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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linking Structure and Function in Macroscale Brain Networks471
The Psychology of Fake News401
Pupil Size as a Window on Neural Substrates of Cognition297
Why Are Self-Report and Behavioral Measures Weakly Correlated?258
Evidence for a Third Visual Pathway Specialized for Social Perception213
Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC)188
Broca’s Area Is Not a Natural Kind156
Peer Influence in Adolescence: Public-Health Implications for COVID-19151
Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps151
Embracing Change: Continual Learning in Deep Neural Networks146
The Neurobiology of Social Distance146
Cellular Mechanisms of Conscious Processing140
Deconstructing the Posterior Medial Episodic Network139
Digital Emotion Contagion133
Spontaneous Brain Oscillations and Perceptual Decision-Making120
An Allostatic Theory of Oxytocin117
Structuring Knowledge with Cognitive Maps and Cognitive Graphs114
Is There a ‘Social’ Brain? Implementations and Algorithms112
Is it time to put rest to rest?111
Dimensions of Animal Consciousness109
Sleep Loss and the Socio-Emotional Brain100
Interface, interaction, and intelligence in generalized brain–computer interfaces100
How Beat Perception Co-opts Motor Neurophysiology99
Bring the Noise: Reconceptualizing Spontaneous Neural Activity96
Interpersonal Neural Entrainment during Early Social Interaction95
The secret life of predictive brains: what’s spontaneous activity for?91
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Shortening the Last Mile86
Effects of Language on Visual Perception82
Integrated Intelligence from Distributed Brain Activity81
Face and Voice Perception: Understanding Commonalities and Differences81
The Citation Diversity Statement: A Practice of Transparency, A Way of Life81
Strategic Regulation of Empathy79
Towards a Cognitive Science of the Human: Cross-Cultural Approaches and Their Urgency79
No Participant Left Behind: Conducting Science During COVID-1977
Knowing Ourselves Together: The Cultural Origins of Metacognition75
Mirror neurons 30 years later: implications and applications74
Intrinsic neural timescales: temporal integration and segregation72
Rationalizing constraints on the capacity for cognitive control71
Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges69
Catastrophe Compassion: Understanding and Extending Prosociality Under Crisis67
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science66
Knowledge Across Reference Frames: Cognitive Maps and Image Spaces65
Implicit bias reflects systemic racism64
Advancing the Understanding of Suicide: The Need for Formal Theory and Rigorous Descriptive Research63
What Are Memories For? The Hippocampus Bridges Past Experience with Future Decisions63
What Is the Readiness Potential?63
Distraction in Visual Working Memory: Resistance is Not Futile62
Demographic Stability on Mechanical Turk Despite COVID-1961
How variability shapes learning and generalization60
The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation60
Hyperscanning Alone Cannot Prove Causality. Multibrain Stimulation Can59
Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology57
How social media shapes polarization57
Synchronisation of Neural Oscillations and Cross-modal Influences57
All in Good Time: Long-Lasting Postdictive Effects Reveal Discrete Perception56
What Role Does Pathogen-Avoidance Psychology Play in Pandemics?56
In Search of Narcissus54
Unravelling the Neurobiology of Interoceptive Inference54
Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact54
Noradrenergic modulation of rhythmic neural activity shapes selective attention53
Cumulative Cultural Evolution within Evolving Population Structures53
Perceptual awareness negativity: a physiological correlate of sensory consciousness53
Interoceptive pathways to understand and treat mental health conditions52
Mind Meets Machine: Towards a Cognitive Science of Human–Machine Interactions51
The Treachery of Images: How Realism Influences Brain and Behavior51
The Best Laid Plans: Computational Principles of Anterior Cingulate Cortex51
Neural Computations of Threat51
The Hidden Talents Approach: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges50
Is Activity Silent Working Memory Simply Episodic Memory?50
Sources of Metacognitive Inefficiency50
Somatosensation in the Brain: A Theoretical Re-evaluation and a New Model49
Bilingualism: Pathway to Cognitive Reserve49
Deficits in Spontaneous Cognition as an Early Marker of Alzheimer’s Disease48
Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition46
The Perception of Relations46
A Sensorimotor Numerosity System46
The Continuity of Context: A Role for the Hippocampus44
Striving toward translation: strategies for reliable fMRI measurement43
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity42
Semantic Space Theory: A Computational Approach to Emotion41
Neural Coding of Cognitive Control: The Representational Similarity Analysis Approach41
Next-generation deep learning based on simulators and synthetic data41
A mosaic of cost–benefit control over cortico-striatal circuitry40
Inferential social learning: cognitive foundations of human social learning and teaching40
Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again39
Cognition in the Chronic Pain Experience: Preclinical Insights39
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions39
Beyond Job Burnout: Parental Burnout!38
Group Cooperation, Carrying-Capacity Stress, and Intergroup Conflict38
Learning from Behavioural Changes That Fail37
Comparing wolves and dogs: current status and implications for human ‘self-domestication’37
Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents37
A computational neuroethology perspective on body and expression perception37
Reconsidering autistic ‘camouflaging’ as transactional impression management36
Visuospatial coding as ubiquitous scaffolding for human cognition36
What to expect where and when: how statistical learning drives visual selection36
Understanding Image Memorability35
From Observed Action Identity to Social Affordances35
Neurocognitive, physiological, and biophysical effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation35
Functional Use of Eye Movements for an Acting System35
Reward Prediction Error and Declarative Memory34
Aperiodic sleep networks promote memory consolidation34
All Thinking is ‘Wishful’ Thinking34
No Pattern Separation in the Human Hippocampus34
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?33
How movements shape the perception of time33
The mind’s golden cage and cognition in the wild33
A Theory of Moral Praise33
Exercise types and working memory components during development32
Do Non-Human Primates Really Represent Others’ Beliefs?32
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning32
Altercentric Cognition: How Others Influence Our Cognitive Processing32
Controlled Optimism: Reply to Sun and Firestone on the Dark Room Problem32
A Decision Architecture for Safety Computations31
The Dark Room Problem31
Can AI language models replace human participants?31
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition31
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions31
Autistic Cognition: Charting Routes to Anxiety30
Within-participant statistics for cognitive science30
Dual coding of knowledge in the human brain30
Dissecting Transient Burst Events30
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans30
The Psychology of (In)Effective Altruism29
Why and How Should Cognitive Science Care about Aesthetics?29
The Evolutionary History of Brains for Numbers28
Memory as a Computational Resource28
The elusiveness of context effects in decision making27
Does Attention Increase the Value of Choice Alternatives?27
A social affective neuroscience lens on placebo analgesia27
Enhanced rationality in autism spectrum disorder27
Looking for the neural basis of memory27
People as Intuitive Scientists: Reconsidering Statistical Explanations of Decision Making27
The Child as Hacker26
The computational challenge of social learning26
Understanding Human Intelligence through Human Limitations25
Beyond Correlation versus Causation: Multi-brain Neuroscience Needs Explanation25
Associative thinking at the core of creativity25
Is there such a thing as a ‘good statistical learner’?25
Semantic Prediction in Brain and Mind25
Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past24
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function24
Sense of purpose in life and healthier cognitive aging23
Undersociality: miscalibrated social cognition can inhibit social connection23
From exploration to exploitation: a shifting mental mode in late life development23
The complicated but solvable threat–politics relationship23
Good-enough language production23
Planning with Theory of Mind23
Three cortical scene systems and their development23
The complex brain: connectivity, dynamics, information23
Tag and capture: how salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory22
Beyond students: how teacher psychology shapes educational inequality21
Unraveling the Mysteries of Motivation21
On Corporate Responsibility When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being21
The importance of an exaggerated attention bottleneck for understanding psychopathy21
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain21
Childhood socioeconomic status and the pace of structural neurodevelopment: accelerated, delayed, or simply different?20
Path integration in normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease20
A complex systems perspective on psychedelic brain action20
From Architecture to Evolution: Multisensory Evidence of Decentralized Emotion20
Abstract task representations for inference and control20
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