2026 Marc Leman: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	50	2726	2491	27	27	433	11679

Overview

Marc Leman is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a significant research profile in neuroscience. Their work primarily explores the intersection of neuroscience with music perception, neural dynamics, and motor control, contributing extensively to cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Neuroscience

Subfields of study in which they have published are:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Social Psychology
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Key research topics covered by Marc Leman encompass:

Neuroscience and Music Perception
Neural dynamics and brain function
Action Observation and Synchronization
Music Technology and Sound Studies
Motor Control and Adaptation
Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Marc Leman has frequently published in several academic venues, including:

Scientific Reports
Frontiers in Psychology
SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
NeuroImage

Among their recent published papers are:

"Livestream Experiments: The Role of COVID-19, Agency, Presence, and Social Context in Facilitating Social Connectedness," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
"BeatWalk: Personalized Music-Based Gait Rehabilitation in Parkinson's Disease," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
"Neural entrainment underpins sensorimotor synchronization to dynamic rhythmic stimuli," 2023, NeuroImage
"The assessment of presence and performance in an AR environment for motor imitation learning: A case-study on violinists," 2023, Computers in Human Behavior
"Neural Entrainment Meets Behavior: The Stability Index as a Neural Outcome Measure of Auditory-Motor Coupling," 2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Lousin Moumdjian
Peter Feys
Mattia Rosso
Bart Moens
Pieter-Jan Maes

Best Publications

Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology

Marc Leman

1710
Citations
Content-Based Music Information Retrieval: Current Directions and Future Challenges

M.A. Casey;R. Veltkamp;M. Goto;M. Leman

1019
Citations
The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music.

Petr Janata;Jeffrey L. Birk;John D. Van Horn;Marc Leman

570
Citations
Walking on music

Frederik Styns;Leon van Noorden;Dirk Moelants;Marc Leman

383
Citations
Action-based effects on music perception

Pieter-Jan Maes;Marc Leman;Caroline Palmer;Marcelo M. Wanderley

328
Citations
Musical Gestures: concepts and methods in research

Alexander Refsum Jensenius;Marcelo M. Wanderley;Rolf Inge Godøy;Marc Leman

324
Citations
Music and Schema Theory: Cognitive Foundations of Systematic Musicology

Marc Leman

285
Citations
Communicating expressiveness and affect in multimodal interactive systems

A. Camurri;G. Volpe;G. De Poli;M. Leman

252
Citations
An auditory model of the role of short-term memory in probe-tone ratings.

Marc Leman

221
Citations
Activating and relaxing music entrains the speed of beat synchronized walking

Marc Leman;Dirk Moelants;Matthias Varewyck;Frederik Styns

187
Citations
The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Music

Marc Leman;Pieter-Jan Maes

186
Citations
The Expressive Moment: How Interaction (with Music) Shapes Human Empowerment

Marc Leman

176
Citations
Musical agency reduces perceived exertion during strenuous physical performance

Thomas Hans Fritz;Thomas Hans Fritz;Thomas Hans Fritz;Samyogita Hardikar;Matthias Demoucron;Margot Niessen

169
Citations
The Impact of the Bass Drum on Human Dance Movement

Edith Van Dyck;Dirk Moelants;Michiel Demey;Alexander Deweppe

148
Citations
Spontaneous Entrainment of Running Cadence to Music Tempo.

Edith Van Dyck;Bart Moens;Jeska Buhmann;Michiel Demey

146
Citations
The Spatiotemporal Representation of Dance and Music Gestures using Topological Gesture Analysis (TGA)

Luiz Alberto Naveda;Marc Leman

137
Citations
Music, Gesture, and the Formation of Embodied Meaning

Marc Leman

120
Citations
Music and Schema Theory

Marc Leman

118
Citations
The musical instrument as a natural extension of the musician

Luc Nijs;Micheline Lesaffre;Marc Leman

116
Citations
The Routledge companion to embodied music interaction

Micheline Lesaffre;Pieter-Jan Maes;Marc Leman

86
Citations
Content-Based Music Information Retrieval: Current Directions and Future Challenges Current retrieval systems can handle tens-of-thousands of music tracks but new systems need to aim at huge online music collections that contain tens-of-millions of tracks.

Michael A. Casey;Remco Veltkamp;Masataka Goto;Marc Leman

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Benoît G. Bardy University of Montpellier

Lieven Clarisse Université Libre de Bruxelles

Jan Vanfleteren Ghent University

Matthieu Lenoir Ghent University

Raymond van Ee Radboud University

Arno Villringer Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki

Emmanuel Bigand University of Burgundy

Barbara Tillmann Laboratory for Research on Learning and Development

Vesa Välimäki Aalto University

External Links

Personal website of Marc Leman

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