Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 20. 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
How can we validate theory-derived indicators of consciousness in Artificial Intelligence?92
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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
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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
The ‘design features’ of language revisited68
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory68
Beyond discrete-choice options67
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Awake reactivation is not a uniform process63
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Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?62
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The cognitive side of communication in social insects61
A unifying taxonomy of dyadic emotional processes61
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable60
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?59
Hearing and cognition across the menopause transition59
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories57
The cognitive origins of geometry57
Reconceptualizing cognitive listening56
Contextual inference in learning and memory56
Reward is enough for social learning55
Multidimensional social cognitive profiles: implications for adolescent internalizing psychopathology54
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging53
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI52
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?52
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Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing49
Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis49
Beyond binding: specialization without segregation49
Culture and in-group favoritism in social decision-making49
Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy48
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Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?47
Decoding cognition in real-time47
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition46
Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health46
Simulation-driven mentalizing facilitates projection and introjection45
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning44
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control44
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics44
Does memory research have a realistic future?43
Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy43
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience43
No free lunch with the binding problem42
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What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case42
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming41
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision41
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research41
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?40
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
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing39
Memory updating and the structure of event representations39
When expert predictions fail39
Language learning as ontogenetic adaptation38
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics38
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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What is episodic memory and how do we use it?30
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
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence29
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
Emotion may indirectly link rendering and social reasoning28
Clarifications about there being two necessary conditions for consciousness28
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?28
Adversity-based identities drive social change28
Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories27
Misinformation as strategy: Epistemic consequences and the undermining of shared truth27
Seeing social interactions27
Can only meat machines be conscious?26
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
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
An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex23
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
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Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood22
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction22
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Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?22
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
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
Reality check: how do we know what's real?20
Statistical learning in spelling and reading20
The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error20
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories20
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise20
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