Mingyuan Chu

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 894 citations indexed

About

Mingyuan Chu is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mingyuan Chu has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 894 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 10 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mingyuan Chu's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (14 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (8 papers). Mingyuan Chu is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (14 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (8 papers). Mingyuan Chu collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany. Mingyuan Chu's co-authors include Sotaro Kita, Martha W. Alibali, Peter Hagoort, Lin Wang, Lucy Foulkes, Antje S. Meyer, Aslı Özyürek, Judith Holler, David Peeters and Guosheng Ding and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Psychological Review and Brain Research.

In The Last Decade

Mingyuan Chu

21 papers receiving 862 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.

How do gestures influence thinking and speaking? The gesture-for-conceptualization hypothesis.

2017 198 citations Sotaro Kita, Martha W. Alibali et al. Psychological Review profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mingyuan Chu United Kingdom	11	686	433	308	217	212	21	894
Susan Wagner United States	8	572 0.8×	338 0.8×	242 0.8×	180 0.8×	212 1.0×	12	883
Wim Pouw Netherlands	15	407 0.6×	344 0.8×	334 1.1×	217 1.0×	152 0.7×	47	850
Manuela Macedonia Germany	16	725 1.1×	591 1.4×	453 1.5×	252 1.2×	257 1.2×	36	1.1k
Wing‐Chee So Hong Kong	17	649 0.9×	411 0.9×	185 0.6×	444 2.0×	165 0.8×	48	1.1k
Miriam A. Novack United States	11	467 0.7×	201 0.5×	221 0.7×	92 0.4×	171 0.8×	39	670
Melissa Singer United States	8	584 0.9×	324 0.7×	174 0.6×	86 0.4×	213 1.0×	10	732
Nobuhiro Furuyama Japan	7	495 0.7×	379 0.9×	163 0.5×	123 0.6×	186 0.9×	27	819
Kensy Cooperrider United States	17	438 0.6×	611 1.4×	162 0.5×	100 0.5×	97 0.5×	37	932
David Peeters Netherlands	18	399 0.6×	389 0.9×	130 0.4×	451 2.1×	129 0.6×	39	906
Raedy M. Ping United States	10	450 0.7×	241 0.6×	183 0.6×	102 0.5×	114 0.5×	13	729

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mingyuan Chu

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Zhou, Xiaolin, et al.. (2024). Cross-cultural Differences in Using Nonverbal Behaviors to Identify Indirect Replies. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 48(2). 323–344. 6 indexed citations

Chu, Mingyuan, et al.. (2024). Individual differences in representational gesture production are associated with cognitive and empathy skills. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 78(1). 85–100. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Zijing, et al.. (2023). Subliminal perception of others’ physical pain induces personal distress rather than empathic concern. BMC Psychology. 11(1). 276–276. 4 indexed citations

Chu, Mingyuan, et al.. (2022). Encoding and decoding hidden meanings in face-to-face communication: Understanding the role of verbal and nonverbal behaviors in indirect replies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(4). 1030–1053. 4 indexed citations

Chu, Mingyuan, et al.. (2022). Individual Differences in Conversational Self-Touch Frequency Correlate with State Anxiety. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 46(3). 299–319. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Ang, Mingyuan Chu, Hehui Li, et al.. (2020). Intrinsic Cerebro-Cerebellar Functional Connectivity Reveals the Function of Cerebellum VI in Reading-Related Skills. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 420–420. 13 indexed citations

Liu, Lanfang, Xin Yan, Jin Liu, et al.. (2017). Graph theoretical analysis of functional network for comprehension of sign language. Brain Research. 1671. 55–66. 12 indexed citations

Kita, Sotaro, Martha W. Alibali, & Mingyuan Chu. (2017). How do gestures influence thinking and speaking? The gesture-for-conceptualization hypothesis.. Psychological Review. 124(3). 245–266. 198 indexed citations breakdown →

Chu, Mingyuan, et al.. (2016). Beat that Word: How Listeners Integrate Beat Gesture and Focus in Multimodal Speech Discourse. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 28(9). 1255–1269. 45 indexed citations

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Chu, Mingyuan & Sotaro Kita. (2015). Co-thought and co-speech gestures are generated by the same action generation process.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 42(2). 257–270. 35 indexed citations

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Peeters, David, Mingyuan Chu, Judith Holler, Peter Hagoort, & Aslı Özyürek. (2015). Electrophysiological and Kinematic Correlates of Communicative Intent in the Planning and Production of Pointing Gestures and Speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27(12). 2352–2368. 24 indexed citations

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Chu, Mingyuan & Peter Hagoort. (2014). Synchronization of speech and gesture: Evidence for interaction in action.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 143(4). 1726–1741. 38 indexed citations

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Cappuccio, Massimiliano L., Mingyuan Chu, & Sotaro Kita. (2013). Pointing as an instrumental gesture: Gaze representation through indication.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations

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Peeters, David, Mingyuan Chu, Judith Holler, Aslı Özyürek, & Peter Hagoort. (2013). Getting to the point: The influence of communicative intent on the kinematics of pointing gestures. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 1127–1132. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Lin & Mingyuan Chu. (2013). The role of beat gesture and pitch accent in semantic processing: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia. 51(13). 2847–2855. 42 indexed citations

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Chu, Mingyuan, Antje S. Meyer, Lucy Foulkes, & Sotaro Kita. (2013). Individual differences in frequency and saliency of speech-accompanying gestures: The role of cognitive abilities and empathy.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 143(2). 694–709. 115 indexed citations

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Chu, Mingyuan & Sotaro Kita. (2011). The nature of gestures' beneficial role in spatial problem solving.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 140(1). 102–116. 222 indexed citations

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Chu, Mingyuan & Antje S. Meyer. (2010). Name-picture verification as a control measure for object naming: Data from British English speakers. Max Planck Digital Library. 1 indexed citations

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Chu, Mingyuan & Sotaro Kita. (2009). Co-speech gestures do not originate from speech production processes: Evidence from the relationship between co-thought and co-speech gestures. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 591–595. 3 indexed citations

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Chu, Mingyuan & Sotaro Kita. (2008). Spontaneous gestures during mental rotation tasks: Insights into the microdevelopment of the motor strategy.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 137(4). 706–723. 108 indexed citations

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