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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Advisory Board and Contents284
Ritalin as a causal perturbation272
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Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils246
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions216
Brain leakage exposes covert cognitive computations in bodily movements175
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs170
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement165
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry158
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function140
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change139
Anxiety involves altered planning132
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships130
What counts when heartbeats are counted119
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception117
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history113
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain112
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Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape111
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience108
Abstract task representations for inference and control107
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions107
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively105
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning102
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans98
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia97
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation94
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition92
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior91
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation90
Simplifying social learning87
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Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex86
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Advisory Board and Contents81
Beyond discrete-choice options81
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention80
Intuitive theories of truth77
People think of women as one thing, men as many72
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus71
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory70
How can we validate theory-derived indicators of consciousness in Artificial Intelligence?68
The ‘design features’ of language revisited67
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination67
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Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect63
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging63
Reward is enough for social learning62
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Contextual inference in learning and memory60
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process60
Advisory Board and Contents58
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?58
A unifying taxonomy of dyadic emotional processes57
The cognitive side of communication in social insects56
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable55
Reconceptualizing cognitive listening54
The cognitive origins of geometry54
Hearing and cognition across the menopause transition54
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories52
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI51
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Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?51
Culture and in-group favoritism in social decision-making51
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?51
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Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy49
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning47
What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case47
Simulation-driven mentalizing facilitates projection and introjection46
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing45
Does memory research have a realistic future?44
Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy44
Beyond binding: specialization without segregation43
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control43
Decoding cognition in real-time43
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience43
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics43
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?42
Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis42
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition42
Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health42
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture40
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How early beliefs about brilliance shape gender gaps39
No free lunch with the binding problem39
When expert predictions fail39
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?38
A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making38
Memory updating and the structure of event representations38
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing38
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming37
Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes37
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research37
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Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision37
Advisory Board and Contents37
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences36
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Language learning as ontogenetic adaptation36
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all36
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics36
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers35
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing34
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Analogies for modeling belief dynamics33
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks33
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory33
Awareness as the heart of working memory33
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids32
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power32
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Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making32
How variability shapes learning and generalization32
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity32
Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater31
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes29
Adversity-based identities drive social change29
Toward understanding the neurophysiological basis of spontaneous thought29
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?29
The topological space of subjective experience29
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?29
Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories29
Toward embodied, ecological cognition with ambulatory virtual reality28
Better artificial intelligence does not mean better models of biology28
Computational ethics28
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence28
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song28
Interactive repair and the foundations of language27
Can only meat machines be conscious?27
Emotion may indirectly link rendering and social reasoning27
Seeing social interactions27
Refining the multimodality of semantic representations26
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The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions26
Why nature contact is good for us26
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An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex25
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?25
Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals25
Addressing misperceptions takes more than combating fake news25
Imagining the future self through thought experiments25
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory25
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction25
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception24
Societies should not ignore their incel problem24
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking24
State-dependent spatial maps for navigation24
Advisory Board and Contents23
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions23
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The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction23
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Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood22
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Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?21
Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al.21
The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error21
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans21
Imagining and building wise machines: the centrality of AI metacognition21
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior20
Motor working memory20
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence20
Reality check: how do we know what's real?19
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health19
Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization19
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus19
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