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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Neural mechanisms of adaptive change to stress and challenge: Introduction to the special section	102
Correction: Maximizing translational value in models of compulsive behavior: A commentary on Pickenhan et al. (2024)	76
Automatic and controlled attentional orienting toward emotional faces in patients with Parkinson’s disease	42
Role of left lateral prefrontal cortex in positive emotion regulation: Insights from dyslexia	31
Neural evidence of task efficacy affecting cognitive control in test-anxious individuals	27
Dopamine antagonist effects of the D2/D3 receptor partial agonist aripiprazole on effort-based choice tasks in male and female rats	25
Uncertainty drives exploration of negative information across younger and older adults	24
Development in uncertain contexts: An ecologically informed approach to understanding decision-making during adolescence	24
No trait anxiety influences on early and late differential neuronal responses to aversively conditioned faces across three different tasks	23
Amphetamine increases motivation of humans and mice as measured by breakpoint, but does not affect an Electroencephalographic biomarker	23
Emotional salience but not valence impacts anterior cingulate cortex conflict processing	21
Correction: Changes in the level of unitization moderate the impact of unitization on associative memory and its underlying processing	19
Evidence for lateralized functional connectivity patterns at rest related to the tendency of externalizing or internalizing anger	17
Developmental differences in processing the valence and magnitude of incentive cues: Mid-adolescents are more sensitive to potential gains than early- or late-adolescents	17
Electrophysiological evidence for the enhancement of gesture-speech integration by linguistic predictability during multimodal discourse comprehension	17
Subjective and neural reactivity during savoring and rumination	17
Aperiodic neural activity during speech comprehension in aging: Insights into cognitive effort	16
Reward and punishment learning among people with a lifetime history of anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder	16
Brain activity associated with emotion regulation predicts individual differences in working memory ability	16
Examining working and episodic memory in young adults with anhedonia	15
A computational account of conflict processing during mental imagery	14
Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for studying cognitive control in depressed patients: A systematic review	14
Differential online and offline effects of theta-tACS on memory encoding and retrieval	14
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	14
The role of spatial processing in verbal serial order working memory	14

The PRO model accounts for the anterior cingulate cortex role in risky decision-making and monitoring	14
Introduction to the special issue on individual differences in memory modulation	13
Error monitoring and response inhibition in adolescents with bipolar disorders: An ERP study	13
Electrophysiological signature of interoceptive attention: a spectral and source localization analysis	13
Maximizing translational value in models of compulsive behavior: A commentary on Pickenhan et al. (2024)	13
Examining the neural basis of unitization: A review	13
Limited impacts of biogenetic messaging on neural correlates of cognitive control and beliefs about depression	13
Exploring individual differences in amygdala-mediated memory modulation	13
Exploration heuristics decrease during youth	12
Trait-related neural basis of attentional bias to emotions: a tDCS study	12
Enhancing cognitive and motor performance through mental training: The interplay between temporal preparation, inhibition and autonomic arousal	12
Cortical dynamics are differentially associated with decision-making strategies in human wayfinding: An EEG study	12
The cognitive and motor determinants of the perception of effort	12
How interoceptive sensibility moderates decision-making: an fMRI study of neuroforecasting mobile games engagement	12
Individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty is primarily linked to the structure of inferior frontal regions	12
Neural response to vocal emotional intensity in youth	12
The neuroscience of social comparison and competition	12
Implicit emotion regulation improves arithmetic performance: An ERP study	11
Pre-associative item encoding influences associative memory: Behavioral and ERP evidence	11
Pupillometric evidence for a temporal expectations-based account of persistence under temporal uncertainty	11
The effects of shared, depression-specific, and anxiety-specific internalizing symptoms on negative and neutral episodic memories following post-learning sleep	11
Differential correlates of fear and anxiety in salience perception: A behavioral and ERP study with adolescents	11
Expecting the unexpected: a review of learning under uncertainty across development	11
Frontal alpha asymmetry during emotion regulation in adults with lifetime major depression	11
Pictures at an exhibition: A commentary on Benn & Robinson (2024)	11
Concurrent expectation and experience-based metacontrol: EEG insights and the role of working memory capacity	10
Cognitive appraisal modulates Theta Burst Stimulation effects on stress-reactive rumination and affect	10
Mental control of uncertainty	10
Dissociable neural after-effects of cognitive and physical effort expenditure during reward evaluation	10
Rodent tests of depression and anxiety: Construct validity and translational relevance	10
Aberrant neural event segmentation during a continuous social narrative in trauma-exposed older adolescents and young adults	10
Measuring cognitive effort without difficulty	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
Cognitive and emotional regulation processes of spontaneous facial self-touch are activated in the first milliseconds of touch: Replication of previous EEG findings and further insights	10
Differential neural processing of reward and self-relevance in a social gambling paradigm	10
Approach-avoidance conflict recruits lateral frontoparietal and cinguloinsular networks in a predator-prey game setting	10
Moral conformity: Neurocognitive mechanisms of social influence in dyadic harmful decisions	10
The impact of threat of shock-induced anxiety on alerting, orienting, and executive function in women: an ERP study	9
Involvement of executive control in neural capacity related to working memory in aging: an ERP P300 study	9
A cross-cultural comparison of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational drives for learning	9
Lateralization of self-control over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in decision-making: a systematic review and meta-analytic evidence from noninvasive brain stimulation	9
Spontaneous activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supporting self-control mediates the relationship between future time perspective and procrastination	9
The impact of acute high-intensity activity on perceptual decision-making dynamics	9
The neurobiology of aesthetic chills: How bodily sensations shape emotional experiences	9
More than a feeling: physiological measures of affect index the integration of effort costs and rewards during anticipatory effort evaluation	8
Insights into effortful adaptation during speech perception: The role of dopamine, norepinephrine, and prediction error	8
Sleep fails to depotentiate amygdala-reactivity to negative emotional stimuli in youth with elevated symptoms of anxiety	8
Author Correction: The influence of altruistic personality, interpersonal distance and social observation on prosocial behavior: An event-related potential (ERP) study	8
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

Lowered inter-stimulus discriminability hurts incremental contributions to learning	8
Stress awareness and decision-making under uncertainty: Gender-specific effects of mild hypoxia in the Iowa Gambling Task	8
When the interoceptive and conceptual clash: The case of oppositional phenomenal self-modelling in Tourette syndrome	8
When models matter: Environmental demand guides the arbitration between model-based and model-free control	8
Weaker situations: Uncertainty reveals individual differences in learning: Implications for PTSD	8
Refugees welcome? Empathy attenuates effects of xenophobia on neuronal responses to in-group and out-group suffering	8
Do we enjoy what we sense and perceive? A dissociation between aesthetic appreciation and basic perception of environmental objects or events	8
Mechanisms of adjustments to different types of uncertainty in the reward environment across mice and monkeys	8
Machine learning classification of active viewing of pain and non-pain images using EEG does not exceed chance in external validation samples	7
Motivated attention and task relevance in the processing of cross-modally associated faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence	7
Investigating the role of contextual cues and interhemispheric inhibitory mechanisms in response-selective stopping: a TMS study	7
Parsing patterns of reward responsiveness: Initial evidence from latent profile analysis	7
Theta oscillations vary with local response rate and are moderated by the dopamine-depleting agent, tetrabenazine, during effort-based behavior	7
Comparative analysis of early visual processes across presentation modalities: The event-related potential evoked by real-life, virtual reality, and planar objects	7
Facial emotion recognition in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: An exploratory study	7
Reward magnitude-specific delay discounting differentiates mania versus depression risk	7
The influence of self-focused attention on emotional picture processing: An ERP study	7
Trait dialectical thinking is associated with the strength of functional coupling between the dACC and the default mode network	7
The psychophysiology of guilt in healthy adults	7
Low emotional contagious behavior induces PTSD susceptibility in observers and is related to the regulation of oxytocin receptor in mice	7
The effect of inter-letter spacing on the N170 during visual word recognition: An event-related potentials experiment	7
Continuous theta burst stimulation to the medial posterior cerebellum impairs reversal learning in healthy volunteers	7
Maternal symptoms of depression and anxiety during the postpartum period moderate infants’ neural response to emotional faces of their mother and of female strangers	7
Aberrant uncertainty processing is linked to psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits, and is reflected in pupil dilation during probabilistic learning	7
Moral conviction interacts with metacognitive ability in modulating neural activity during sociopolitical decision-making	6
Brain stimulation over dorsomedial prefrontal cortex modulates effort-based decision making	6
This is not who you are: The posterior cerebellum and stereotype-inconsistent action sequences	6
Opening new vistas on obsessive-compulsive disorder with the observing response task	6
Hierarchical inference as a source of human biases	6
Brain representations of space and time in episodic memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Correction to: Trait dialectical thinking is associated with the strength of functional coupling between the dACC and the default mode network	6
Effects of taVNS on physiological responses and cognitive performance during a mental stressor	6
Correction: The two sides of Phobos: Gray and white matter abnormalities in phobic individuals	6
Correction: Individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty is primarily linked to the structure of inferior frontal regions	6
Anxiety facilitates disengagement when switching from negative-valenced stimuli: Mediating role of attentional control	6
Anhedonia relates to reduced striatal reward anticipation in depression but not in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: A transdiagnostic study	6
Attentional Inhibition Ability Predicts Neural Representation During Challenging Auditory Streaming	6
Affective valence does not reflect progress prediction errors in perceptual decisions	6
Neural electrophysiological correlates of detection and identification awareness	6
The effect of working memory load on selective attention towards threatening faces in socially anxious individuals: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence	6