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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanisms linking socioeconomic status and academic achievement in early childhood: Cognitive stimulation and language	42
Developmental shifts toward structural explanations and interventions for social status disparities	26
Near- and far-transfer effects of an executive function intervention for 2nd to 5th-grade struggling readers	25
Theory of puppets?: A critique of the use of puppets as stimulus materials in psychological research with young children	21
Longitudinal associations between theory of mind and metaphor understanding during middle childhood	21
Individual differences in adolescents’ willingness to invest cognitive effort: Relation to need for cognition, motivation and cognitive capacity	19
Reading minds and reading texts: Evidence for independent and specific associations	19
Executive function and Theory of Mind in explaining young children’s moral reasoning: A Test of the Hierarchical Competing Systems Model	18
The role of word-recognition accuracy in the development of word-recognition speed and reading comprehension in primary school: A longitudinal examination	17
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	16
Pretend play as a protective factor for developing executive functions among children living in poverty	16
The role of spatial abilities in young children’s spatially-focused touchscreen game play	15
Why does social essentialism sometimes promote, and other times mitigate, prejudice development? A causal discounting perspective	15
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	15
Longitudinal relations between young students’ feelings about mathematics and arithmetic performance	15
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	14
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	14
Simplicity and validity in infant research	14
Age-related changes in the impact of valence on self-referential processing in female adolescents and young adults	13
Development of executive functions in late childhood and the mediating role of cooperative learning: A longitudinal study	13
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	12
Young children’s moral judgments depend on the social relationship between agents	12
Rhythm discrimination and metronome tapping in 4-year-old children at risk for developmental dyslexia	12
The moral self-concept in preschool children: Its dimensions and relation to prosocial behaviors	12
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	11

Two-digit number writing and arithmetic in Year 1 children: Does number word inversion matter?	11
Young children show positive emotions when seeing someone get the help they deserve	11
Gaze following emergence relies on both perceptual cues and social awareness	11
Help me understand: Adaptive information-seeking predicts academic achievement in school-aged children	11
Learning about germs in a global pandemic: Children’s knowledge and avoidance of contagious illness before and after COVID-19	11
Sharing scenarios facilitate division performance in preschoolers	11
Morally-relevant theory of mind mediates the relationship between group membership and moral judgments	11
Executive function and the development of social information processing during the preschool years	10
Spatial exploration strategies in childhood; exploration behaviours are predictive of navigation success	10
Relations between intensionality, theory of mind and complex syntax in autism spectrum conditions and typical development	10
Developmental reconstruction of cognitive ability: Interactions between executive, cognizance, and reasoning processes in childhood	10
Real-time assessment of looking time at central environmental cues for spontaneous recall in 35-month-olds	10
Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children	10
Is a robot a boy? Japanese children’s and adults’ gender-attribute bias toward robots and its implications for education on gender stereotypes	10
Follow-up questions influence the measured number knowledge in the Give-a-number task	10
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	9
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	9
Children approve of lying to benefit another person’s reputation	9
Children’s learning from implicit analogies during instruction: Evidence from fraction division	9
Contributions of working memory and sustained attention to children’s reading achievement: A commonality analysis approach	9
Discontinuity from implicit to explicit theory of mind from infancy to preschool age	9
Food as a borderline domain of knowledge: The development of domain-specific inductive reasoning strategies in young children	9
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	9
The effect of taxing situations on preschool children’s responses to peer conflict	9
Parent and child spontaneous focus on number, mathematical abilities, and mathematical talk during play activities	9
Moral masters or moral apprentices? A connectionist account of sociomoral evaluation in preverbal infants	9
Numerical estimation strategies are correlated with math ability in school-aged children	9
The relation between drawing and language in preschoolers: The role of working Memory and executive functions	8
What I know and what you know: The role of metacognitive strategies in preschoolers’ selective social learning	8
Chinese kindergarteners skilled in mental abacus have advantages in spatial processing and attention	8
Developmental differences in monitoring accuracy and cue use when estimating whole-number and fraction magnitudes	8
A critical review of number order judgements and arithmetic: What do order verification tasks actually measure?	8
Capturing death in animated films: Can films stimulate parent-child conversations about death?	8
Bidirectional associations among executive functions, visual-spatial skills, and mathematical achievement in primary school students: Insights from a longitudinal study	8
Sex differences in response inhibition in young children	8
Puppet studies present clear and distinct windows into the child’s mind	8
Fantasy orientation and creativity in childhood: A closer look	8
Mapping between number notations in kindergarten and the role of home numeracy	7
Interactional training interventions boost children’s expressive pragmatic abilities: evidence from a novel multidimensional testing approach	7
Spatial language and mental transformation in preschoolers: Does relational reasoning matter?	7
Developmental changes in children’s recognition of the relevance of evidence to causal explanations	7
Children’s experience of economic inequality: How earning position influences prosocial behavior	7
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	7
Working memory capacity, variability, and response to intervention at age 6 and its association to inattention and mathematics age 9	7
Cognitive flexibility and strategy training allow young children to overcome transfer-Utilization Deficiencies	7
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
Exploring how visual attention, inhibitory control, and co-speech gesture instruction contribute to children’s analogical reasoning ability	6
Cheat to win: Children’s judgements of advantageous vs. disadvantageous rule breaking	6
Underpinning prosociality: Age related performance in theory of mind, empathic understanding, and moral reasoning	6
Preschoolers’ acquisition of producer-product metonymy	6

Nationality cognition in India: Social category information impacts children’s judgments of people and their national identity	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
Executive functioning profiles in adolescence: Using person-centered approaches to understand heterogeneity	6
The influence of first language spelling and response inhibition skills on English-as-an-additional-language spelling	6
Can God do the impossible? Anthropomorphism and children’s certainty that God can make impossible things possible	6
Theory of mind and executive function in early childhood: A cross-cultural investigation	6
Young children’s understanding of justifications for breaking a promise	6
The development of handwriting speed and its relationship with graphic speed and spelling	6
Age difference in the forward testing effect: The roles of strategy change and release from proactive interference	6
Long-term relevance and interrelation of symbolic and non-symbolic abilities in mathematical-numerical development: Evidence from large-scale assessment data	6
Longitudinal stability and cross-relations of prosocial behavior and the moral self-concept in early childhood	6
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	6
Primary school children’s verbal working memory performances in classrooms with different acoustic conditions	6
The predictive value of the cognitive scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-III	6
Understanding mathematical development in preschool children: The association between mathematical language and mathematical abilities	6
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	5
The role of parent-led and child-led home numeracy activities in early mathematical skills	5
Pretending at hand: How children perceive and process puppets	5
False belief understanding and narrative comprehension in the preschool years	5
The effect of moral character on children’s judgements of transgressions	5
Interactive elaborative storytelling fosters vocabulary in pre-schoolers compared to repeated-reading and phonemic awareness interventions	5
Grown or made? Children’s determination of the origins of natural versus processed foods	5
Does English orthography influence bilingual Spanish readers? The effect of grapheme crosslinguistic congruency and complexity on letter detection	5
The effect of episodic future simulation and motivation on young children’s induced-state episodic foresight	5
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	5
Do children know that fantastic events in television programs are not real?	5
What is a good question asker better at? From unsystematic generalization to adult-like selectivity across childhood	5
Inequity aversion in old age: An outcome bias in older adults’ socio-economic decisions	5
The beginnings of tool innovation in human ontogeny: How three- to five-year-olds solve the vertical and horizontal tube task	5
‘If-then’ but when? Effects of implementation intentions on children’s and adolescents’ prospective memory	5
A longitudinal reciprocal relation between theory of mind and language	5
Cultural similarities and differences in the development of sociomoral judgments: An eye-tracking study	5
Preschoolers can be instructed to use proactive control	5
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	5
Cultural affordances: Does model reliability affect over-imitation in preschoolers	5
Preschool children’s private speech content and performance on executive functioning and problem-solving tasks	5
Integrated knowledge of rational number notations predicts children’s math achievement and understanding of numerical magnitudes	5
Tokens of virtue: Replicating incentivized measures of children’s prosocial behavior with online methods and virtual resources	5
Developmental changes in understanding emotion in speech in children in Japan and the United States	5
Does accent trump skin color in guiding children’s social preferences? Evidence from Brazil’s natural lab	5
The use of fingers in addition: A longitudinal study in children from preschool to kindergarten	5
What does the Strange Stories test measure? Developmental and within-test variation	5
Reply to Poulin-Dubois et al. (2023): Replication problems concerning both implicit and explicit false belief reasoning greatly reduced the chance of finding longitudinal correlations.	5
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	5