OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 57. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs	290
Advisory Board and Contents	277
Ritalin as a causal perturbation	265
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships	250
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions	223
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils	179
Brain leakage exposes covert cognitive computations in bodily movements	178
Advisory Board and Contents	177
Anxiety involves altered planning	165
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry	144
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception	144
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement	139
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change	137
What counts when heartbeats are counted	121
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history	121
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function	121
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation	117
Subscription and Copyright Information	113
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively	113
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape	112
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans	112
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation	109
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain	109
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior	103
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning	101

Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience	100
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions	97
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition	96
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia	96
Abstract task representations for inference and control	94
Subscription and Copyright Information	93
Simplifying social learning	89
Subscription and Copyright Information	88
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex	88
Subscription and Copyright Information	87
Beyond discrete-choice options	82
Advisory Board and Contents	82
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory	79
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention	75
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus	74
The ‘design features’ of language revisited	73
How can we validate theory-derived indicators of consciousness in Artificial Intelligence?	69
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination	69
Intuitive theories of truth	68
People think of women as one thing, men as many	67
Subscription and Copyright Information	66
Advisory Board and Contents	65
Subscription and Copyright Information	64
Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect	63
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging	63
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?	62
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process	62
Advisory Board and Contents	62
Advisory Board and Contents	59
The cognitive side of communication in social insects	58
A unifying taxonomy of dyadic emotional processes	58
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable	58