OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 56. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry	234
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs	225
What counts when heartbeats are counted	218
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships	210
Anxiety involves altered planning	191
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions	176
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change	164
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception	148
Advisory Board and Contents	143
Ritalin as a causal perturbation	132
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement	129
Advisory Board and Contents	129
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils	121
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history	119
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function	119
Subscription and Copyright Information	118
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively	112
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation	106
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape	98
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain	98
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience	97
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans	94
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior	92
The computational challenge of social learning	92
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition	90

The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning	90
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia	87
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation	86
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions	81
Abstract task representations for inference and control	79
Subscription and Copyright Information	78
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex	77
Subscription and Copyright Information	76
Subscription and Copyright Information	74
Advisory Board and Contents	73
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination	71
Simplifying social learning	69
Distortion of mental body representations	68
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus	67
The ‘design features’ of language revisited	66
Beyond discrete-choice options	65
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory	65
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention	65
Subscription and Copyright Information	65
Subscription and Copyright Information	64
Advisory Board and Contents	64
Reward is enough for social learning	61
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?	60
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories	59
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process	59
Reconceptualizing cognitive listening	58
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?	58
Advisory Board and Contents	58
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable	57
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging	56
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading	56