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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Self-persuasion does not imply self-deception78
Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception65
Tell me your (cognitive) budget, and I’ll tell you what you value56
Hidden size: Size representations in implicitly coded objects51
Using network science to provide insights into the structure of event knowledge51
Is an eye truly for an eye? Magnitude differences affect moral praise more than moral blame49
Is it good to feel bad about littering? Conflict between moral beliefs and behaviors for everyday transgressions43
The contribution of episodic long-term memory to working memory for bindings43
Editorial Board40
Capacity limits in face detection39
Color technology is not necessary for rich and efficient color language37
The puzzle of wrongless injustice: Reflections on Kürthy and Sousa36
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How causal structure, causal strength, and foreseeability affect moral judgments35
Response modalities and the cognitive architecture underlying action control: Intra-modal trumps cross-modal action coordination35
The beep-speed illusion: Non-spatial tones increase perceived speed of visual objects in a forced-choice paradigm33
Perspective-taking in deriving implicatures: The listener's perspective is important too32
The development of rhythmic categories as revealed through an iterative production task31
Bend but don't break: Prioritization protects working memory from displacement but leaves it vulnerable to distortion from distraction30
Harmless bodily pleasures are moralized because they are perceived as reducing self-control and cooperativeness30
Associative learning or Bayesian inference? Revisiting backwards blocking reasoning in adults30
Spatial and mathematics skills: Similarities and differences related to age, SES, and gender29
Prospection and delay of gratification support the development of calculated reciprocity27
Interpersonal utility and children's social inferences from shared preferences27
Mental chronometry of speaking in dialogue: Semantic interference turns into facilitation27
Attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of memory26
Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding?25
Syllabic rhythm and prior linguistic knowledge interact with individual differences to modulate phonological statistical learning25
The impact of visual cues during visual word recognition in deaf readers: An ERP study25
Consequences of phonological variation for algorithmic word segmentation25
Dimensions underlying human understanding of the reachable world25
Computational bases of domain-specific action anticipation superiority in experts: Kinematic invariants mapping24
Cognition outstanding reviewer awards - 202524
Memory and attention: A double dissociation between memory encoding and memory retrieval24
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Automatic and strategic components of bilingual lexical alignment23
The effect of mode of presentation on Tower of Hanoi problem solving22
The puzzle of wrongless harms: Some potential concerns for dyadic morality and related accounts22
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How do humans want causes to combine their effects? The role of analytically-defined causal invariance for generalizable causal knowledge22
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Dynamic modulation of confidence based on the metacognitive skills of collaborators21
Speech categorization consistency is associated with language and reading abilities in school-age children: Implications for language and reading disorders21
Using contrastive inferences to learn about new words and categories21
Editorial to the special issue on morality and AI21
Why do Americans foresee a grim future for their country? The influences of country well-being, national identity, and news coverage21
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Do individual differences in lexical reliance reflect states or traits?21
Language-general versus language-specific processes in bilingual voice learning21
Locating what comes to mind in empirically derived representational spaces20
Scene context automatically drives predictions of object transformations20
Diffindo! Precise language comprehension in older adulthood revealed by event-related brain potential studies of domain knowledge20
Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text: Experimental evidence from Dutch and Mandarin20
Who attributes what to whom? Moral values and relational context shape causal attribution to the person or the situation20
Avoiding gender ambiguous pronouns in French20
Beat processing in newborn infants cannot be explained by statistical learning based on transition probabilities19
The nature of Garner interference: The role of uncertainty, information, and variation in the breakdown in selective attention19
A parallel architecture perspective on pre-activation and prediction in language processing19
The transposed word effect is consistent with serial word recognition and varies with reading speed19
Structural asymmetries in the representation of giving and taking events19
Contraction bias in temporal estimation19
Intention beyond desire: Spontaneous intentional commitment regulates conflicting desires19
Reward at encoding but not retrieval modulates memory for detailed events18
Active inductive inference in children and adults: A constructivist perspective18
Planning on Autopilot? Associative Contributions to Proactive Control18
Deciding to be authentic: Intuition is favored over deliberation when authenticity matters18
Making sense of domain specificity18
Similarity and structured representation in human and nonhuman apes18
20-month-olds can use negative evidence while learning word meanings18
Changing your mind about the data: Updating sampling assumptions in inductive inference18
Increasing entropy reduces perceived numerosity throughout the lifespan18
Implicit prediction as a consequence of statistical learning17
Spatial-numerical associations of manual response codes are strongly asymmetrical17
On humans' (explicit) intuitions about the meaning of novel words17
The deflationary model of harm and moral wrongdoing: A rejoinder to Royzman & Borislow17
Stronger effects of motion priors on sensitivity and bias in children17
Is numerical information always beneficial? Verbal and numerical cue-integration in additive and non-additive tasks17
Corrigendum to “Shielding working-memory representations from temporally predictable external interference” [Cognition 217 (2021) 104915]17
A cognitive template for human face detection16
Forever young: The end of history illusion in children16
How children come to (not) detect and apply multiple functions for objects: Rethinking perseveration and functional fixedness16
Children perceive illusory faces in objects as male more often than female16
Communicative pressures shape language during communication (not learning): Evidence from case-marking in artificial languages16
Hallucinating visual structure: Individual differences in ‘scaffolded attention’16
Working memory load affects intelligence test performance by reducing the strength of relational item bindings and impairing the filtering of irrelevant information16
Adaptive cognitive maps for curved surfaces in the 3D world16
Efficient sensory encoding predicts robust averaging16
The assumed motor capabilities of a partner influence motor imagery in a joint serial disc transfer task16
Motion extrapolation in sport expertise: Representational momentum and representational gravity in volleyball athletes16
Recollective and non-recollective processes in working memory retrieval16
Generalization and false memory in acquired equivalence16
Tempering the tension between science and intuition15
Decoding face identity: A reverse-correlation approach using deep learning15
What is autonoetic consciousness? Examining what underlies subjective experience in memory and future thinking15
Capacity limits in sentence comprehension: Evidence from dual-task judgements and event-related potentials15
No selective integration required: A race model explains responses to audiovisual motion-in-depth15
Continuous and discrete proportion elicit different cognitive strategies15
Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12 h15
Aesthetics of musical timing: Culture and expertise affect preferences for isochrony but not synchrony15
Infant-directed speech becomes less redundant as infants grow: Implications for language learning15
Not just what you did, but how: Children see distributors that count as more fair than distributors who don't15
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Person-based prominence guides incremental interpretation: Evidence from obviation in Ojibwe15
Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: A computational account15
Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands15
Does music training improve emotion recognition and cognitive abilities? Longitudinal and correlational evidence from children15
Humans' extreme face recognition abilities challenge the well-established familiarity effect15
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The paradoxical effects of time pressure on base rate neglect15
Common and distinct neural substrates of rule- and similarity-based category learning15
When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks principle in colexification15
Corrigendum to: Repetition increases both the perceived truth and fakeness of information: An ecological account [Cognition, 205, 2020, 1-6/104470]14
Spatiotemporal dynamics of mouse tracking reveal general and selective control mechanisms of the congruency sequence effect in Simon tasks14
Image saliency predicts the expected looking behaviour of other agents14
Improving the diagnostic value of lineup rejections14
Revisiting causal pluralism: Intention, process, and dependency in cases of double prevention14
Urges now, interests later: On the factors and dynamics of epistemic curiosity14
Causal relational problem solving in toddlers14
Color singletons are suppressed under serial search, but not abrupt onsets.14
The organizational principles of impression formation14
Fundamental units of numerosity estimation14
Self-portrait of a stranger: Self-face representation and interoception in depersonalization experiences14
Informationally redundant utterances elicit pragmatic inferences14
Ethical judgments of poverty depictions in the context of charity advertising14
Effects of attentional shifts along the vertical axis on number processing: An eye-tracking study with optokinetic stimulation13
Metacognitive judgements of change detection predict change blindness13
Witnessing-condition information differentially affects evaluations of high- and moderate-confidence eyewitness identifications13
Timing in conversation is dynamically adjusted turn by turn in dyadic telephone conversations13
The object as the unit for state switching in visual working memory13
The influence of working memory mechanisms on false memories in immediate and delayed tests13
Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction: A cross-cultural investigation between Japan and The Netherlands13
The psychological link between decisions and communicative behavior based on verbal probabilities13
Schematic information influences memory and generalisation behaviour for schema-relevant and -irrelevant information13
The selection balance: Contrasting value, proximity and priming in a multitarget foraging task13
When the timing is right: The link between temporal coupling in dyadic interactions and emotion recognition13
Universality in eye movements and reading: A replication with increased power13
The mechanisms underlying grammatical gender selection in language production: A meta-analysis of the gender congruency effect13
Children attribute higher social status to people who have extraordinary capabilities13
Do early meanings of negation map onto a fully-fledged negation concept in infancy?13
Heuristic interpretation as rational inference: A computational model of the N400 and P600 in language processing13
Spatial updating of gaze position in younger and older adults – A path integration-like process in eye movements13
Learning the statistics of pronoun reference: By word or by category?13
If not me, then who? Responsibility and replacement13
The effect of abstract inter-chunk relationships on serial-order control13
“Unattended, distracting or irrelevant”: Theoretical implications of terminological choices in auditory selective attention research13
People expect artificial moral advisors to be more utilitarian and distrust utilitarian moral advisors13
When a look is enough: Neurophysiological correlates of referential speaker gaze in situated comprehension12
How many seconds was that? Teaching children about time does not refine their ability to track durations12
Exploring power-law behavior in human gaze shifts across tasks and populations12
Seeing food fast and slow: Arousing pictures and words have reverse priorities in accessing awareness12
Social interoception: Perceiving events during cardiac afferent activity makes people more suggestible to other people's influence12
Are there unconscious visual images in aphantasia? Development of an implicit priming paradigm12
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Getting to the source of the illusion of consensus12
Computational underpinnings of partisan information processing biases and associations with depth of cognitive reasoning12
Face detection from patterns of shading and shadows: The role of overhead illumination in generating the familiar appearance of the human face12
Children's representation of coincidence12
Slippage of the attentional beam when searching in space and in time12
Agency and social affordance shape visual perception12
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On what it means to automatize a rule12
A developmental investigation of group concepts in the context of social hierarchy: Can the powerful impose group membership?12
Continuous time causal structure induction with prevention and generation12
Joint contributions of collaborative facilitation and social contagion to the development of shared memories in social groups12
Suppression-induced forgetting of motor sequences12
Philosophy instruction changes views on moral controversies by decreasing reliance on intuition12
Rational number representation by the approximate number system12
Relative source credibility affects the continued influence effect: Evidence of rationality in the CIE12
Interaction of phonological biases and frequency in learning a probabilistic language pattern12
Elucidating the influences of embodiment and conceptual metaphor on lexical and non-speech tone learning12
Making a positive difference: Criticality in groups11
Linguistic alignment with an artificial agent: A commentary and re-analysis11
Discourse-based constraints on long-distance dependencies generalize across constructions in English and French11
No need to forget, just keep the balance: Hebbian neural networks for statistical learning11
Evaluative mindsets can protect against the influence of false information11
The development of creative search strategies11
On the relationship of arousal and attentional distraction by emotional novel sounds11
Ownership and convention11
Competition for selection drives the nature of bilingual language control: Picture naming, but not reading aloud, triggers global inhibition of the dominant language11
Dynamic development of intuitions and explicit knowledge during implicit learning11
Rule is a dual character concept11
Symbol superiority: Why $ is better remembered than ‘dollar’11
Hearing is believing: Lexically guided perceptual learning is graded to reflect the quantity of evidence in speech input11
Multiple predictions during language comprehension: Friends, foes, or indifferent companions?11
Internal attention modulates the functional state of novel stimulus-response associations in working memory11
Quantifier spreading and the question under discussion11
Slowdowns in scalar implicature processing: Isolating the intention-reading costs in the Bott & Noveck task11
Why wearing a yellow hat is impossible: Chinese and U.S. children's possibility judgments11
Some scales require cognitive effort: A systematic review on the role of working memory in scalar implicature derivation11
Motivated information search: Context-dependent efficiency in children and adults11
From separate items to an integrated unit in visual working memory: Similarity chunking vs. configural grouping11
The context of experienced sensory discrepancies shapes multisensory integration and recalibration differently11
Eye movements reinstate remembered locations during episodic simulation11
Does age affect metacognition? A cross-domain investigation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework11
Action chunking as conditional policy compression11
Do I look like I'm sure?: Partial metacognitive access to the low-level aspects of one's own facial expressions11
Disclosing sample bias fails to fully correct judgments of partisan extremity10
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Developmental changes in the perceived moral standing of robots10
Illusions of knowledge due to mere repetition10
Refreshing the conversation about adaptation and perceived numerosity: A reply to Yousif, Clarke and Brannon10
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language10
Preschoolers decide who is knowledgeable, who to inform, and who to trust via a causal understanding of how knowledge relates to action10
Events structure information accessibility less in children than adults10
Distinct orthography boosts morphophonological discrimination: Vowel raising in Bengali verb inflections10
The ‘Sentence Superiority Effect’ is due to guessing10
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The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds10
Language systematizes attention: How relational language enhances relational representation by guiding attention10
How workload and availability of spatial reference shape eye movement coupling in visuospatial working memory10
Why people choose deliberate ignorance in times of societal transformation10
Learning to understand an unfamiliar talker: Testing distributional learning as a model of rapid adaptive speech perception10
Motive on the mind: Explanatory preferences at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process10
Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence10
Perceptual plausibility of exaggerated realistic motion10
A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean10
Conditionals in context: Brain signatures of prediction in discourse processing10
A rational process model of reasoning causally with continuous variables10
Perception and memory-based representations of facial emotions: Associations with personality functioning, affective states and recognition abilities10
Belief updating in the face of misinformation: The role of source reliability10
Comparing human evaluations of eyewitness statements to a machine learning classifier under pristine and suboptimal lineup administration procedures10
One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions10
Why are there no girls? Increasing children's recognition of structural causes of the gender gap in STEM10
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 pronunciation10
Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations9
Of tinfoil hats and thinking caps: Reasoning is more strongly related to implausible than plausible conspiracy beliefs9
Are your eyes following your thoughts? Exploring individual differences in internal coupling9
What's your point? Insights from virtual reality on the relation between intention and action in the production of pointing gestures9
When metrics matter: How reasoning in different metrics impacts judgments of uncertainty9
Being suspicious of suspicious coincidences: The case of learning subordinate word meanings9
Infants' biased individuation of in-group members9
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Motivational drivers of costly information search9
The relative balance between languages predicts the degree of engagement of global language control9
Not so simple! Causal mechanisms increase preference for complex explanations9
Modeling the left digit effect in adult number line estimation9
The statistics of cognitive variability: Explaining common patterns in individuals, groups and financial markets9
Who benefits from debiasing?9
What drives disagreement about moral hypocrisy? Perceived comparability and how people exploit it to criticize enemies and defend allies9
Why fractions are difficult? Modeling optimal and sub-optimal integration strategies of numerators and denominators by educated adults9
Modeling task effects in human reading with neural network-based attention9
Diversity in research on the psychology of language: A large-scale examination of sampling bias9
Temporal dynamics of the semantic versus affective representations of valence during reversal learning9
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Moral psychological exploration of the asymmetry effect in AI-assisted euthanasia decisions9
Lying about the future: Shuar-Achuar epistemic norms, predictions, and commitments9
Susceptibility of agency judgments to social influence9
The spread of affective and semantic valence representations across states9
From outcome to process: A developmental shift in judgments of good reasoning9
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