Victoria Leong

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Victoria Leong is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Victoria Leong has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Victoria Leong's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (11 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (10 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers). Victoria Leong is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (11 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (10 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers). Victoria Leong collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and South Sudan. Victoria Leong's co-authors include Usha Goswami, Sam Wass, Stanimira Georgieva, Kaili Clackson, Valdas Noreika, Fruzsina Soltész, Elizabeth M. Byrne, Jenny Thomson, Emily Phillips and Ira Marriott Haresign and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature reviews. Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Victoria Leong

47 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Speaker gaze increases information coupling between infant and adult brains

2017 200 citations Victoria Leong, Elizabeth M. Byrne et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Victoria Leong United Kingdom	24	1.2k	793	397	323	134	50	1.8k
Eloisa Valenza Italy	20	1.5k 1.2×	652 0.8×	305 0.8×	643 2.0×	93 0.7×	47	1.9k
Gedeon O. Deák United States	26	776 0.6×	1.4k 1.8×	582 1.5×	327 1.0×	190 1.4×	72	2.0k
Gert Westermann United Kingdom	20	646 0.5×	934 1.2×	297 0.7×	430 1.3×	71 0.5×	90	1.6k
Isabell Wartenburger Germany	28	2.0k 1.7×	860 1.1×	420 1.1×	623 1.9×	102 0.8×	83	2.6k
Chiara Turati Italy	27	1.7k 1.4×	650 0.8×	553 1.4×	988 3.1×	128 1.0×	91	2.2k
Stefanie Hoehl Germany	32	1.9k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	1.1k 2.9×	426 1.3×	228 1.7×	113	2.9k
Vincent M. Reid United Kingdom	27	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	874 2.2×	390 1.2×	201 1.5×	72	2.2k
Elina Pihko Finland	26	1.5k 1.2×	610 0.8×	269 0.7×	437 1.4×	45 0.3×	47	2.0k
Casey Lew‐Williams United States	23	895 0.7×	1.5k 1.9×	164 0.4×	403 1.2×	93 0.7×	67	2.1k
Elisa Di Giorgio Italy	16	627 0.5×	301 0.4×	338 0.9×	296 0.9×	282 2.1×	22	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victoria Leong

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ding, Yi, et al.. (2026). Decoding Covert Speech from EEG by Functional Areas Spatio-Temporal Transformer. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. PP. 1–14.

Luppi, Andrea I., Pedro A. M. Mediano, Victoria Leong, et al.. (2025). Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 27(2). 121–137.

Leong, Victoria, et al.. (2024). The Influence of Multilingual Experience on Executive Function and Structure Learning: Effects in Young Adults in the UK and Singapore. Languages. 9(4). 136–136. 1 indexed citations

Reindl, Vanessa, et al.. (2024). Classroom-based learning dynamics: the role of interbrain synchrony. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28(12). 1063–1065. 4 indexed citations

Augustine, George J, et al.. (2023). Synchrony in parent‐offspring social interactions across development: A cross‐species review of rodents and humans. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 35(7). e13241–e13241. 6 indexed citations

Neale, Dave, et al.. (2023). Parent–infant affect synchrony during social and solo play. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1875). 20210482–20210482. 4 indexed citations

Hong, Min, John Suckling, Balázs Gulyás, et al.. (2023). Potential cognitive and neural benefits of a computerised cognitive training programme based on Structure Learning in healthy adults: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 24(1). 517–517.

Santamaria, Lorena, et al.. (2022). Learning at your brain’s rhythm: individualized entrainment boosts learning for perceptual decisions. Cerebral Cortex. 33(9). 5382–5394. 4 indexed citations

Leong, Victoria, et al.. (2021). A New Remote Guided Method for Supervised Web-Based Cognitive Testing to Ensure High Quality Data. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Leong, Victoria, et al.. (2021). Using Optogenetic Dyadic Animal Models to Elucidate the Neural Basis for Human Parent–Infant Social Knowledge Transmission. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 15. 731691–731691. 3 indexed citations

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Leong, Victoria, et al.. (2021). A New Remote Guided Method for Supervised Web-Based Cognitive Testing to Ensure High-Quality Data: Development and Usability Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(1). e28368–e28368. 12 indexed citations

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Sela, Yaron, Lorena Santamaria, Yair Amichai‐Hamburger, & Victoria Leong. (2020). Towards a Personalized Multi-Domain Digital Neurophenotyping Model for the Detection and Treatment of Mood Trajectories. Sensors. 20(20). 5781–5781. 2 indexed citations

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Santamaria, Lorena, Valdas Noreika, Stanimira Georgieva, et al.. (2019). Emotional valence modulates the topology of the parent-infant inter-brain network. NeuroImage. 207. 116341–116341. 85 indexed citations

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Wass, Sam, Valdas Noreika, Stanimira Georgieva, et al.. (2018). Parental neural responsivity to infants’ visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction. PLoS Biology. 16(12). e2006328–e2006328. 89 indexed citations

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Leong, Victoria, et al.. (2017). Speaker gaze increases information coupling between infant and adult brains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(50). 13290–13295. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wilson, Angela, et al.. (2015). Awareness of Rhythm Patterns in Speech and Music in Children with Specific Language Impairments. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. 672–672. 67 indexed citations

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Leong, Victoria & Usha Goswami. (2015). Acoustic-Emergent Phonology in the Amplitude Envelope of Child-Directed Speech. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0144411–e0144411. 84 indexed citations

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Leong, Victoria & Usha Goswami. (2014). Impaired extraction of speech rhythm from temporal modulation patterns in speech in developmental dyslexia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 96–96. 48 indexed citations

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Goswami, Usha & Victoria Leong. (2013). Speech rhythm and temporal structure: Converging perspectives?. Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. 4(1). 84 indexed citations

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Leong, Victoria, Richard E. Turner, Michael A. Stone, & Usha Goswami. (2011). Spoken Nursery Rhymes Have a Fractal Rhythmic Structure - Evidence from Patterns of Slow Amplitude Modulation (AM). Cognitive Science. 33(33). 1 indexed citations

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