OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain and Cognition is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	80
Relationship between maternal biological features, environmental factors, and newborn neuromotor development associated with visual fixation abilities	33
Corticospinal suppression in response to pics with implied hand actions: A follow up TMS study	31
Semantic predictability and semantic relevance through different neural mechanisms to improve memory performance	20
The role of working memory in encoding the temporal structure of events in episodic memory	16
Age differences in the mechanisms underlying remembering events vividly and confidently	14
The graded novelty encoding task: Limitations and potential	14
Exercise interventions, postural control, and prefrontal cortex activation in older adults	14
N400 differences between physical and mental metaphors: The role of Theories of Mind	13
Sex and handedness differences in Big Five personality traits and depression: Investigating the role of cerebral lateralization	13
Combined effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and aerobic exercise on inhibitory control function in healthy young adults: An event-related potential study	13
Neural phoneme discrimination in variable speech in newborns – Associations with dyslexia risk and later language skills	12
Consistent neural representation of valence in encoding and recall	12
Retraction notice to “Unraveling the link between brain injury and enhanced artistic skills” [Brain Cogn. 189 (2025) 106348]	11
Modeling familiarity through the combination of deep learning and Hebbian training	11
Tonal structures benefit short-term memory for real music: Evidence from non-musicians and individuals with congenital amusia	11
The reminiscence bump and loss of autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease	11
Editorial Board	10
Context dissociations of the FN400 and N400 are evidence for recognition based on relative or absolute familiarity	10
Changes in memory function in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Findings from 2 online longitudinal studies	10
Neural correlates of bribe-taking decision dilemma: An fNIRS study	10
Validation of the cognitive section of the Penn computerized adaptive test for neurocognitive and clinical psychopathology assessment (CAT-CCNB)	9
A spontaneous dissociative episode during an EEG experiment	9
Facing healthy and pathological aging: A systematic review of fMRI task-based studies to understand the neural mechanisms of cognitive reserve	9
Corrigendum to “Long-lasting pure topographical disorientation due to heading disorientation following left retrosplenial hemorrhage: A report of two cases” [Brain Cogn. 181 (2024) 106211]	9

Enjoying others’ distress and indifferent to threat? Changes in prefrontal-posterior coupling during social-emotional processing are linked to malevolent creativity	9
Distinguishing expectation and attention effects in processing temporal patterns of visual input	9
Organization of conceptual tool knowledge following left and right brain lesions: Evidence from neuropsychological dissociations and multivariate disconnectome symptom mapping	9
The temporal compression of daily-live events in working memory	9
Editorial Board	8
The role of sex and emotion on emotion perception in artificial faces: An ERP study	8
Verbal inhibition declines among older women with high FMR1 premutation expansions: A prospective study	8
Updating implicit contextual priors with explicit learning for the prediction of social and physical events	8
Editorial Board	8
Did increasing brain size place early humans at risk of extinction?	8
Be ready to manage stress “Before” and “After” a critical event. What the EEG and autonomic correlates tell us	7
Inverted U-shape-like functional connectivity alterations in cognitive resting-state networks depending on exercise intensity: An fMRI study	7
Insights from continuous retrieval measures into the precision of episodic memory	7
Maintaining her image: A social comparative evaluation of the particularity of mothers in the Chinese cultural context	7
Face the future: The impact of self-reference and temporality on mind-wandering	7
Age-related resting state EEG differences in learning and memory performance during a spatial learning task	7
Spatio-temporal theta pattern dissimilarity in the right centro-parietal area during memory generalization	7
Copolymer-1 as a potential therapy for mild cognitive impairment	7
Connectome-based prediction modeling of cognitive control using functional and structural connectivity	7
Perception of visual variance is mediated by subcortical mechanisms	7
Impact of working memory capacity on predominance of parietal over frontal P300 amplitude	7
Development of memory generalization and specificity in childhood	6
Distractor-induced deafness: ERP correlates of auditory distractor processing	6
From ancient fears to airborne threats: fMRI insights into neural fear responses	6
Electrophysiological evidence of crossmodal correspondence between auditory pitch and visual elevation affecting inhibition of return	6
Altered brain activation in uncomplicated pediatric obesity: The second moment is more sensitive than the first	6
Frontal lobe functions in schizophrenia: Interest of the Stuss approach	6
Editorial Board	6
Relationship between punishment sensitivity and risk-taking propensity	6
Singleton effect decreases under time pressure: An fNIRS study	6
Does predictive cueing of presentation time modulate alpha power and facilitate visual working memory performance in younger and older adults?	6
Event-Related potentials in visual attention to threatening and fearful Stimuli: A systematic review	6
Brain plasticity of structural connectivity networks and topological properties in baseball players with different levels of expertise	6
Editorial Board	6
Interhemispheric transfer of visual information: Meaningfulness and response formation	6
Cognition, emotion, and the default mode network	5
A fist bump in a political meeting? The influence of social context on affordance selection	5
Disturbing the sound of silence: Bilateral temporal cortex stimulation and auditory mental imagery	5
The CODECS study: COgnitive DEficits in Cerebellar Stroke	5
Recollecting events: How expectations influence our memories	5
Does age-related memory decline affect decision making?	5
Timing-specific patterns of cerebral activations during motor imagery: A case study of the expert brain signature	5
Evidencing representational specialisation of the anterior hippocampus and perirhinal cortex across memory and non-memory operations	5
Differential effects of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) on attentional guidance by working memory in males with substance use disorder according to memory modality	5
Neural correlates of lexical, sublexical and motor processes in word handwriting	5
Using electroencephalography to explore neurocognitive correlates of procedural proficiency: A pilot study to compare experts and novices during simulated endotracheal intubation	5
Age-related differences in neural integrity are unrelated to prospective memory age effects	5
Exploring neural correlates of social dominance: Insights from behavioral, resting- state EEG, and ERP indices	5
Impaired cognitive performance in older adults is associated with deficits in item memory and memory for object features	5
Atypical procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder: A combined behavioral and neuroimaging study	5

Transcranial direct current stimulation over the left posterior temporal lobe modulates semantic control: Evidence from episodic memory distortions	5
Involvement of the prefrontal cortex in motor sequence learning: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study	5
Exploring temporal congruence in motor imagery and movement execution in non-specific chronic low back pain	4
Long-lasting pure topographical disorientation due to heading disorientation following left retrosplenial infarction: A report of two cases	4
Editorial Board	4
Why creatives don’t find the oddball odd: Neural and psychological evidence for atypical salience processing	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Associations acquired through fast mapping evoke an N400 semantic priming effect when feature overlap is high	4
Risk avoidance and social anxiety in adolescence: Examination of event-related potentials and theta-dynamics on the Balloon Risk Avoidance Task	4
How do we evaluate others’ memories? A behavioural and natural language processing study	4
Altered neural mechanisms of deception in individuals with autistic traits	4
RETRACTED: Unraveling the link between brain injury and enhanced artistic skills	4
Early environmental influences on brain development and executive function	4
Cognitive skill learning in multiple sclerosis: A meaningful component of the neuropsychological profile	4
Exercise, brain and cognition interaction in humans	4
The impacts of early environmental adversity on cognitive functioning, body mass, and life-history behavioral profiles	4
Editorial Board	4
Cortical brain potentials in response to lower limb proprioceptive stimuli in young adults with probable developmental coordination disorder	4
Amygdala-based functional connectivity mediates the relationship between thought control ability and trait anxiety	4
Editorial Board	4
Temporo-Parietal cortex activation during motor imagery in older adults: A case study of Baduanjin	4
Accelerometer-based and self-reported physical activity and sedentary time and their relationships with the P300 in a Go/No-Go task in older adults	4
EEG-based neurophysiological indices for expert psychomotor performance – a review	4