Vincent C. K. Cheung

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Vincent C. K. Cheung is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation. According to data from OpenAlex, Vincent C. K. Cheung has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 8 papers in Rehabilitation. Recurrent topics in Vincent C. K. Cheung's work include Muscle activation and electromyography studies (26 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (20 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (15 papers). Vincent C. K. Cheung is often cited by papers focused on Muscle activation and electromyography studies (26 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (20 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (15 papers). Vincent C. K. Cheung collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, United States and China. Vincent C. K. Cheung's co-authors include Emilio Bizzi, Andrea d’Avella, Matthew C. Tresch, Andrea Turolla, Stefano Silvoni, Michela Agostini, Philippe Saltiel, Paolo Bonato, C Cheung and Gráinne McAlonan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Vincent C. K. Cheung

54 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Matrix Factorization Algorithms for the Identification of Muscle Synergies: Evaluation on Simulated and Experimental Data Sets

2006 588 citations Matthew C. Tresch, Vincent C. K. Cheung et al. Journal of Neurophysiology profile →
Muscle synergy patterns as physiological markers of motor cortical damage

2012 464 citations Vincent C. K. Cheung, Andrea Turolla et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vincent C. K. Cheung Hong Kong	22	2.8k	2.5k	706	684	490	58	4.1k
Francisco J. Valero‐Cuevas United States	34	2.0k 0.7×	2.5k 1.0×	362 0.5×	357 0.5×	352 0.7×	126	3.9k
Eric J. Perreault United States	36	2.5k 0.9×	3.1k 1.3×	689 1.0×	683 1.0×	316 0.6×	170	4.4k
Rieko Osu Japan	25	2.9k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	524 0.7×	622 0.9×	161 0.3×	67	4.0k
Marco Santello United States	35	3.7k 1.3×	3.6k 1.4×	416 0.6×	299 0.4×	275 0.6×	152	5.7k
Dagmar Sternad United States	40	3.8k 1.4×	2.5k 1.0×	544 0.8×	1.5k 2.3×	597 1.2×	167	6.2k
José L. Contreras-Vidal United States	46	5.2k 1.9×	2.9k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	461 0.7×	573 1.2×	200	7.4k
Theodore E. Milner Canada	42	4.1k 1.5×	4.1k 1.6×	855 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	271 0.6×	103	6.3k
Charles Capaday Canada	32	2.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	411 0.6×	427 0.6×	310 0.6×	55	4.4k
Jürgen Konczak United States	40	2.0k 0.7×	772 0.3×	532 0.8×	732 1.1×	900 1.8×	140	4.8k
David J. Ostry Canada	51	4.9k 1.8×	1.8k 0.7×	267 0.4×	553 0.8×	224 0.5×	146	7.1k

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Vergara-Díaz, Gloria, Stefano Sapienza, Jean‐François Daneault, et al.. (2025). Can muscle synergies shed light on the mechanisms underlying motor gains in response to robot-assisted gait training in children with cerebral palsy?. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 22(1). 23–23. 1 indexed citations

Severini, Giacomo, Tiziana Lencioni, Ilaria Carpinella, et al.. (2025). Muscle Synergy Analysis for Clinical Characterization of Upper Limb Motor Recovery After Stroke. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 107(2). 261–269. 2 indexed citations

Han, Chuanliang, Vincent C. K. Cheung, & Rosa H. M. Chan. (2025). Aging amplifies sex differences in low alpha and low beta EEG oscillations. NeuroImage. 312. 121231–121231. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Richard, et al.. (2024). Rectified Latent Variable Model-Based EMG Factorization of Inhibitory Muscle Synergy Components Related to Aging, Expertise and Force–Tempo Variations. Sensors. 24(9). 2820–2820. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Junyi, et al.. (2024). Explainable framework to detect Parkinson’s disease related depression from EEG. PubMed. 2024. 1–4.

Severini, Giacomo, Alexander Koenig, Catherine Adans-Dester, et al.. (2020). Robot-Driven Locomotor Perturbations Reveal Synergy-Mediated, Context-Dependent Feedforward and Feedback Mechanisms of Adaptation. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 5104–5104. 19 indexed citations

Yeung, Ling-Fung, et al.. (2020). Adapting to the Mechanical Properties and Active Force of an Exoskeleton by Altering Muscle Synergies in Chronic Stroke Survivors. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 28(10). 2203–2213. 18 indexed citations

Cheung, Vincent C. K., et al.. (2020). Robustness of Muscle Synergies under Variant Muscle Contraction Force during Forearm Movements. PubMed. 2017. 3306–3309. 2 indexed citations

Cheung, Vincent C. K., et al.. (2020). Plasticity of muscle synergies through fractionation and merging during development and training of human runners. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4356–4356. 96 indexed citations

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Bao, Shi‐Chun, et al.. (2019). Pathway-specific modulatory effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation during pedaling in chronic stroke survivors. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 16(1). 143–143. 16 indexed citations

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Cheung, Vincent C. K., Karthik Devarajan, Giacomo Severini, Andrea Turolla, & Paolo Bonato. (2015). Decomposing time series data by a non-negative matrix factorization algorithm with temporally constrained coefficients. PubMed. 2015. 3496–3499. 15 indexed citations

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Coscia, Martina, Vincent C. K. Cheung, Peppino Tropea, et al.. (2014). The effect of arm weight support on upper limb muscle synergies during reaching movements. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 11(1). 22–22. 102 indexed citations

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Bizzi, Emilio & Vincent C. K. Cheung. (2013). THE NEURAL ORIGIN OF MUSCLE SYNERGIES. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 371 indexed citations

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Cheung, Vincent C. K., Elizabeth Hanson, Marta Tunesi, et al.. (2013). Gene Expression Changes in the Motor Cortex Mediating Motor Skill Learning. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61496–e61496. 17 indexed citations

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Cheung, C, Siew E. Chua, Vincent C. K. Cheung, et al.. (2009). White matter fractional anisotrophy differences and correlates of diagnostic symptoms in autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 50(9). 1102–1112. 142 indexed citations

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Chua, Siew E., Yi Deng, Eric Chen, et al.. (2008). Early striatal hypertrophy in first-episode psychosis within 3 weeks of initiating antipsychotic drug treatment. Psychological Medicine. 39(5). 793–800. 45 indexed citations

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Cheung, Vincent C. K., Andrea d’Avella, & Emilio Bizzi. (2008). Adjustments of Motor Pattern for Load Compensation Via Modulated Activations of Muscle Synergies During Natural Behaviors. Journal of Neurophysiology. 101(3). 1235–1257. 98 indexed citations

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Cheung, Vincent C. K., Brendan J. Frey, & Nebojša Jojić. (2006). Video Epitomes. International Journal of Computer Vision. 76(2). 141–152. 17 indexed citations

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Cheung, Vincent C. K., Andrea d’Avella, Matthew C. Tresch, & Emilio Bizzi. (2005). Central and Sensory Contributions to the Activation and Organization of Muscle Synergies during Natural Motor Behaviors. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(27). 6419–6434. 380 indexed citations

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Cheung, Vincent C. K. & Kevin Cannons. (2002). An Introduction to Probabilistic Neural Networks. 16 indexed citations

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