Bo Yao

817 total citations
25 papers, 456 citations indexed

About

Bo Yao is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bo Yao has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 456 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Bo Yao's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (9 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (6 papers). Bo Yao is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (9 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (6 papers). Bo Yao collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Bo Yao's co-authors include Christoph Scheepers, Sara C. Sereno, Graham G. Scott, Pascal Belin, Anne Keitel, Patrick O’Donnell, Christopher J. Hand, Mario Weick, Gillian Bruce and Milica Vasiljevic and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Bo Yao

22 papers receiving 447 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bo Yao United Kingdom 10 270 213 136 127 63 25 456
Nigel Gopie Canada 8 427 1.6× 121 0.6× 101 0.7× 165 1.3× 82 1.3× 8 519
Francesca Pesciarelli Italy 15 354 1.3× 181 0.8× 67 0.5× 126 1.0× 33 0.5× 32 527
Ruiming Wang China 18 578 2.1× 309 1.5× 124 0.9× 367 2.9× 49 0.8× 80 806
Jérôme Dokic France 14 305 1.1× 199 0.9× 191 1.4× 51 0.4× 18 0.3× 56 553
Alan W. Kersten United States 17 344 1.3× 234 1.1× 127 0.9× 331 2.6× 63 1.0× 32 680
David Havas United States 6 193 0.7× 257 1.2× 251 1.8× 112 0.9× 14 0.2× 8 439
Jana Lüdtke Germany 13 407 1.5× 405 1.9× 220 1.6× 269 2.1× 123 2.0× 26 748
Ulrike Altmann Germany 7 343 1.3× 367 1.7× 207 1.5× 72 0.6× 28 0.4× 7 575
Kathleen L. Hourihan Canada 14 621 2.3× 228 1.1× 113 0.8× 221 1.7× 138 2.2× 27 768
Audrey K. Kittredge United States 10 432 1.6× 153 0.7× 55 0.4× 473 3.7× 44 0.7× 15 768

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bo Yao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bo Yao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bo Yao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bo Yao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bo Yao. Bo Yao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Yao, Bo, Christopher J. Hand, Sébastien Miellet, & Sara C. Sereno. (2025). Parafoveal preview benefits magnified. Cognition. 261. 106149–106149.
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Bortolini, Tiago, et al.. (2024). Transcranial electrical stimulation modulates emotional experience and metabolites in the prefrontal cortex in a donation task. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 14271–14271. 1 indexed citations
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Yao, Bo, et al.. (2024). Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading. Cognition & Emotion. 39(7). 1625–1634. 3 indexed citations
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Couth, Samuel, et al.. (2023). Investigating the lateralisation of experimentally induced auditory verbal hallucinations. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17. 1193402–1193402.
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Yao, Bo, Jason R. Taylor, Briony Banks, & Sonja A. Kotz. (2021). Reading direct speech quotes increases theta phase-locking: Evidence for cortical tracking of inner speech?. NeuroImage. 239. 118313–118313. 9 indexed citations
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Yao, Bo & Christoph Scheepers. (2018). Direct speech quotations promote low relative-clause attachment in silent reading of English. Cognition. 176. 248–254. 8 indexed citations
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Scott, Graham G., et al.. (2018). The Glasgow Norms: Ratings of 5,500 words on nine scales. Behavior Research Methods. 51(3). 1258–1270. 134 indexed citations
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Yao, Bo, Anne Keitel, Gillian Bruce, et al.. (2018). Differential emotional processing in concrete and abstract words.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 44(7). 1064–1074. 18 indexed citations
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Sereno, Sara C., et al.. (2017). Testing the limits of contextual constraint: Interactions with word frequency and parafoveal preview during fluent reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 71(1). 302–313. 24 indexed citations
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Meng, Xianxin, Wénwén Liú, Ling Zhang, et al.. (2016). EEG Oscillation Evidences of Enhanced Susceptibility to Emotional Stimuli during Adolescence. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 616–616. 19 indexed citations
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Weick, Mario, J. A. Allen, Milica Vasiljevic, & Bo Yao. (2015). Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias. Cognition. 147. 106–112. 2 indexed citations
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Sereno, Sara C., et al.. (2015). Emotion word processing: does mood make a difference?. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1191–1191. 35 indexed citations
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Yao, Bo, Graham G. Scott, Phil McAleer, Patrick O’Donnell, & Sara C. Sereno. (2014). Familiarity with Interest Breeds Gossip: Contributions of Emotion, Expectation, and Reputation. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e104916–e104916. 7 indexed citations
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Yao, Bo, Milica Vasiljevic, Mario Weick, et al.. (2013). Semantic Size of Abstract Concepts: It Gets Emotional When You Can’t See It. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e75000–e75000. 20 indexed citations
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Yao, Bo, Pascal Belin, & Christoph Scheepers. (2012). Brain ‘talks over’ boring quotes: Top-down activation of voice-selective areas while listening to monotonous direct speech quotations. NeuroImage. 60(3). 1832–1842. 30 indexed citations
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Yao, Bo & Christoph Scheepers. (2011). Contextual modulation of reading rate for direct versus indirect speech quotations. Cognition. 121(3). 447–453. 38 indexed citations
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Yao, Bo, Pascal Belin, & Christoph Scheepers. (2011). Silent Reading of Direct versus Indirect Speech Activates Voice-selective Areas in the Auditory Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23(10). 3146–3152. 78 indexed citations

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