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Juan Pascual-Leone

Juan Pascual-Leone

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Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
8019
World Ranking
9077
National Ranking
613

Overview

Juan Pascual-Leone is affiliated with York University in Canada and has contributed research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Statistics and Probability.

The scientist has focused on main topics such as Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Educational and Psychological Assessments, Education, Achievement, and Giftedness, Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, Child and Animal Learning Development, and Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications.

Among their recent papers are studies published in notable journals. These include:

  • Converging evidence for domain-general developmental trends of mental attentional capacity: Validity and reliability of full and abbreviated measures (2022), published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Two Attentional Processes Subserving Working Memory Differentiate Gifted and Mainstream Students (2024), published in the Journal of Cognition
  • Schematic processing and emotional change: Implications for treatment (2024), published in New Ideas in Psychology

Pascual-Leone has frequently collaborated with several coauthors. Notable collaborators include:

  • Janice Johnson
  • Steven J. Howard
  • Adriana Rosa Milani
  • Marie Arsalidou
  • Leslie S. Greenberg

Their research has appeared often in journals such as the Journal of Cognition, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, and New Ideas in Psychology.

In addition to articles, Juan Pascual-Leone has authored books published by The MIT Press, including The Working Mind (2021).

Best Publications

  • A mathematical model for the transition rule in Piaget's developmental stages

    Juan Pascual-Leone

  • ORGANISMIC PROCESSES FOR NEO‐PIAGETIAN THEORIES: A DIALECTICAL CAUSAL ACCOUNT OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

    Juan Pascual-leone

  • Processing Limitations in Children With Specific Language Impairment: The Role of Executive Function

    Nancie Im-Bolter;Janice Johnson;Juan Pascual-Leone

  • Intelligence and experience: A neopiagetian approach

    Juan Pascual-Leone;Doba Goodman

  • Developmental Measurement of Mental Attention

    Juan Pascual-Leone;Raymond Baillargeon

  • A dialectical constructivist approach to experiential change.

    Leslie Greenberg;Juan Pascual-Leone

  • Brain areas associated with numbers and calculations in children: Meta-analyses of fMRI studies.

    Marie Arsalidou;Marie Arsalidou;Matthew Pawliw-Levac;Mahsa Sadeghi;Juan Pascual-Leone

  • The encoding and decoding of symbols by children: A new experimental paradigm and a neo-Piagetian model

    Juan Pascual-Leone;June Smith

  • Executive functions underlying multiplicative reasoning: problem type matters.

    Alba Agostino;Janice Johnson;Juan Pascual-Leone

  • The Psychological Unit and its Role in Task Analysis: A Reinterpretation of Object Permanence

    Juan Pascual-Leone;Janice Johnson

  • Development of mental attention in gifted and mainstream children: the role of mental capacity, inhibition, and speed of processing.

    Janice Johnson;Nancie Im-Bolter;Juan Pascual-Leone

  • Constructive problems for constructive theories: the current relevance of Piaget's work and a critique of information-processing simulation psychology

    J. Pascual-Leone

  • Piagetian Theory and Neo-Piagetian Analysis as Psychological Guides in Education

    Juan Pascual-Leone;Doba Goodman;Paul Ammon;Irene Subelman

  • Emotions, development, and psychotherapy: A dialectical-constructivist perspective.

    Juan Pascual-Leone

  • Growing into human maturity: toward a metasubjective theory of adulthood stages.

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  • Formal operations and M power: A neo-Piagetian investigation

    Anik de Ribaupierre;Juan Pascual-Leone

  • A Dialectical Constructivist View of Developmental Intelligence.

    Juan Pascual-Leone;Janice Johnson

  • Quantitative Hardware Stages That Constrain Language Development

    Janice Johnson;Veronica Fabian;Juan Pascual-Leone

  • Clarifying inhibitory control: Diversity and development of attentional inhibition

    Steven J. Howard;Steven J. Howard;Janice Johnson;Juan Pascual-Leone

  • A balancing act of the brain: activations and deactivations driven by cognitive load

    Marie Arsalidou;Marie Arsalidou;Juan Pascual-Leone;Janice Johnson;Drew Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie S. Greenberg
Leslie S. Greenberg York University
James V. Wertsch
James V. Wertsch Washington University in St. Louis
Kurt W. Fischer
Kurt W. Fischer Harvard University
Graeme S. Halford
Graeme S. Halford Griffith University
Richard M. Lerner
Richard M. Lerner Tufts University
Paul B. Baltes
Paul B. Baltes Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Deanna Kuhn
Deanna Kuhn Columbia University
Margot J. Taylor
Margot J. Taylor University of Toronto
Maureen Dennis
Maureen Dennis University of Toronto

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