y., Zhang, R., & Wenger, J.W. (2020). Interactive parallel models: no Virginia, violation of Miller’s race inequality does not imply coactivation and yes Virginia, context invariance is testable. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 16(2), 192-212. [link]
  • Zhang, R., Liu, Y., & Townsend, J.T. (2019). A theoretical study of process dependence for critical statistics in standard serial models and standard parallel models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 92, 102277. [link]

In Progress

  • Trueblood, J.S., Liu, Y., Hayes, W. M., Murrow, M. A., & Holmes, W. R. (submitted). Attentional dynamics explain the elusive nature of context effects. Psychological Review. [link]

Book Chapters

  • Smith, P., Liu, Y., Townsend, J.T., & Van Zandt, T. (2022). Mathematical Psychology. In Cooper, H., Coutanche, M. N., McMullen, L. M., & Panter, A. T. (Eds.).  APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology ( 2nd Edition, Chapter 22). American Psychological Association.
  • Smith, P., Liu, Y., Townsend, J.T., & Van Zandt, T. (2020). Mathematical Psychology. In Dunn, D. S. (Ed.). Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. [link]
  • Zhang, R., Liu, Y., & Townsend, J.T. (2018). A theoretical study of process dependence for standard two-process serial and two-process parallel models. In Lachmann T., & Weiss, T. (Eds.). Invariances in Human Information Processing (pp. 117-142). New York: Routledge. [link]
  • Townsend, J. T., Liu, Y., & Zhang, R.  (2017). Selective influence and classificatory separability (perceptual separability) in perception and cognition: Similarities, distinctions and synthesis.  InLittle, D.R., Altieri, N., Fific’, M., & Yang, C. T. (Eds.).   Systems Factorial Technology:  A Theory Driven Methodology for the Identification of Perceptual and Cognitive Mechanisms (pp. 93-114). New York: Academic Press. [link]