Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Advisory Board and Contents201
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Anxiety involves altered planning192
Ritalin as a causal perturbation187
What counts when heartbeats are counted167
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry143
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships140
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils133
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change130
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs130
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception130
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions121
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history114
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement114
How social media shapes polarization113
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function111
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Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience109
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain103
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior101
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning97
Abstract task representations for inference and control90
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Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition86
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively82
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation81
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape81
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation79
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions77
The computational challenge of social learning77
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia76
Advisory Board and Contents75
Beyond discrete-choice options74
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Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex74
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Simplifying social learning66
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention66
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination66
Still challenging the pattern separation dogma: ‘quiero retruco’64
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus63
Distortion of mental body representations63
Partisan bias in the identification of fake news63
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory63
Advisory Board and Contents62
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Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging60
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?57
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What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?55
Reward is enough for social learning54
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?54
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories53
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable53
Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect53
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process52
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI52
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading52
Contextual inference in learning and memory52
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Advisory Board and Contents50
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning50
Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy50
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?48
Decoding cognition in real-time48
Does memory research have a realistic future?46
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing46
Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy46
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition45
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics44
What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case44
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control43
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Externalizing autobiographical memories in the digital age42
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience42
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Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision41
Convergent developmental principles between Caenorhabditis elegans and human connectomes41
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A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making41
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When expert predictions fail40
Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny40
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?40
The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable40
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture40
Memory updating and the structure of event representations39
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research38
How early beliefs about brilliance shape gender gaps37
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing37
Advisory Board and Contents37
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming37
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Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers36
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Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing36
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences35
'Uncertainty attunement' has explanatory value in understanding autistic anxiety35
Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making35
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all34
Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes34
Cultivating allyship through casual mentoring to promote diversity33
Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again33
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks33
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power33
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics33
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics33
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory33
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity32
The cognitive science of technology32
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song31
How explanation guides belief change31
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Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?30
Generative adversarial networks unlock new methods for cognitive science30
Extreme environments for understanding brain and cognition30
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids29
The topological space of subjective experience28
Adversity-based identities drive social change28
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes28
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence27
Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater27
Interactive repair and the foundations of language27
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?27
Seeing social interactions26
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?26
Computational ethics26
How variability shapes learning and generalization26
The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions25
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory25
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An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex24
Territorial blueprint in the hippocampal system24
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction24
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking24
Imagining the future self through thought experiments24
When do sensitive periods emerge later in development?24
Societies should not ignore their incel problem23
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception23
Addressing misperceptions takes more than combating fake news23
Advisory Board and Contents22
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction22
Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition22
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Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions22
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Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood21
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus21
Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?21
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Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence21
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans20
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making20
A computational neuroethology perspective on body and expression perception20
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories19
Reality check: how do we know what's real?19
What kind of network is the brain?19
Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?19
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Statistical learning in spelling and reading19
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior19
Advisory Board and Contents19
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise19
Searching for answers: expert pattern recognition and planning19
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain18
Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization18
Implicit bias reflects systemic racism17
Learning with certainty in childhood17
Aphantasia as imagery blindsight17
On second thoughts: changes of mind in decision-making17
Intermediate science knowledge predicts overconfidence17
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist17
Sense of purpose in life and healthier cognitive aging17
Closed-loop neuromodulation for studying spontaneous activity and causality17
Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power17
Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation16
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition16
Associative symmetry: a divide between humans and nonhumans?16
Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells16
Dual coding of knowledge in the human brain15
Unpacking the dynamic role of physical effort in shaping behavior15
The process of gendering: gender as a verb15
Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidence15
Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science15
Toward consumer acceptance of cultured meat15
Early adversity and the development of explore–exploit tradeoffs14
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Children’s thinking about group-based social hierarchies14
Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation14
Can sequencing explain the in–out effect?14
Developing language in a digital world14
Attention with or without working memory: mnemonic reselection of attended information14
Tracking dynamic social impressions from multidimensional voice representation14
Less practice makes just as perfect14
Social disconnection and mortality: new evidence for old truths14
Social odor as a source of learning in human infants13
How do natural environments shape adaptive cognition across the lifespan?13
The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation13
The strength of weak integrated information theory13
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics13
Thinking outside the ballot box13
Brain states as wave-like motifs13
A hierarchical model of early brain functional network development13
Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond13
Is there such a thing as a ‘good statistical learner’?12
Varieties of aphantasia12
How does brain geometry influence human brain function?12
Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration12
Advisory Board and Contents12
Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations12
Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness12
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The psychology of virality12
Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition12
Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing12
Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes11
Perceiving the shape and material properties of 3D surfaces11
Understanding memorability through artificial and artist intelligence11
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Choice overload and its consequences for animal decision-making11
A role for the claustrum in cognitive control11
Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges11
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Realizing the promise of AI: a new calling for cognitive science11
In search of boredom: beyond a functional account11
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Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits11
Mind-wandering: mechanistic insights from lesion, tDCS, and iEEG10
Solving the causal inference problem10
Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology10
The elusiveness of context effects in decision making10
A goal-centric outlook on learning10
Zoom disrupts eye contact behaviour: problems and solutions10
Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research10
Unfolding the evolution of human cognition10
Social affordances, mirror neurons, and how to understand the social brain10
A sensorimotor perspective on numerical cognition10
Unveiling the benefits of multitasking in disentangled representation formation10
Studying large language models as compression algorithms for human culture10
Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past10
Experimental effects of social behavior on well-being9
Social cognition in insects9
Evolution of the uniformly white sclera in humans: critical updates9
Attentional sampling resolves competition along the visual hierarchy9
Semantic tiles or hub-and-spokes?9
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