Publications

Sia, M. Y., Lu, C. F., & Wang, S. (in prep). Parent-child neural synchrony during shared reading: An fNIRS hyperscanning study. [osf]

Sia, M. Y., & Wang, S. (in prep). Dialogic reading and expressive vocabulary size from 6 to 36 months: Longitudinal evidence from Taiwanese children. [poster]

Madhavan, R.*, Sia, M. Y.*, Chen, X., Mundry, R., & Mani, N. (under review). Egocentricity in infants’ play with familiar objects in caregiver-child interactions. Royal Society Open Science. [preprint] [osf] [poster]
*Shared first authors

Sia, M. Y., Lu, C. F., & Wang, S. (under review). Dialogic reading at 2 years is linked to frontal activation related to executive function at 5 years: An fNIRS study. PLoS ONE. [osf] [talk]

Sia, M. Y., & Mayor, J. (under review). More like guidelines than hard rules: Bilinguals accept lexical overlap despite using Mutual Exclusivity. International Journal of Bilingualism. [osf]

Sia, M. Y., Mundry, R., & Mani, N. (in press). Children show improved learning of information sampled in their preferred manner. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). Prague, Czech Republic, 2025. [osf]

Sia, M. Y., Mather, E., Crocker, M., & Mani, N. (2024). The role of systematicity in early referent selection. Developmental Science, 27, e13444. [pdf] [osf] [poster]

Sia, M. Y., Holmboe, K., & Mani, N. (2023). The relation between attention, inhibition and word learning in young children. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1). [pdf] [osf]

Sia, M. Y., & Mayor, J. (2022). Improvements of statistical learning skills allow older children to go beyond single-hypothesis testing when learning words. Journal of Child Language, 49(6), 1268–1280. [pdf] [osf]

Sia, M. Y., & Mayor, J. (2021). Syntactic cues help disambiguate objects referred to with count nouns: Illustration with Malay children. Child Development, 92(1), 101–114. [pdf] [osf] [talk]

Sia, M. Y., & Mayor, J. (2017). Word-object associations are non-selective in infants and young children. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3161–3166). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf] [3mt]