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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tell me your (cognitive) budget, and I’ll tell you what you value74
Using network science to provide insights into the structure of event knowledge59
Hidden size: Size representations in implicitly coded objects52
Self-persuasion does not imply self-deception50
Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception45
Is an eye truly for an eye? Magnitude differences affect moral praise more than moral blame43
Domain-general and domain-specific influences on emerging numerical cognition: Contrasting uni-and bidirectional prediction models42
Syllabic rhythm and prior linguistic knowledge interact with individual differences to modulate phonological statistical learning39
Harmless bodily pleasures are moralized because they are perceived as reducing self-control and cooperativeness38
The beep-speed illusion: Non-spatial tones increase perceived speed of visual objects in a forced-choice paradigm38
Associative learning or Bayesian inference? Revisiting backwards blocking reasoning in adults38
Editorial Board37
Attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of memory36
Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding?34
Memory and attention: A double dissociation between memory encoding and memory retrieval33
Capacity limits in face detection33
Color technology is not necessary for rich and efficient color language32
The puzzle of wrongless injustice: Reflections on Kürthy and Sousa31
Prospection and delay of gratification support the development of calculated reciprocity31
Is it good to feel bad about littering? Conflict between moral beliefs and behaviors for everyday transgressions30
How causal structure, causal strength, and foreseeability affect moral judgments30
Dimensions underlying human understanding of the reachable world29
Interpersonal utility and children's social inferences from shared preferences28
Intergroup preference, not dehumanization, explains social biases in emotion attribution27
The contribution of episodic long-term memory to working memory for bindings27
The impact of visual cues during visual word recognition in deaf readers: An ERP study26
Bend but don't break: Prioritization protects working memory from displacement but leaves it vulnerable to distortion from distraction26
Mental chronometry of speaking in dialogue: Semantic interference turns into facilitation25
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The social meaning of common knowledge across development24
Consequences of phonological variation for algorithmic word segmentation24
Spatial and mathematics skills: Similarities and differences related to age, SES, and gender24
Response modalities and the cognitive architecture underlying action control: Intra-modal trumps cross-modal action coordination24
Computational bases of domain-specific action anticipation superiority in experts: Kinematic invariants mapping24
Perspective-taking in deriving implicatures: The listener's perspective is important too23
The development of rhythmic categories as revealed through an iterative production task23
Why do Americans foresee a grim future for their country? The influences of country well-being, national identity, and news coverage22
Language-general versus language-specific processes in bilingual voice learning22
The nature of Garner interference: The role of uncertainty, information, and variation in the breakdown in selective attention21
Automatic and strategic components of bilingual lexical alignment21
The effect of mode of presentation on Tower of Hanoi problem solving21
Beat processing in newborn infants cannot be explained by statistical learning based on transition probabilities21
20-month-olds can use negative evidence while learning word meanings21
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Intention beyond desire: Spontaneous intentional commitment regulates conflicting desires21
How do humans want causes to combine their effects? The role of analytically-defined causal invariance for generalizable causal knowledge20
Language patterns of outgroup prejudice20
Making sense of domain specificity20
Avoiding gender ambiguous pronouns in French20
Locating what comes to mind in empirically derived representational spaces20
Structural asymmetries in the representation of giving and taking events20
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Scene context automatically drives predictions of object transformations20
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Diffindo! Precise language comprehension in older adulthood revealed by event-related brain potential studies of domain knowledge19
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Who attributes what to whom? Moral values and relational context shape causal attribution to the person or the situation19
Contraction bias in temporal estimation19
Editorial to the special issue on morality and AI19
Do individual differences in lexical reliance reflect states or traits?19
The puzzle of wrongless harms: Some potential concerns for dyadic morality and related accounts19
Speech categorization consistency is associated with language and reading abilities in school-age children: Implications for language and reading disorders19
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Using contrastive inferences to learn about new words and categories19
Dynamic modulation of confidence based on the metacognitive skills of collaborators18
A parallel architecture perspective on pre-activation and prediction in language processing18
Reward at encoding but not retrieval modulates memory for detailed events18
Recollective and non-recollective processes in working memory retrieval17
Continuous and discrete proportion elicit different cognitive strategies17
Corrigendum to “Shielding working-memory representations from temporally predictable external interference” [Cognition 217 (2021) 104915]17
The transposed word effect is consistent with serial word recognition and varies with reading speed17
How children come to (not) detect and apply multiple functions for objects: Rethinking perseveration and functional fixedness17
Infant-directed speech becomes less redundant as infants grow: Implications for language learning17
Deciding to be authentic: Intuition is favored over deliberation when authenticity matters17
Communicative pressures shape language during communication (not learning): Evidence from case-marking in artificial languages16
Forever young: The end of history illusion in children16
Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12 h16
Hallucinating visual structure: Individual differences in ‘scaffolded attention’16
On humans' (explicit) intuitions about the meaning of novel words16
Changing your mind about the data: Updating sampling assumptions in inductive inference16
Motion extrapolation in sport expertise: Representational momentum and representational gravity in volleyball athletes16
Implicit prediction as a consequence of statistical learning16
Similarity and structured representation in human and nonhuman apes16
The assumed motor capabilities of a partner influence motor imagery in a joint serial disc transfer task16
Does music training improve emotion recognition and cognitive abilities? Longitudinal and correlational evidence from children16
Children perceive illusory faces in objects as male more often than female16
Active inductive inference in children and adults: A constructivist perspective16
When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks principle in colexification15
Tempering the tension between science and intuition15
Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: A computational account15
When a gain becomes a loss: The effect of wealth predictions on financial decisions15
A cognitive template for human face detection15
Adaptive cognitive maps for curved surfaces in the 3D world15
Spatial-numerical associations of manual response codes are strongly asymmetrical15
Increasing entropy reduces perceived numerosity throughout the lifespan15
Planning on Autopilot? Associative Contributions to Proactive Control15
Generalization and false memory in acquired equivalence15
Humans' extreme face recognition abilities challenge the well-established familiarity effect15
Is numerical information always beneficial? Verbal and numerical cue-integration in additive and non-additive tasks15
The deflationary model of harm and moral wrongdoing: A rejoinder to Royzman & Borislow15
Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands15
Efficient sensory encoding predicts robust averaging15
Aesthetics of musical timing: Culture and expertise affect preferences for isochrony but not synchrony15
Working memory load affects intelligence test performance by reducing the strength of relational item bindings and impairing the filtering of irrelevant information15
The paradoxical effects of time pressure on base rate neglect14
Fundamental units of numerosity estimation14
What is autonoetic consciousness? Examining what underlies subjective experience in memory and future thinking14
People expect artificial moral advisors to be more utilitarian and distrust utilitarian moral advisors14
Informationally redundant utterances elicit pragmatic inferences14
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Not just what you did, but how: Children see distributors that count as more fair than distributors who don't14
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Ritualization increases the perceived efficacy of instrumental actions14
Corrigendum to: Repetition increases both the perceived truth and fakeness of information: An ecological account [Cognition, 205, 2020, 1-6/104470]14
The organizational principles of impression formation14
Heuristic interpretation as rational inference: A computational model of the N400 and P600 in language processing14
Capacity limits in sentence comprehension: Evidence from dual-task judgements and event-related potentials14
Decoding face identity: A reverse-correlation approach using deep learning14
No selective integration required: A race model explains responses to audiovisual motion-in-depth14
Urges now, interests later: On the factors and dynamics of epistemic curiosity14
Effects of attentional shifts along the vertical axis on number processing: An eye-tracking study with optokinetic stimulation14
Person-based prominence guides incremental interpretation: Evidence from obviation in Ojibwe14
Timing in conversation is dynamically adjusted turn by turn in dyadic telephone conversations14
The influence of working memory mechanisms on false memories in immediate and delayed tests14
The selection balance: Contrasting value, proximity and priming in a multitarget foraging task13
Image saliency predicts the expected looking behaviour of other agents13
Improving the diagnostic value of lineup rejections13
Schematic information influences memory and generalisation behaviour for schema-relevant and -irrelevant information13
Color singletons are suppressed under serial search, but not abrupt onsets.13
Are there unconscious visual images in aphantasia? Development of an implicit priming paradigm13
Ethical judgments of poverty depictions in the context of charity advertising13
Do early meanings of negation map onto a fully-fledged negation concept in infancy?13
Revisiting causal pluralism: Intention, process, and dependency in cases of double prevention13
“Unattended, distracting or irrelevant”: Theoretical implications of terminological choices in auditory selective attention research13
Children attribute higher social status to people who have extraordinary capabilities13
The object as the unit for state switching in visual working memory13
Children's representation of coincidence13
Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction: A cross-cultural investigation between Japan and The Netherlands13
Causal relational problem solving in toddlers13
Common and distinct neural substrates of rule- and similarity-based category learning13
Spatial updating of gaze position in younger and older adults – A path integration-like process in eye movements13
Rational number representation by the approximate number system13
Metacognitive judgements of change detection predict change blindness13
Face detection from patterns of shading and shadows: The role of overhead illumination in generating the familiar appearance of the human face12
If not me, then who? Responsibility and replacement12
Average faces: How does the averaging process change faces physically and perceptually?12
When a look is enough: Neurophysiological correlates of referential speaker gaze in situated comprehension12
Joint contributions of collaborative facilitation and social contagion to the development of shared memories in social groups12
How many seconds was that? Teaching children about time does not refine their ability to track durations12
When the timing is right: The link between temporal coupling in dyadic interactions and emotion recognition12
Computational underpinnings of partisan information processing biases and associations with depth of cognitive reasoning12
The mechanisms underlying grammatical gender selection in language production: A meta-analysis of the gender congruency effect12
Social interoception: Perceiving events during cardiac afferent activity makes people more suggestible to other people's influence12
Continuous time causal structure induction with prevention and generation12
Seeing food fast and slow: Arousing pictures and words have reverse priorities in accessing awareness12
Suppression-induced forgetting of motor sequences12
Slippage of the attentional beam when searching in space and in time12
Witnessing-condition information differentially affects evaluations of high- and moderate-confidence eyewitness identifications11
Why wearing a yellow hat is impossible: Chinese and U.S. children's possibility judgments11
Ownership and convention11
Linguistic alignment with an artificial agent: A commentary and re-analysis11
Relative source credibility affects the continued influence effect: Evidence of rationality in the CIE11
The development of creative search strategies11
Learning the statistics of pronoun reference: By word or by category?11
Unexpected words or unexpected languages? Two ERP effects of code-switching in naturalistic discourse11
On the relationship of arousal and attentional distraction by emotional novel sounds11
The context of experienced sensory discrepancies shapes multisensory integration and recalibration differently11
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Rule is a dual character concept11
Some scales require cognitive effort: A systematic review on the role of working memory in scalar implicature derivation11
Does age affect metacognition? A cross-domain investigation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework11
Eye movements reinstate remembered locations during episodic simulation11
Elucidating the influences of embodiment and conceptual metaphor on lexical and non-speech tone learning11
Exploring power-law behavior in human gaze shifts across tasks and populations11
Internal attention modulates the functional state of novel stimulus-response associations in working memory11
Agency and social affordance shape visual perception11
The effect of abstract inter-chunk relationships on serial-order control11
Developmental changes in the perceived moral standing of robots11
Getting to the source of the illusion of consensus11
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Symbol superiority: Why $ is better remembered than ‘dollar’11
Philosophy instruction changes views on moral controversies by decreasing reliance on intuition11
Universality in eye movements and reading: A replication with increased power11
Discourse-based constraints on long-distance dependencies generalize across constructions in English and French11
Multiple predictions during language comprehension: Friends, foes, or indifferent companions?11
Preschoolers decide who is knowledgeable, who to inform, and who to trust via a causal understanding of how knowledge relates to action10
How workload and availability of spatial reference shape eye movement coupling in visuospatial working memory10
One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions10
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Conditionals in context: Brain signatures of prediction in discourse processing10
Disclosing sample bias fails to fully correct judgments of partisan extremity10
Dynamic development of intuitions and explicit knowledge during implicit learning10
Quantifier spreading and the question under discussion10
Making a positive difference: Criticality in groups10
Evaluative mindsets can protect against the influence of false information10
On what it means to automatize a rule10
Refreshing the conversation about adaptation and perceived numerosity: A reply to Yousif, Clarke and Brannon10
Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence10
Illusions of knowledge due to mere repetition10
Belief updating in the face of misinformation: The role of source reliability10
A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean10
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
Do I look like I'm sure?: Partial metacognitive access to the low-level aspects of one's own facial expressions10
Interaction of phonological biases and frequency in learning a probabilistic language pattern10
From separate items to an integrated unit in visual working memory: Similarity chunking vs. configural grouping10
Hearing is believing: Lexically guided perceptual learning is graded to reflect the quantity of evidence in speech input10
Why are there no girls? Increasing children's recognition of structural causes of the gender gap in STEM10
Modeling the left digit effect in adult number line estimation10
The relative balance between languages predicts the degree of engagement of global language control10
Comparing human evaluations of eyewitness statements to a machine learning classifier under pristine and suboptimal lineup administration procedures10
Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations10
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The ‘Sentence Superiority Effect’ is due to guessing10
Slowdowns in scalar implicature processing: Isolating the intention-reading costs in the Bott & Noveck task10
No need to forget, just keep the balance: Hebbian neural networks for statistical learning10
A developmental investigation of group concepts in the context of social hierarchy: Can the powerful impose group membership?10
Diversity in research on the psychology of language: A large-scale examination of sampling bias10
Perceptual plausibility of exaggerated realistic motion10
Responses guide attention9
What's your point? Insights from virtual reality on the relation between intention and action in the production of pointing gestures9
Being suspicious of suspicious coincidences: The case of learning subordinate word meanings9
Unlocking the complexity of phrasal composition: An interplay between semantic features and linguistic relations9
Temporal dynamics of the semantic versus affective representations of valence during reversal learning9
Why people choose deliberate ignorance in times of societal transformation9
Language systematizes attention: How relational language enhances relational representation by guiding attention9
Not so simple! Causal mechanisms increase preference for complex explanations9
The power of sound: Exploring the auditory influence on visual search efficiency9
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Belief in control: Voluntary choice enhances subsequent task performance under undefeated choice-outcome causation9
Susceptibility of agency judgments to social influence9
A new cognitive model of long-term memory for intentions9
Abstractness impacts conversational dynamics9
The temporal structure of parent talk to toddlers about objects9
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language9
The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds9
The influence of polarity items on inferential judgments9
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 pronunciation9
Should absolute pitch be considered as a unique kind of absolute sensory judgment in humans? A systematic and theoretical review of the literature9
Literacy improves the comprehension of object relatives9
Neural-latency noise places limits on human sensitivity to the timing of events9
Why fractions are difficult? Modeling optimal and sub-optimal integration strategies of numerators and denominators by educated adults9
Motivational drivers of costly information search9
Events structure information accessibility less in children than adults9
Of tinfoil hats and thinking caps: Reasoning is more strongly related to implausible than plausible conspiracy beliefs9
Distinct orthography boosts morphophonological discrimination: Vowel raising in Bengali verb inflections9
Motive on the mind: Explanatory preferences at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process9
The latent scope bias: Robust and replicable9
Auditory category learning is robust across training regimes8
Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling8
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