Allyson P. Mackey

5.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Allyson P. Mackey is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Allyson P. Mackey has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 12 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Allyson P. Mackey's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (19 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (8 papers). Allyson P. Mackey is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (19 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (8 papers). Allyson P. Mackey collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Allyson P. Mackey's co-authors include Julia Leonard, Silvia A. Bunge, John D. E. Gabrieli, Danielle S. Bassett, Ursula A. Tooley, Martin R. West, Sydney T. Robinson, Rachel Romeo, Meredith L. Rowe and Belén Guerra-Carrillo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Allyson P. Mackey

45 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

Beyond the 30-Million-Word Gap: Children’s Conversational Exposure Is Associated With Language-Related Brain Function

2018 446 citations Rachel Romeo, Julia Leonard et al. Psychological Science profile →
Neurodevelopment of the association cortices: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications for psychopathology

2021 313 citations Bart Larsen, Danielle S. Bassett et al. profile →
Environmental influences on the pace of brain development

2021 278 citations Ursula A. Tooley, Danielle S. Bassett et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Allyson P. Mackey United States	22	1.3k	739	569	470	464	47	2.7k
Donaya Hongwanishkul Canada	8	1.2k 1.0×	674 0.9×	377 0.7×	455 1.0×	366 0.8×	9	2.2k
J. Bruce Morton Canada	26	1.4k 1.1×	898 1.2×	262 0.5×	594 1.3×	286 0.6×	58	2.4k
Leslie Lusk United States	9	2.2k 1.7×	504 0.7×	181 0.3×	611 1.3×	627 1.4×	12	4.3k
Julia Leonard United States	20	570 0.5×	706 1.0×	579 1.0×	355 0.8×	379 0.8×	43	1.8k
Eric Kan United States	24	1.7k 1.3×	390 0.5×	172 0.3×	363 0.8×	544 1.2×	41	3.9k
Amber Ruigrok United Kingdom	16	2.0k 1.6×	189 0.3×	500 0.9×	204 0.4×	793 1.7×	26	2.6k
Timothy T. Brown United States	24	1.7k 1.4×	596 0.8×	137 0.2×	272 0.6×	246 0.5×	63	2.8k
Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde Netherlands	29	1.3k 1.1×	311 0.4×	211 0.4×	812 1.7×	792 1.7×	67	2.8k
Simona Ghetti United States	37	2.6k 2.1×	1.7k 2.3×	277 0.5×	583 1.2×	596 1.3×	122	4.2k
Laura E. Engelhardt United States	20	410 0.3×	300 0.4×	366 0.6×	424 0.9×	354 0.8×	27	1.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mackey, Allyson P., et al.. (2025). Humans have a longer period of cortical maturation across depth and hierarchy than macaques. PLoS Biology. 23(9). e3003378–e3003378.

Keller, Arielle S., Ran Barzilay, Monica E. Calkins, et al.. (2025). Cognition varies across the calendar year in multiple large-scale datasets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(51). e2506054122–e2506054122.

McDermott, Cassidy L., Elizabeth S. Norton, & Allyson P. Mackey. (2023). A systematic review of interventions to ameliorate the impact of adversity on brain development. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 153. 105391–105391. 6 indexed citations

Park, Anne T., Panagiotis Fotiadis, Ursula A. Tooley, et al.. (2022). Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans. npj Science of Learning. 7(1). 14–14. 2 indexed citations

Keller, Arielle S., Allyson P. Mackey, Adam Pines, et al.. (2022). Caregiver monitoring, but not caregiver warmth, is associated with general cognition in two large sub‐samples of youth. Developmental Science. 26(3). e13337–e13337. 2 indexed citations

Leonard, Julia, et al.. (2022). Young children calibrate effort based on the trajectory of their performance.. Developmental Psychology. 59(3). 609–619. 6 indexed citations

McDermott, Cassidy L., Anne T. Park, Ursula A. Tooley, et al.. (2021). Early life stress is associated with earlier emergence of permanent molars. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(24). 25 indexed citations

Tooley, Ursula A., et al.. (2021). Evaluating the sensitivity of functional connectivity measures to motion artifact in resting-state fMRI data. NeuroImage. 241. 118408–118408. 41 indexed citations

Tooley, Ursula A., Danielle S. Bassett, & Allyson P. Mackey. (2021). Environmental influences on the pace of brain development. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 22(6). 372–384. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kominsky, Jonathan F., et al.. (2021). Organizing the Methodological Toolbox: Lessons Learned From Implementing Developmental Methods Online. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 702710–702710. 18 indexed citations

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Leonard, Julia, Angela Duckworth, Laura Schulz, & Allyson P. Mackey. (2021). Leveraging cognitive science to foster children’s persistence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25(8). 642–644. 9 indexed citations

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Tooley, Ursula A., Danielle S. Bassett, & Allyson P. Mackey. (2021). Functional brain network community structure in childhood: Unfinished territories and fuzzy boundaries. NeuroImage. 247. 118843–118843. 19 indexed citations

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Park, Anne T., Ursula A. Tooley, Julia Leonard, et al.. (2020). Early childhood stress is associated with blunted development of ventral tegmental area functional connectivity. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 47. 100909–100909. 30 indexed citations

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Leonard, Julia, et al.. (2020). Preschoolers are Sensitive to their Performance Over Time.. Cognitive Science. 4 indexed citations

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Romeo, Rachel, Julia Leonard, Sydney T. Robinson, et al.. (2018). Beyond the 30-Million-Word Gap: Children’s Conversational Exposure Is Associated With Language-Related Brain Function. Psychological Science. 29(5). 700–710. 446 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leonard, Julia, Allyson P. Mackey, Amy S. Finn, & John D. E. Gabrieli. (2015). Differential effects of socioeconomic status on working and procedural memory systems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. 554–554. 49 indexed citations

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Mackey, Allyson P., et al.. (2015). Characterizing Behavioral and Brain Changes Associated with Practicing Reasoning Skills. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0137627–e0137627. 9 indexed citations

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Mackey, Allyson P., et al.. (2013). Intensive Reasoning Training Alters Patterns of Brain Connectivity at Rest. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(11). 4796–4803. 89 indexed citations

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Mackey, Allyson P., Kirstie Whitaker, & Silvia A. Bunge. (2012). Experience-dependent plasticity in white matter microstructure: reasoning training alters structural connectivity. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 6. 32–32. 99 indexed citations

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Hagan, Cindy C., Fumiko Hoeft, Allyson P. Mackey, Dean Mobbs, & Allan L. Reiss. (2008). Aberrant Neural Function During Emotion Attribution in Female Subjects With Fragile X Syndrome. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 47(12). 1443–1454. 20 indexed citations

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