Forthcoming

Yousif, S.R., Hu, Y., & Brannon, E.M. (In press). Robust representation of the spatial arrangement of topological features. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Yousif, S.R., Arrighi, R., Brannon, E.M, Clarke, S., Togoli, I., et al. (Stage 1 Accepted). Registered report: A multi-site replication of audiovisual cross-modal number adaptation. Psychological Science. [OSF]

Yousif, S.R., & Clarke, S. (In press). Number, adaptation, and perception. In J. Park et al. (Eds.), Numerical cognition: Debates and disputes.

2026

Clarke, S., Olugbusi, R., & Yousif, S.R. (2026). Ensemble size perception as a case study of the bounds of adaptation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [PDF]

Yousif, S.R., & Sherman, B.E. (2026). Distortions of space and time in and around objects and events. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [PDF][Demos!]

Wen, C., Yousif, S.R., & Sherman, B.E. (2026). Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time. Cognition. [PDF]

2025

Waterhouse, G.C.L., & Yousif, S.R. (2025). The “crowd size illusion” and the relativity of number perception. Cognitive Science. [PDF]

Clarke, S. & Yousif, S.R. (2025). Can we “see” value? Spatiotopic “visual” adaptation to an imperceptible dimension. Cognition. [PDF]

Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., Martin, F., Keil, F.C., & Knobe, J. (2025). No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language. Cognition. [PDF]

Boger, T.*, Yousif, S.R.*, McDougle, S.D., & Rutledge, R.B. (2025). Random behavior is stable across tasks and time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [PDF]

Sherman, B.E. & Yousif, S.R. (2025). An illusion of time caused by repeated experience. Psychological Science. [PDF]

Yousif, S. R., Goldstein, L.B., & Brannon, E.M. (2025). Children’s understanding of topological relations. Open Mind. [PDF]

Yousif, S. R. & Brannon, E. M. (2025). Perceiving topological relations. Psychological Science. [PDF]

2024

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. [PDF] 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. [PDF]

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

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

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

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. [PDF]

2023

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. [PDF]

2022

Joo, S. & Yousif, S. R. (2022). Are we teleologically essentialist? Cognitive Science. [PDF]

Yousif, S. R. (2022). Redundancy and reducibility in the formats of spatial representations. Perspectives on Psychological Science. [PDF]

Yousif, S. R. & Keil, F. C. (2022). Quantity perception: The forest and the trees. Cognition. [PDF] 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. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

Joo, S., Yousif, S. R., & Keil, F. C. (2022). Understanding ‘Why’: How implicit questions shape information preferences. Cognitive Science. [PDF]

2021

Yousif, S. R. (2021) Numerosity, Area-osity, Object-osity? Oh my. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44. [PDF] 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. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

Yousif, S. R., Rosenberg, M. D., & Keil, F. C. (2021). Using space to remember: Short-term spatial structure spontaneously improves working memory. Cognition. [PDF]

Lin, Q.*, Yousif, S. R.*, Chun, M. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Visual memorability in the absence of semantic content. Cognition. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

Yousif, S. R. & Keil, F. C. (2021). How we see area and why it matters. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

2020

Yousif, S. R., Aslin, R. N., & Keil, F. C. (2020). Judgments of spatial extent are fundamentally illusory: ‘Additive-area’ provides the best explanation. Cognition. [PDF]

Yousif, S. R. & Keil, F. C. (2020). Area, not number, dominates estimates of visual quantities. Scientific Reports. [PDF]

Yousif, S. R., Chen, Y-C., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Systematic angular biases in the representation of visual space. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [PDF]

2019

Yousif, S. R., Aboody, R., & Keil, F. C. (2019). The illusion of consensus: A failure to distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘false’ consensus. Psychological Science. [PDF]

Ayzenberg, V., assetURL, Yousif, S. R., & Lourenco, S. F. (2019). Skeletal representations of shape in human vision: Evidence for a pruned medial axis model. Journal of Vision. [PDF]

Yousif, S. R. & Keil, F. C. (2019). The ‘Additive-Area Heuristic’: An efficient but illusory means of visual area approximation. Psychological Science. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

2017

Yousif, S. R. & Lourenco, S. F. (2017). Are all geometric cues created equal? Children’s use of distance and length for reorientation. Cognitive Development. [PDF]

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