Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 19. 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
Cognition in the Chronic Pain Experience: Preclinical Insights60
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus60
Simplifying social learning60
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination60
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Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect57
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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
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control43
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Shortening the Last Mile43
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning43
Externalizing autobiographical memories in the digital age42
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?42
Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny41
The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable41
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When expert predictions fail40
Convergent developmental principles between Caenorhabditis elegans and human connectomes40
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
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing37
What Is the Readiness Potential?37
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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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Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks35
The cognitive science of technology35
'Uncertainty attunement' has explanatory value in understanding autistic anxiety35
Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making35
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory34
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing34
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
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power33
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity33
How explanation guides belief change32
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers32
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes32
The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation32
Extreme environments for understanding brain and cognition31
Changing Perceptions around Nontraditional Career Trajectories in Psychological Science31
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence31
Generative adversarial networks unlock new methods for cognitive science30
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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
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?29
Computational ethics29
Adversity-based identities drive social change29
Capturing the Effects of Domestication on Vocal Learning Complexity29
Interactive repair and the foundations of language28
The topological space of subjective experience28
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids28
Seeing social interactions27
The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions26
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?26
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory26
How variability shapes learning and generalization26
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Leveraging cognitive science to foster children’s persistence25
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
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking24
Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution24
Territorial blueprint in the hippocampal system24
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction24
Societies should not ignore their incel problem23
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction23
Beyond Job Burnout: Parental Burnout!23
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception23
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Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions22
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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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Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?21
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
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories20
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
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
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
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