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Mengcun Gao

Psychology · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1981
Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentVisual perception and processing mechanismsFace Recognition and PerceptionCognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsCategorization, perception, and language

Publications

14

Citations

14

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

45

Publishing since 1981

Research summary
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Mengcun Gao's research focuses on how children and adults perceive, categorize, and learn about the visual world, including how attention and memory shape category learning, how uncertainty and novelty guide decision-making and exploration, and how spatial biases and metacognition develop over childhood. The work combines behavioral experiments with developmental and cognitive science methods to trace how these abilities emerge and change with age.

Cognitive development in childrenVisual perception and category learningDecision-making under uncertaintyAttention and working memoryMetacognitive development

Publication output was minimal before 2020 but has grown since, with a noticeable increase in output during 2024 and 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.4/year recently
1718192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 1 publication22232024: 3 publications3242025: 3 publications32526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Developmental Science×2
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library)×2
  • Cognitive Science×1
  • Child Development×1
  • UNC Libraries×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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