Dr Yvonne Leung

PhD, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University

MA, University of Sheffield, UK

BA(Hons), The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University

BA, University of Queensland

Science

School of Psychology

Dr Yvonne Leung is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Psychology, UNSW. She has a background in cognitive psychology and her research focuses on cognitive ageing and dementia. She was formerly the coordinator of the International Centenarian Consortium-Dementia. She is experienced in harmonising internationally sourced data and examining factors associated with dementia and cognitive impairment in ethno-regionally diverse populations. Her current work (funded by CEPAR) involves examining gender differences in cognitive ageing, cognitive reserve, and expectations regarding ageing.

Phone

+61 2 93850140

E-mail

yvonne.leung@unsw.edu.au

Location

Level 1, Biological Science (E26)

Journal articles | 2023

Chee ZJ; Leung Y; de Vries M, 2023, 'Musical Sophistication and Its Relationship With Executive Functions, Autistic Traits, and Quality of Life', PSYCHOMUSICOLOGY, 32, pp. 87 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000294

Journal articles | 2023

Chee ZJ; Leung Y; de Vries M, 2023, 'Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits', Musicae Scientiae, pp. 102986492311674 - 102986492311674, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10298649231167488

Journal articles | 2023

Dean RT; Dobrowohl F; Leung Y, 2023, 'Flexibility Conceiving Relationships between Timbres Revealed by Network Analysis', Organised Sound, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355771823000250

Journal articles | 2023

Leung Y; Barzilai N; Batko-Szwaczka A; Beker N; Boerner K; Brayne C; Brodaty H; Cheung KSL; Corrada MM; Crawford JD; Galbussera AA; Gondo Y; Holstege H; Hulsman M; Ishioka YL; Jopp D; Kawas CH; Kaye J; Kochan NA; Lau BHP; Lipnicki DM; Lo JW; Lucca U; Makkar SR; Marcon G; Martin P; Meguro K; Milman S; Poon LW; Recchia A; Ribeiro O; Riva E; Rott C; Sikkes SAM; Skoog I; Stephan B; Szewieczek J; Teixeira L; Tettamanti M; Wilczyński K; Sachdev P, 2023, 'Cognition, function, and prevalent dementia in centenarians and near-centenarians: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis of 18 studies', Alzheimer's and Dementia, 19, pp. 2265 - 2275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.12828

Journal articles | 2022

Cheng A; Leung Y; Brodaty H, 2022, 'A systematic review of the associations, mediators and moderators of life satisfaction, positive affect and happiness in near-centenarians and centenarians', Aging and Mental Health, 26, pp. 651 - 666, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.1891197

Journal articles | 2020

Cheng A; Leung Y; Crawford J; Harrison F; Sachdev P; Brodaty H, 2020, '339 - A psychological profile of near-centenarians and centenarians with and without dementia from the Sydney Centenarian Study', International Psychogeriatrics, 32, pp. 99 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610220002392

Journal articles | 2020

Makkar SR; Lipnicki DM; Crawford JD; Kochan NA; Castro-Costa E; Lima-Costa MF; Diniz BS; Brayne C; Stephan B; Matthews F; Llibre-Rodriguez JJ; Llibre-Guerra JJ; Valhuerdi-Cepero AJ; Lipton RB; Katz MJ; CuilingWang ; Ritchie K; Carles S; Carriere I; Scarmeas N; Yannakoulia M; Kosmidis M; Lam L; Chan WC; Fung A; Guaita A; Vaccaro R; Davin A; Kim KW; Han JW; Suh SW; Riedel-Heller SG; Roehr S; Pabst A; Ganguli M; Hughes TF; Snitz B; Anstey KJ; Cherbuin N; Easteal S; Haan MN; Aiello AE; Dang K; Ng TP; Gao Q; Nyunt MSZ; Brodaty H; Trollor JN; Leung Y; Lo JW; Sachdev P, 2020, 'APOE ε4 and the influence of sex, age, vascular risk factors, and ethnicity on cognitive decline', Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 75, pp. 1863 - 1873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaa116

Journal articles | 2020

Makkar SR; Lipnicki DM; Crawford JD; Kochan NA; Castro-Costa E; Lima-Costa MF; Diniz BS; Brayne C; Stephan B; Matthews F; Llibre-Rodriguez JJ; Llibre-Guerra JJ; Valhuerdi-Cepero AJ; Lipton RB; Katz MJ; Zammit A; Ritchie K; Carles S; Carriere I; Scarmeas N; Yannakoulia M; Kosmidis M; Lam L; Fung A; Chan WC; Guaita A; Vaccaro R; Davin A; Kim KW; Han JW; Suh SW; Riedel-Heller SG; Roehr S; Pabst A; Ganguli M; Hughes TF; Jacobsen EP; Anstey KJ; Cherbuin N; Haan MN; Aiello AE; Dang K; Kumagai S; Narazaki K; Chen S; Ng TP; Gao Q; Nyunt MSZ; Meguro K; Yamaguchi S; Ishii H; Lobo A; Lobo Escolar E; De la Cámara C; Brodaty H; Trollor JN; Leung Y; Lo JW; Sachdev P, 2020, 'Education and the moderating roles of age, sex, ethnicity and apolipoprotein epsilon 4 on the risk of cognitive impairment', Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2020.104112

Journal articles | 2019

Cheng A; Leung Y; Crawford JD; Harrison F; Sachdev P; Brodaty H, 2019, 'The psychological health of 207 near-centenarians (95–99) and centenarians from the Sydney Centenarian Study', Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53, pp. 976 - 988, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867419848831

Journal articles | 2019

Cheng A; Leung Y; Harrison F; Brodaty H, 2019, 'The prevalence and predictors of anxiety and depression in near-centenarians and centenarians: A systematic review', International Psychogeriatrics, 31, pp. 1539 - 1558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1041610219000802

Journal articles | 2019

Davis CW; Jackson KJL; McElroy AK; Halfmann P; Huang J; Chennareddy C; Piper AE; Leung Y; Albariño CG; Crozier I; Ellebedy AH; Sidney J; Sette A; Yu T; Nielsen SCA; Goff AJ; Spiropoulou CF; Saphire EO; Cavet G; Kawaoka Y; Mehta AK; Glass PJ; Boyd SD; Ahmed R, 2019, 'Longitudinal Analysis of the Human B Cell Response to Ebola Virus Infection', Cell, 177, pp. 1566 - 1582.e17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.04.036

Journal articles | 2019

Lipnicki DM; Makkar SR; Crawford JD; Thalamuthu A; Kochan NA; Lima-Costa MF; Castro-Costa E; Ferri CP; Brayne C; Stephan B; Llibre-Rodriguez JJ; Llibre-Guerra JJ; Valhuerdi-Cepero AJ; Lipton RB; Katz MJ; Derby CA; Ritchie K; Ancelin M-L; Carrière I; Scarmeas N; Yannakoulia M; Hadjigeorgiou GM; Lam L; Chan W-C; Fung A; Guaita A; Vaccaro R; Davin A; Kim KW; Han JW; Suh SW; Riedel-Heller SG; Roehr S; Pabst A; van Boxtel M; Köhler S; Deckers K; Ganguli M; Jacobsen EP; Hughes TF; Anstey KJ; Cherbuin N; Haan MN; Aiello AE; Dang K; Kumagai S; Chen T; Narazaki K; Ng TP; Gao Q; Nyunt MSZ; Scazufca M; Brodaty H; Numbers K; Trollor JN; Meguro K; Yamaguchi S; Ishii H; Lobo A; Lopez-Anton R; Santabárbara J; Leung Y; Lo JW; Popovic G; Sachdev PS, 2019, 'Determinants of cognitive performance and decline in 20 diverse ethno-regional groups: A COSMIC collaboration cohort study', PLOS Medicine, 16, pp. e1002853 - e1002853, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002853

Journal articles | 2018

Leung Y; Dean RT, 2018, 'Learning a Well-Formed Microtonal Scale: Pitch Intervals and Event Frequencies', Journal of New Music Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01664

Journal articles | 2018

Leung Y; Dean RT, 2018, 'Learning a well-formed microtonal scale: Pitch intervals and event frequencies', Journal of New Music Research, 47, pp. 206 - 225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2018.1432060

Journal articles | 2018

Leung Y; Dean RT, 2018, 'Learning unfamiliar pitch intervals: A novel paradigm for demonstrating the learning of statistical associations between musical pitches', PLoS ONE, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203026

Journal articles | 2018

Leung Y; Dean RT, 2018, 'The difficulty of learning microtonal tunings rapidly: The influence of pitch intervals and structural familiarity.', Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000207

Journal articles | 2017

Loui P; Patterson S; Sachs ME; Leung Y; Zeng T; Przysinda E, 2017, 'White Matter Correlates of Musical Anhedonia: Implications for Evolution of Music', Frontiers in Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01664

Journal articles | 2016

Leung Y; Houben CH; Lacambra M; Teoh A; Tam YH; Chiu P, 2016, 'Endoscopic submucosal dissection of pancreatic heterotopia in children', ENDOSCOPY, 48, pp. E367 - E368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-119266

Journal articles | 2016

Olsen KN; Dean RT; Leung Y, 2016, 'What constitutes a phrase in sound-based music? A mixed-methods investigation of perception and acoustics', PLoS ONE, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167643

Journal articles | 2016

Stevens CJ; Pinchbeck B; Lewis T; Luerssen M; Pfitzner D; Powers DMW; Abrahamyan A; Leung Y; Gibert G, 2016, 'Mimicry and expressiveness of an ECA in human-agent interaction: familiarity breeds content!', Comput Cogn Sci, 2, pp. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40469-016-0008-2

Journal articles | 2015

Cavedon L; Kroos C; Herath D; Burnham D; Bishop L; Leung Y; Stevens CJ, 2015, '"C'Mon dude!": Users adapt their behaviour to a robotic agent with an attention model', International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 80, pp. 14 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.02.012

Journal articles | 2015

Gibert G; Olsen KN; Leung Y; Stevens CJ, 2015, 'Transforming an embodied conversational agent into an efficient talking head: from keyframe-based animation to multimodal concatenation synthesis.', Comput Cogn Sci, 1, pp. 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40469-015-0007-8

Journal articles | 2013

Gibert G; Leung Y; Stevens CJ, 2013, 'Control of speech-related facial movements of an avatar from video', Speech Communication, 55, pp. 135 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2012.07.001

Journal articles | 2013

Stevens CJ; Gibert G; Leung Y; Zhang Z, 2013, 'Evaluating a synthetic talking head using a dual task: Modality effects on speech understanding and cognitive load', International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 71, pp. 440 - 454, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2012.12.003

Journal articles | 2004

Chan NPH; Wong WS; Ng MLH; Tsang KS; Lau TT; Leung Y; Chik KW; Shing MMK; Li CK, 2004, 'Childhood acute myeloid leukemia with CBF beta-MYH11 rearrangement: Study of incidence, morphology, cytogenetics, and clinical outcomes of Chinese in Hong Kong', AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY, 76, pp. 300 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajh.20081

Journal articles | 2002

Lam NYL; Raine TH; Ng MHL; Leung Y; Cocks RA, 2002, 'Effect of stress hormones on the expression of fibrinogen-binding receptors in platelets', RESUSCITATION, 55, pp. 277 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0300-9572(02)00213-7

Journal articles | 2001

Tsang KS; Li CK; Chik KW; Shing MMK; Tsoi WC; Ng MHL; Lau TT; Leung Y; Yuen PMP, 2001, 'TEL/AML1 rearrangement and the prognostic significance in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Hong Kong', AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY, 68, pp. 91 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajh.1159
Conference Abstracts | 2022

Rajasekar N; Price JM; Chen PL; Leung Y; Koran L, 2022, 'Language Attrition of Older Multilinguals under a Pandemic Situation in Malaysia', in Language Attrition of Older Multilinguals under a Pandemic Situation in Malaysia, Malaysia, Vol. 18, presented at The National Conference on Ageing, Malaysia, https://medic.upm.edu.my/our_journal/volume_18_2022/mjmhs_vol18_supp_20_december_2022-70524

Conference Papers | 2020

Cheng A; Leung Y; Crawford J; Harrison F; Sachdev P; Brodaty H, 2020, 'A psychological profile of near-centenarians and centenarians with and without dementia from the Sydney Centenarian Study', in INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 99 - 99, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000575131200078&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Conference Abstracts | 2018

Leung Y; Crawford JD; Kochan NA; Brodaty H; Sachdev P, 2018, 'Dementia and exceptional longevity: A study of cognitive and functional impairment in centenarians and near-centenarians from 17 population-based studies [Abstract]', in NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research (NNIDR) Australian Dementia Forum Abstracts, NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research (NNIDR) Australian Dementia Forum Abstracts, pp. 76 - 76, presented at Australian Dementia Forum 2018, NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research (NNIDR) Australian Dementia Forum Abstracts, 03 June 2018 - 05 June 2018

Conference Abstracts | 2018

Leung Y; Crawford JD; Kochan NA; Brodaty H; Sachdev PS, 2018, '100 years and beyond: investigating the prevalence of dementia in centenarians and near-centenarians from 17 population-based studies [Abstract O1-05-05]', in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, Elsevier, Chicago, USA, Vol. 14, pp. 228 - 228, presented at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018, Chicago, USA, 22 July 2018 - 26 July 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2018.06.2358

Conference Papers | 2011

South SF; Leung Y; Mallion R; Hegarty J, 2011, 'THE POWER OF LEAN PLUS AUTOMATION TO INCREASE OPERATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY AND SAFETY IN PRETRANSFUSION TESTING', in VOX SANGUINIS, WILEY-BLACKWELL, pp. 48 - 48, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000296362800130&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Conference Papers | 2011

Stevens CJ; Gibert G; Leung Y; Zhang Z, 2011, 'A flexible dual task paradigm for evaluating an embodied conversational agent: Modality effects and reaction time as an index of cognitive load', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 331 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_36

Kwan Fung and Yuet Ying Fung Healthy Brain Ageing Research Award Fund (2018)

Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) Travel Award, Chicago, USA (2018)

The MARCS Institute Postgraduate Research Award and University Top-Up (2013-2016)

Western Sydney University Outstanding Academic Achievement (2009)

Leading CEPAR-funded projects on cognitive ageing, expectations regarding ageing, and ageism.

My Research Supervision

Honours/ILP BSc (Medicine)