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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	24
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	21
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	21
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	20
Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	18
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	18
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	18
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	14
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	14
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	14
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	14
Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	13
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	13
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	13
Comments regarding Numerical Estimation Strategies Are Correlated with Math Ability in School-Age Children	13
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	13
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	12
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	12
How much can you learn in one year? How content, pedagogical resources, and learner’s age influence beliefs about knowledge acquisition	12
Adolescents’ beliefs about caste-essentialism and their social location in Nepal	12
From spontaneous focusing on numerosity to mathematics achievement: The mediating role of non-symbolic number processing and mapping between symbolic and non-symbolic representations of number	12
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	12
Contingent experience with touchscreens promotes parent-child conversations	12

How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	11
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	11
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	11
Contribution of working memory to gesture production in toddlers	11
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	11
Children deny that God could change morality	10
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	10
Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	10
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	10
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	10
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	10
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	10
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	9
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	9
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	9
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	9
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	9
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	8
Relative age effect in formal musical training	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	8
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	8
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Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	7
Cultivating the toddler data desert with the Visual Attention Processing Protocol (VAPP): A novel scalable measure of individual differences in attentional processing from 2 to 6 years old	7
The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	7
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	7
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	7
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	7
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	7
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	7
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	7
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	7
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	7
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	7
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	6
Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	6
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	6
The relative age effect in secondary schools	6
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	6
The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6
Semantic long-term memory and verbal working memory performance: How does their relationship change with age?	6
The role of phonological decoding, rapid automatized naming, and morphological awareness in Chinese reading acquisition among 6- to 8-year-olds in Taiwan	6
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	6

A longitudinal study on basic numerical skills in early numerical development	6
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	6
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	6
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	5
Sound, emotion, and innovation: Rethinking bayan education through digital tools	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
Ordinal processing in children with mathematics learning disabilities	5
Children’s endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object’s tangibility	5
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	5
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	5
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	5
Predictors and outcomes associated with early math anxiety: Parental factors, working memory and math performance	5
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	5
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	5
To punish or exclude? Children’s responses to unfair and fair advantages created in competitive contexts	5
Relationships between executive functions and morphosyntactic skills in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	5
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	5
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	5
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	5
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5