Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 15. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Ritalin as a causal perturbation556
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Social disconnection and mortality: new evidence for old truths149
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Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes120
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Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history104
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement103
Developing language in a digital world101
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences96
The strength of weak integrated information theory96
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics91
Failures to launch preclude response inhibition89
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The cognitive science of technology84
'Uncertainty attunement' has explanatory value in understanding autistic anxiety79
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Technical reasoning: neither cognitive instinct nor cognitive gadget76
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What is abstract about seeing social interactions?70
Connectomics reconciles seemingly irreconcilable neuroimaging findings70
Global object shape representations in the primate brain70
Do contemplative practices make us more moral?68
Capturing advanced human cognitive abilities with deep neural networks68
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Protracted development of motor cortex constrains rich interpretations of infant cognition64
Less practice makes just as perfect63
Motor adaptation and distorted body representations63
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Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs60
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all60
Algorithmic similarity depends continuously on the input distribution, not categorically on how inputs are generated59
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Brain states as wave-like motifs58
A pull versus push framework for reputation57
Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making57
Intergroup conflict as contest and disease57
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Prediction or Causation? Towards a Redefinition of Task Controllability56
Hyperscanning Alone Cannot Prove Causality. Multibrain Stimulation Can54
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing51
Finding order in chaos: influences of environmental complexity and predictability on development50
Alternative model systems for cognitive variation: eusocial-insect colonies49
Threat alters race perception to facilitate discrimination49
Sensitivity and specificity in affective and social learning in adolescence49
What rhythm production can tell us about culture49
Peer review: the case for neutral language47
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power47
The cognitive tenacity of self-directed ageism47
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function47
The chicken and egg problem of grid cells and place cells46
Attention with or without working memory: mnemonic reselection of attended information46
Cultivating allyship through casual mentoring to promote diversity46
Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents46
Cognitive control and dishonesty45
Thinking outside the ballot box45
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers42
The mystery of the brain–culture interface41
Episodes of experience and generative intelligence41
How do natural environments shape adaptive cognition across the lifespan?41
Living on the edge: network neuroscience beyond nodes40
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions40
Computational role of structure in neural activity and connectivity39
LLMs don’t know anything: reply to Yildirim and Paul39
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Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics38
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science37
Does Attention Increase the Value of Choice Alternatives?37
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change37
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain36
The Psychology of Fake News36
Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology36
Theory of collective mind35
The evolutionary neuroscience of domestication35
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks35
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Beyond executive functioning: rethinking the impact of bilingualism33
Sensory emotion regulation33
How can a 4-day working week increase wellbeing at no cost to performance?33
Cognitive impairments in chronic pain: a brain aging framework33
What counts when heartbeats are counted32
Can sequencing explain the in–out effect?32
Do Newborns Have the Ability to Imitate?32
Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond32
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception31
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics31
Why birds are smart30
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils30
The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation30
Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again30
Closing the mechanistic gap: the value of microarchitecture in understanding cognitive networks29
Normal blindness: when we Look But Fail To See29
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity29
Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics29
Children’s thinking about group-based social hierarchies29
How social media shapes polarization29
Semantic Space Theory: A Computational Approach to Emotion28
Functional Use of Eye Movements for an Acting System28
High-level visual cognition deep down in the brain27
Compassion and prosocial behavior: response to Vaish and Grossmann27
Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation27
When visual metacognition fails: widespread anosognosia for visual deficits27
Anxiety involves altered planning26
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Global brain asymmetry26
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions26
Statistical power in network neuroscience26
From exploration to exploitation: a shifting mental mode in late life development26
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Creativity and semantic memory: the answers are upstream25
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape25
Decoding social rewards via inter-areal coordination frequency in the brain25
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Changing Perceptions around Nontraditional Career Trajectories in Psychological Science24
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Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing23
Coupled sleep rhythms for memory consolidation23
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Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition23
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A role for the claustrum in cognitive control23
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Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool22
The topological space of subjective experience22
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Perceiving the shape and material properties of 3D surfaces22
Timing matters: disentangling the neurocognitive sequence of mentalizing21
A collective neuroscience lens on intergroup conflict21
Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes21
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence21
Seeing social interactions21
Subjective experiences as nodes within mental disorder networks20
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain20
Interactive repair and the foundations of language20
The Continuity of Context: A Role for the Hippocampus20
A theory of autism bridging across levels of description20
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song19
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes19
A neurocomputational account of multi-line electronic gambling machines19
Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation19
Capturing the Effects of Domestication on Vocal Learning Complexity18
Extreme environments for understanding brain and cognition18
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex18
Is adaptation the new ‘bilingual advantage’?18
Beyond Correlation versus Causation: Multi-brain Neuroscience Needs Explanation18
Working memory needs pointers17
Inferring danger with minimal aversive experience17
Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits17
Bringing cumulative technological culture beyond copying versus reasoning17
Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition17
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation16
Infants and markers: reply to Taylor and Bremner16
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Practicing cooperative skills shapes brain-wide networks16
Realizing the promise of AI: a new calling for cognitive science16
How does brain geometry influence human brain function?16
Why children moralise harm to animals but not meat15
Generative adversarial networks unlock new methods for cognitive science15
Prediction during language comprehension: what is next?15
How explanation guides belief change15
The role of the locus coeruleus in shaping adaptive cortical melodies15
Harnessing Visual Imagery and Oculomotor Behaviour to Understand Prospection15
Autism and intolerance of uncertainty: an ill-fitting pair15
Helpless infants are learning a foundation model15
Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness15
The Best Laid Plans: Computational Principles of Anterior Cingulate Cortex15
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