OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Consciousness and Cognition 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Clarifying the effect of facial emotional expression on inattentional blindness	86
Metacognition bridges experiences and beliefs in sense of agency	47
When did it happen? Verbal information about causal relations affects time estimation	39
Low working memory reduces the use of mental contrasting	37
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition	31
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision	26
A developmental perspective on mind wandering and its relation to goal-directed thought	24
Mapping the pre-reflective experience of “self” to the brain - An ERP study	23
On no man’s land: Subjective experiences during unresponsive and responsive sedative states induced by four different anesthetic agents	23
The feeling of the passage of time linked to individual interoceptive awareness abilities	22
Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries	22
Editorial Board	19
Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience	19
Perception of eye contact, self-referential thinking and age	18
Self-reported vividness of tactile imagery for object properties and body regions: An exploratory study	18
Sustained attention is related to heartbeat counting task performance but not to self-reported aspects of interoception and mindfulness	18
Editorial Board	18
The self and its internal thought: In search for a psychological baseline	18
Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams	18
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands	17
Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean	17
Judgments of effort and associated cues are influenced by stimulus context	16
Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness	15
Immersive exposure to simulated visual hallucinations modulates high-level human cognition	15
Goal characteristics predict the occurrence of goal-related events through belief in future occurrence	14

Provoking lucid dreams at home with sensory cues paired with pre-sleep cognitive training	14
More than fulfilled expectations: An electrophysiological investigation of varying cause-effect relationships and schizotypal personality traits as related to the sense of agency	14
Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception	13
Implicit visuospatial sequence representations are accessible in both the practice and the transfer hand	13
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences	13
Continuous tracking of effort and confidence while listening to speech-in-noise in young and older adults	12
High confidence and low accuracy in redundancy masking	12
Retraction notice to “Meditation-induced states predict attentional control over time“ [Conscious. Cogn. 37 (2015) 57–62]	12
Neuroelectrophysiological alteration associated with cognitive flexibility after 24 h sleep deprivation in adolescents	12
Editorial Board	12
Suppressing memory associations impacts decision-making preference: Evidence from the think/no-think paradigm	12
Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility – Form A	12
Doubting the double-blind: Introducing a questionnaire for awareness of experimental purposes in neurofeedback studies	12
Are implicit affective evaluations related to mental rotation performance?	11
Distinctive features of experiential time: Duration, speed and event density	11
The role of inhibitory control and ADHD symptoms in the occurrence of involuntary thoughts about the past and future: An individual differences study	11
How mortality awareness regulates intertemporal Choice: A joint effect of endpoint reminder and retrospective episodic thinking	11
Can masked gaze and arrow stimuli elicit overt orienting of attention? A registered report	10
Editorial Board	10
Top-down imagery overrides the influence of selection history effects	10
How do irrelevant stimuli from another modality influence responses to the targets in a same-different task	10
Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task	10
What is it like to do a visuo-spatial working memory task: A qualitative phenomenological study of the visual span task	10
Olfactory metacognition and memory in individuals with different subjective odor imagery abilities	9
Semantic memory and associative ability as predictors of divergent thinking and visual artistic creativity: An expert-novice comparison	9
Editorial Board	9
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Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces	9
“Invisible Dangers”: Unconscious processing of angry vs fearful faces and its relationship to subjective anger	9
Editorial Board	9
Is visual metacognition associated with autistic traits? A regression analysis shows no link between visual metacognition and Autism-Spectrum Quotient scores	9
How “diagnostic” criteria interact to shape synesthetic behavior: The role of self-report and test–retest consistency in synesthesia research	9
Dynamics of spontaneous thoughts: Exploration, attentional profile and the segmentation of the stream of thoughts	9
The influence of perceptual load on gaze-induced attentional orienting: The modulation of expectation	9
Ignorance and moral judgment: Testing the logical priority of the epistemic	8
Finding oneself in someone else’s shoes: The role of perspective in literary texts	8
Aphantasia and autism: An investigation of mental imagery vividness	8
How hypnotic suggestions work – A systematic review of prominent theories of hypnosis	8
The state-trait sense of self inventory: A psychometric study of self-experience and its relation to psychosis-like manifestations	8
Continuity or compensation? – A hypothesis testing study concerning two types of dreamers’ Aggressive Behaviors in Nightmares	8
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study	8
Perceptual event boundaries cause mnemonic trade-offs between temporal order memory and source Memory: The role of semantic relatedness among items	8
Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance	8
Editorial Board	8
Is auditory awareness graded or dichotomous: Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness at different depths of stimulus processing	8
The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population	8
The role of self-related information in the sense of agency	8
Taxometric evidence for a dimensional latent structure of hypnotic suggestibility	8
Do group-based mindfulness meditation programs enhance executive functioning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence	8
Typicality modulates the visual awareness of objects	8

Predictive processing and perception: What does imagining have to do with it?	8
Action selection and simultaneously presented emotional sound and reward: Differential effects on implicit and explicit sense of agency	7
Comparing third-party responsibility with intention attribution: An fMRI investigation of moral judgment	7
Editorial Board	7
Do the colors of your letters depend on your language? Language-dependent and universal influences on grapheme-color synesthesia in seven languages	7
Editorial Board	7
Real-world Statistical Regularity Impacts Inattentional Blindness	7
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery	7
The role of free will beliefs in social behavior: Priority areas for future research	7
Not just in sync: Relations between partners’ actions influence the sense of joint agency during joint action	7
Temporal error monitoring: Monitoring of internal clock or just motor noise?	7
Non-motor cues do not generate the perception of self-agency: A critique of cue-integration	7
Tactile temporal order judgment during rubber hand illusion: Distinct modulation of the point of subjective simultaneity and temporal resolution	7
Sense of agency disturbances in movement disorders: A comprehensive review	7
Intention and performance when reading aloud: Context is everything	7
Partial awareness during voluntary endogenous decision	7
Differences in the detail: Metacognition is better for seen than sensed changes to visual scenes	7
Ontological conceptions of information cannot account for consciousness	6
The altered state of consciousness induced by Δ9-THC	6
Editorial Board	6
Prior conscious experience modulates the impact of audiovisual temporal correspondence on unconscious visual processing	6
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention	6
A dual process model of spontaneous conscious thought	6
Functions of consciousness in emotional processing	6
Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study	6
Studying sense of agency online: Can intentional binding be observed in uncontrolled online settings?	6
Mental rotation with colored cube figures	6
Neurophysiological features of dream recall and the phenomenology of dreams: Auditory stimulation impacts dream experiences	6
Disentangling task conflict and information conflict in the Stroop task	6
Assessing tests of animal consciousness	6
The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills	6
Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception	6
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?	6
Dreaming is a conscious experience in its own right: proponents of non-cognitive and non-executive theories of dreaming suffer from a retrospective illusion of their waking extended self	6
Hypnotic predictors of agency: Responsiveness to specific suggestions in hypnosis is associated with involuntariness in fibromyalgia	6
The feeling of the passage of time against the time of the external clock	6
Sense of agency as synecdoche: Multiple neurobiological mechanisms may underlie the phenomenon summarized as sense of agency	5
Measuring motor awareness and metacognition at the start, middle, and end of a reaching movement	5
A tale of two architectures	5
Acetylcholine and metacognition during sleep	5
Dissociation between temporal attention and Consciousness: Unconscious temporal cue induces temporal expectation effect	5
Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding	5
Does response inhibition occur unconsciously? A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis	5
Self-prioritization effect in the attentional blink paradigm: Attention-based or familiarity-based effect?	5
The effect of context on mind-wandering in younger and older adults	5
Is there a continuum of agentive awareness across physical and mental actions? The case of quasi-movements	5
Freedom from what? Separating lay concepts of freedom	5
Non-contingent affective outcomes influence judgments of control	5
Temporal binding during deliberate rule breaking	5
The effect of font readability on the Moses illusion: A replication study	5
Investigating automatic processing preference in high trait anxiety individuals: Behavioral and neuroelectrophysiological evidence	5
Enhancing and advancing the understanding and study of dreaming and memory consolidation: Reflections, challenges, theoretical clarity, and methodological considerations	5
Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy	5
Induced awareness of synesthetic sensations in synesthetically predisposed “Borderline Non-synesthetes”	5
Evidence for the dependence of visual and kinesthetic motor imagery on isolated visual and motor practice	5
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults	5
Intentional binding and self-transcendence: Searching for pro-survival behavior in sense-of-agency	5
Editorial Board	5
Eye gaze direction modulates nonconscious affective contextual effect	5
Enriched category as a model of qualia structure based on similarity judgements	5
Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep	5
Open monitoring meditation alters the EEG gamma coherence in experts meditators: The expert practice exhibit greater right intra-hemispheric functional coupling	5
Automatic gaze to the nose region cannot be inhibited during observation of facial expression in Eastern observers	5
Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment	5
I am not the cause of this pain: An experimental study of the cognitive processes underlying causal attribution in the unpredictable situation whether negative outcomes	5
Self-other differences in intertemporal decision making: An eye-tracking investigation	5
Editorial Board	5
Link between fluid/crystallized intelligence and global/local visual abilities across adulthood	5
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Optimising episodic encoding within segmented virtual contexts	5
Tactile motor attention induces sensory attenuation for sounds	5