Research Project
Yvonne Leung
Current Appointments
Postdoctoral Fellow, CEPARKey Research Areas
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 diversed populations. Her current work (funded by CEPAR) involve examining gender differences in cognitive ageing, cognitive reserve, and expectations regarding ageing.
Publications
2024 Sep
Neighbourhood environments and cognitive health in the longitudinal Personality and Total Health (PATH) through life study: A 12-year follow-up of older Australians
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108984
2024, 03 May
Estimating Gender Differences in the Association between Cognitive Resilience and Mild Cognitive Impairment Incidence
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000538615
2024 Mar
Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649231167488
2023 Dec
The effect of baseline and longitudinal cognitive reserve on memory ageing in middle and older age adults over a 12‐year period
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.074560
2023, 19 Jun
Flexibility Conceiving Relationships between Timbres Revealed by Network Analysis
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771823000250
2022 Dec
Cognition, function, and prevalent dementia in centenarians and near‐centenarians: An individual participant data (IPD) meta‐analysis of 18 studies
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.12828
2022 Sep
Musical sophistication and its relationship with executive functions, autistic traits, and quality of life.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000294
2022
A systematic review of the associations, mediators and moderators of life satisfaction, positive affect and happiness in near-centenarians and centenarians
2020, 12 May
APOE ε4 and the influence of sex, age, vascular risk factors, and ethnicity on cognitive decline
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaa116
2019 Nov
The prevalence and predictors of anxiety and depression in near-centenarians and centenarians: a systematic review
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610219000802