Mikkel Wallentin

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Mikkel Wallentin is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mikkel Wallentin has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 39 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 16 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mikkel Wallentin's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (21 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (19 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (13 papers). Mikkel Wallentin is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (21 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (19 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (13 papers). Mikkel Wallentin collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and United Kingdom. Mikkel Wallentin's co-authors include Peter Vuust, Andreas Roepstorff, Andreas Højlund, Claus Højbjerg Gravholt, Anne Skakkebæk, Torben E. Lund, Leif Østergaard, Maria A. G. Witek, Morten L. Kringelbach and Eric Clarke and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Mikkel Wallentin

71 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Syncopation, Body-Movement and Pleasure in Groove Music 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Syncopation, Body-Movement and Pleasure in Groove Music
    2014 250 citations Mikkel Wallentin, Peter Vuust et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mikkel Wallentin Denmark 27 1.5k 744 646 417 353 74 2.6k
John Van Borsel Belgium 31 743 0.5× 1.0k 1.4× 150 0.2× 276 0.7× 655 1.9× 141 2.8k
Markus Hausmann United Kingdom 39 2.7k 1.8× 924 1.2× 669 1.0× 219 0.5× 414 1.2× 113 4.3k
Harold W. Gordon United States 28 1.5k 1.0× 677 0.9× 235 0.4× 96 0.2× 348 1.0× 63 2.3k
Michael E. R. Nicholls Australia 38 3.6k 2.4× 1.4k 1.9× 640 1.0× 168 0.4× 391 1.1× 164 4.9k
Jenny Thomson United Kingdom 27 1.6k 1.0× 274 0.4× 68 0.1× 94 0.2× 1.8k 5.0× 60 2.7k
Emma Ashwin United Kingdom 14 1.7k 1.1× 285 0.4× 329 0.5× 612 1.5× 372 1.1× 17 2.6k
Pierre‐Yves Hervé France 14 2.1k 1.4× 383 0.5× 351 0.5× 62 0.1× 679 1.9× 31 2.7k
Itzhak Aharon United States 14 2.1k 1.4× 792 1.1× 368 0.6× 137 0.3× 172 0.5× 26 3.1k
Arturo E. Hernández United States 33 2.8k 1.8× 607 0.8× 195 0.3× 129 0.3× 2.5k 7.0× 109 4.0k
Mariska E. Kret Netherlands 30 2.3k 1.5× 1.7k 2.3× 1.9k 2.9× 185 0.4× 283 0.8× 114 4.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mikkel Wallentin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mikkel Wallentin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rocca, Roberta, et al.. (2025). This and that in depression: Cross-linguistic semantic effects. PLOS mental health.. 2(9). e0000438–e0000438.
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Rocca, Roberta, et al.. (2024). Inferring Depression and Its Semantic Underpinnings from Simple Lexical Choices. Depression and Anxiety. 2024. 1–11. 2 indexed citations
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Wallentin, Mikkel, et al.. (2023). Reframing self-talk in endurance sports using grammatical taxonomy. Cognitive Semiotics. 16(2). 91–119.
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Díaz, Carlos Mauricio Castaño, Qian Janice Wang, Ali Amidi, et al.. (2023). Measuring Cognitive Abilities in the Wild: Validating a Population‐Scale Game‐Based Cognitive Assessment. Cognitive Science. 47(6). e13308–e13308. 7 indexed citations
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Wallentin, Mikkel, et al.. (2022). Verbal interference paradigms: A systematic review investigating the role of language in cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 30(2). 464–488. 17 indexed citations
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Wallentin, Mikkel. (2020). Gender differences in language are small but matter for disorders. Handbook of clinical neurology. 175. 81–102. 25 indexed citations
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Rocca, Roberta, Mikkel Wallentin, Cordula Vesper, & Kristian Tylén. (2018). This and that back in context: Grounding demonstrative reference in manual and social affordances.. Cognitive Science. 8 indexed citations
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Wallentin, Mikkel. (2018). Sex differences in post-stroke aphasia rates are caused by age. A meta-analysis and database query. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0209571–e0209571. 29 indexed citations
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Skakkebæk, Anne, P.J. Moore, Anders Degn Pedersen, et al.. (2018). Anxiety and depression in Klinefelter syndrome: The impact of personality and social engagement. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206932–e0206932. 26 indexed citations
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Skakkebæk, Anne, Mikkel Wallentin, & Claus Højbjerg Gravholt. (2015). Neuropsychology and socioeconomic aspects of Klinefelter syndrome. Current Opinion in Endocrinology Diabetes and Obesity. 22(3). 209–216. 31 indexed citations
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Højlund, Andreas, et al.. (2015). Intensive Foreign Language Learning Reveals Effects on Categorical Perception of Sibilant Voicing After Only 3 Weeks. i-Perception. 6(6). 976885226–976885226. 2 indexed citations
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Vuust, Peter, et al.. (2015). Perception of Animacy from the Motion of a Single Sound Object. Perception. 44(2). 183–197. 9 indexed citations
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Garza‐Villarreal, Eduardo A., et al.. (2012). Musical Activity Tunes Up Absolute Pitch Ability. Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal. 31(4). 359–371. 16 indexed citations
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Wallentin, Mikkel, et al.. (2011). Amygdala and heart rate variability responses from listening to emotionally intense parts of a story. NeuroImage. 58(3). 963–973. 86 indexed citations
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Sip, Kamila E., et al.. (2010). The production and detection of deception in an interactive game. Neuropsychologia. 48(12). 3619–3626. 60 indexed citations
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Wallentin, Mikkel, et al.. (2010). The Musical Ear Test, a new reliable test for measuring musical competence. Learning and Individual Differences. 20(3). 188–196. 195 indexed citations
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Tylén, Kristian, Mikkel Wallentin, & Andreas Roepstorff. (2008). Say it with flowers! An fMRI study of object mediated communication. Brain and Language. 108(3). 159–166. 24 indexed citations
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Bærentsen, Klaus B., et al.. (2008). Music in minor activates limbic structures: a relationship with dissonance?. Neuroreport. 19(7). 711–715. 59 indexed citations
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Wallentin, Mikkel, Andreas Roepstorff, & Neil Burgess. (2007). Frontal eye fields involved in shifting frame of reference within working memory for scenes. Neuropsychologia. 46(2). 399–408. 23 indexed citations

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