| 2025 | CogSci | The Roles of Speech Complexity and Pointing Gesture in Guiding Children's Attention During Shared Book Reading. | Yayun Zhang, Jennifer Sander, Thalassia Kontino, Caroline F. Rowland, Chen Yu |
| 2025 | CVPR | Discovering Hidden Visual Concepts Beyond Linguistic Input in Infant Learning. | Xueyi Ke, Satoshi Tsutsui, Yayun Zhang, Bihan Wen |
| 2024 | CogSci | Weighted parameters in demonstrative use: The case of Spanish teens and adults. | Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos, Yayun Zhang, Paula Rubio-Fernndez |
| 2024 | CogSci | Why does Joint Attention Predict Vocabulary Acquisition? The Answer Depends on What Coding Scheme you Use. | Jennifer Sander, Melis etinelik, Yayun Zhang, Caroline F. Rowland, Zara Harmon |
| 2024 | CogSci | Learning semantic knowledge based on infant real-time attention and parent in-situ speech. | Jane Yang, Yayun Zhang, Chen Yu |
| 2023 | CogSci | Using an Egocentric Human Simulation Paradigm to quantify referential and semantic ambiguity in early word learning. | Spencer Caplan, Misty Z. Peng, Yayun Zhang, Chen Yu |
| 2022 | CogSci | Examining Real-time Attention Dynamics in Parent-infant Picture Book Reading. | Yayun Zhang, Chen Yu |
| 2022 | CogSci | Grounding Action Verbs in Egocentric Visual Perception. | Yayun Zhang, Ellis Cain, David Crandall, Chen Yu |
| 2021 | CogSci | In-the-Moment Visual Information from the Infant's Egocentric View Determines the Success of Infant Word Learning: A Computational Study. | Andrei Amatuni, Sara E. Schroer, Yayun Zhang, Ryan E. Peters, Md. Alimoor Reza, David Crandall, Chen Yu |
| 2021 | CogSci | Parents Adaptively Use Anaphora During Parent-child Social Interaction. | Jasmine J. Falk, Yayun Zhang, Matthias Scheutz, Chen Yu |
| 2021 | CogSci | Human Learners Integrate Visual and Linguistic Information Cross-Situational Verb Learning. | Yayun Zhang, Andrei Amatuni, Ellis Cain, Xizi Wang, David Crandall, Chen Yu |
| 2021 | SMC | High capacity coverless image steganography method based on geometrically robust and chaotic encrypted image moment feature. | Xiyao Liu, Yaokun Fang, Feiyi He, Zhaoying Li, Yayun Zhang, Xiongfei Zeng |
| 2020 | CogSci | Seeking Meaning: Examining a Cross-situational Solution to Learn Action Verbs Using Human Simulation Paradigm. | Yayun Zhang, Andrei Amatuni, Ellis Cain, Chen Yu |
| 2019 | CogSci | Why Some Verbs are Harder to Learn than Others - A Micro-Level Analysis of Everyday Learning Contexts for Early Verb Learning. | Siyun Liu, Yayun Zhang, Chen Yu |
| 2018 | CogSci | The Roles of Gesture and Statistical Cues on Infants' Word Learning in Shared Storybook Reading. | Yayun Zhang, Chen Yu |
| 2016 | CogSci | Examining Referential Uncertainty in Naturalistic Contexts from the Child's View: Evidence from an Eye-Tracking Study with Infants. | Yayun Zhang, Chen Yu |
| 2016 | MOBIHOC | Data reconstruction with spatial and temporal correlation in wireless sensor networks. | Yayun Zhang, Hongju Cheng, Dongyin Chen |
| 2015 | CogSci | Statistical Word Learning is a Continuous Process: Evidence from the Human Simulation Paradigm. | Yayun Zhang, Daniel Yurovsky, Chen Yu |