OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain and Cognition is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Using motor imagery practice for improving motor performance – A review	78
A review on the electroencephalography markers of Stroop executive control processes	70
Associations between self-reported spontaneous thought and temporal sequences of EEG microstates	23
Relations between frontal EEG maturation and inhibitory control in preschool in the prediction of children’s early academic skills	23
Cognitive profile and mild cognitive impairment in people with chronic lower back pain	23
Cognitive control, motivation and fatigue: A cognitive neuroscience perspective	21
Behavioural changes predict poorer survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	19
How is psychological stress linked to sleep quality? The mediating role of functional connectivity between the sensory/somatomotor network and the cingulo-opercular control network	19
Dynamic task-linked switching between brain networks – A tri-network perspective	19
The association between emotional dysregulation and REM sleep features in insomnia disorder	19
N400 differences between physical and mental metaphors: The role of Theories of Mind	18
Acting with shared intentions: A systematic review on joint action coordination in Autism Spectrum Disorder	18
Language and action in Broca’s area: Computational differentiation and cortical segregation	16
Increases in attentional demands are associated with language group differences in working memory performance	16
EEG, MEG and neuromodulatory approaches to explore cognition: Current status and future directions	15
Effects of socioeconomic status in predicting reading outcomes for children: The mediation of spoken language network	15
Cooperation with partners of differing social experience: An fNIRS-based hyperscanning study	15
Acute stress impairs reward learning in men	14
Do perceptual expertise and implicit racial bias predict early face-sensitive ERP responses?	13
The effects of the functional interplay between the Default Mode and Executive Control Resting State Networks on cognitive outcome in preterm born infants at 6 months of age	13
Semantic congruency effects of prime words on tool visual exploration	13
Frontotemporal dementia, music perception and social cognition share neurobiological circuits: A meta-analysis	13
The association between MRI brain volumes and computerized cognitive scores of people with multiple sclerosis	13
Relationship between brain AD biomarkers and episodic memory performance in healthy aging	13
Up-regulation of proactive control is associated with beneficial effects of a childhood gymnastics program on response preparation and working memory	13

Evaluative judgment across domains: Liking balance, contour, symmetry and complexity in melodies and visual designs	12
The effects of aging and disease duration on cognition in multiple sclerosis	12
The birthing brain: A lacuna in neuroscience	12
Deficits in short-term memory binding are detectable in individuals with brain amyloid deposition in the absence of overt neurodegeneration in the Alzheimer’s disease continuum	12
Sonification of combined action observation and motor imagery: Effects on corticospinal excitability	12
Altering sensorimotor simulation impacts early stages of facial expression processing depending on individual differences in alexithymic traits	12
Increased links between language and motor areas: A proof-of-concept study on resting-state functional connectivity following Personalized Observation, Execution and Mental imagery therapy in chronic	12
Neuropsychology of executive functions in patients with focal lesion in the prefrontal cortex: A systematic review	11
Increased cortical activation and enhanced functional connectivity in the prefrontal cortex ensure dynamic postural balance during dual-task obstacle negotiation in the older adults: A fNIRS study	11
Modality effects in verbal working memory updating: Transcranial direct current stimulation over human inferior frontal gyrus and posterior parietal cortex	11
Neural correlates of spontaneous deception in a non-competitive interpersonal scenario: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study	11
Apolipoprotein e (APOE) ε4 genotype influences memory performance following remote traumatic brain injury in U.S. military service members and veterans	11
Zooming in on the cognitive neuroscience of visual narrative	11
Neural correlates of the production effect: An fMRI study	11
What’s next? Neural correlates of emotional predictions: A high-density EEG investigation	10
Effects of acute psychosocial stress on interpersonal cooperation and competition in young women	10
Improvements in error-monitoring and symptoms following low-frequency rTMS of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in obsessive compulsive disorder; a randomized, sham-controlled study	10
Immediate effects of visual–motor illusion on resting-state functional connectivity	10
Lesion loci of impaired affective prosody: A systematic review of evidence from stroke	10
Response Inhibition Deficits in Women with the FMR1 Premutation are Associated with Age and Fall Risk	9
Response inhibition to emotional faces is modulated by functional hemispheric asymmetries linked to handedness	9
Modality-specific neural mechanisms of cognitive control in a Stroop-like task	9
Pragmatic abilities in early Parkinson’s disease	9
Neurocognitive mechanisms of guided item and associative encoding in young and older adults	8
High spatial frequency filtered primes hastens happy faces categorization in autistic adults	8
The effects of age on neural correlates of recognition memory: An fMRI study	8
Delayed cortical processing of auditory stimuli in children with autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis of electrophysiological studies	8
Reaction time and response inhibition in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease	8
Predictive processing, cognitive control, and tonality stability of music: An fMRI study of chromatic harmony	8
Discovering the brain stages of lexical decision: Behavioral effects originate from a single neural decision process	8
What do you have in mind? ERP markers of visual and auditory imagery	8
Resting EEG in alpha band predicts individual differences in visual size perception	7
An integrative perspective on the role of touch in the development of intersubjectivity	7
‘Delaying’ a saccade: Preparatory phase cortical hemodynamics evince the neural cost of response inhibition	7
Distinct FN400/N400 memory effects for perceptually fluent and disfluent words	7
Context dissociations of the FN400 and N400 are evidence for recognition based on relative or absolute familiarity	7
The only-child effect in the neural and behavioral signatures of trust revealed by fNIRS hyperscanning	7
Word retrieval difficulty in adult females with the FMR1 premutation: Changes over time and across contexts	7
Leftward cradling bias in males and its relation to autistic traits and lateralised emotion processing	7
“Embodied” language processing: Mental motor imagery aptitude predicts word-definition skill for high but not for low imageable words in adolescents	7
Premature birth affects visual body representation and body schema in preterm children	7
Pathologies of precision: A Bayesian account of goals, habits, and episodic foresight in addiction	7
Romantic love affects emotional processing of love-unrelated stimuli: An EEG/ERP study using a love induction task	7
Impact of sleep deprivation on attentional networks: disentangling orienting components	6
Common ERP responses to narrative incoherence in sentence and picture pair comprehension	6
Tonal structures benefit short-term memory for real music: Evidence from non-musicians and individuals with congenital amusia	6
Cerebral blood flow and immediate and sustained executive function benefits following single bouts of passive and active exercise	6
False recognitions in short-term memory – Age-differences in neural activity	6
Enjoying others’ distress and indifferent to threat? Changes in prefrontal-posterior coupling during social-emotional processing are linked to malevolent creativity	6
Brain changes associated with impaired attention function in chronic pain	6

Pleasantness of mind wandering is positively associated with focus back effort in daily life: Evidence from resting state fMRI	6
Age-related volumetric alterations in hippocampal subiculum region are associated with reduced retention of the “when” memory component	6
Implicit sequence learning in individuals with Parkinson’s disease: The added value of using an ocular version of the serial reaction time (O-SRT) task	6
Repeated application of the covert shift of attention task improves endogenous but not exogenous attention in patients with unilateral visuospatial inattention	6
More mental rotation time does not imply more mental effort: Pupillary diameters do not change with angular distance	5
Child and adolescent development of the brain oscillatory activity during a working memory task	5
Non-invasive brain stimulation shows possible cerebellar contribution in transfer of prism adaptation after-effects from pointing to throwing movements	5
Neural connectome features of procrastination: Current progress and future direction	5
The neural mechanism of spatial-positional association in working memory: A fMRI study	5
Do food images as action outcomes evoke a reward positivity?	5
Differential effects of long-term aerobic versus cognitively-engaging physical activity on children’s visuospatial working memory related brain activation: A cluster RCT	5
Verbal working memory and co-speech gesture processing	5
Verbal inhibition declines among older women with high FMR1 premutation expansions: A prospective study	5
A neuroimaging comparative study of changes in a cellist’s brain when playing contemporary and Baroque styles	5
Investigating anticipatory processes during sequentially changing reward prospect: An ERP study	5
Subcortical regions of the human visual system do not process faces holistically	5
The physiological signature of sadness: A comparison between text, film and virtual reality	5
Vocal-motor interference eliminates the memory advantage for vocal melodies	5
Some evidence on Gerstmann’s syndrome: A case study on a variant of the clinical disorder	5
Individual-level morphological hippocampal networks in patients with Alzheimer’s disease	5
The influence of item familiarization on neural discriminability during associative memory encoding and retrieval	5
Spatio-temporal theta pattern dissimilarity in the right centro-parietal area during memory generalization	5
fNIRS & e-drum: An ecological approach to monitor hemodynamic and behavioural effects of rhythmic auditory cueing training	5