Alexander Leff

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
171 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Alexander Leff is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Rehabilitation and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Leff has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 33 papers in Rehabilitation and 28 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Alexander Leff's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (70 papers), Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (33 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (30 papers). Alexander Leff is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (70 papers), Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (33 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (30 papers). Alexander Leff collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Alexander Leff's co-authors include Cathy J. Price, Jenny Crinion, Mohamed L. Seghier, Matthew Brett, John Ashburner, Chris Rorden, Thomas M. Schofield, Karl Friston, Thomas M.H. Hope and Klaas Ε. Stephan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Leff

168 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Spatial Normalization of Brain Images with Focal Lesions Using Cost Function Masking

2001 757 citations Alexander Leff et al. profile →
Comparing Families of Dynamic Causal Models

2010 543 citations W.D. Penny, Klaas Ε. Stephan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Leff United Kingdom	49	5.4k	1.3k	1.1k	1.0k	1.0k	171	7.7k
Julius Fridriksson United States	47	6.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	793 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	242	7.9k
Bruce Crosson United States	43	4.5k 0.8×	984 0.8×	428 0.4×	680 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	185	6.5k
Dorothee Saur Germany	33	3.9k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	473 0.4×	495 0.5×	870 0.9×	132	5.3k
Michel Rijntjes Germany	37	3.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	720 0.7×	317 0.3×	951 0.9×	111	6.1k
Mohamed L. Seghier United Kingdom	51	7.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	350 0.3×	522 0.5×	1.5k 1.5×	132	9.2k
H. Branch Coslett United States	61	9.3k 1.7×	851 0.7×	641 0.6×	957 0.9×	2.1k 2.1×	195	11.7k
Steven L. Small United States	48	5.0k 0.9×	580 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	414 0.4×	2.0k 1.9×	177	8.1k
Takashi Hanakawa Japan	53	5.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	485 0.5×	262 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	208	9.8k
Jenny Crinion United Kingdom	38	4.5k 0.8×	829 0.6×	438 0.4×	330 0.3×	1.6k 1.5×	76	5.3k
Peter Mariën Belgium	47	3.2k 0.6×	864 0.7×	306 0.3×	589 0.6×	623 0.6×	165	7.4k

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Ambler, Gareth, John J. Mitchell, Gargi Banerjee, et al.. (2025). Risk factors, mechanisms, and clinical outcomes of stroke in young adults presenting to a North Central London stroke service: UCL Young Stroke Systematic Evaluation Study (ULYSSES). European Stroke Journal. 10(3). 844–852.

Zeidman, Peter, Thomas M.H. Hope, William Latham, et al.. (2024). Efficacy of a gamified digital therapy for speech production in people with chronic aphasia (iTalkBetter): behavioural and imaging outcomes of a phase II item-randomised clinical trial. EClinicalMedicine. 70. 102483–102483. 3 indexed citations

Leff, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Advances in the Rehabilitation of Hemispatial Inattention. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 23(3). 33–48. 1 indexed citations

Rice, Grace E., et al.. (2023). Systematic evaluation of high-level visual deficits and lesions in posterior cerebral artery stroke. Brain Communications. 5(2). fcad050–fcad050. 3 indexed citations

Huckvale, Mark, et al.. (2021). NUVA: A Naming Utterance Verifier for Aphasia Treatment. Computer Speech & Language. 69. 101221–101221. 16 indexed citations

McDonald, Matthew W., Sandra E. Black, David A. Copland, et al.. (2019). Cognition in Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Research: Consensus-Based Core Recommendations From the Second Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair. 33(11). 943–950. 18 indexed citations

Duport, Sophie, et al.. (2018). Patients with a severe prolonged Disorder of Consciousness can show classical EEG responses to their own name compared with others' names. NeuroImage Clinical. 19. 311–319. 32 indexed citations

Duport, Sophie, et al.. (2017). Late recovery of awareness in prolonged disorders of consciousness –a cross-sectional cohort study. Disability and Rehabilitation. 40(20). 2433–2438. 14 indexed citations

Leff, Alexander, et al.. (2017). Listen-In: high-dose home-based auditory comprehension therapy is achievable and effective. International Journal of Stroke. 12. 24–24. 1 indexed citations

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Duport, Sophie, et al.. (2016). Functional near infrared spectroscopy as a probe of brain function in people with prolonged disorders of consciousness. NeuroImage Clinical. 12. 312–319. 52 indexed citations

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Leff, Julian, et al.. (2013). Computer-assisted therapy for medication-resistant auditory hallucinations: proof-of-concept study. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 202(6). 428–433. 128 indexed citations

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Acheson, James, et al.. (2012). A ‘web app’ for diagnosing hemianopia. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 83(12). 1222–1224. 12 indexed citations

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Zavaglia, Melissa, Ryan T. Canolty, Thomas M. Schofield, et al.. (2012). A dynamical pattern recognition model of gamma activity in auditory cortex. Neural Networks. 28. 1–14. 7 indexed citations

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Ramsden, Sue, Stephanie Burnett Heyes, Odette Megnin‐Viggars, et al.. (2011). Auditory STM Capacity Correlates with Gray Matter Density in the Left Posterior STS in Cognitively Normal and Dyslexic Adults.. Surrey Research Insight Open Access (The University of Surrey). 1 indexed citations

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Seghier, Mohamed L., Magdalena Kolanko, Alexander Leff, et al.. (2011). Microbleed Detection Using Automated Segmentation (MIDAS): A New Method Applicable to Standard Clinical MR Images. PLoS ONE. 6(3). e17547–e17547. 52 indexed citations

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Schofield, Thomas M., Paul Iverson, Stefan J. Kiebel, et al.. (2009). Changing meaning causes coupling changes within higher levels of the cortical hierarchy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(28). 11765–11770. 19 indexed citations

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Leff, Alexander. (2003). Thomas Laycock and the romantic genesis of the cerebral reflex. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Leff, Alexander, et al.. (2001). 30. The role of medial prefrontal cortex in the representation of task-specific meaning. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Paterson, David J., Kenneth D. Murphy, D.R. Pedersen, et al.. (2000). Higher centres encode cardiorespiratory response to exercise without movement feedback. The FASEB Journal. 14. 2 indexed citations

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Leff, Alexander, et al.. (1998). Brief Communication Complex Partial Status Epilepticus in Late‐Onset MELAS. Epilepsia. 39(4). 438–441. 15 indexed citations

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