Yawei Cheng

3.4k total citations
47 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Yawei Cheng is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yawei Cheng has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in Social Psychology and 17 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Yawei Cheng's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (12 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (11 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (10 papers). Yawei Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (12 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (11 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (10 papers). Yawei Cheng collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, United States and Honduras. Yawei Cheng's co-authors include Jean Decety, Chenyi Chen, Ching‐Po Lin, Yang‐Teng Fan, Daisy Mui Hung Kee, Chia-Yen Yang, Yuan-Yu Hsu, Ho‐Ling Liu, Kun‐Hsien Chou and Po‐Lei Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Yawei Cheng

45 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yawei Cheng Taiwan 22 1.5k 1.2k 666 500 429 47 2.4k
Marie Vandekerckhove Belgium 30 1.8k 1.2× 740 0.6× 292 0.4× 1.2k 2.3× 407 0.9× 82 3.1k
Martin Schulte‐Rüther Germany 25 1.5k 1.0× 736 0.6× 560 0.8× 366 0.7× 726 1.7× 49 2.3k
Abraham Goldstein Israel 30 1.5k 1.0× 845 0.7× 273 0.4× 811 1.6× 737 1.7× 92 2.7k
Abigail A. Baird United States 19 1.4k 0.9× 690 0.6× 416 0.6× 529 1.1× 495 1.2× 30 2.5k
Grit Hein Germany 18 1.6k 1.0× 998 0.8× 333 0.5× 779 1.6× 298 0.7× 66 2.5k
David Huepe Chile 27 1.1k 0.7× 578 0.5× 870 1.3× 446 0.9× 370 0.9× 70 2.2k
Moritz de Greck Germany 15 2.2k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 919 1.4× 1.2k 2.4× 733 1.7× 21 3.6k
Jean‐Louis Nandrino France 26 955 0.6× 432 0.4× 436 0.7× 551 1.1× 697 1.6× 139 2.3k
Peter Bright United Kingdom 26 2.0k 1.3× 618 0.5× 459 0.7× 505 1.0× 282 0.7× 57 2.9k
Joseph M. Moran United States 20 1.9k 1.2× 547 0.5× 399 0.6× 615 1.2× 298 0.7× 33 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yawei Cheng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yawei Cheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yawei Cheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yawei Cheng based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yawei Cheng. Yawei Cheng is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Cheng, Yawei, et al.. (2022). Affective mirror and anti-mirror neurons relate to prosocial help in rats. iScience. 26(1). 105865–105865. 10 indexed citations
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Chen, Yu‐Chun, et al.. (2019). Habitual physical activity mediates the acute exercise-induced modulation of anxiety-related amygdala functional connectivity. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19787–19787. 42 indexed citations
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Chen, Chenyi, et al.. (2018). The Developmental Origins of the Social Brain: Empathy, Morality, and Justice. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 2584–2584. 20 indexed citations
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Chen, Chenyi, et al.. (2018). Test–Retest Reliability of Mismatch Negativity (MMN) to Emotional Voices. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 12. 453–453. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Chenyi, et al.. (2018). Atypical Anxiety-Related Amygdala Reactivity and Functional Connectivity in Sant Mat Meditation. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 12. 298–298. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Chenyi, Jia‐Ying Sung, & Yawei Cheng. (2016). Neural Dynamics of Emotional Salience Processing in Response to Voices during the Stages of Sleep. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 10. 117–117. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Chenyi, et al.. (2016). Mismatch Negativity to Threatening Voices Associated with Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10. 362–362. 15 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yawei, Chenyi Chen, & Jean Decety. (2014). An EEG/ERP investigation of the development of empathy in early and middle childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 10. 160–169. 105 indexed citations
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Chen, Chenyi, Yu‐Hsuan Lee, & Yawei Cheng. (2014). Anterior insular cortex activity to emotional salience of voices in a passive oddball paradigm. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 743–743. 18 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yawei, et al.. (2014). Sex differences in preattentive perception of emotional voices and acoustic attributes. Neuroreport. 25(7). 464–469. 28 indexed citations
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Chen, Cheng-Chiang, et al.. (2013). Aging is associated with changes in the neural circuits underlying empathy. Neurobiology of Aging. 35(4). 827–836. 63 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yawei, et al.. (2012). Dissociation between affective sharing and emotion understanding in juvenile psychopaths. Development and Psychopathology. 24(2). 623–636. 113 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yawei, Kun‐Hsien Chou, Jean Decety, et al.. (2008). Sex differences in the neuroanatomy of human mirror-neuron system: A voxel-based morphometric investigation. Neuroscience. 158(2). 713–720. 116 indexed citations
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Yang, Chia-Yen, et al.. (2008). Gender differences in the mu rhythm during empathy for pain: An electroencephalographic study. Brain Research. 1251. 176–184. 149 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yawei, Chia-Yen Yang, Ching‐Po Lin, Po‐Lei Lee, & Jean Decety. (2008). The perception of pain in others suppresses somatosensory oscillations: A magnetoencephalography study. NeuroImage. 40(4). 1833–1840. 214 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yawei, Ching‐Po Lin, Ho‐Ling Liu, et al.. (2007). Expertise Modulates the Perception of Pain in Others. Current Biology. 17(19). 1708–1713. 354 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yawei, Jean Decety, Ching‐Po Lin, et al.. (2007). Sex differences in spinal excitability during observation of bipedal locomotion. Neuroreport. 18(9). 887–890. 20 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yawei, Andrew N. Meltzoff, & Jean Decety. (2006). Motivation Modulates the Activity of the Human Mirror-Neuron System. Cerebral Cortex. 17(8). 1979–1986. 87 indexed citations

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