Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Cognitive Sciences 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement220
What counts when heartbeats are counted216
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function211
How social media shapes polarization203
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry175
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs169
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships156
Anxiety involves altered planning143
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils139
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception130
Advisory Board and Contents124
Ritalin as a causal perturbation122
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions121
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change117
Advisory Board and Contents115
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history115
Subscription and Copyright Information114
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans113
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively107
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape96
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition96
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience94
Subscription and Copyright Information93
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain89
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation88
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia88
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior87
Abstract task representations for inference and control85
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions83
The computational challenge of social learning80
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation77
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning77
Subscription and Copyright Information75
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention73
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus72
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory70
Simplifying social learning67
Beyond discrete-choice options66
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex66
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination65
Subscription and Copyright Information64
Distortion of mental body representations63
Subscription and Copyright Information62
Advisory Board and Contents61
Still challenging the pattern separation dogma: ‘quiero retruco’61
Advisory Board and Contents60
Subscription and Copyright Information60
The cognitive side of communication in social insects59
Subscription and Copyright Information59
Advisory Board and Contents58
Reward is enough for social learning58
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process58
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI57
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging56
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?56
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading56
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories55
Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect54
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?54
Reconceptualizing cognitive listening53
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable51
Contextual inference in learning and memory48
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?48
Advisory Board and Contents46
Culture and in-group favoritism in social decision-making46
Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis46
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control45
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning45
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics45
Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy44
Externalizing autobiographical memories in the digital age44
What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case44
Subscription and Copyright Information44
Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health44
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing44
Decoding cognition in real-time43
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience43
Subscription and Copyright Information43
Does memory research have a realistic future?43
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?42
Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy42
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming42
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition42
How early beliefs about brilliance shape gender gaps42
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture41
Memory updating and the structure of event representations41
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision40
When expert predictions fail39
Convergent developmental principles between Caenorhabditis elegans and human connectomes39
Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny39
Subscription and Copyright Information39
The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable39
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing37
Subscription and Copyright Information37
A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making37
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research36
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks36
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?36
The cognitive science of technology36
Advisory Board and Contents35
Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes35
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers35
Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making35
'Uncertainty attunement' has explanatory value in understanding autistic anxiety34
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences33
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all33
Advisory Board and Contents33
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory32
Subscription and Copyright Information32
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power32
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics30
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics30
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing30
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song29
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity29
Subscription and Copyright Information29
Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories28
Can only meat machines be conscious?28
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?28
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids28
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence28
Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater28
Extreme environments for understanding brain and cognition27
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes27
Adversity-based identities drive social change27
Computational ethics27
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?27
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?26
The topological space of subjective experience26
How variability shapes learning and generalization26
Interactive repair and the foundations of language26
Seeing social interactions26
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory25
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions25
The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions25
Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition25
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction24
Imagining the future self through thought experiments24
Addressing misperceptions takes more than combating fake news24
An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex24
Advisory Board and Contents23
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception23
Societies should not ignore their incel problem23
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking23
Advisory Board and Contents23
When do sensitive periods emerge later in development?23
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction23
Advisory Board and Contents23
Subscription and Copyright Information22
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making22
Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al.22
Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood22
Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence22
Subscription and Copyright Information22
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies21
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior21
Motor working memory21
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans21
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus21
Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?20
Reality check: how do we know what's real?20
Subscription and Copyright Information20
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
Why were the textbooks wrong about brain plasticity?19
Intermediate science knowledge predicts overconfidence19
Statistical learning in spelling and reading19
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise19
Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization19
Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation19
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist18
Closed-loop neuromodulation for studying spontaneous activity and causality18
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories18
Advisory Board and Contents18
Subscription and Copyright Information18
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain18
On second thoughts: changes of mind in decision-making18
Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power18
What kind of network is the brain?17
Subscription and Copyright Information17
Searching for answers: expert pattern recognition and planning17
Associative symmetry: a divide between humans and nonhumans?17
Aphantasia as imagery blindsight16
Learning with certainty in childhood16
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition16
Sense of purpose in life and healthier cognitive aging16
Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells16
Implicit bias reflects systemic racism16
Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?16
Toward consumer acceptance of cultured meat15
The process of gendering: gender as a verb15
Tracking dynamic social impressions from multidimensional voice representation15
Emotion and prediction errors: which ingredients matter?15
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research15
Unpacking the dynamic role of physical effort in shaping behavior15
Early adversity and the development of explore–exploit tradeoffs15
Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidence15
Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science15
Developing language in a digital world14
Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation14
Can sequencing explain the in–out effect?14
How do natural environments shape adaptive cognition across the lifespan?14
Social odor as a source of learning in human infants14
Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations14
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics14
Social disconnection and mortality: new evidence for old truths14
Thinking outside the ballot box14
How do we see style?14
A hierarchical model of early brain functional network development14
Advisory Board and Contents14
The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation14
Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition13
Varieties of aphantasia13
The psychology of virality13
Attention with or without working memory: mnemonic reselection of attended information13
Children’s thinking about group-based social hierarchies13
Choice overload and its consequences for animal decision-making13
Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits13
The strength of weak integrated information theory13
Brain states as wave-like motifs13
Advisory Board and Contents13
Sleep and memory consolidation in insects13
Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond13
Perceiving the shape and material properties of 3D surfaces12
Is there such a thing as a ‘good statistical learner’?12
Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness12
Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing12
Realizing the promise of AI: a new calling for cognitive science12
Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration12
How does brain geometry influence human brain function?12
In search of boredom: beyond a functional account12
Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes12
Subscription and Copyright Information11
Deliberating on the role of dopamine11
Studying large language models as compression algorithms for human culture11
Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges11
Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology11
A role for the claustrum in cognitive control11
Subscription and Copyright Information10
Advisory Board and Contents10
A goal-centric outlook on learning10
Understanding memorability through artificial and artist intelligence10
Solving the causal inference problem10
Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research10
Zoom disrupts eye contact behaviour: problems and solutions10
Unveiling the benefits of multitasking in disentangled representation formation10
Unfolding the evolution of human cognition10
Social affordances, mirror neurons, and how to understand the social brain10
Mind-wandering: mechanistic insights from lesion, tDCS, and iEEG10
Degrees of algorithmic equivalence between the brain and its DNN models9
Evolution of the uniformly white sclera in humans: critical updates9
0.031867980957031