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Cees van Leeuwen

Cees van Leeuwen

KU Leuven
Belgium

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
5825
World Ranking
8348
National Ranking
101

Cees van Leeuwen publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cees van Leeuwen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 271 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Cees van Leeuwen D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cees van Leeuwen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Cees van Leeuwen is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a research focus primarily in the field of Neuroscience, with numerous contributions to related subfields. Their work spans Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Clinical Psychology, and Human-Computer Interaction.

Their research covers a variety of topics including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Mind wandering and attention

Notable recent publications by Cees van Leeuwen include:

  • A Phase 1, Dose-Ranging Study to Assess Safety and Psychoactive Effects of a Vaporized 5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyltryptamine Formulation (GH001) in Healthy Volunteers, 2021, Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Multimodal Natural Human-Computer Interfaces for Computer-Aided Design: A Review Paper, 2022, Applied Sciences
  • The No-Report Paradigm: A Revolution in Consciousness Research?, 2022, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Adaptive rewiring of random neural networks generates convergent-divergent units, 2021, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
  • Neural correlates of task-related refixation behavior, 2020, Vision Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Ilias Rentzeperis
  • Andrey R. Nikolaev
  • Thomas Lachmann
  • Roman Bauer
  • Jia Li

Cees van Leeuwen has published regularly in several scientific venues, such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Network Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: II. Conceptual and theoretical foundations.

    Johan Wagemans;Jacob Feldman;Sergei Gepshtein;Ruth Kimchi

  • Symbiotic relationship between brain structure and dynamics

    Mikail Rubinov;Mikail Rubinov;Mikail Rubinov;Olaf Sporns;Cees van Leeuwen;Michael Breakspear;Michael Breakspear;Michael Breakspear

  • Affordances, perceptual complexity, and the development of tool use.

    Lieselotte van Leeuwen;Ad Smitsman;Cees van Leeuwen

  • Stability and intermittency in large-scale coupled oscillator models for perceptual segmentation

    Cees van Leeuwen;Mark Steyvers;Maarten Nooter

  • Fixation duration surpasses pupil size as a measure of memory load in free viewing

    Radha Nila Meghanathan;Cees van Leeuwen;Andrey Andrey R. Nikolaev

  • Combining EEG and eye movement recording in free viewing: Pitfalls and possibilities

    Andrey R. Nikolaev;Radha Nila Meghanathan;Cees van Leeuwen

  • Traveling waves and trial averaging: the nature of single-trial and averaged brain responses in large-scale cortical signals.

    David Alexander;Peter Jurica;Chris Trengove;Andrey Andrey R. Nikolaev

  • Adaptive observers and parameter estimation for a class of systems nonlinear in the parameters

    Ivan Y. Tyukin;Erik Steur;Henk Nijmeijer;Cees Van Leeuwen

  • Spatial and temporal structure of phase synchronization of spontaneous alpha EEG activity

    Junji Ito;Andrey R. Nikolaev;Cees Van Leeuwen

  • Evolution to a small-world network with chaotic units

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  • Paradoxical enhancement of letter recognition in developmental dyslexia.

    Thomas Lachmann;Cees van Leeuwen

  • Sketches from a Design Process: Creative Cognition Inferred From Intermediate Products

    Saskia Jaarsveld;Cees van Leeuwen

  • Scale-invariant fluctuations of the dynamical synchronization in human brain electrical activity

    Pulin Gong;Andrey R. Nikolaev;Cees van Leeuwen

  • Abilities Within and Across Visual and Verbal Domains: How Specific Is Their Influence on Creativity?

    Massimiliano Palmiero;Chie Nakatani;Daniel Raver;Marta Olivetti Belardinelli

  • Creative reasoning across developmental levels: Convergence and divergence in problem creation

    Saskia Jaarsveld;Thomas Lachmann;Cees van Leeuwen

  • Dynamics of spontaneous transitions between global brain states

    Junji Ito;Andrey R. Nikolaev;Cees van Leeuwen

  • Robust emergence of small-world structure in networks of spiking neurons

    Hoi Fei Kwok;Hoi Fei Kwok;Hoi Fei Kwok;Peter Jurica;Antonino Raffone;Antonino Raffone;Cees van Leeuwen;Cees van Leeuwen

  • Negative and positive congruence effects in letters and shapes.

    Cees Van Leeuwen;Thomas Lachmann

  • Coupled nonlinear maps as models of perceptual pattern and memory trace dynamics

    Cees van Leeuwen;Antonino Raffone

  • The interplay of attention and consciousness in visual search, attentional blink and working memory consolidation

    Antonino Raffone;Narayanan Srinivasan;Cees van Leeuwen

  • Intermittent dynamics underlying the intrinsic fluctuations of the collective synchronization patterns in electrocortical activity

    Pulin Gong;Andrey R. Nikolaev;Cees van Leeuwen

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Lachmann
Thomas Lachmann Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Danil V. Prokhorov
Danil V. Prokhorov Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan)
Henk Nijmeijer
Henk Nijmeijer Eindhoven University of Technology
Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
Marta Olivetti Belardinelli Sapienza University of Rome
Narayanan Srinivasan
Narayanan Srinivasan Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Markus Diesmann
Markus Diesmann RWTH Aachen University
Johan Wagemans
Johan Wagemans KU Leuven
Michael Breakspear
Michael Breakspear University of Newcastle Australia
Amiram Grinvald
Amiram Grinvald Weizmann Institute of Science
Klaus Mathiak
Klaus Mathiak RWTH Aachen University

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