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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanisms linking socioeconomic status and academic achievement in early childhood: Cognitive stimulation and language	41
Emotion understanding and the moral self-concept as motivators of prosocial behavior in middle childhood	39
Developmental shifts toward structural explanations and interventions for social status disparities	25
Young children’s judgments and reasoning about prosocial acts: Impermissible, suberogatory, obligatory, or supererogatory?	25
Near- and far-transfer effects of an executive function intervention for 2nd to 5th-grade struggling readers	22
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	20
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	17
Pretend play as a protective factor for developing executive functions among children living in poverty	16
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	15
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	14
The role of word-recognition accuracy in the development of word-recognition speed and reading comprehension in primary school: A longitudinal examination	14
The role of spatial abilities in young children’s spatially-focused touchscreen game play	14
Longitudinal relations between young students’ feelings about mathematics and arithmetic performance	13
Distinct inhibition dimensions differentially account for working memory performance in 5-year-old children	13
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	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
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	12
The moral self-concept in preschool children: Its dimensions and relation to prosocial behaviors	12
Young children’s moral judgments depend on the social relationship between agents	12
Why does social essentialism sometimes promote, and other times mitigate, prejudice development? A causal discounting perspective	12
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	12
Simplicity and validity in infant research	12

Rhythm discrimination and metronome tapping in 4-year-old children at risk for developmental dyslexia	12
Age-related changes in the impact of valence on self-referential processing in female adolescents and young adults	12
Development of executive functions in late childhood and the mediating role of cooperative learning: A longitudinal study	12
Sharing scenarios facilitate division performance in preschoolers	11
Two-digit number writing and arithmetic in Year 1 children: Does number word inversion matter?	11
Learning about germs in a global pandemic: Children’s knowledge and avoidance of contagious illness before and after COVID-19	11
Young children show positive emotions when seeing someone get the help they deserve	11
Morally-relevant theory of mind mediates the relationship between group membership and moral judgments	11
‘I didn’t even know one of the conventions before’: Explicit EFL spelling instruction and individual differences	10
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	10
Help me understand: Adaptive information-seeking predicts academic achievement in school-aged children	10
Developmental reconstruction of cognitive ability: Interactions between executive, cognizance, and reasoning processes in childhood	10
Spatial exploration strategies in childhood; exploration behaviours are predictive of navigation success	10
Real-time assessment of looking time at central environmental cues for spontaneous recall in 35-month-olds	10
Relations between intensionality, theory of mind and complex syntax in autism spectrum conditions and typical development	10
Gaze following emergence relies on both perceptual cues and social awareness	10
Follow-up questions influence the measured number knowledge in the Give-a-number task	10
Food as a borderline domain of knowledge: The development of domain-specific inductive reasoning strategies in young children	9
Children’s learning from implicit analogies during instruction: Evidence from fraction division	9
Numerical estimation strategies are correlated with math ability in school-aged children	9
The contribution of cognitive and linguistic skills in L1 and EFL to English spelling among native speakers of Arabic and Hebrew	9
Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children	9
Is a robot a boy? Japanese children’s and adults’ gender-attribute bias toward robots and its implications for education on gender stereotypes	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
The effect of taxing situations on preschool children’s responses to peer conflict	8
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	8
Children approve of lying to benefit another person’s reputation	8
“Wow, I did it!”: Unexpected success increases preschoolers’ exploratory play on a later task	8
Contributions of working memory and sustained attention to children’s reading achievement: A commonality analysis approach	8
Fantasy orientation and creativity in childhood: A closer look	8
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	8
Moral masters or moral apprentices? A connectionist account of sociomoral evaluation in preverbal infants	8
Selective and divided attention modulates audiovisual integration in adolescents	8
Interactional training interventions boost children’s expressive pragmatic abilities: evidence from a novel multidimensional testing approach	7
Cognitive flexibility and strategy training allow young children to overcome transfer-Utilization Deficiencies	7
Bidirectional associations among executive functions, visual-spatial skills, and mathematical achievement in primary school students: Insights from a longitudinal study	7
Developmental changes in children’s recognition of the relevance of evidence to causal explanations	7
The interplay between spatial ordinal knowledge, linearity of number-space mapping, and arithmetic skills	7
Capturing death in animated films: Can films stimulate parent-child conversations about death?	7
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	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	7
Evaluating and communicating about the healthiness of foods: Predictors of parents’ judgments and parent-child conversations	7
Puppet studies present clear and distinct windows into the child’s mind	7
Spatial language and mental transformation in preschoolers: Does relational reasoning matter?	7
The moderating effect of bilingualism on lifespan cognitive development	7
Parental mental-state talk and false belief understanding in Hong Kong children	7
Executive function and the development of social information processing during the preschool years	7
A critical review of number order judgements and arithmetic: What do order verification tasks actually measure?	7
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
Underpinning prosociality: Age related performance in theory of mind, empathic understanding, and moral reasoning	6
Theory of mind and executive function in early childhood: A cross-cultural investigation	6
The predictive value of the cognitive scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-III	6
The development of handwriting speed and its relationship with graphic speed and spelling	6
Long-term relevance and interrelation of symbolic and non-symbolic abilities in mathematical-numerical development: Evidence from large-scale assessment data	6
Exploring how visual attention, inhibitory control, and co-speech gesture instruction contribute to children’s analogical reasoning ability	6
Sex differences in response inhibition in young children	6
Parent and child spontaneous focus on number, mathematical abilities, and mathematical talk during play activities	6
Mapping between number notations in kindergarten and the role of home numeracy	6
Chinese kindergarteners skilled in mental abacus have advantages in spatial processing and attention	6
OMG GMO! Parent-child conversations about genetically modified foods	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
Developmental differences in monitoring accuracy and cue use when estimating whole-number and fraction magnitudes	6
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	6
Shared-reading in small groups: Examining the effects of question demand level and placement	6
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	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
Does accent trump skin color in guiding children’s social preferences? Evidence from Brazil’s natural lab	5
Discontinuity from implicit to explicit theory of mind from infancy to preschool age	5
Cheat to win: Children’s judgements of advantageous vs. disadvantageous rule breaking	5
Grown or made? Children’s determination of the origins of natural versus processed foods	5
Preschoolers’ acquisition of producer-product metonymy	5
Cultural affordances: Does model reliability affect over-imitation in preschoolers	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	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
False belief understanding and narrative comprehension in the preschool years	5
The utility of diagrams in elementary problem solving	5
Age difference in the forward testing effect: The roles of strategy change and release from proactive interference	5
Examining relations between parent-child narrative talk and children’s episodic foresight and theory of mind	5
A time for a meal? Children’s conceptions of short-term and long-term effects of foods	5
Does English orthography influence bilingual Spanish readers? The effect of grapheme crosslinguistic congruency and complexity on letter detection	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
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	5
The role of parent-led and child-led home numeracy activities in early mathematical skills	5
Young children’s understanding of justifications for breaking a promise	5
Coding of featural information in visual working memory in 2.5-year-old toddlers	5
Pretending at hand: How children perceive and process puppets	5
Executive functioning profiles in adolescence: Using person-centered approaches to understand heterogeneity	5
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	5
A longitudinal reciprocal relation between theory of mind and language	5
Interactive elaborative storytelling fosters vocabulary in pre-schoolers compared to repeated-reading and phonemic awareness interventions	5
What does the Strange Stories test measure? Developmental and within-test variation	5
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	5
Primary school children’s verbal working memory performances in classrooms with different acoustic conditions	5
The effect of episodic future simulation and motivation on young children’s induced-state episodic foresight	5
What is a good question asker better at? From unsystematic generalization to adult-like selectivity across childhood	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
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