Yang Gao

Ph.D Student

Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychological and Cognitive Science at Tsinghua University. Her research is dedicated to exploring the spontaneous generation of analogies in explanations. By comparing the explanations given by human parents and large language models to children's questions, she investigates: Are analogical explanations superior to other types of explanations? What factors influence the generation of analogical explanations during the explanation process? What can promote the spontaneous generation of more analogical explanations?

Publications：

1.Christie, S., Jinyun, L., & Yang, G. (2024). Parent-Friendly City: Urban Design as a Solution to the Aging Population Problem. China City Planning Review, 33(1).
2.Tan, W., Zhang, J., Gao, Y., Lee, C., Lin, H., Shen, L., Duan, Y., & Christie, S. (2024). WIP: Do you concentrate? A new computational tool for measuring students' concentration. In 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (Vol. 44).
3.Gao, Yang, Que, Kexin & Christie, Stella. Explaining with Spontaneous Analogies. 2023 EARLI JURE Conference.
4.白红红,高杨 & 蒋黛兰.(2023).转变一点点，就能大不同——如何在当前的教育环境下保持孩子的创造力.人民教育(11),40-44.
5.Gao, Y., Que, K., Tan, Z., Zhang, Y., & Christie, S. (2022). Analogy use in parental explanation. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).
6.高杨., 阙可鑫., & Stella Christie. (2022). 为什么婴幼儿爱问“为什么”. 早期儿童发展, 2022(1): 24-35.
7.Christie, S., Gao, Y., & Ma, Q. (2020). Development of analogical reasoning: A novel perspective from cross‐cultural studies. Child Development Perspectives, 14(3), 164-170.

Honors, Awards, and Participation in Academic Societies：

Second Prize for Best Presenter at the Annual Seminar of the Tsinghua Brain and Intelligence Laboratory, Tsinghua University, 2021