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PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS (TOTAL: 48; First-Authored: 33)

(Web of Science: 847 citations, h-index 18; Google Scholar: 1307 citations, h-index 22 (as of April 28, 2025)
 

  1. Wang, J., Yang, W., & Yeung, M. K. (2025). Cognitive Foundations in the Interplay Between Computational Thinking and Creativity: A Scoping Review. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 56, 101729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101729
     

  2. Yeung, M. K. (2025). Task-switching and frontal cortex functioning across adulthood: An fNIRS study. NeuroImage, 310, 121160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121160
     

  3. Fang, Y., Sun, F., Wang Z., Yang, Y., Lau, M., Huang, K., Yeung M. K., Kranz, G., & Chan, C. C. (2024). Cognitively combined/engaged physical activity for the executive function, symptomology, and motor competence of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 155, 104880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2024.104880
     

  4. He, C. Y. Y., Zhou, Z., Kan, M. M. P., Chan, D. H. Y., Wong, A. C. T., Mok, K. H. Y., Lam, F. M. H., Chan, S. C. C., Cheung, C. K. C., Yeung, M. K. C., & Wong, A. Y. L. (2024). Modifiable risk factors for mild cognitive impairment among cognitively normal community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ageing Research Reviews, 99, 102350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2024.102350
     

  5. Huang, Q., Yeung, M. K., Fong, K. N. K., & Chien, C. (2024). Cortical activity during online motor control in children with and without developmental coordination disorder: A cross-sectional functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 21, 160. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-024-01465-z
     

  6. Tse, Z. C. K., Cao, Y., Chau, B. K. H., Yeung, M. K., Leung, C., & Shum, D. H. K. (2024). Does Playing Mahjong Benefit Older Individuals? A Scoping Review. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, 11, 1363-1377.
    https://doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2024.102
     

  7. Yeung, M. K. (2024). Effects of age on the interactions of attentional and emotional processes: A prefrontal fNIRS study. Cognition and Emotion, 38(4), 549-564. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2311799
     

  8. Yeung, M. K. (2024). Metamemory and executive function mediate the age-related decline in memory. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 30(5), 479-488. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617723011451
     

  9. Yeung, M. K., Bai, J., & Mak, K. (2024). Longitudinal changes in executive function in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Autism Research, 17(10), 2045-2063. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3196
     

  10. Yeung, M. K., Wan, J. C., Chan, M. M., Cheung, S. H., Sze, S. C., & Siu, W. W. (2024). Effects of motivation and emotional distraction on executive functions. BMC Psychology, 12, 188. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01695-9
     

  11. Yeung, M. K. (2023). Context-specific effects of threatening faces on alerting, orienting, and executive control: An fNIRS study. Heliyon, 9(5), E15995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15995
     

  12. Yeung, M. K. (2023). Effects of age, gender, and education on task performance and frontal cortex activation during emotional and non-emotional verbal fluency tests. Brain and Language, 245, 105325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105325
     

  13. Yeung, M. K. (2023). The prefrontal cortex is differentially involved in implicit and explicit facial emotion processing: An fNIRS study. Biological Psychology 181, 108619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108619
     

  14. Yeung, M. K., & Han, Y. M. Y. (2023). Changes in task performance and frontal cortex activation within and over sessions during the n-back task. Scientific Reports, 13, 3363. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30552-9
     

  15. Chan, M. M. Y., Chan, M., Yeung, M. K., Wang, S., Liu, D., & Han, Y. M. Y. (2022). Aberrant prefrontal hemodynamics during verbal fluency test underpins reading comprehension deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): An fNIRS study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 984777. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.984777
     

  16. Han, Y. M. Y., Chan, M. C., Chan, M. M., Yeung, M. K., & Chan, A. S. (2022). Effects of working memory load on frontal connectivity in children with autism spectrum disorder: a fNIRS study. Scientific Reports, 12, 1522. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05432-3
     

  17. Koo, Y. W., Neumann, D. L., Ownsworth, T., Yeung, M. K., & Shum, D. H. K. (2022). Understanding the Neural Basis of Prospective Memory Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 905491. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.905491
     

  18. Yeung, M. K. (2022). A systematic review and meta-analysis of facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder: The specificity of deficits and the role of task characteristics. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 133, 104518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.104518
     

  19. Yeung, M. K. (2022). Frontal cortical activation during emotional and non-emotional verbal fluency tests. Scientific Reports, 12, 8497. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12559-w
     

  20. Yeung, M. K. (2022). Stability and consistency of metamemory judgments within sessions. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 917576. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.917576
     

  21. Yeung, M. K., Chau, A. K., Chiu, J. Y., Shek, J. T., Leung, J. P., & Wong, T. C. (2022). Differential and subtype-specific neuroimaging abnormalities in amnestic and nonamnestic mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ageing Research Reviews, 80, 101675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2022.101675
     

  22. Yeung, M. K., & Chu, V. W. (2022). Viewing neurovascular coupling through the lens of combined EEG–fNIRS: A systematic review of current methods. Psychophysiology, 59(6), e14054. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14054
     

  23. Yeung, M. K., Lee, T. L., & Chan, A. S. (2022). Prefrontal activation during effortful processing differentiates memory abilities in adults with memory complaints. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 88(1), 301-310. http://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-220130
     

  24. Lee, T. L., Yeung, M. K., Sze, S. L., & Chan, A. S. (2021). Eye-tracking training improves inhibitory control in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Brain Sciences, 11, 314. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11030314
     

  25. Yeung, M. K. (2021). An optical window into brain function in children and adolescents: A systematic review of functional near-infrared spectroscopy studies. NeuroImage, 227, 117672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117672
     

  26. Yeung, M. K., & Chan, A. S. (2021). A systematic review of the application of functional near-infrared spectroscopy to the study of cerebral hemodynamics in healthy aging. Neuropsychology Review, 31(1), 139-166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-020-09455-3
     

  27. Yeung, M. K., Lee., T. L., & Chan, A. S. (2021). Depressive and anxiety symptoms are related to decreased lateral prefrontal cortex functioning during cognitive control in older people. Biological Psychology, 166, 108224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108224
     

  28. Yeung, M. K., Lee., T. L., & Chan, A. S. (2021). Negative mood is associated with decreased prefrontal cortex functioning during working memory in young adults. Psychophysiology, 58(6), e13802. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13802
     

  29. Yeung, M. K., Lee, T. L., Han, Y. M. Y., & Chan, A. S. (2021). Prefrontal activation and pupil dilation during n-back task performance: A combined fNIRS and pupillometry study. Neuropsychologia, 159, 107954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107954
     

  30. Yeung, M. K., & Lin, J. (2021). Probing depression, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders using fNIRS and the verbal fluency test: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 140, 416-435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.06.015
     

  31. Yeung, M. K., Tsuchida, A., & Fellows, L. K. (2021). Causal prefrontal contributions to stop-signal task performance in humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(9), 1784-1797. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01652
     

  32. Lee, T. L., Yeung, M. K., Sze, S. L., & Chan, A. S. (2020). Computerized eye-tracking training improves the saccadic eye movements of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Brain Sciences, 10(12), 1016. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10121016
     

  33. Krishnamurthy, K., Yeung, M. K., Chan, A. S., & Han, Y. M. Y. (2020). Effortful control and prefrontal cortex functioning in children with autism spectrum disorder: An fNIRS study. Brain Sciences, 10(11), 880. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10110880
     

  34. Yeung, M. K., & Chan, A. S. (2020). Executive function, motivation, and emotion recognition in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 105, 103730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103730
     

  35. Yeung, M. K., & Chan, A. S. (2020). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy reveals decreased cerebral oxygenation during resting and task states in mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a systematic review. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 124, 58-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.02.017
     

  36. Yeung, M. K., Lee, T. L., & Chan, A. S. (2020). Impaired recognition of negative facial expressions is partly related to facial perception deficits in adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 1596-1606. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-03915-3
     

  37. Yeung, M. K., Lee., T. L., & Chan, A. S. (2020). Neurocognitive development of flanker and Stroop interference control: a near-infrared spectroscopy study. Brain and Cognition, 143, 105585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105585
     

  38. Yeung, M. K., Lee, T. L., & Chan, A. S. (2019). Frontal lobe dysfunction underlies the differential word retrieval impairment in adolescents with high-functioning autism. Autism Research, 12(4), 600-613. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2082
     

  39. Yeung, M. K., Lee, T. L., & Chan, A. S. (2019). Right-lateralized frontal activation underlies successful updating of verbal working memory in adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychology, 148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107743
     

  40. Chan, A. S., Lee, T. L., Yeung, M. K., & Hamblin, M. R. (2019). Photobiomodulation improves the frontal cognitive function of older adults. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 34, 369-377. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5039
     

  41. Chan, A. S., Cheung, W. K., Yeung, M. K., & Lee, T. L. (2018). Long-term effects of memory and lifestyle interventions on memory functioning of older adults: an 18-month follow-up study. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 10, 240. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00240
     

  42. Yeung, M. K., Lee., T. L., Cheung, W. K., & Chan, A. S. (2018). Frontal underactivation during working memory processing in adults with acute partial sleep deprivation: a near-infrared spectroscopy study. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 742. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00742
     

  43. Chan, A. S., Cheung, W. K., Yeung, M. K., Woo, J., Kwok, T., Shum, D. H., Yu, R., Cheung, M. C. (2017). A Chinese Chan-based mind-body intervention improves memory of older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 9, 190. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00190
     

  44. Han, Y. M., Cheung, W. K., Wong, C. K., Sze, S. L., Cheng, T. W., Yeung, M. K., & Chan, A. S. (2017). Distinct cytokine and chemokine profiles in autism spectrum Disorders. Frontiers in Immunology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.00011
     

  45. Yeung, M. K., Sze, S. L., Woo, J., Kwok, T., Shum, D. H., Yu, R., & Chan, A. S. (2016). Reduced frontal activations at high working memory load in mild cognitive impairment: near-infrared spectroscopy. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 42(5-6), 278-296. https://doi.org/10.1159/000450993
     

  46. Yeung, M. K., Sze, S. L., Woo, J., Kwok, T., Shum, D. H., Yu, R., & Chan, A. S. (2016). Altered frontal lateralization underlies the category fluency deficits in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a near-infrared spectroscopy study. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2016.00059
     

  47. Yeung, M. K., Han, Y. M., Sze, S. L., & Chan, A. S. (2016). Abnormal frontal theta oscillations underlie the cognitive flexibility deficits in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. Neuropsychology, 30(3), 281-295. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000231
     

  48. Yeung, M. K., Han, Y. M., Sze, S. L., & Chan, A. S. (2014). Altered right frontal cortical connectivity during facial emotion recognition in children with autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8(11), 1567-1577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2014.08.013

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PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTER (TOTAL: 1)

  1. Chan, A. S., Yeung, M. K., & Lee, T. L. (2019). Can photobiomodulation enhance brain function in older adults?. In M. R. Hamblin, & Y. Y. Huang (Eds.), (pp. 427-446). doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-815305-5.00031-2

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