OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Automatic and controlled attentional orienting toward emotional faces in patients with Parkinson’s disease	123
Correction: Maximizing translational value in models of compulsive behavior: A commentary on Pickenhan et al. (2024)	53
Role of left lateral prefrontal cortex in positive emotion regulation: Insights from dyslexia	37
When effort fuels risk: Cognitive exertion increases risk-taking for gains but reduces it for losses	32
Emotion detection unveiled: A cognitive–computational synthesis of physiological models, machine learning, and datasets	31
Neural evidence of task efficacy affecting cognitive control in test-anxious individuals	31
Mindful minds: How group identity shapes brain and behavior in social decision-making	30
Dopamine antagonist effects of the D2/D3 receptor partial agonist aripiprazole on effort-based choice tasks in male and female rats	27
Aperiodic neural activity during speech comprehension in aging: Insights into cognitive effort	24
Correction: Changes in the level of unitization moderate the impact of unitization on associative memory and its underlying processing	23
Electrophysiological evidence for the enhancement of gesture-speech integration by linguistic predictability during multimodal discourse comprehension	22
Investigating the neural and behavioral correlates of the stress-rumination link in healthy humans by modulating the left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex using Theta Burst Stimulation	22
Reward and punishment learning among people with a lifetime history of anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder	21
Subjective and neural reactivity during savoring and rumination	21
Amphetamine increases motivation of humans and mice as measured by breakpoint, but does not affect an Electroencephalographic biomarker	21
Development in uncertain contexts: An ecologically informed approach to understanding decision-making during adolescence	21
Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for studying cognitive control in depressed patients: A systematic review	20
Differential online and offline effects of theta-tACS on memory encoding and retrieval	19
Brain activity associated with emotion regulation predicts individual differences in working memory ability	19
The social life of Pavlovian learning	19
Examining working and episodic memory in young adults with anhedonia	19
A computational account of conflict processing during mental imagery	18
The impact of mental health symptoms on relational memory performance	18
Uncertainty drives exploration of negative information across younger and older adults	18
Introduction to the special issue on individual differences in memory modulation	17

Maximizing translational value in models of compulsive behavior: A commentary on Pickenhan et al. (2024)	17
Limited impacts of biogenetic messaging on neural correlates of cognitive control and beliefs about depression	17
Error monitoring and response inhibition in adolescents with bipolar disorders: An ERP study	17
Exploring individual differences in amygdala-mediated memory modulation	16
Neural response to vocal emotional intensity in youth	15
How interoceptive sensibility moderates decision-making: an fMRI study of neuroforecasting mobile games engagement	15
The role of spatial processing in verbal serial order working memory	15
Electrophysiological signature of interoceptive attention: a spectral and source localization analysis	15
Examining the neural basis of unitization: A review	15
Enhancing cognitive and motor performance through mental training: The interplay between temporal preparation, inhibition and autonomic arousal	15
The neuroscience of social comparison and competition	15
Predictive processing in time perception: Assessing prediction error minimization in the sub-second range	15
Trait-related neural basis of attentional bias to emotions: a tDCS study	15
Cortical dynamics are differentially associated with decision-making strategies in human wayfinding: An EEG study	14
Computational underpinnings of cognitive effortful performance in short timescales	14
Individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty is primarily linked to the structure of inferior frontal regions	14
The effects of shared, depression-specific, and anxiety-specific internalizing symptoms on negative and neutral episodic memories following post-learning sleep	14
Differential neural processing of reward and self-relevance in a social gambling paradigm	13
Pre-associative item encoding influences associative memory: Behavioral and ERP evidence	13
The cognitive and motor determinants of the perception of effort	13
Cognitive appraisal modulates Theta Burst Stimulation effects on stress-reactive rumination and affect	13
Frontal alpha asymmetry during emotion regulation in adults with lifetime major depression	13
Mood modulations of emotional word processing: A predictive perspective view of EEG data	13
Pictures at an exhibition: A commentary on Benn & Robinson (2024)	13
Expecting the unexpected: a review of learning under uncertainty across development	13
Differential correlates of fear and anxiety in salience perception: A behavioral and ERP study with adolescents	12
Concurrent expectation and experience-based metacontrol: EEG insights and the role of working memory capacity	12
Temporal dynamics of effort discounting: The roles of cognitive load and depression	12
The neurocognitive aspects of empathy and theory of mind in pragmatic language processing	12
Mental control of uncertainty	12
Aberrant neural event segmentation during a continuous social narrative in trauma-exposed older adolescents and young adults	12
Exploration vs. Exploitation in a Novel Complex Card Matching Task: Evidence from Pupillometry	12
Examining effects of effort and reward magnitude on effort-cost decision-making in people with major depressive disorder	11
Is the bad apple or the bad basket to be blamed? Neural substrate of self-interest and conformity motivation during the contagion of dishonesty	11
Pupillometric evidence for a temporal expectations-based account of persistence under temporal uncertainty	11
Measuring cognitive effort without difficulty	11
The impact of threat of shock-induced anxiety on alerting, orienting, and executive function in women: an ERP study	10
Lateralization of self-control over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in decision-making: a systematic review and meta-analytic evidence from noninvasive brain stimulation	10
Rodent tests of depression and anxiety: Construct validity and translational relevance	10
Moral conformity: Neurocognitive mechanisms of social influence in dyadic harmful decisions	10
The two sides of Phobos: Gray and white matter abnormalities in phobic individuals	10
A transcranial magnetic stimulation study on the role of the right angular gyrus in orienting and reorienting of attention toward threat	10
The impact of acute high-intensity activity on perceptual decision-making dynamics	10
Approach-avoidance conflict recruits lateral frontoparietal and cinguloinsular networks in a predator-prey game setting	10
A cross-cultural comparison of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational drives for learning	9
The neurobiology of aesthetic chills: How bodily sensations shape emotional experiences	9
Weaker situations: Uncertainty reveals individual differences in learning: Implications for PTSD	9
Sleep fails to depotentiate amygdala-reactivity to negative emotional stimuli in youth with elevated symptoms of anxiety	9
Refugees welcome? Empathy attenuates effects of xenophobia on neuronal responses to in-group and out-group suffering	9
Dissociable neural after-effects of cognitive and physical effort expenditure during reward evaluation	9

Electrophysiological correlates of cognitive reserve in healthy older adults at different cognitive states	9
LPP slopes index attention dynamics: Evidence from mindfulness inductions	9
Stress awareness and decision-making under uncertainty: Gender-specific effects of mild hypoxia in the Iowa Gambling Task	9
Spontaneous activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supporting self-control mediates the relationship between future time perspective and procrastination	9
Intentional sadness contagion: Social bonding with neural decoupling	9
When models matter: Environmental demand guides the arbitration between model-based and model-free control	9
Lowered inter-stimulus discriminability hurts incremental contributions to learning	9
Decision-making under ambiguity and risk and executive functions in Parkinson’s disease patients: A scoping review of the studies investigating the Iowa Gambling Task and the Game of Dice	8
When the interoceptive and conceptual clash: The case of oppositional phenomenal self-modelling in Tourette syndrome	8
More than a feeling: physiological measures of affect index the integration of effort costs and rewards during anticipatory effort evaluation	8
Anxiety, stress, and affective modulation on object–location memory: A systematic review in virtual environments	8
Insights into effortful adaptation during speech perception: The role of dopamine, norepinephrine, and prediction error	8
Investigating the role of contextual cues and interhemispheric inhibitory mechanisms in response-selective stopping: a TMS study	7
Reward magnitude-specific delay discounting differentiates mania versus depression risk	7
Motivated attention and task relevance in the processing of cross-modally associated faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence	7
Comparative analysis of early visual processes across presentation modalities: The event-related potential evoked by real-life, virtual reality, and planar objects	7
Mechanisms of adjustments to different types of uncertainty in the reward environment across mice and monkeys	7
The effect of inter-letter spacing on the N170 during visual word recognition: An event-related potentials experiment	7
Author Correction: The influence of altruistic personality, interpersonal distance and social observation on prosocial behavior: An event-related potential (ERP) study	7
Error-related memory biases are specific to social stimuli for socially anxious individuals	7
Low emotional contagious behavior induces PTSD susceptibility in observers and is related to the regulation of oxytocin receptor in mice	7
Facial emotion recognition in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: An exploratory study	7
Machine learning classification of active viewing of pain and non-pain images using EEG does not exceed chance in external validation samples	7
Inhibition and cognitive workload during deception about planned behavior: Investigating LPC, MFN, and PRP components	7
Affective valence does not reflect progress prediction errors in perceptual decisions	6
The psychophysiology of guilt in healthy adults	6
Attentional Inhibition Ability Predicts Neural Representation During Challenging Auditory Streaming	6
Opening new vistas on obsessive-compulsive disorder with the observing response task	6
Effects of taVNS on physiological responses and cognitive performance during a mental stressor	6
The role of social norms, empathy, and religiosity in assisted dying decisions: an fMRI study	6
Neural mechanisms of negative emotionality and cognitive control: The role of frontal midline theta	6
The influence of self-focused attention on emotional picture processing: An ERP study	6
Parsing patterns of reward responsiveness: Initial evidence from latent profile analysis	6
Theta oscillations vary with local response rate and are moderated by the dopamine-depleting agent, tetrabenazine, during effort-based behavior	6
Correction: Individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty is primarily linked to the structure of inferior frontal regions	6
Distinct oscillatory signatures of emotional reactivity and cognitive reappraisal revealed through multiclass EEG decoding	6
The effect of working memory load on selective attention towards threatening faces in socially anxious individuals: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence	6
Continuous theta burst stimulation to the medial posterior cerebellum impairs reversal learning in healthy volunteers	6
Integrating arousal and valence approaches to advance cognitive effort research	6
Aberrant uncertainty processing is linked to psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits, and is reflected in pupil dilation during probabilistic learning	6
Cognitive reappraisal influences the organization of emotional episodes in memory	6
Correction: The two sides of Phobos: Gray and white matter abnormalities in phobic individuals	6
Characterising the neuro-oscillatory signatures of spontaneous and deliberate music-evoked visual imagery and examining their role in stress recovery	6
Anxiety facilitates disengagement when switching from negative-valenced stimuli: Mediating role of attentional control	6
Substance use and the value of control	6