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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	119
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	25
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	22
Editorial Board	22
The role of executive functions and fluid intelligence in the prediction of conditional strategy knowledge of self-regulated learning	21
Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	19
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	18
The influence of reward on preschoolers’ cheating: A moderating role of theory of mind and inhibitory control	18
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	18
The relation between attention, inhibitory control and spatial working memory in 3- and 4-year-olds	15
Improving students’ creativity and Chinese academic achievement through Mind-Mapping integrated Differentiated Instruction (MM-DI)	15
Development of short- and long-term preference understanding from the perspective of oneself and another	15
Adolescents’ beliefs about caste-essentialism and their social location in Nepal	14
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	14
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	14
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	13
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
Effect of instruction medium and modality on learning spatial concepts	12
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	11
Relationship between narrative ability and executive functions: A longitudinal study in kindergarten classrooms	11
Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	11
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	11
Is variety the spice of life? The role of variability in early word learning	11
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	10
Executive functions and decision making in childhood: A systematic review	10

Children deny that God could change morality	10
Spontaneous focus on patterns and arithmetic skill in 4- to 6-year-old children	10
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	10
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	10
How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	10
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	9
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	9
Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	9
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	9
How to learn computer versus human languages: A scoping review of behavioral and neural evidence	9
Behavioral and emotional outcomes in school-aged children conceived via in vitro fertilization: A prospective matched cohort study in Tehran, Iran	9
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	9
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	9
From recognition to production: Longitudinal links between reading, handwriting, and spelling in Chinese kindergartners	9
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	9
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	9
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	9
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
Relative age effect in formal musical training	8
Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	8
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
Editorial Board	8
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	8
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
Unlocking potentials: Impact of integrating scaffolded educational escape rooms on junior high school students’ motivation, creativity, and academic achievement in Chinese language instruction	7
The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	7
Bilingualism and prospective memory monitoring in middle childhood: Efficiency gains under high self-initiated demand	7
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	7
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	7
Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	7
Mediators and moderators of continuous and interval training interventions on cognitive performance and BDNF in adolescents with overweight/obesity	7
Influences of training length on the effectiveness of a number board intervention for 6-year-old German kindergartners	7
From executive functions to flexible cognition: Early links between cognitive flexibility and dispositional openness	7
Editorial Board	7
Predictors and outcomes associated with early math anxiety: Parental factors, working memory and math performance	6
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	6
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	6
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	6
Ordinal processing in children with mathematics learning disabilities	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	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
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	6
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	6
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	6
The relative age effect in secondary schools	6
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	6
Examining preschoolers’ social-cognitive skills and persuasion styles in a novel persuasion task	6

Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	6
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	6
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	5
Relationships between executive functions and morphosyntactic skills in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	5
Sound, emotion, and innovation: Rethinking bayan education through digital tools	5
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	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
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	5
Language context shapes bilingual children’s memory for newly encountered words	5
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	5
Pretend play is not an ‘extra’: Exploring the relation between parent-reported pretend play and executive functions in the toddlerhood period	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
How young children come to recommend resource choices that reduce waste	5
Assessment of vocabulary comprehension in Bilingual Qom - Spanish Indigenous children in Northern Argentina: Evidence for education, language preservation, and psycholinguistic theory	4
Latine dual language learners' bilingual development in math and cognition: A longitudinal latent profile analysis	4
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	4
Exploring the literary impact of visual storytelling techniques in graphic novels and their impact on American Literary Tradition	4
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	4
Examining the impact of dialogic reading interventions with math picture books	4
Does reading fluency mediate the relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills and reading comprehension? A study in European Portuguese	4
Age group differences in SFON tendency and arithmetical skills of four to seven year olds in four countries with different school starting ages	4
Development of an object-space binding bias in episodic memory	4
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	4
Motivational context does not influence children’s third-party punishment in intergroup contexts	4
The relation between spatial language comprehension and mental transformation during early childhood	4
Children’s understanding of gratitude, generosity, and reciprocity	4
Children’s prosocial and selfish rule-breaking following an implicit quid pro quo	4
Why copy faithfully? Examining the role of social affiliation and norms understanding in preschoolers’ overimitation	4
Corrigendum to “Relative age effect in formal musical training” [Cognitive Development 75 (2025), 101603]	4
Internal manipulation of working memory: Developmental differences in early childhood	4
Relations between morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge and word reading in different orthographies and scripts: Evidence from Africa and Asia	4
Seeing the big picture: How early-learned nouns and their referents co-occur in children’s picture books	4
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	4
Puppets as symbols in early development: From whether to how in the Theory of Puppets debate	4
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	4