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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Psychology of Fake News508
Evidence for a Third Visual Pathway Specialized for Social Perception273
Embracing Change: Continual Learning in Deep Neural Networks197
Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps194
Cellular Mechanisms of Conscious Processing169
Dimensions of Animal Consciousness140
Structuring Knowledge with Cognitive Maps and Cognitive Graphs138
Is it time to put rest to rest?137
Interface, interaction, and intelligence in generalized brain–computer interfaces130
Is There a ‘Social’ Brain? Implementations and Algorithms128
Intrinsic neural timescales: temporal integration and segregation120
How Beat Perception Co-opts Motor Neurophysiology118
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science110
Mirror neurons 30 years later: implications and applications109
The secret life of predictive brains: what’s spontaneous activity for?104
Effects of Language on Visual Perception100
Integrated Intelligence from Distributed Brain Activity98
Rationalizing constraints on the capacity for cognitive control96
Strategic Regulation of Empathy94
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Shortening the Last Mile89
Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges87
How variability shapes learning and generalization82
What Is the Readiness Potential?79
Implicit bias reflects systemic racism78
How social media shapes polarization78
Interoceptive pathways to understand and treat mental health conditions78
Perceptual awareness negativity: a physiological correlate of sensory consciousness76
Distraction in Visual Working Memory: Resistance is Not Futile76
The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation75
Can AI language models replace human participants?74
Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology70
Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition67
Next-generation deep learning based on simulators and synthetic data66
Noradrenergic modulation of rhythmic neural activity shapes selective attention66
In Search of Narcissus66
Hyperscanning Alone Cannot Prove Causality. Multibrain Stimulation Can65
Is Activity Silent Working Memory Simply Episodic Memory?64
The Treachery of Images: How Realism Influences Brain and Behavior63
What Role Does Pathogen-Avoidance Psychology Play in Pandemics?62
Neurocognitive, physiological, and biophysical effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation61
All in Good Time: Long-Lasting Postdictive Effects Reveal Discrete Perception61
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity60
Sources of Metacognitive Inefficiency60
What to expect where and when: how statistical learning drives visual selection60
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition59
The Best Laid Plans: Computational Principles of Anterior Cingulate Cortex59
The Perception of Relations59
Mind Meets Machine: Towards a Cognitive Science of Human–Machine Interactions59
Bilingualism: Pathway to Cognitive Reserve58
Neural Computations of Threat57
Striving toward translation: strategies for reliable fMRI measurement57
Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents56
The Continuity of Context: A Role for the Hippocampus54
Semantic Space Theory: A Computational Approach to Emotion54
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions54
Inferential social learning: cognitive foundations of human social learning and teaching52
A Sensorimotor Numerosity System52
A mosaic of cost–benefit control over cortico-striatal circuitry51
Neural Coding of Cognitive Control: The Representational Similarity Analysis Approach50
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions49
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning49
Reconsidering autistic ‘camouflaging’ as transactional impression management48
A computational neuroethology perspective on body and expression perception47
Beyond Job Burnout: Parental Burnout!46
Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again46
Cognition in the Chronic Pain Experience: Preclinical Insights46
Comparing wolves and dogs: current status and implications for human ‘self-domestication’44
Functional Use of Eye Movements for an Acting System43
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?43
Dissociating language and thought in large language models42
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans42
Dual coding of knowledge in the human brain42
Learning from Behavioural Changes That Fail42
Altercentric Cognition: How Others Influence Our Cognitive Processing42
Why and How Should Cognitive Science Care about Aesthetics?41
From Observed Action Identity to Social Affordances41
Childhood socioeconomic status and the pace of structural neurodevelopment: accelerated, delayed, or simply different?40
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function40
Associative thinking at the core of creativity40
How movements shape the perception of time40
The mind’s golden cage and cognition in the wild39
Aperiodic sleep networks promote memory consolidation39
Autistic Cognition: Charting Routes to Anxiety39
The Child as Hacker39
Within-participant statistics for cognitive science38
Exercise types and working memory components during development37
Visuospatial coding as ubiquitous scaffolding for human cognition37
The Psychology of (In)Effective Altruism36
No Pattern Separation in the Human Hippocampus36
A Decision Architecture for Safety Computations36
The elusiveness of context effects in decision making35
Memory as a Computational Resource35
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics35
A social affective neuroscience lens on placebo analgesia34
Dissecting Transient Burst Events34
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain34
Planning with Theory of Mind33
Tag and capture: how salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory33
Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past32
The computational challenge of social learning32
Is there such a thing as a ‘good statistical learner’?32
Enhanced rationality in autism spectrum disorder32
The Evolutionary History of Brains for Numbers31
Looking for the neural basis of memory31
Understanding Human Intelligence through Human Limitations31
The complex brain: connectivity, dynamics, information31
Does Attention Increase the Value of Choice Alternatives?30
Beyond students: how teacher psychology shapes educational inequality30
The strength of weak integrated information theory30
Three cortical scene systems and their development30
Preference for human, not algorithm aversion29
The complicated but solvable threat–politics relationship29
Contextual inference in learning and memory29
The importance of an exaggerated attention bottleneck for understanding psychopathy29
Semantic Prediction in Brain and Mind28
A complex systems perspective on psychedelic brain action28
People as Intuitive Scientists: Reconsidering Statistical Explanations of Decision Making28
Brain connectomics: time for a molecular imaging perspective?28
On second thoughts: changes of mind in decision-making27
Good-enough language production27
Statistical power in network neuroscience27
Effortless training of attention and self-control: mechanisms and applications27
Path integration in normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease27
Timing of lifespan influences on brain and cognition27
Seeing social interactions27
Good-enough attentional guidance26
Beyond Correlation versus Causation: Multi-brain Neuroscience Needs Explanation26
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies26
From exploration to exploitation: a shifting mental mode in late life development26
Cluttered memory representations shape cognition in old age26
Abstract task representations for inference and control26
Closing the mechanistic gap: the value of microarchitecture in understanding cognitive networks26
Three aspects of representation in neuroscience25
A sensorimotor perspective on numerical cognition25
Sense of purpose in life and healthier cognitive aging25
The role of the locus coeruleus in shaping adaptive cortical melodies25
Undersociality: miscalibrated social cognition can inhibit social connection25
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist24
A role for the claustrum in cognitive control24
Distortion of mental body representations23
What counts when heartbeats are counted23
Information decomposition and the informational architecture of the brain23
On Corporate Responsibility When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being23
Degrees of algorithmic equivalence between the brain and its DNN models23
Harnessing Visual Imagery and Oculomotor Behaviour to Understand Prospection23
From Architecture to Evolution: Multisensory Evidence of Decentralized Emotion23
How Podcasts Can Benefit Scientific Communities22
Normal blindness: when we Look But Fail To See22
Social cognition in insects22
Protracted development of motor cortex constrains rich interpretations of infant cognition22
Partisan bias in the identification of fake news22
The network science of collective intelligence21
Prediction during language comprehension: what is next?21
Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology21
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation21
The role of neural tuning in quantity perception20
Mind-wandering: mechanistic insights from lesion, tDCS, and iEEG20
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers20
Effects of COVID-19 on cognition and brain health20
A leaky evidence accumulation process for perceptual experience20
Machine Thinking, Fast and Slow20
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading20
Magnitude-sensitivity: rethinking decision-making20
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