Publications

Liu & Lourenco (2026). Time pressure amplifies gender differences in mental rotation through shifts in evidence accumulation and response caution. Cognition.

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Liu & Lourenco (2026). Sequencing of difficulty influences young children’s engagement with spatial challenges. OSF.

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Liu, Maxwell, Beaty, Green (2025). Sketching with generative AI: verbal but not visual inspiration mitigates cognitive fixations. CogSci 2025.

Liu, Y., Ayzenberg, A., & Lourenco, SF (2024). Object geometry serves humans’ intuitive physics of stability. Scientific Reports.

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Liu & Lourenco (2023). Trial history influences the malleability of gender differences in children’s mental rotation performance.

Lourenco, S.F., & Liu,Y (2023). The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

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Liu & Lourenco (2022). Affective Factors Affect Visuospatial Decision-making: A Drift Diffusion Modeling Approach. CogSci, 2022.

Liu & Lourenco (2021). Visual Perception of Apparent Motion Abides by Minimization Principles of Geometry. JEP: HPP.