Cognition

Papers
(The median citation count of Cognition is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Episodic memory processes modulate how schema knowledge is used in spatial memory decisions66
Not so simple! Causal mechanisms increase preference for complex explanations61
Revising mental representations of faces based on new diagnostic information49
Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding?45
Perceptual plausibility of exaggerated realistic motion45
Is it good to feel bad about littering? Conflict between moral beliefs and behaviors for everyday transgressions38
Partial awareness can be induced by independent cognitive access to different spatial frequencies36
Domain-general and domain-specific influences on emerging numerical cognition: Contrasting uni-and bidirectional prediction models35
The development of rhythmic categories as revealed through an iterative production task33
The beep-speed illusion: Non-spatial tones increase perceived speed of visual objects in a forced-choice paradigm31
Expectation adaptation for rare cadences in music: Item order matters in repetition priming30
The multisensory cocktail party problem in adults: Perceptual segregation of talking faces on the basis of audiovisual temporal synchrony30
Simulation-based learning influences real-life attitudes30
Dissociation of posture remapping and cognitive load in level-2 perspective-taking30
Moral barrier to compassion: How perceived badness of sufferers dampens observers' compassionate responses29
Prosody facilitates learning the word order in a new language29
Bend but don't break: Prioritization protects working memory from displacement but leaves it vulnerable to distortion from distraction29
Preschoolers decide who is knowledgeable, who to inform, and who to trust via a causal understanding of how knowledge relates to action29
Familiar faces as islands of expertise29
Having less means wanting more: Children hold an intuitive economic theory of diminishing marginal utility28
Geometry intuitions without vision? A study in blind children and adults27
Counterfactual thinking and recency effects in causal judgment26
Events structure information accessibility less in children than adults26
Quantifiers satisfying semantic universals have shorter minimal description length25
What makes a language easy to learn? A preregistered study on how systematic structure and community size affect language learnability25
Never run a changing system: Action-effect contingency shapes prospective agency24
Meeting another's gaze shortens subjective time by capturing attention24
When rules are over-ruled: Virtual bargaining as a contractualist method of moral judgment24
Computational complexity explains neural differences in quantifier verification24
Temporal dynamics of the semantic versus affective representations of valence during reversal learning23
Vocal emotion adaptation aftereffects within and across speaker genders: Roles of timbre and fundamental frequency23
Perspective taking reduces intergroup bias in visual representations of faces23
Auditory cognitive aging in amateur singers and non-singers23
The temporal structure of parent talk to toddlers about objects23
The future is in front, to the right, or below: Development of spatial representations of time in three dimensions22
Event representation at the scale of ordinary experience22
The existence of manual mode increases human blame for AI mistakes22
Word meaning is complex: Language-related generalization differences in autistic adults22
Visual memorability in the absence of semantic content22
Language systematizes attention: How relational language enhances relational representation by guiding attention22
Learning exact enumeration and approximate estimation in deep neural network models22
The influence of linguistic form and causal explanations on the development of social essentialism22
Unmasking social attention: The key distinction between social and non-social attention emerges in disengagement, not engagement22
Truth feels easy: Knowing information is true enhances experienced processing fluency22
A rational model of people’s inferences about others’ preferences based on response times22
Non-commitment in mental imagery21
Memory and attention: A double dissociation between memory encoding and memory retrieval21
The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds21
Editorial Board21
Seeking evidence and explanation signals religious and scientific commitments21
Teaching categories via examples and explanations21
Same people, different group: Social structures are a central component of group concepts20
Priming scalar and ad hoc enrichment in children20
One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions20
Turn-taking in free-play interactions: A cross-sectional study from 3 to 5 years20
A self-organized sentence processing theory of gradience: The case of islands19
Confidence and gradation in causal judgment19
How causal structure, causal strength, and foreseeability affect moral judgments19
Categorical perception meets El Greco: Categories unequally influence color perception of simultaneously present objects19
Effects of categorical and numerical feedback on category learning19
Phonological parafoveal pre-processing in children reading English sentences18
Capacity limits in face detection18
An investigation of the effect of logical structures on Chinese preschool children's counterfactual reasoning development18
Accounting for the last-sampling bias in perceptual decision-making18
Corporate insecthood18
Does rotation eliminate masked priming effects for Japanese kanji words?18
Systematicity in language and the fast and slow creation of writing systems: Understanding two types of non-arbitrary relations between orthographic characters and their canonical pronunciation18
Perceptual alignment contributes to referential transparency in indirect learning18
Brain responses to a lab-evolved artificial language with space-time metaphors17
A computational framework for understanding the roles of simplicity and rational support in people's behavior explanations17
Finding the man amongst many: A developmental perspective on mechanisms of morphological decomposition17
Associative learning or Bayesian inference? Revisiting backwards blocking reasoning in adults17
Editorial Board17
Perspective-taking in deriving implicatures: The listener's perspective is important too17
Controlling the narrative: Euphemistic language affects judgments of actions while avoiding perceptions of dishonesty17
Mindreading in conversation17
Editorial Board17
Attention neglects a stare-in-the-crowd: Unanticipated consequences of prediction-error coding17
Acquisition of colour categories through learning: Differences between hue and lightness16
Insights from computational models of face recognition: A reply to Blauch, Behrmann and Plaut16
The storage mechanism of dynamic relations in visual working memory16
Editorial Board16
Ensemble coding of facial identity is robust, but may not contribute to face learning16
The puzzle of wrongless injustice: Reflections on Kürthy and Sousa16
Consequences of phonological variation for algorithmic word segmentation16
A novel task and methods to evaluate inter-individual variation in audio-visual associative learning16
Probability, measurement mismatches, and sacrificial moral decision-making16
Tracking meaning evolution in the brain: Processing consequences of conventionalization16
Linking vestibular, tactile, and somatosensory rhythm perception to language development in infancy16
Attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of memory15
Hidden intentions: Visual awareness prioritizes perceived attention even without eyes or faces15
The social meaning of common knowledge across development15
Editorial Board15
The negation-induced forgetting effect remains even after reducing associative interference15
Going above and beyond? Early reasoning about which moral acts are best15
The role of mechanism knowledge in singular causation judgments15
8-month-old infants' ability to process word order is shaped by the amount of exposure15
Mental chronometry of speaking in dialogue: Semantic interference turns into facilitation15
Prospection and delay of gratification support the development of calculated reciprocity15
Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence15
Motive on the mind: Explanatory preferences at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process15
The physical basis of conceptual representation – An addendum to15
Coarticulation facilitates lexical processing for toddlers with autism15
Instantaneous systems of communicative conventions through virtual bargaining14
The contribution of episodic long-term memory to working memory for bindings14
Eye-tracking IQ: Cognitive capacity and strategy use on a ratio-bias task14
Properties of autobiographical memories are reliable and stable individual differences14
No consistent correlation between baseline pupil diameter and cognitive abilities after controlling for confounds—A comment on14
How do we interpret questions? Simplified representations of knowledge guide humans' interpretation of information requests14
Minimally counterintuitive stimuli trigger greater curiosity than merely improbable stimuli14
The relationship between metaphor skills and Theory of Mind in middle childhood: Task and developmental effects14
Combined influence of valence and statistical learning on the control of attention: Evidence for independent sources of bias14
Seeing through disguise: Getting to know you with a deep convolutional neural network14
The influence of polarity items on inferential judgments14
A preregistered replication of motivated numeracy14
Modeling the left digit effect in adult number line estimation14
Consequences of predictable temporal structure in multi-task situations14
Young infants' expectations about a self-propelled agent's body14
Possible reasons for reductive seductions: A reply to Wilson et al.14
The influence of exposure to randomness on lateral thinking in divergent, convergent, and creative search14
Prompting teaching modulates children's encoding of novel information by facilitating higher-level structure learning and hindering lower-level statistical learning14
New music system reveals spectral contribution to statistical learning13
Do claims about certainty make estimates less certain?13
What came before: Assimilation effects in the categorization of time intervals13
The pervasive impact of ignorance13
Manipulating and measuring variation in deep neural network (DNN) representations of objects13
The face inversion effect or the face upright effect?13
The physical basis of memory13
Aha! under pressure: The Aha! experience is not constrained by cognitive load13
Children's understanding of most is dependent on context13
Experiencing without knowing? Empirical evidence for phenomenal consciousness without access13
Are translation equivalents special? Evidence from simulations and empirical data from bilingual infants13
Failure to replicate the benefit of approximate arithmetic training for symbolic arithmetic fluency in adults13
Distinct orthography boosts morphophonological discrimination: Vowel raising in Bengali verb inflections12
Prediction during simultaneous interpreting: Evidence from the visual-world paradigm12
Using network science to provide insights into the structure of event knowledge12
Why people choose deliberate ignorance in times of societal transformation12
People's thinking plans adapt to the problem they're trying to solve12
Metric error monitoring: Another generalized mechanism for magnitude representations?12
Timing of brain entrainment to the speech envelope during speaking, listening and self-listening12
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language12
Study effort and the memory cost of external store availability12
Storytelling changes the content and perceived value of event memories12
Exposure to temporal variability promotes subsequent adaptation to new temporal regularities12
Person knowledge shapes face identity perception12
Visual explanations prioritize functional properties at the expense of visual fidelity12
Extending ideas of numerical order beyond the count-list from kindergarten to first grade12
The impact of visual cues during visual word recognition in deaf readers: An ERP study12
Simultaneous estimation procedure reveals the object-based, but not space-based, dependence of visual working memory representations12
Comparing human evaluations of eyewitness statements to a machine learning classifier under pristine and suboptimal lineup administration procedures12
Interpersonal utility and children's social inferences from shared preferences12
The singing voice is special: Persistence of superior memory for vocal melodies despite vocal-motor distractions12
A direct test of the similarity assumption — Focusing on differences as compared with similarities decreases automatic imitation12
Spatial and mathematics skills: Similarities and differences related to age, SES, and gender11
Meaning in hand: Investigating shared mechanisms of motor imagery and sensorimotor simulation in language processing11
The relevance to social interaction modulates bistable biological-motion perception11
Serial dependence does not originate from low-level visual processing11
Color technology is not necessary for rich and efficient color language11
Of tinfoil hats and thinking caps: Reasoning is more strongly related to implausible than plausible conspiracy beliefs11
Intergroup preference, not dehumanization, explains social biases in emotion attribution11
Six-month-old infants' perception of structural regularities in speech11
The best of both worlds: Dual systems of reasoning in animals and AI11
How workload and availability of spatial reference shape eye movement coupling in visuospatial working memory11
Dimensions underlying human understanding of the reachable world11
Can infants adopt underspecified contents into attributed beliefs? Representational prerequisites of theory of mind11
Using eye tracking to investigate failure to notice word transpositions in reading11
Reasoning strategy vs cognitive capacity as predictors of individual differences in reasoning performance11
‘Clap your hands’ or ‘take your hands’? One-year-olds distinguish between frequent and infrequent multiword phrases11
Response modalities and the cognitive architecture underlying action control: Intra-modal trumps cross-modal action coordination11
Causal inference in environmental sound recognition11
The relative balance between languages predicts the degree of engagement of global language control11
Moral dynamics: Grounding moral judgment in intuitive physics and intuitive psychology11
Three-year-olds' ability to plan for mutually exclusive future possibilities is limited primarily by their representations of possible plans, not possible events11
The scope of infants' early object word extensions10
How wise is the crowd: Can we infer people are accurate and competent merely because they agree with each other?10
What sticks after statistical learning: The persistence of implicit versus explicit memory traces10
Three-year-olds' comprehension of contrastive and descriptive adjectives: Evidence for contrastive inference10
How does color distribution learning affect goal-directed visuomotor behavior?10
Appealing to consequences, or authority? The influence of explanations on children's moral judgments across two cultures10
Expectations about presence enhance the influence of content-specific expectations on low-level orientation judgements10
Exploring the hierarchical structure of human plans via program generation10
Stem similarity modulates infants' acquisition of phonological alternations10
Why might there be lexical-prelexical feedback in speech recognition?10
Humans adaptively resolve the explore-exploit dilemma under cognitive constraints: Evidence from a multi-armed bandit task10
Age-related decreases in global metacognition are independent of local metacognition and task performance10
Commonsense psychology in human infants and machines10
What kind of empirical evidence is needed for probabilistic mental representations? An example from visual perception10
Predicting large-scale spatial ability from small-scale spatial abilities in children: An application of the double-dimension framework10
Revisiting the concreteness effect: Non-arbitrary mappings between form and concreteness of English words influence lexical processing10
The role of language in building abstract, generalized conceptual representations of one- and two-place predicates: A comparison between adults and infants10
Visual perspective-taking and image-like representations: We don't see it10
Human navigation in curved spaces10
Difficulty limits of visual mental imagery10
Autonomous vehicles: How perspective-taking accessibility alters moral judgments and consumer purchasing behavior10
A right way to explain? Function, mechanism, and the order of explanations10
Are ethical explanations explanatory? Meta-ethical beliefs shape judgments about explanations for social change10
Learning regular cross-trial shifts of the target location in serial search involves awareness – An eye-tracking study10
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects10
Culture moderates the relationship between self-control ability and free will beliefs in childhood10
Acquiring a language vs. inducing a grammar9
Locating what comes to mind in empirically derived representational spaces9
The time course of Cantonese and Hong Kong Sign Language phonological activation: An ERP study of deaf bimodal bilingual readers of Chinese9
A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English9
Explicit access to phonetic representations in 3-month-old infants9
The parser consults the lexicon in spite of transparent gender marking: EEG evidence from noun class agreement processing in Zulu9
First impressions: Integrating faces and bodies in personality trait perception9
Opposite size illusions for inverted faces and letters9
Risky effort9
Retrieval context determines whether event boundaries impair or enhance temporal order memory9
Updating perceptual expectations as certainty diminishes9
Incidental encoding of visual information in temporal reference frames in working memory9
A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean9
ERPs reveal an iconic relation between sublexical phonology and affective meaning9
Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception9
Retraction notice to “ Beyond moral dilemmas: The role of reasoning in five categories of utilitarian judgment” Cognition 209 (2021) 1045729
Confirmation bias emerges from an approximation to Bayesian reasoning9
Editorial Board9
Inferential affective tracking reveals the remarkable speed of context-based emotion perception9
Inhibition and cognitive flexibility are related to prediction of one's own future preferences in young British and Chinese children9
Top-down effect on pupillary response: Evidence from shape from shading9
Syllabic rhythm and prior linguistic knowledge interact with individual differences to modulate phonological statistical learning9
Biased confabulation in risky choice9
SCALa: A blueprint for computational models of language acquisition in social context9
Metacognitive blindness in temporal selection during the deployment of spatial attention9
The role of episodic simulation in motivating commonplace harms9
How can I find what I want? Can children, chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys form abstract representations to guide their behavior in a sampling task?9
Learning a language with vowelless words9
Tell me your (cognitive) budget, and I’ll tell you what you value9
Cognitive offloading is value-based decision making: Modelling cognitive effort and the expected value of memory9
Refreshing the conversation about adaptation and perceived numerosity: A reply to Yousif, Clarke and Brannon9
Belief in control: Voluntary choice enhances subsequent task performance under undefeated choice-outcome causation9
Bayesian collective learning emerges from heuristic social learning9
Decoding peak emotional responses to music from computational acoustic and lyrical features9
Disentangling prevalence induced biases in medical image decision-making9
Literacy improves the comprehension of object relatives9
Perception and memory-based representations of facial emotions: Associations with personality functioning, affective states and recognition abilities9
Intention beyond desire: Spontaneous intentional commitment regulates conflicting desires9
Perceptual processing demands influence voluntary task choice9
Why are there no girls? Increasing children's recognition of structural causes of the gender gap in STEM9
Rational learners and parochial norms9
Perceived hand size and perceived hand weight9
Social perception of animacy: Preferential attentional orienting to animals links with autistic traits9
Illusions of knowledge due to mere repetition9
The puzzle of wrongless harms: Some potential concerns for dyadic morality and related accounts8
The repulsion effect in preferential choice and its relation to perceptual choice8
Component processes underlying voluntary task selection: Separable contributions of task-set inertia and reconfiguration8
Evolution of social attentional cues: Evidence from the archerfish8
Encoding and decoding of meaning through structured variability in intonational speech prosody8
Scene context automatically drives predictions of object transformations8
Deciding to be authentic: Intuition is favored over deliberation when authenticity matters8
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