Xu, M. (June 2026) In the Eye of the Beholder: Eye Tracking and the Construction of Normalcy (1945-1975). American Association for the History of Medicine, Buffalo. NY.
Xu, M. (October 2025) Visualizing Attention: Film and Eye Tracking Technologies in 20th Century Psychology. Society for the History of Technology, Luxembourg, LU.
Xu, M. (July 2025) Attention is in the Eye of the Beholder: Norman Mackworth and the Development of Eye Tracking Technology in the Mid-20th Century. Three Societies Meeting (ESHHS—the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences; CHEIRON—the International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences & SHP—the Society for the History of Psychology, APA division 26), Paris, FR.
Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Han, D., Xu, M., Bianco, C., & Adolph, K.E. (May 2021). Looking without seeing: Children do not distinguish efficient from inefficient means to achieve a goal. Vision Sciences Society, Novato, CA [Virtual].
Gonzalez, S., Xu, M., Herzberg, O., Tamis-Lemonda, C. (March 2020). Toward consistency in English-Spanish vocabulary checklists for dual language learners. International Congress of Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK.
Herzberg, O., Fletcher, K., Schatz, J., Xu, M., Tamis-Lemonda, C.S., & Adolph, K.E. (March 2020). Exuberance in play: Infants’ interactions with objects at home. International Congress of Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK.
Herzberg, O., Vasa, A., Gotfredsen, S., Xu, M., Tamis-Lemonda, C. S., & Adolph, K.E. (March 2020). Infants’ spontaneous locomotor activity at home. International Congress of Infant Studies. Glasgow, UK.
Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Han, D., Xu, M., Bianco, C., & Adolph, K.E. (October 2019). What eye tracking and EEG tell us about the perception of multistep actions in children and adults. Cognitive Development Society, Louisville, KY.
Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Xu, M., Adolph, K.E. (August 2019). An integrative approach to the development of problem solving. Flux Society, New York, NY.
Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Han, D., Xu, M., Bianco, C., Adolph, K.E. (March 2019). What eye tracking and EEG tell us about perception of future-directed actions in children and adults. Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Borenstein, H., Chen, A., Xu, M., Kaplan, B., Rachwani, J., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., & Adolph, K.E. (June 2018). A Toy’s Story: Exploration, discovery, implementation, and construction. International Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Xu, M., Han, D. & Adolph, K.E. (May 2018). Planning ahead: preparatory EEG activity predicts voluntary actions when the goal is not immediately accessible to perception. Visual Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Xu, M. (May 2018). The reciprocity of “real” and artificial intelligence. NYU Gallatin Senior Symposium, New York, NY.
Xu, M. (May 2018). Biological machines: The role of the human-machine analogy in early AI research. NYU Undergraduate Research Conference, New York, NY.
Xu, M.(May 2018). The development of action anticipation of tool use: EEG and Eye-tracking. NYU Undergraduate Research Conference, New York, NY.
Bianco, C. & Xu, M. (May 2018). Development of flexibility in tool use. NYU Undergraduate Research Conference, New York, NY.
Chen, A., Xu, M., Borenstein, H., Kaplan, B., Rachwani, J., Tamis-LeMonda, C.D., & Adolph, K.E. (May 2018). The 6-Brick challenge: Perception is easy, action is hard. NYU Undergraduate Research Conference, New York, NY.
Xu, M. (March 2018). Development of flexible motor planning in children’s tool use. NYC Open Data Week @ NYU. New York, NY.
Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Xu, M., & Adolph, K.E. (March 2018). Development in flexibility in tool use. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Han, D., Xu, M., & Adolph, K. E. (November 2017). Neural patterns underlying the development of planning in tool use. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.
Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Han, D., Xu, M., & Adolph, K. E. (November 2017). Neural patterns underlying the development of planning in tool use. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.
Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Han, D., Xu, M., & Adolph, K. E. (October 2017). Development of flexibility in tool use. Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR.
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