Selected publications (PhD student-collaborators marked with an asterisk)
Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E., Casey, B., Konstantopoulos, S., Lu*, L., Ban*, J., Betar, S., Cho*, Y., & Wang*, M. (2025). Recruiting spatial-numerical representations to increase arithmetic fluency in low-income students. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001921
Lu*, L., Vasilyeva, M., & Laski, E. V. (2025). Home math environment as a mediator of socioeconomic differences in early math skills: A study of Chinese families from disparate backgrounds. Developmental Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001918
Vasilyeva, M., Rey Guerra*, M. C., Lu*, L., & Dearing, E. (2025). Parental input as a mediating pathway for gender differences in early academic skills. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 72, 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2025.02.002
Lu*, L., Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E. (2024). Spontaneous focus on numerosity in parents of preschoolers: Is it related to the math input they provide? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106121
Wang*, J., Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E.V. (2024) Words matter: Effects of manipulating storybook texts on parent and child math talk. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 69, 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2024.07.002
Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E. V., Casey, B. M., Lu*, L., Wang*, M., & Cho*, H. (2023). Spatial-numerical magnitude estimation mediates early sex differences in the use of advanced arithmetic strategies. Journal of Intelligence, 11(5), 97. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11050097
Lu*, L., Vasilyeva, M., & Laski, E. V. (2023). Minor changes, big differences? Effects of manipulating play materials on parental math talk. Developmental Psychology, 59(7), 1283-1299. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001550
Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E.V., Veraksa, A., & Bukhalenkova*, D. (2022). What children’s number naming errors tell us about early understanding of multidigit numbers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105510
Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E., & Shen*, C. (2015). Computational fluency and strategy choice predict individual and cross-national differences on complex arithmetic. Developmental Psychology, 51(10), 1489-1500. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000045
Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E., Ermakova*, A., Lai, W.F., Jeong, Y., & Hachigian, A. (2015). Re-examining the language account of cross-national differences in number representations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 129, 12-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.08.004
Ganley*, C., Vasilyeva, M., & Dulaney*, A. (2014). Spatial ability mediates the gender difference in middle-school students' science performance. Child Development, 85(4), 1419-1432. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12230
