OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Development is 4. 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
Editorial Board	36
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	23
Editorial Board	22
Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	21
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	21
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	18
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	17
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	16
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	16
Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	16
Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	15
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	15
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	14
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	14
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
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	13
Contingent experience with touchscreens promotes parent-child conversations	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	11
How much can you learn in one year? How content, pedagogical resources, and learner’s age influence beliefs about knowledge acquisition	11
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	11
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	11
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	11
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	11
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	11

How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	10
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	10
Preschoolers represent others’ false beliefs about emotions	10
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	10
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	10
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	10
Children deny that God could change morality	9
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	9
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	9
Contribution of working memory to gesture production in toddlers	9
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	9
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	9
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	9
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	9
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	9
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	8
Editorial Board	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
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	8
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	8
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	8
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	7
Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	7
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	7
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	7
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	7
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	7
Development of spatial size representation of the social categorization of rich and poor	7
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	7
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	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
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	7
Semantic long-term memory and verbal working memory performance: How does their relationship change with age?	6
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	6
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	6
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	6
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	6
The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	6
A longitudinal study on basic numerical skills in early numerical development	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	6
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	6
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6

Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	6
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	5
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	5
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
Age group differences in SFON tendency and arithmetical skills of four to seven year olds in four countries with different school starting ages	5
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	5
To punish or exclude? Children’s responses to unfair and fair advantages created in competitive contexts	5
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	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
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	5
Beyond inhibitory control: Relationship between spatial and social skills in preschool children	5
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Assessment of vocabulary comprehension in Bilingual Qom - Spanish Indigenous children in Northern Argentina: Evidence for education, language preservation, and psycholinguistic theory	5
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	4
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	4
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	4
Does reading fluency mediate the relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills and reading comprehension? A study in European Portuguese	4
A multi-method approach to addressing the toddler data desert in attention research	4
Mental imagery and visual working memory abilities appear to be unrelated in childhood: Evidence for individual differences in strategy use	4
The impact of humor on infant social learning: Insights from social gaze, heart rate variability, and laughter	4
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	4
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	4
When it’s okay to hit: How Turkish and U.S. preschoolers and adults make judgments about permissible and impermissible acts of force	4
The influence of parental guidance on video game performance, exploration, and cortical activity in 5-year-old children	4
Editorial Board	4
The role of cognition in person judgments: Introduction to the special issue	4
The Early Pretending Survey (EPS): A reliable parent-report measure of pretense type development for 4- to 47-month-olds	4
Preschoolers’ acquisition of producer-product metonymy	4
Small procedural differences matter: Conceptual and direct replication attempts of the communication-intervention effect on infants’ false-belief ascriptions	4
Children’s understanding of gratitude, generosity, and reciprocity	4
Puppets as symbols in early development: From whether to how in the Theory of Puppets debate	4
Longitudinal association between non-symbolic numerical representation and emerging math competence: The dynamic mediation effect from cardinal knowledge to ordinal skills	4
Using numbers strategically: Proportional reasoning induces wealth in-group bias in an equity task	4
Does English orthography influence bilingual Spanish readers? The effect of grapheme crosslinguistic congruency and complexity on letter detection	4