Assistant Professor 20 McAlester Hall (573) 882-0429 luoy@missouri.edu Lab: Infant Cognition Lab

I study cognitive development, with a focus on infant cognition. My research examines what infants know about the world around them. For example, what do infants know about agents' intentions and perceptions? What do infants know about physical objects and substances? By finding out answers to questions like these, I hope to better understand how infants acquire knowledge and how this development influences cognition more generally.

Luo, Y. (in press). Do 8-month-old infants consider situational constraints when interpreting others’ gaze as goal-directed action? Infancy.

Luo, Y., & Beck, W. (in press). Do you see what I see? Infants’ reasoning about others’ incomplete perceptions. Developmental Science.

Luo, Y., & Johnson, S. C. (2009). Recognizing the role of perception in action at 6 months. Developmental Science, 12, 142-149.

Luo, Y., Kaufman, L., & Baillargeon, R. (2009). Young infants’ reasoning about physical events involving inert and self-propelled objects. Cognitive Psychology, 58, 441-486.

Johnson, S. C., Ok, S., & Luo, Y. (2007). The attribution of attention: Nine-month-olds’ interpretation of gaze as goal-directed action. Developmental Science, 10, 530-537.

Luo, Y., & Baillargeon, R. (2007). Do 12.5-month-old infants consider what objects others can see when interpreting their actions? Cognition, 105, 489-512.

Luo, Y., & Baillargeon, R. (2005). Can a self-propelled box have a goal? Psychological reasoning in 5-month-old infants. Psychological Science, 16, 601-608.

Luo, Y., & Baillargeon, R. (2005). When the ordinary seems unexpected: Evidence for incremental physical knowledge in young infants. Cognition, 95, 297-328.

Luo, Y., Baillargeon, R., Brueckner, L., & Munakata, Y. (2003). Reasoning about a hidden object after a delay: Evidence for robust representations in 5-month-old infants. Cognition, 88, B23-B32.