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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	36
Corticospinal suppression in response to pics with implied hand actions: A follow up TMS study	35
The role of working memory in encoding the temporal structure of events in episodic memory	24
Age differences in the mechanisms underlying remembering events vividly and confidently	20
Sex and handedness differences in Big Five personality traits and depression: Investigating the role of cerebral lateralization	18
Consistent neural representation of valence in encoding and recall	17
Relationship between maternal biological features, environmental factors, and newborn neuromotor development associated with visual fixation abilities	16
Combined effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and aerobic exercise on inhibitory control function in healthy young adults: An event-related potential study	15
Exercise interventions, postural control, and prefrontal cortex activation in older adults	15
Semantic predictability and semantic relevance through different neural mechanisms to improve memory performance	14
Neural phoneme discrimination in variable speech in newborns – Associations with dyslexia risk and later language skills	14
N400 differences between physical and mental metaphors: The role of Theories of Mind	13
Context dissociations of the FN400 and N400 are evidence for recognition based on relative or absolute familiarity	13
The graded novelty encoding task: Limitations and potential	13
Tonal structures benefit short-term memory for real music: Evidence from non-musicians and individuals with congenital amusia	13
The reminiscence bump and loss of autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease	12
Modeling familiarity through the combination of deep learning and Hebbian training	12
Spatial navigation training enhances performance on large-scale and small-scale spatial tasks through different neural mechanisms	11
Changes in memory function in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Findings from 2 online longitudinal studies	11
Retraction notice to “Unraveling the link between brain injury and enhanced artistic skills” [Brain Cogn. 189 (2025) 106348]	11
Neural correlates of bribe-taking decision dilemma: An fNIRS study	11
Editorial Board	11
The temporal compression of daily-live events in working memory	10
Validation of the cognitive section of the Penn computerized adaptive test for neurocognitive and clinical psychopathology assessment (CAT-CCNB)	10
A spontaneous dissociative episode during an EEG experiment	10

Distinguishing expectation and attention effects in processing temporal patterns of visual input	10
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
Organization of conceptual tool knowledge following left and right brain lesions: Evidence from neuropsychological dissociations and multivariate disconnectome symptom mapping	9
Enjoying others’ distress and indifferent to threat? Changes in prefrontal-posterior coupling during social-emotional processing are linked to malevolent creativity	9
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Insights from continuous retrieval measures into the precision of episodic memory	8
Age-related resting state EEG differences in learning and memory performance during a spatial learning task	8
Did increasing brain size place early humans at risk of extinction?	8
Perception of visual variance is mediated by subcortical mechanisms	8
Impact of working memory capacity on predominance of parietal over frontal P300 amplitude	7
Connectome-based prediction modeling of cognitive control using functional and structural connectivity	7
Copolymer-1 as a potential therapy for mild cognitive impairment	7
Editorial Board	7
Relationship between punishment sensitivity and risk-taking propensity	7
Maintaining her image: A social comparative evaluation of the particularity of mothers in the Chinese cultural context	7
Inverted U-shape-like functional connectivity alterations in cognitive resting-state networks depending on exercise intensity: An fMRI study	7
Development of memory generalization and specificity in childhood	7
Altered brain activation in uncomplicated pediatric obesity: The second moment is more sensitive than the first	7
Brain plasticity of structural connectivity networks and topological properties in baseball players with different levels of expertise	7
Face the future: The impact of self-reference and temporality on mind-wandering	7
Spatio-temporal theta pattern dissimilarity in the right centro-parietal area during memory generalization	7
Be ready to manage stress “Before” and “After” a critical event. What the EEG and autonomic correlates tell us	7
Event-Related potentials in visual attention to threatening and fearful Stimuli: A systematic review	7
From ancient fears to airborne threats: fMRI insights into neural fear responses	7
Editorial Board	7
Exploring neural correlates of social dominance: Insights from behavioral, resting- state EEG, and ERP indices	6
Recollecting events: How expectations influence our memories	6
Interhemispheric transfer of visual information: Meaningfulness and response formation	6
Using electroencephalography to explore neurocognitive correlates of procedural proficiency: A pilot study to compare experts and novices during simulated endotracheal intubation	6
Cognition, emotion, and the default mode network	6
A fist bump in a political meeting? The influence of social context on affordance selection	6
Editorial Board	6
Distractor-induced deafness: ERP correlates of auditory distractor processing	6
Singleton effect decreases under time pressure: An fNIRS study	6
Age-related differences in neural integrity are unrelated to prospective memory age effects	6
Atypical procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder: A combined behavioral and neuroimaging study	6
Electrophysiological evidence of crossmodal correspondence between auditory pitch and visual elevation affecting inhibition of return	6
Does age-related memory decline affect decision making?	6
Involvement of the prefrontal cortex in motor sequence learning: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study	6
Exploring the mediating role of functional connectivity in the association between violence exposure and psychopathology during early adolescence	6
Structural complexity of brain regions in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease	6
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
Timing-specific patterns of cerebral activations during motor imagery: A case study of the expert brain signature	5
How do we evaluate others’ memories? A behavioural and natural language processing study	5
Why creatives don’t find the oddball odd: Neural and psychological evidence for atypical salience processing	5
Evidencing representational specialisation of the anterior hippocampus and perirhinal cortex across memory and non-memory operations	5
Disturbing the sound of silence: Bilateral temporal cortex stimulation and auditory mental imagery	5
Transcranial direct current stimulation over the left posterior temporal lobe modulates semantic control: Evidence from episodic memory distortions	5

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	5
Exploring temporal congruence in motor imagery and movement execution in non-specific chronic low back pain	5
Impaired cognitive performance in older adults is associated with deficits in item memory and memory for object features	5
Neural correlates of lexical, sublexical and motor processes in word handwriting	5
The CODECS study: COgnitive DEficits in Cerebellar Stroke	5
Cortical brain potentials in response to lower limb proprioceptive stimuli in young adults with probable developmental coordination disorder	5
Early environmental influences on brain development and executive function	5
EEG-based neurophysiological indices for expert psychomotor performance – a review	4
Amygdala-based functional connectivity mediates the relationship between thought control ability and trait anxiety	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Cognitive skill learning in multiple sclerosis: A meaningful component of the neuropsychological profile	4
Editorial Board	4
Long-lasting pure topographical disorientation due to heading disorientation following left retrosplenial infarction: A report of two cases	4
Neural dynamics during moral persuasion process: An EEG hyperscanning study	4
Exercise, brain and cognition interaction in humans	4
Associations acquired through fast mapping evoke an N400 semantic priming effect when feature overlap is high	4
Brain correlates of linguistic-cognitive stimulation in neurotypical and Atypical older adult populations: A systematic review	4
The impacts of early environmental adversity on cognitive functioning, body mass, and life-history behavioral profiles	4
Risk avoidance and social anxiety in adolescence: Examination of event-related potentials and theta-dynamics on the Balloon Risk Avoidance Task	4
Neural correlates of emotional false memory in healthy elderly and mild cognitive impairment	4
Altered neural mechanisms of deception in individuals with autistic traits	4
RETRACTED: Unraveling the link between brain injury and enhanced artistic skills	4