OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 54. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Psychology of Fake News	508
Evidence for a Third Visual Pathway Specialized for Social Perception	273
Embracing Change: Continual Learning in Deep Neural Networks	197
Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps	194
Cellular Mechanisms of Conscious Processing	169
Dimensions of Animal Consciousness	140
Structuring Knowledge with Cognitive Maps and Cognitive Graphs	138
Is it time to put rest to rest?	137
Interface, interaction, and intelligence in generalized brain–computer interfaces	130
Is There a ‘Social’ Brain? Implementations and Algorithms	128
Intrinsic neural timescales: temporal integration and segregation	120
How Beat Perception Co-opts Motor Neurophysiology	118
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science	110
Mirror neurons 30 years later: implications and applications	109
The secret life of predictive brains: what’s spontaneous activity for?	104
Effects of Language on Visual Perception	100
Integrated Intelligence from Distributed Brain Activity	98
Rationalizing constraints on the capacity for cognitive control	96
Strategic Regulation of Empathy	94
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Shortening the Last Mile	89
Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges	87
How variability shapes learning and generalization	82
What Is the Readiness Potential?	79
Implicit bias reflects systemic racism	78
How social media shapes polarization	78

Interoceptive pathways to understand and treat mental health conditions	78
Distraction in Visual Working Memory: Resistance is Not Futile	76
Perceptual awareness negativity: a physiological correlate of sensory consciousness	76
The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation	75
Can AI language models replace human participants?	74
Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology	70
Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition	67
In Search of Narcissus	66
Next-generation deep learning based on simulators and synthetic data	66
Noradrenergic modulation of rhythmic neural activity shapes selective attention	66
Hyperscanning Alone Cannot Prove Causality. Multibrain Stimulation Can	65
Is Activity Silent Working Memory Simply Episodic Memory?	64
The Treachery of Images: How Realism Influences Brain and Behavior	63
What Role Does Pathogen-Avoidance Psychology Play in Pandemics?	62
All in Good Time: Long-Lasting Postdictive Effects Reveal Discrete Perception	61
Neurocognitive, physiological, and biophysical effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation	61
What to expect where and when: how statistical learning drives visual selection	60
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity	60
Sources of Metacognitive Inefficiency	60
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition	59
The Best Laid Plans: Computational Principles of Anterior Cingulate Cortex	59
The Perception of Relations	59
Mind Meets Machine: Towards a Cognitive Science of Human–Machine Interactions	59
Bilingualism: Pathway to Cognitive Reserve	58
Neural Computations of Threat	57
Striving toward translation: strategies for reliable fMRI measurement	57
Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents	56
The Continuity of Context: A Role for the Hippocampus	54
Semantic Space Theory: A Computational Approach to Emotion	54
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions	54