Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 18. 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.)
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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
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Ritalin as a causal perturbation122
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions121
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change117
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history115
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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
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Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain89
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia88
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation88
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
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning77
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation77
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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
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex66
Beyond discrete-choice options66
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination65
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Distortion of mental body representations63
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Still challenging the pattern separation dogma: ‘quiero retruco’61
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The cognitive side of communication in social insects59
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process58
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Reward is enough for social learning58
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI57
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?56
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading56
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging56
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories55
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?54
Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect54
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
Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis46
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Culture and in-group favoritism in social decision-making46
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics45
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control45
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning45
Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health44
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing44
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
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Does memory research have a realistic future?43
Decoding cognition in real-time43
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience43
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Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition42
How early beliefs about brilliance shape gender gaps42
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
Memory updating and the structure of event representations41
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture41
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision40
Convergent developmental principles between Caenorhabditis elegans and human connectomes39
The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable39
Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny39
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When expert predictions fail39
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing37
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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
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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
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The cognitive science of eyewitness memory32
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Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power32
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics30
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing30
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics30
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity29
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Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song29
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
Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories28
Can only meat machines be conscious?28
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
Societies should not ignore their incel problem23
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking23
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When do sensitive periods emerge later in development?23
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction23
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Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception23
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
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Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making22
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
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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
Closed-loop neuromodulation for studying spontaneous activity and causality18
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories18
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain18
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On second thoughts: changes of mind in decision-making18
Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power18
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist18
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