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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Ritalin as a causal perturbation634
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Anxiety involves altered planning163
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions163
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs153
Peer review: the case for neutral language146
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships124
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception121
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils117
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history113
How social media shapes polarization109
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement104
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change103
What counts when heartbeats are counted102
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function101
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Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape97
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition96
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain92
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience92
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior91
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation89
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation86
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The computational challenge of social learning85
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia84
Abstract task representations for inference and control83
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions79
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning77
Still challenging the pattern separation dogma: ‘quiero retruco’73
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex70
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From Observed Action Identity to Social Affordances68
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Distortion of mental body representations67
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory67
Partisan bias in the identification of fake news66
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Beyond discrete-choice options64
Proving Causality in Hyperscanning: Multibrain Stimulation and Other Approaches: Response to Moreau and Dumas64
Simplifying social learning60
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination60
Cognition in the Chronic Pain Experience: Preclinical Insights60
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus60
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Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect57
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable55
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?53
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading53
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging53
Contextual inference in learning and memory52
The Perception of Relations51
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?51
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?51
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories49
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI49
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Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics48
Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy48
Does memory research have a realistic future?47
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience46
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition45
Decoding cognition in real-time45
Neuromatch Academy: Teaching Computational Neuroscience with Global Accessibility45
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing44
The Psychology of (In)Effective Altruism44
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning43
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control43
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Shortening the Last Mile43
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?42
Externalizing autobiographical memories in the digital age42
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Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny41
The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable41
Convergent developmental principles between Caenorhabditis elegans and human connectomes40
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When expert predictions fail40
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming39
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture39
Memory updating and the structure of event representations38
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?38
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision38
What Is the Readiness Potential?37
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing37
Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes36
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics36
Autistic Cognition: Charting Routes to Anxiety36
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Explaining semantic typology, forms and all36
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'Uncertainty attunement' has explanatory value in understanding autistic anxiety35
Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making35
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks35
The cognitive science of technology35
Cultivating allyship through casual mentoring to promote diversity34
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics34
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences34
Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again34
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory34
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing34
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power33
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity33
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes32
The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation32
How explanation guides belief change32
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers32
Changing Perceptions around Nontraditional Career Trajectories in Psychological Science31
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence31
Extreme environments for understanding brain and cognition31
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What is episodic memory and how do we use it?30
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song30
Generative adversarial networks unlock new methods for cognitive science30
Computational ethics29
Adversity-based identities drive social change29
Capturing the Effects of Domestication on Vocal Learning Complexity29
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?29
The topological space of subjective experience28
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids28
Interactive repair and the foundations of language28
Seeing social interactions27
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory26
How variability shapes learning and generalization26
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The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions26
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?26
When do sensitive periods emerge later in development?25
Epistemic Autonomy: Self-supervised Learning in the Mammalian Hippocampus25
Imagining the future self through thought experiments25
Leveraging cognitive science to foster children’s persistence25
Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution24
Territorial blueprint in the hippocampal system24
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction24
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking24
Beyond Job Burnout: Parental Burnout!23
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception23
Societies should not ignore their incel problem23
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction23
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Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition22
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An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex22
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Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions22
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior21
Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood21
Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence21
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans21
A computational neuroethology perspective on body and expression perception21
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Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?21
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories20
Searching for answers: expert pattern recognition and planning19
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Reality check: how do we know what's real?19
Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power19
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A Decision Architecture for Safety Computations19
Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?19
Mind Control Tricks: Magicians’ Forcing and Free Will19
Intermediate science knowledge predicts overconfidence19
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Associative symmetry: a divide between humans and nonhumans?19
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise19
Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization18
Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells18
Sense of purpose in life and healthier cognitive aging18
Closed-loop neuromodulation for studying spontaneous activity and causality18
Aphantasia as imagery blindsight18
Neural Coding of Cognitive Control: The Representational Similarity Analysis Approach18
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain17
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition17
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist17
Learning with certainty in childhood17
Tracking dynamic social impressions from multidimensional voice representation16
On second thoughts: changes of mind in decision-making16
Beyond students: how teacher psychology shapes educational inequality16
What kind of network is the brain?16
Implicit bias reflects systemic racism16
The process of gendering: gender as a verb15
Early adversity and the development of explore–exploit tradeoffs15
Toward consumer acceptance of cultured meat15
How do natural environments shape adaptive cognition across the lifespan?15
Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidence15
Dual coding of knowledge in the human brain15
Attention with or without working memory: mnemonic reselection of attended information14
Less practice makes just as perfect14
Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation14
Thinking outside the ballot box14
Developing language in a digital world14
Can sequencing explain the in–out effect?14
Social disconnection and mortality: new evidence for old truths14
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The strength of weak integrated information theory14
Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond13
Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits13
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics13
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Children’s thinking about group-based social hierarchies13
Brain states as wave-like motifs13
In search of boredom: beyond a functional account12
How does brain geometry influence human brain function?12
Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition12
A role for the claustrum in cognitive control12
Perceiving the shape and material properties of 3D surfaces12
Is there such a thing as a ‘good statistical learner’?12
Realizing the promise of AI: a new calling for cognitive science12
Choice overload and its consequences for animal decision-making12
Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness12
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Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes11
Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges11
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Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing11
Beyond Correlation versus Causation: Multi-brain Neuroscience Needs Explanation11
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Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration11
Understanding memorability through artificial and artist intelligence10
Zoom disrupts eye contact behaviour: problems and solutions10
How Are Memories Stored in the Human Hippocampus?10
Solving the causal inference problem10
A sensorimotor perspective on numerical cognition10
Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past10
Unveiling the benefits of multitasking in disentangled representation formation10
Unfolding the evolution of human cognition10
Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology10
Social affordances, mirror neurons, and how to understand the social brain10
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Semantic tiles or hub-and-spokes?9
Exercise types and working memory components during development9
Studying large language models as compression algorithms for human culture9
Why metacognition matters in politically contested domains9
Minimal criteria for an impurity domain of morality9
Consciousness in the cradle: on the emergence of infant experience9
Evolution of the uniformly white sclera in humans: critical updates9
Mind-wandering: mechanistic insights from lesion, tDCS, and iEEG9
Interpreting mental state decoding with deep learning models9
Developmental Origins of the Pathway for Social Perception9
Experimental effects of social behavior on well-being9
Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research9
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