Yuan Chang Leong

University of Chicago — United States

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

15h-index2.4kcitations60works1.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies(15), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies(14), Neural dynamics and brain function(12), Visual perception and processing mechanisms(8), Face Recognition and Perception(8)

Publications60 total

Natural language reveals that political partisans are more affectively aligned over political issues than partisan identities
Communications Psychology·2026Open Access
Rising Moralization in Social Media Discourse
PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)·2026Open Access
Trait anxiety is associated with idiosyncratic neural event boundaries during naturalistic movie-watching
2026Open Access
Emotional arousal enhances narrative memories through functional integration of large-scale brain networks
Nature Human Behaviour·2025· 2 cited
Differentiation Drives the Erosion of Positivity on Social Media
2025Open Access
Differentiation Drives the Erosion of Positivity on Social Media
2025Open Access
A neural network with episodic memory learns causal relationships between narrative events
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behavior
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
A Multimodal Seq2Seq Transformer for Predicting Brain Responses to Naturalistic Stimuli
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Rising Moralization in Social Media Discourse
2025Open Access
Gesture-based instruction enhances neural synchrony and predicts children’s mathematical learning
2025Open Access
A neurocomputational account of motivated seeing
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2025
Social Neuroscience
2025
Dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching
PLoS Computational Biology·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Emotional arousal enhances narrative memories through functional integration of large-scale brain networks
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Cortical reinstatement of causally related events sparks narrative insights by updating neural representation patterns
2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Desirability biases perceptual decisions in the aversive domain.
Emotion·2025· 1 cited
Predicting whole-brain neural dynamics from prefrontal cortex functional near-infrared spectroscopy signal during movie-watching
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·2025Open Access
Moral conviction interacts with metacognitive ability in modulating neural activity during sociopolitical decision-making
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Neural responses to social rejection reflect dissociable learning about relational value and reward
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jamil Zaki(8), Jin Ke(7), Janice Chen(6), Kenneth A. Norman(6), Uri Hasson(6), Hayoung Song(6), Monica D. Rosenberg(6), Jean Decety(5), Asieh Zadbood(4), Yizhou Lyu(4), Michael S. Cohen(4), Christopher J. Honey(3), Yael Niv(3), Angela Radulescu(3), Zihan Bai(3), William J. Brady(3), Reka Daniel(2), Joanna Chen(2), Samuel A. Nastase(2), Yunfei Liu(2)