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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population	52
The first prior: From co-embodiment to co-homeostasis in early life	37
An electroencephalographic examination of the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)	35
Exploring patterns of ongoing thought under naturalistic and conventional task-based conditions	32
The Near-Death Experience Content (NDE-C) scale: Development and psychometric validation	31
What is the relationship between Aphantasia, Synaesthesia and Autism?	31
Direct verbal suggestibility: Measurement and significance	30
The self and its internal thought: In search for a psychological baseline	29
I overthink—Therefore I am not: An active inference account of altered sense of self and agency in depersonalisation disorder	27
The Aha! moment: Is insight a different form of problem solving?	25
Selfhood triumvirate: From phenomenology to brain activity and back again	25
Intentional action and limitation of personal autonomy. Do restrictions of action selection decrease the sense of agency?	23
The weirdness of belief in free will	22
The entropic tongue: Disorganization of natural language under LSD	20
Does COVID-19 impact the frequency of threatening events in dreams? An exploration of pandemic dreaming in light of contemporary dream theories	19
Diverging implicit measurement of sense of agency using interval estimation and Libet clock	19
Nostalgia, reflection, brooding: Psychological benefits and autobiographical memory functions	18
‘Defrosting’ music chills with naltrexone: The role of endogenous opioids for the intensity of musical pleasure	18
Two faces of temporal binding: Action- and effect-binding are not correlated	18
How pills undermine skills: Moralization of cognitive enhancement and causal selection	17
Meditation, well-being and cognition in heartfulness meditators – A pilot study	16
Free to blame? Belief in free will is related to victim blaming	16
A mixed-methods examination of autonomous sensory meridian response: Comparison to frisson	16
Why expectations do or do not change after expectation violation: A comparison of seven models	16
Does a smartphone on the desk drain our brain? No evidence of cognitive costs due to smartphone presence in a short-term and prospective memory task	15

A distinction concerning vision-for-action and affordance perception	15
Conscious intention and human action: Review of the rise and fall of the readiness potential and Libet’s clock	15
Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility – Form A	14
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition	14
Altering access to autobiographical episodes with prior semantic knowledge	13
Congenital lack and extraordinary ability in object and spatial imagery: An investigation on sub-types of aphantasia and hyperphantasia	13
Prosthesis embodiment and attenuation of prosthetic touch in upper limb amputees – A proof-of-concept study	13
Pre-stimulus alpha predicts inattentional blindness	13
Revisiting consciousness: Distinguishing between states of conscious focused attention and mind wandering with EEG	13
Electrophysiological correlates of self-prioritization	12
Restructuring insight: An integrative review of insight in problem-solving, meditation, psychotherapy, delusions and psychedelics	12
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?	12
Sense of agency disturbances in movement disorders: A comprehensive review	12
Age-related changes in ongoing thought relate to external context and individual cognition	12
Do group-based mindfulness meditation programs enhance executive functioning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence	12
Examining the robustness of the relationship between metacognitive efficiency and metacognitive bias	12
The temporal sensitivity to the tactile-induced double flash illusion mediates the impact of beta oscillations on schizotypal personality traits	11
The discrepant effect of acute stress on cognitive inhibition and response inhibition	11
Patterns of ongoing thought in the real world	11
Dreams reflect nocturnal cognitive processes: Early-night dreams are more continuous with waking life, and late-night dreams are more emotional and hyperassociative	11
Reasoning about conscious experience with axiomatic and graphical mathematics	10
Hotspots in the immediate aftermath of trauma – Mental imagery of worst moments highlighting time, space and motion	10
Relative fluency (unfelt vs felt) in active inference	10
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision	10
The valence and the functions of autobiographical memories: Does intensity matter?	10
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults	10
The spatial specificity of sensory attenuation for self-touch	10
Touching you, touching me: Higher incidence of mirror-touch synaesthesia and positive (but not negative) reactions to social touch in Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response	9
Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception	9
Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study	9
Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation	9
Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming affects involuntary autobiographical memory production after a long delay	9
Elucidating the mental processes underlying the direct retrieval of autobiographical memories	9
Sustained attention is related to heartbeat counting task performance but not to self-reported aspects of interoception and mindfulness	9
Extracting blinks from continuous eye-tracking data in a mind wandering paradigm	8
Investigating the role of involuntary retrieval in music-evoked autobiographical memories	8
Neural processing of lateralised task-irrelevant fearful faces under different awareness conditions	8
While you were sleeping: Evidence for high-level executive processing of an auditory narrative during sleep	8
Studying sense of agency online: Can intentional binding be observed in uncontrolled online settings?	8
Sense of agency as synecdoche: Multiple neurobiological mechanisms may underlie the phenomenon summarized as sense of agency	8
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands	8
Cognitive load mitigates the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrement	8
The stability of visual perspective and vividness during mental time travel	8
More than off-task: Increased freely-moving thought in ADHD	8
Time to update our suggestibility scales	8
A reduction in the implicit sense of agency during adolescence compared to childhood and adulthood	7
Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep	7
Increased pupil dilation during tip-of-the-tongue states	7
Taxometric evidence for a dimensional latent structure of hypnotic suggestibility	7
Looking at remembering: Eye movements, pupil size, and autobiographical memory	7

Consciousness can overflow report: Novel evidence from attribute amnesia of a single stimulus	7
Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications	7
Sleeping poorly is robustly associated with a tendency to engage in spontaneous waking thought	7
The link between math anxiety and performance does not depend on working memory: A network analysis study	7
Sitting with it: An investigation of the relationship between trait mindfulness and sustained attention	7
Assessing tests of animal consciousness	7
The role of affective touch in whole-body embodiment remains equivocal	7
Embodied cognition: So flexible as to be “disembodied”?	7
The role of visual imagery in story reading: Evidence from aphantasia	6
Consciousness and complexity: Neurobiological naturalism and integrated information theory	6
Contextual cueing is not flexible	6
The production of false recognition and the associated state of consciousness following encoding in a naturalistic context in aging	6
On the relation between mind wandering, PTSD symptomology, and self-control	6
The role of inhibitory control and ADHD symptoms in the occurrence of involuntary thoughts about the past and future: An individual differences study	6
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention	6
Rumination, emotional intensity and emotional clarity	6
Not just in sync: Relations between partners’ actions influence the sense of joint agency during joint action	6
Sensory attenuation of action outcomes of varying amplitude and valence	6
Visual perspective as a two-dimensional construct in episodic future thought	6
Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy	6
Beyond mind wandering: Performance variability and neural activity during off-task thought and other attention lapses	6
A psychologically based taxonomy of Magicians’ forcing Techniques: How magicians influence our choices, and how to use this to study psychological mechanisms	6
The role of free will beliefs in social behavior: Priority areas for future research	6
A return of mental imagery: The pictorial theory of visual perspective-taking	6
A tale of two architectures	6
Vergence eye movements during figure-ground perception	6
The association between the propensity to experience meaningful coincidence and brain anatomy in healthy females: The moderating role of coping skills	6
BizarreVR: Dream-like bizarreness in immersive virtual reality induced changes in conscious experience of reality while leaving spatial presence intact	5
Self-consciousness impairments in schizophrenia with and without first rank symptoms using the moving rubber hand illusion	5
The monologue of the double: Allocentric reduplication of the own voice alters bodily self-perception	5
The relation between task-relatedness of anxiety and metacognitive performance	5
Valence, form, and content of self-talk predict sport type and level of performance	5
Enriched category as a model of qualia structure based on similarity judgements	5
The dynamics of affect across the wake-sleep cycle: From waking mind-wandering to night-time dreaming	5
Influence of vestibular signals on bodily self-consciousness: Different sensory weighting strategies based on visual dependency	5
Self-caught methodologies for measuring mind wandering with meta-awareness: A systematic review	5
Augmenting perception: How artificial intelligence transforms sensory substitution	5
“Look at the future”: Maintained fixation impoverishes future thinking	5
Primary states of consciousness: A review of historical and contemporary developments	5
Vicarious ostracism reduces observers’ sense of agency	5
Expanding the discussion: Revision of the fundamental assumptions framing the study of the neural correlates of consciousness	5
Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance	5
Sense of agency during and following recovery from anorexia nervosa	5
Fluent processing leads to positive stimulus evaluations even when base rates suggest negative evaluations	5
Is this my foot? Experimentally induced disownership in individuals with body integrity dysphoria	5
The altered state of consciousness induced by Δ9-THC	5
The functional contributions of consciousness	5
Visual awareness judgments are sensitive to accuracy feedback in stimulus discrimination tasks	5
Computational models of the “active self” and its disturbances in schizophrenia	5
Trait mindfulness and attention to emotional information: An eye tracking study	5
Sense of agency for mental actions: Insights from a belief-based action-effect paradigm	5
Top-down imagery overrides the influence of selection history effects	5