OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Development 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanisms linking socioeconomic status and academic achievement in early childhood: Cognitive stimulation and language	35
Emotion understanding and the moral self-concept as motivators of prosocial behavior in middle childhood	34
Young children’s judgments and reasoning about prosocial acts: Impermissible, suberogatory, obligatory, or supererogatory?	23
Developmental shifts toward structural explanations and interventions for social status disparities	21
Near- and far-transfer effects of an executive function intervention for 2nd to 5th-grade struggling readers	21
Theory of puppets?: A critique of the use of puppets as stimulus materials in psychological research with young children	19
Individual differences in adolescents’ willingness to invest cognitive effort: Relation to need for cognition, motivation and cognitive capacity	18
Longitudinal associations between theory of mind and metaphor understanding during middle childhood	17
Cognition and cognizance in preschool predict school achievement in primary school	17
Reading minds and reading texts: Evidence for independent and specific associations	15
Pretend play as a protective factor for developing executive functions among children living in poverty	15
Categorization of objects and faces in the infant brain and its sensitivity to maternal odor: further evidence for the role of intersensory congruency in perceptual development	14
Children’s perception of social robots as a source of information across different domains of knowledge	14
The role of spatial abilities in young children’s spatially-focused touchscreen game play	13
Distinct inhibition dimensions differentially account for working memory performance in 5-year-old children	13
Understanding verbal indirect communication in monolingual and bilingual children	13
Executive function and Theory of Mind in explaining young children’s moral reasoning: A Test of the Hierarchical Competing Systems Model	13
The development of event perception and memory	12
Development of executive functions in late childhood and the mediating role of cooperative learning: A longitudinal study	12
What should we eat for breakfast? American and Chinese children’s prescriptive judgments about breakfast foods	11
Young children’s moral judgments depend on the social relationship between agents	11
Simplicity and validity in infant research	11
Why does social essentialism sometimes promote, and other times mitigate, prejudice development? A causal discounting perspective	11
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	11
Gaze following emergence relies on both perceptual cues and social awareness	10

Help me understand: Adaptive information-seeking predicts academic achievement in school-aged children	10
Real-time assessment of looking time at central environmental cues for spontaneous recall in 35-month-olds	10
Longitudinal relations between young students’ feelings about mathematics and arithmetic performance	10
Children’s implicit food cognition: Developing a food Implicit Association Test	10
Two-digit number writing and arithmetic in Year 1 children: Does number word inversion matter?	10
Developmental reconstruction of cognitive ability: Interactions between executive, cognizance, and reasoning processes in childhood	10
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	10
Learning about germs in a global pandemic: Children’s knowledge and avoidance of contagious illness before and after COVID-19	10
Follow-up questions influence the measured number knowledge in the Give-a-number task	9
Can autonomy play a role in causal reasoning?	9
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	9
Children’s developing understanding that even reliable sources need to verify their claims	9
The moral self-concept in preschool children: Its dimensions and relation to prosocial behaviors	9
Morally-relevant theory of mind mediates the relationship between group membership and moral judgments	9
Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children	9
‘I didn’t even know one of the conventions before’: Explicit EFL spelling instruction and individual differences	9
“You shouldn’t feel this way!” Children’s and adolescents’ interpersonal emotion regulation of victims’ and violators’ feelings after social exclusion	9
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	9
Relations between intensionality, theory of mind and complex syntax in autism spectrum conditions and typical development	9
The role of word-recognition accuracy in the development of word-recognition speed and reading comprehension in primary school: A longitudinal examination	9
Children’s learning from implicit analogies during instruction: Evidence from fraction division	9
The contribution of cognitive and linguistic skills in L1 and EFL to English spelling among native speakers of Arabic and Hebrew	9
Food as a borderline domain of knowledge: The development of domain-specific inductive reasoning strategies in young children	8
Moral masters or moral apprentices? A connectionist account of sociomoral evaluation in preverbal infants	8
Sharing scenarios facilitate division performance in preschoolers	8
A multidimensional investigation of pretend play and language competence: Concurrent and longitudinal relations in preschoolers	8
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	8
Fantasy orientation and creativity in childhood: A closer look	8
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	8
Is a robot a boy? Japanese children’s and adults’ gender-attribute bias toward robots and its implications for education on gender stereotypes	8
Age-related changes in the impact of valence on self-referential processing in female adolescents and young adults	8
The relation between drawing and language in preschoolers: The role of working Memory and executive functions	7
Numerical estimation strategies are correlated with math ability in school-aged children	7
Selective and divided attention modulates audiovisual integration in adolescents	7
Spatial language and mental transformation in preschoolers: Does relational reasoning matter?	7
Rhythm discrimination and metronome tapping in 4-year-old children at risk for developmental dyslexia	7
Evaluating and communicating about the healthiness of foods: Predictors of parents’ judgments and parent-child conversations	7
The moderating effect of bilingualism on lifespan cognitive development	7
Young children show positive emotions when seeing someone get the help they deserve	7
Children approve of lying to benefit another person’s reputation	7
Contributions of working memory and sustained attention to children’s reading achievement: A commonality analysis approach	7
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	7
Young Children Treat Puppets and Dolls Like Real Persons in Theory of Mind Research: A meta-analysis of false-belief understanding across ages and countries	6
Shared-reading in small groups: Examining the effects of question demand level and placement	6
What I know and what you know: The role of metacognitive strategies in preschoolers’ selective social learning	6
Puppet studies present clear and distinct windows into the child’s mind	6
Spatial exploration strategies in childhood; exploration behaviours are predictive of navigation success	6
Cognitive flexibility and strategy training allow young children to overcome transfer-Utilization Deficiencies	6
Developmental differences in monitoring accuracy and cue use when estimating whole-number and fraction magnitudes	6
Underpinning prosociality: Age related performance in theory of mind, empathic understanding, and moral reasoning	6

Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	6
The interplay between spatial ordinal knowledge, linearity of number-space mapping, and arithmetic skills	6
Nationality cognition in India: Social category information impacts children’s judgments of people and their national identity	6
Children’s experience of economic inequality: How earning position influences prosocial behavior	6
Parental mental-state talk and false belief understanding in Hong Kong children	6
Bidirectional associations among executive functions, visual-spatial skills, and mathematical achievement in primary school students: Insights from a longitudinal study	6
“Wow, I did it!”: Unexpected success increases preschoolers’ exploratory play on a later task	6
The effect of taxing situations on preschool children’s responses to peer conflict	6
Multiplication facts and number sense in children with mathematics learning disabilities and typical achievers	6
Capturing death in animated films: Can films stimulate parent-child conversations about death?	6
False belief understanding and narrative comprehension in the preschool years	5
The utility of diagrams in elementary problem solving	5
Unconventional tool use in infants: Using a familiar tool in a novel way in the second year of life	5
Long-term relevance and interrelation of symbolic and non-symbolic abilities in mathematical-numerical development: Evidence from large-scale assessment data	5
The influence of first language spelling and response inhibition skills on English-as-an-additional-language spelling	5
Does English orthography influence bilingual Spanish readers? The effect of grapheme crosslinguistic congruency and complexity on letter detection	5
The time window for sense of agency in school-age children is different from that in young adults	5
Mapping between number notations in kindergarten and the role of home numeracy	5
Young children’s understanding of justifications for breaking a promise	5
Chinese kindergarteners skilled in mental abacus have advantages in spatial processing and attention	5
Interactional training interventions boost children’s expressive pragmatic abilities: evidence from a novel multidimensional testing approach	5
Coding of featural information in visual working memory in 2.5-year-old toddlers	5
Hot and cool executive function and body mass index in young children	5
A time for a meal? Children’s conceptions of short-term and long-term effects of foods	5
Social information reduces infants’ avoidance of plants	5
OMG GMO! Parent-child conversations about genetically modified foods	5
Executive function and the development of social information processing during the preschool years	5
Have your cake, and your asparagus, too: Young children expect variety-seeking behavior from agents with diverse desires	5
The effect of episodic future simulation and motivation on young children’s induced-state episodic foresight	5
Preschool children’s private speech content and performance on executive functioning and problem-solving tasks	5
Inequity aversion in old age: An outcome bias in older adults’ socio-economic decisions	5
Developmental changes in understanding emotion in speech in children in Japan and the United States	5
The beginnings of tool innovation in human ontogeny: How three- to five-year-olds solve the vertical and horizontal tube task	5
Exploring how visual attention, inhibitory control, and co-speech gesture instruction contribute to children’s analogical reasoning ability	5
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	5
Don’t forget your lunch: Age and individual differences in how children perform everyday tasks	5
Can God do the impossible? Anthropomorphism and children’s certainty that God can make impossible things possible	5
Cultural similarities and differences in the development of sociomoral judgments: An eye-tracking study	5
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	5
Developmental changes in children’s recognition of the relevance of evidence to causal explanations	5
The Domain Frequency Association: A mental shortcut to guide children’s generalization of norms and preferences	5
The development of handwriting speed and its relationship with graphic speed and spelling	5