Fei Xu

11.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
112 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Fei Xu is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fei Xu has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 35 papers in Statistics and Probability and 18 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Fei Xu's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (86 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (32 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (26 papers). Fei Xu is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (86 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (32 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (26 papers). Fei Xu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Fei Xu's co-authors include Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Susan Carey, Stephanie Denison, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Tamar Kushnir, Steven Pinker, Kathryn Dewar, Harald Clahsen, Tarina Rosen and Gary Marcus and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Fei Xu

106 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

Overregularization in Language Acquisition 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 2007 100 200 300 400 500

Peers

Fei Xu
Comparison fields: 5 of 152
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 4.4k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 1.8k
  • Statistics and Probability 1.7k
  • Education 1.2k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1.2k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Fei Xu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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2 2
3 2
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How do disparities reproduce themselves? "Ground truth" inference from utility-maximizing agent's sampling behavior.
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5
Spiking Neural P Systems with Communication on Request and Polarizations.
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6
Whole Number Bias in Children's Probability Judgments.
0
7 13
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Active Overhearing: Development in Preschoolers' Skill at 'Listening in' to Naturalistic Overheard Speech.
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Curiosity and Its Influence on Children's Memory.
3
10
Can children balance the size of a majority with the quality of their information
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Children Learn Better When They Select Their Own Data.
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Toddlers Learn with Facilitated Play, Not Free Play.
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Acquiring Inductive Constraints from Self-Generated Evidence
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When does the majority rule? Preschoolers’ trust in majority informants varies by task domain
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15
Infants’ Early Understanding of Coincidences
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The emergence of probabilistic reasoning in very young infants
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A rational model of preference learning and choice prediction by children
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18
Probabilistic Reasoning in Preschoolers: Random Sampling and Base Rate
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19
Word Learning as Bayesian Inference: Evidence from Preschoolers
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20
Word learning as Bayesian inference
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