Full list of publications

Sherman, B.E. & Yousif, S.R. (In press). An illusion of time caused by repeated experience. Psychological Science.

Yousif, S. R. & Brannon, E. M. (In press). Perceiving topological relations. Psychological Science.

Yousif, S. R., Clarke, S., & Brannon, E. M. (2024). Seven reasons to (still) doubt the existence of number adaptation: A rebuttal to Burr et al. and Durgin. Cognition.

This is a rebuttal following two replies to our initial number adaptation paper. The first reply is from David Burr, Roberto Arrighi, & Giovanni Anobile. The second reply is from Frank Durgin.

Yousif, S.R. & Clarke, S. (2024). Size adaptation: Do you know it when you see it? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Yousif, S. R., Lee, S. H., Sherman, B. E., & Papafragou, A. (2024). Event representation at the scale of ordinary experience. Cognition.

Yousif, S. R., Clarke, S., & Brannon, E. M. (2024). Number adaptation: A critical look. Cognition.

See also the reply from David Burr, Roberto Arrighi, & Giovanni Anobile, and the reply from Frank Durgin, and our rebuttal which responds to both.

Yousif, S. R. & Brannon, E. M. (2024). Intuitive network topology. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Yousif, S. R. & McDougle, S. D. (2024). Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception. Cognition.

Yousif, S. R., Forrence, A. D., & McDougle, S. D. (2024). 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. & 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. & Keil, F. C. (2022). Quantity perception: The forest and the trees. Cognition.

A reply to a critique of our work on area perception from Joonkoo Park

Aboody, R., Yousif, S. R., Sheskin, M., & 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., & Keil, F. C. (2022). Do children estimate area using an 'Additive-Area Heuristic'? Developmental Science. 25, e13235.

Joo, S., Yousif, S. R., & 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., & 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., & 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., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Visual memorability in the absence of semantic content. Cognition, 212, 104714.

Aulet, L., Yousif, S. R., & 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. & Keil, F. C. (2021). How we see area and why it matters. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 554-557.

Bennette, E., Keil, F. C., & 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. & 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., & Keil, F. C. (2020). Judgments of spatial extent are fundamentally illusory: ‘Additive-area’ provides the best explanation. Cognition, 205, 104439.

Yousif, S. R. & 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., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Systematic angular biases in the representation of visual space. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3124-3143.

Yousif, S. R., Aboody, R., & 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., & 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. & 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.  & 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. & 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.