Julia Leonard

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Julia Leonard is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Julia Leonard has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 16 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Julia Leonard's work include Early Childhood Education and Development (12 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (11 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers). Julia Leonard is often cited by papers focused on Early Childhood Education and Development (12 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (11 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers). Julia Leonard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Julia Leonard's co-authors include John D. E. Gabrieli, Allyson P. Mackey, Martin R. West, Amy S. Finn, Rachel Romeo, Sydney T. Robinson, Meredith L. Rowe, Christopher F. O. Gabrieli, Laura Schulz and Matthew S. Cain and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Julia Leonard

39 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Julia Leonard United States	20	706	579	570	379	355	43	1.8k
Amy S. Finn United States	19	414 0.6×	396 0.7×	565 1.0×	356 0.9×	406 1.1×	50	1.7k
Laura E. Engelhardt United States	20	300 0.4×	366 0.6×	410 0.7×	354 0.9×	424 1.2×	27	1.4k
Gabrielle Simcock Australia	23	635 0.9×	446 0.8×	440 0.8×	402 1.1×	135 0.4×	55	1.6k
J. Bruce Morton Canada	26	898 1.3×	262 0.5×	1.4k 2.5×	286 0.8×	594 1.7×	58	2.4k
Ana Miranda Spain	30	841 1.2×	449 0.8×	1.3k 2.2×	1.0k 2.8×	288 0.8×	177	3.0k
Sujin Yang South Korea	23	832 1.2×	319 0.6×	693 1.2×	340 0.9×	296 0.8×	76	2.1k
Sebastián Javier Lipina Argentina	20	255 0.4×	436 0.8×	317 0.6×	217 0.6×	222 0.6×	71	1.1k
Saskia Van der Oord Netherlands	28	1.1k 1.5×	260 0.4×	1.1k 2.0×	1.3k 3.5×	568 1.6×	119	3.2k
Linda Van Leijenhorst Netherlands	18	361 0.5×	149 0.3×	1.2k 2.0×	474 1.3×	584 1.6×	22	2.1k
Janet J. Boseovski United States	15	946 1.3×	380 0.7×	544 1.0×	290 0.8×	311 0.9×	37	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Julia Leonard

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julia Leonard

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All Works

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Leonard, Julia, et al.. (2025). Children Strategically Decide What to Practice. Child Development. 96(5). 1619–1631.

Asaba, Mika, Melissa Santos, Julian Jara‐Ettinger, & Julia Leonard. (2025). Adolescents report being most motivated by encouragement from people who know their abilities and the domain.. Developmental Psychology. 61(9). 1793–1807.

Zhang, Xiuyuan, Samuel D. McDougle, & Julia Leonard. (2025). People accurately predict the shape but not the parameters of skill learning curves. Cognition. 258. 106083–106083. 1 indexed citations

Leonard, Julia, Rachel Romeo, Nicholas A. Hubbard, et al.. (2025). Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6342–6342. 2 indexed citations

Leonard, Julia, et al.. (2024). A unified account of why optimism declines in childhood. Nature Reviews Psychology. 4(1). 35–48. 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

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

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

Asaba, Mika, Sophie Bridgers, Teresa García, et al.. (2021). Moderated Online Data-Collection for Developmental Research: Methods and Replications. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 734398–734398. 35 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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Leonard, Julia, et al.. (2019). Who is better? Preschoolers infer relative competence based on efficiency of process and quality of outcome.. Cognitive Science. 639–645. 6 indexed citations

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Leonard, Julia, Rachel Romeo, Anne T. Park, et al.. (2019). Associations between cortical thickness and reasoning differ by socioeconomic status in development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 36. 100641–100641. 35 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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Cain, Matthew S., Julia Leonard, John D. E. Gabrieli, & Amy S. Finn. (2016). Media multitasking in adolescence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 23(6). 1932–1941. 126 indexed citations

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Chai, Xiaoqian J., Dina R. Hirshfeld‐Becker, Joseph Biederman, et al.. (2015). Functional and structural brain correlates of risk for major depression in children with familial depression. NeuroImage Clinical. 8. 398–407. 53 indexed citations

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Finn, Amy S., et al.. (2015). Developmental dissociation between the maturation of procedural memory and declarative memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 142. 212–220. 48 indexed citations

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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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Leonard, Julia & Laura Schulz. (2015). If at First You Don't Succeed: The Role of Evidence in Preschoolers' and Infants' Persistence.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

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Galla, Brian M., et al.. (2014). A Behind‐the‐Scenes Guide to School‐Based Research. Mind Brain and Education. 8(1). 15–20. 12 indexed citations

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