Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs320
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships294
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Anxiety involves altered planning241
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception200
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions195
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history156
Brain leakage exposes covert cognitive computations in bodily movements155
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change154
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function151
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils135
What counts when heartbeats are counted132
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry126
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement124
Positive appraisal style as a key factor in stress resilience123
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation121
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And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively118
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain117
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience116
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape113
To model human linguistic prediction, make LLMs less superhuman112
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior108
Bayesian efficient coding as a theory of perception: progress, controversies, and prospects106
Do animals use names? Conceptual and empirical criteria106
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans103
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation98
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions98
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition97
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia95
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How can we validate theory-derived indicators of consciousness in Artificial Intelligence?92
Building word meanings from memories and predictions89
People think of women as one thing, men as many88
Intuitive theories of truth87
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Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex77
Simplifying social learning73
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention72
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination71
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus71
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory68
The ‘design features’ of language revisited68
Beyond discrete-choice options67
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Awake reactivation is not a uniform process63
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?62
A unifying taxonomy of dyadic emotional processes61
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The cognitive side of communication in social insects61
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable60
Hearing and cognition across the menopause transition59
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?59
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories57
The cognitive origins of geometry57
Contextual inference in learning and memory56
Reconceptualizing cognitive listening56
Reward is enough for social learning55
Multidimensional social cognitive profiles: implications for adolescent internalizing psychopathology54
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging53
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?52
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI52
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Culture and in-group favoritism in social decision-making49
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing49
Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis49
Beyond binding: specialization without segregation49
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Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy48
Decoding cognition in real-time47
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Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?47
Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health46
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition46
Simulation-driven mentalizing facilitates projection and introjection45
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control44
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics44
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning44
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience43
Does memory research have a realistic future?43
Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy43
What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case42
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No free lunch with the binding problem42
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision41
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research41
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming41
A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making40
How early beliefs about brilliance shape gender gaps40
Geographical psychology: Spatial variation in psychological phenomena and their consequences40
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture40
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?40
Memory updating and the structure of event representations39
When expert predictions fail39
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing39
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics38
Language learning as ontogenetic adaptation38
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all37
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Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making35
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics35
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Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes34
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The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences34
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power33
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks33
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity32
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing32
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory32
Awareness as the heart of working memory31
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Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids30
The topological space of subjective experience30
Toward understanding the neurophysiological basis of spontaneous thought30
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes30
Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater30
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?30
Toward embodied, ecological cognition with ambulatory virtual reality29
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song29
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence29
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?28
Adversity-based identities drive social change28
Emotion may indirectly link rendering and social reasoning28
Clarifications about there being two necessary conditions for consciousness28
Misinformation as strategy: Epistemic consequences and the undermining of shared truth27
Seeing social interactions27
Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories27
Refining the multimodality of semantic representations26
Interactive repair and the foundations of language26
The developing vocal self26
Better artificial intelligence does not mean better models of biology26
Can only meat machines be conscious?26
State-dependent spatial maps for navigation25
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory25
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?25
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On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking25
Addressing misperceptions takes more than combating fake news25
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The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions24
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction24
Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals24
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception24
Societies should not ignore their incel problem24
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions23
Why nature contact is good for us23
Imagining the future self through thought experiments23
An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex23
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction22
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Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?22
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Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood22
Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence21
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Motor working memory21
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior21
Imagining and building wise machines: the centrality of AI metacognition21
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making21
Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al.21
Reality check: how do we know what's real?20
Statistical learning in spelling and reading20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error20
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus20
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories20
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise20
Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization19
Why were the textbooks wrong about brain plasticity?19
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition19
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Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?19
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist19
Learning with certainty in childhood19
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Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power18
Intermediate science knowledge predicts overconfidence18
Searching for the Goldilocks zone of climate anxiety18
Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation18
Searching for answers: expert pattern recognition and planning18
Bumblebees as a powerful model for studying cognitive ecology18
Aphantasia as imagery blindsight17
Empathy as a predictive signal: why we devalue AI empathy17
Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells17
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain17
Tracking dynamic social impressions from multidimensional voice representation17
Does reframing access and phenomenality advance consciousness science?16
How do we see style?16
Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science16
Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidence16
Emotion and prediction errors: which ingredients matter?16
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Toward consumer acceptance of cultured meat16
The process of gendering: gender as a verb16
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research16
The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought16
How do natural environments shape adaptive cognition across the lifespan?16
Unpacking the dynamic role of physical effort in shaping behavior16
Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions16
Early adversity and the development of explore–exploit tradeoffs16
Thinking outside the ballot box15
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Openness to Experience: from ecology to culture15
Brain states as wave-like motifs15
Social odor as a source of learning in human infants15
Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations15
Four missing keystones in the evolutionary origins of music15
The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation15
Developing language in a digital world15
Social disconnection and mortality: new evidence for old truths15
Attention with or without working memory: mnemonic reselection of attended information15
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics14
Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation14
Realizing the promise of AI: a new calling for cognitive science14
The strength of weak integrated information theory14
Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond14
How does brain geometry influence human brain function?14
Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing14
A hierarchical model of early brain functional network development14
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Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition14
Sleep and memory consolidation in insects14
Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits13
Varieties of aphantasia13
Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness13
Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science13
A role for the claustrum in cognitive control13
On a confusion about there being two types of consciousness13
Orbitofrontal-sensory cortical interactions in learning and adaptive decision-making13
In search of boredom: beyond a functional account12
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Unveiling the benefits of multitasking in disentangled representation formation12
Moving intentions from brains to machines12
Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes12
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Social affordances, mirror neurons, and how to understand the social brain12
Understanding memorability through artificial and artist intelligence12
Choice overload and its consequences for animal decision-making12
How AI tools can enhance generalizability12
Unfolding the evolution of human cognition12
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