OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain and 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The graded novelty encoding task: Limitations and potential	108
Age differences in the mechanisms underlying remembering events vividly and confidently	40
Neural phoneme discrimination in variable speech in newborns – Associations with dyslexia risk and later language skills	32
The role of working memory in encoding the temporal structure of events in episodic memory	32
Exercise interventions, postural control, and prefrontal cortex activation in older adults	23
Cooperation with partners of differing social experience: An fNIRS-based hyperscanning study	23
Value network engagement and effects of memory-related processing during encoding and retrieval of value	21
N400 differences between physical and mental metaphors: The role of Theories of Mind	18
Relationship between maternal biological features, environmental factors, and newborn neuromotor development associated with visual fixation abilities	17
Editorial Board	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
Tonal structures benefit short-term memory for real music: Evidence from non-musicians and individuals with congenital amusia	15
Morphometry and functional connectivity of auditory cortex in school-age children with profound language disabilities: Five comparative case studies	14
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Modeling familiarity through the combination of deep learning and Hebbian training	13
Investigating anticipatory processes during sequentially changing reward prospect: An ERP study	12
Changes in memory function in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Findings from 2 online longitudinal studies	12
The neural mechanism of spatial-positional association in working memory: A fMRI study	12
The reminiscence bump and loss of autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease	12
Validation of the cognitive section of the Penn computerized adaptive test for neurocognitive and clinical psychopathology assessment (CAT-CCNB)	11
Context dissociations of the FN400 and N400 are evidence for recognition based on relative or absolute familiarity	11
Neural correlates of bribe-taking decision dilemma: An fNIRS study	11
Neural correlates of the production effect: An fMRI study	11
A spontaneous dissociative episode during an EEG experiment	10
Enjoying others’ distress and indifferent to threat? Changes in prefrontal-posterior coupling during social-emotional processing are linked to malevolent creativity	10

Verbal inhibition declines among older women with high FMR1 premutation expansions: A prospective study	10
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Maintaining her image: A social comparative evaluation of the particularity of mothers in the Chinese cultural context	9
Facing healthy and pathological aging: A systematic review of fMRI task-based studies to understand the neural mechanisms of cognitive reserve	9
Insights from continuous retrieval measures into the precision of episodic memory	9
The temporal compression of daily-live events in working memory	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
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Review: “Emotions and the Right Side of the Brain” by Guido Gainotti	9
Memory enhancement with stimulants: Differential neural effects of methylphenidate, modafinil, and caffeine. A pilot study	8
Spatio-temporal theta pattern dissimilarity in the right centro-parietal area during memory generalization	8
Lesion loci of impaired affective prosody: A systematic review of evidence from stroke	8
Connectome-based prediction modeling of cognitive control using functional and structural connectivity	7
Impact of working memory capacity on predominance of parietal over frontal P300 amplitude	7
Updating implicit contextual priors with explicit learning for the prediction of social and physical events	7
Frontal lobe functions in schizophrenia: Interest of the Stuss approach	7
The role of sex and emotion on emotion perception in artificial faces: An ERP study	7
The effect of test query on recognition event-related potentials (ERPs)	7
Spatial frequency impacts perceptual and attentional ERP components across cultures	7
Perception of visual variance is mediated by subcortical mechanisms	7
Be ready to manage stress “Before” and “After” a critical event. What the EEG and autonomic correlates tell us	6
Development of memory generalization and specificity in childhood	6
High spatial frequency filtered primes hastens happy faces categorization in autistic adults	6
Beyond information rate, the capacity of cognitive control predicts response criteria in perceptual decision-making	6
Face the future: The impact of self-reference and temporality on mind-wandering	6
Disconnection of posterior part of the frontal aslant tract causes acute phase motor functional deficit	6
Inverted U-shape-like functional connectivity alterations in cognitive resting-state networks depending on exercise intensity: An fMRI study	6
Does predictive cueing of presentation time modulate alpha power and facilitate visual working memory performance in younger and older adults?	6
Copolymer-1 as a potential therapy for mild cognitive impairment	6
Altered brain activation in uncomplicated pediatric obesity: The second moment is more sensitive than the first	5
Relationship between punishment sensitivity and risk-taking propensity	5
Retrieval orientation for memories encoded in emotional contexts: An ERP study	5
Exploring the mechanisms responsible for the modulating role of frowning in emotional reasoning: An ERP study	5
‘Delaying’ a saccade: Preparatory phase cortical hemodynamics evince the neural cost of response inhibition	5
Using motor imagery practice for improving motor performance – A review	5
Semantic congruency effects of prime words on tool visual exploration	5
Predictive processing, cognitive control, and tonality stability of music: An fMRI study of chromatic harmony	5
The physiological signature of sadness: A comparison between text, film and virtual reality	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
Electrophysiological evidence of crossmodal correspondence between auditory pitch and visual elevation affecting inhibition of return	4
Interhemispheric transfer of visual information: Meaningfulness and response formation	4
Brain plasticity of structural connectivity networks and topological properties in baseball players with different levels of expertise	4
Singleton effect decreases under time pressure: An fNIRS study	4
Exploring neural correlates of social dominance: Insights from behavioral, resting- state EEG, and ERP indices	4
Dynamic task-linked switching between brain networks – A tri-network perspective	4
Recollecting events: How expectations influence our memories	4
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Using electroencephalography to explore neurocognitive correlates of procedural proficiency: A pilot study to compare experts and novices during simulated endotracheal intubation	4
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Using temporo-spatial principal component analysis as tool to dissociate latent ERP components of episodic memory retrieval: Objectifying time-window selection for overlapping ERP components	4
Perceptual processing of stimuli related to an analogue traumatic event: An ERP study	4
Does age-related memory decline affect decision making?	4
Do categorical representations modulate early perceptual or later cognitive visual processing? An ERP study	4
Involvement of the prefrontal cortex in motor sequence learning: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study	4
Cognition, emotion, and the default mode network	4
Apolipoprotein e (APOE) ε4 genotype influences memory performance following remote traumatic brain injury in U.S. military service members and veterans	4
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	3
Early environmental influences on brain development and executive function	3
Temporo-Parietal cortex activation during motor imagery in older adults: A case study of Baduanjin	3
Altered neural mechanisms of deception in individuals with autistic traits	3
How do we evaluate others’ memories? A behavioural and natural language processing study	3
Atypical procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder: A combined behavioral and neuroimaging study	3
Long-lasting pure topographical disorientation due to heading disorientation following left retrosplenial infarction: A report of two cases	3
Timing-specific patterns of cerebral activations during motor imagery: A case study of the expert brain signature	3
Cognitive skill learning in multiple sclerosis: A meaningful component of the neuropsychological profile	3
Impaired cognitive performance in older adults is associated with deficits in item memory and memory for object features	3
Neural correlates of lexical, sublexical and motor processes in word handwriting	3
Neglect in temporal domain: Amelioration following a prismatic adaptation treatment and implications in everyday life. A single case study	3
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Amygdala-based functional connectivity mediates the relationship between thought control ability and trait anxiety	3
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Variation in antisaccadic response latencies investigated with the hierarchical LATER process model	3
Why creatives don’t find the oddball odd: Neural and psychological evidence for atypical salience processing	3
Effects of combining retrieval practice and tDCS over long-term memory: A randomized controlled trial	3
A fist bump in a political meeting? The influence of social context on affordance selection	3
Exploring temporal congruence in motor imagery and movement execution in non-specific chronic low back pain	3
The neural correlates of referential communication: Taking advantage of sparse-sampling fMRI to study verbal communication with a real interaction partner	3
Associations acquired through fast mapping evoke an N400 semantic priming effect when feature overlap is high	3
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	3
Transcranial direct current stimulation over the left posterior temporal lobe modulates semantic control: Evidence from episodic memory distortions	3
Risk avoidance and social anxiety in adolescence: Examination of event-related potentials and theta-dynamics on the Balloon Risk Avoidance Task	3
The CODECS study: COgnitive DEficits in Cerebellar Stroke	3
Cortical brain potentials in response to lower limb proprioceptive stimuli in young adults with probable developmental coordination disorder	3
Evidencing representational specialisation of the anterior hippocampus and perirhinal cortex across memory and non-memory operations	3