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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
ERP and MEG correlates of visual consciousness: The second decade	81
The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population	38
Mindfulness induction and cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Delusions and theories of belief	27
Dream engineering: Simulating worlds through sensory stimulation	26
An electroencephalographic examination of the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)	26
The first prior: From co-embodiment to co-homeostasis in early life	26
Exploring patterns of ongoing thought under naturalistic and conventional task-based conditions	25
Direct verbal suggestibility: Measurement and significance	23
The Near-Death Experience Content (NDE-C) scale: Development and psychometric validation	23
Functional connectivity associated with five different categories of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) triggers	22
Selfhood triumvirate: From phenomenology to brain activity and back again	22
The weirdness of belief in free will	21
The Aha! moment: Is insight a different form of problem solving?	21
What is the relationship between Aphantasia, Synaesthesia and Autism?	21
The entropic tongue: Disorganization of natural language under LSD	20
Varieties of the extended self	19
Intentional action and limitation of personal autonomy. Do restrictions of action selection decrease the sense of agency?	18
The self and its internal thought: In search for a psychological baseline	18
A reply to “the unfolding argument”: Beyond functionalism/behaviorism and towards a science of causal structure theories of consciousness	18
Nostalgia, reflection, brooding: Psychological benefits and autobiographical memory functions	17
Does COVID-19 impact the frequency of threatening events in dreams? An exploration of pandemic dreaming in light of contemporary dream theories	17
Dormio: A targeted dream incubation device	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

Distal engagement: Intentions in perception	15
I overthink—Therefore I am not: An active inference account of altered sense of self and agency in depersonalisation disorder	15
How pills undermine skills: Moralization of cognitive enhancement and causal selection	15
Diverging implicit measurement of sense of agency using interval estimation and Libet clock	15
Dream lucidity is associated with positive waking mood	14
The minimal self hypothesis	14
Free to blame? Belief in free will is related to victim blaming	14
‘Defrosting’ music chills with naltrexone: The role of endogenous opioids for the intensity of musical pleasure	13
Two faces of temporal binding: Action- and effect-binding are not correlated	13
Excessive use of reminders: Metacognition and effort-minimisation in cognitive offloading	13
Pre-stimulus alpha predicts inattentional blindness	13
Meditation, well-being and cognition in heartfulness meditators – A pilot study	13
Effects of 1 mA and 2 mA transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory performance in healthy participants	13
Prosthesis embodiment and attenuation of prosthetic touch in upper limb amputees – A proof-of-concept study	12
A distinction concerning vision-for-action and affordance perception	12
Visual awareness and the levels of processing hypothesis: A critical review	12
Conscious intention and human action: Review of the rise and fall of the readiness potential and Libet’s clock	11
Individual differences in sensory integration predict differences in time perception and individual levels of schizotypy	11
Creativity on tap 2: Investigating dose effects of alcohol on cognitive control and creative cognition	11
Forcing you to experience wonder: Unconsciously biasing people’s choice through strategic physical positioning	11
Percolating ideas: The effects of caffeine on creative thinking and problem solving	11
Individual differences impact memory for a crime: A study on executive functions resources	11
Altering access to autobiographical episodes with prior semantic knowledge	11
Attempted induction of signalled lucid dreaming by transcranial alternating current stimulation	11
Sense of agency: Sensorimotor signals and social context are differentially weighed at implicit and explicit levels	11
Is auditory awareness negativity confounded by performance?	11
A mixed-methods examination of autonomous sensory meridian response: Comparison to frisson	10
Dreams reflect nocturnal cognitive processes: Early-night dreams are more continuous with waking life, and late-night dreams are more emotional and hyperassociative	10
Examining the robustness of the relationship between metacognitive efficiency and metacognitive bias	10
Jumping to conclusions in the less-delusion-prone? Further evidence from a more reliable beads task	10
Structure in the stream of consciousness: Evidence from a verbalized thought protocol and automated text analytic methods	10
Revisiting consciousness: Distinguishing between states of conscious focused attention and mind wandering with EEG	10
Sense of agency disturbances in movement disorders: A comprehensive review	9
Surface features can deeply affect artificial grammar learning	9
The temporal sensitivity to the tactile-induced double flash illusion mediates the impact of beta oscillations on schizotypal personality traits	9
The spatial specificity of sensory attenuation for self-touch	9
Knowledge, adequacy, and approximate truth	9
The evolving sense of agency: Context recency and quality modulate the interaction between prospective and retrospective processes	9
Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility – Form A	9
Priming autobiographical memories: How recalling the past may affect everyday forms of autobiographical remembering	9
Brain states matter. A reply to the unfolding argument	9
Electrophysiological correlates of self-prioritization	8
‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices	8
The discrepant effect of acute stress on cognitive inhibition and response inhibition	8
Neural processing of lateralised task-irrelevant fearful faces under different awareness conditions	8
Visual consciousness of faces in the attentional blink: Knowledge-based effects of trustworthiness dominate over appearance-based impressions	8
Hotspots in the immediate aftermath of trauma – Mental imagery of worst moments highlighting time, space and motion	8
Elucidating the mental processes underlying the direct retrieval of autobiographical memories	8
Age-related changes in ongoing thought relate to external context and individual cognition	8
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition	8

Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision	8
Congenital lack and extraordinary ability in object and spatial imagery: An investigation on sub-types of aphantasia and hyperphantasia	8
Do group-based mindfulness meditation programs enhance executive functioning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence	8
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands	8
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?	8
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults	7
Sustained attention is related to heartbeat counting task performance but not to self-reported aspects of interoception and mindfulness	7
Sleep fragmentation and lucid dreaming	7
Looking at remembering: Eye movements, pupil size, and autobiographical memory	7
Restructuring insight: An integrative review of insight in problem-solving, meditation, psychotherapy, delusions and psychedelics	7
The impact of state and dispositional mindfulness on prospective memory: A virtual reality study	7
Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications	7
Flying dreams stimulated by an immersive virtual reality task	7
The valence and the functions of autobiographical memories: Does intensity matter?	7
The temporally-integrated causality landscape: A theoretical framework for consciousness and meaning	7
Reasoning about conscious experience with axiomatic and graphical mathematics	7
Sleeping poorly is robustly associated with a tendency to engage in spontaneous waking thought	7
The role of affective touch in whole-body embodiment remains equivocal	7
Partial memory reinstatement while (lucid) dreaming to change the dream environment	7
Sense of agency as synecdoche: Multiple neurobiological mechanisms may underlie the phenomenon summarized as sense of agency	7
Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study	6
The stability of visual perspective and vividness during mental time travel	6
A reduction in the implicit sense of agency during adolescence compared to childhood and adulthood	6
Teleology and the intentions of supernatural agents	6
Metacognition and mindreading in young children: A cross-cultural study	6
Inducing lucid dreams by olfactory-cued reactivation of reality testing during early-morning sleep: A proof of concept	6
Embodied cognition: So flexible as to be “disembodied”?	6
Sitting with it: An investigation of the relationship between trait mindfulness and sustained attention	6
Masked blindsight in normal observers: Measuring subjective and objective responses to two features of each stimulus	6
Cognitive load mitigates the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrement	6
Investigating the role of involuntary retrieval in music-evoked autobiographical memories	6
Visual perspective as a two-dimensional construct in episodic future thought	6
Relative fluency (unfelt vs felt) in active inference	6
Individual differences in the tendency to see the expected	6
An Investigation of Awareness and Metacognition in Neurofeedback with the Amygdala Electrical Fingerprint	5
A psychologically based taxonomy of Magicians’ forcing Techniques: How magicians influence our choices, and how to use this to study psychological mechanisms	5
The conscious experience of color constancy and neural responses to subliminal deviations – A behavioral and EEG/ERP oddball study	5
Computational models of the “active self” and its disturbances in schizophrenia	5
Sensory attenuation of action outcomes of varying amplitude and valence	5
Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep	5
Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception	5
Metacognition and emotion – How accurate perception of own biases relates to positive feelings and hedonic capacity	5
More than off-task: Increased freely-moving thought in ADHD	5
Visual awareness judgments are sensitive to accuracy feedback in stimulus discrimination tasks	5
Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming affects involuntary autobiographical memory production after a long delay	5
The relation between task-relatedness of anxiety and metacognitive performance	5
Emotion matters: The influence of valence on episodic future thinking in young and older adults	5
Spatial anticipatory attentional bias for threat: Reliable individual differences with RT-based online measurement	5
Top-down imagery overrides the influence of selection history effects	5
Inducing signal-verified lucid dreams in 40% of untrained novice lucid dreamers within two nights in a sleep laboratory setting	5
Time to update our suggestibility scales	5
Blackout of my nights: Contentless, timeless and selfless report from the night in patients with central hypersomnias	5
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention	5
Touching you, touching me: Higher incidence of mirror-touch synaesthesia and positive (but not negative) reactions to social touch in Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response	5
Extracting blinks from continuous eye-tracking data in a mind wandering paradigm	5
Faster might not be better: Pictures may not elicit a stronger unconscious priming effect than words when modulated by semantic similarity	5
Valence, form, and content of self-talk predict sport type and level of performance	5
The production of false recognition and the associated state of consciousness following encoding in a naturalistic context in aging	5
Influence of vestibular signals on bodily self-consciousness: Different sensory weighting strategies based on visual dependency	5
Synchronous stimulation in the rubber hand illusion task boosts the subsequent sense of ownership on the vicarious agency task	5
Fluent processing leads to positive stimulus evaluations even when base rates suggest negative evaluations	5
While you were sleeping: Evidence for high-level executive processing of an auditory narrative during sleep	5