OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Processing is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Are spatial terms rooted in geometry or force-dynamics? Yes	51
Visual images of disgusting creatures facilitated attentional orienting and delayed attentional disengagement	18
Abstracts and authors of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Segmentation and Binding in Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2024)	16
The practice of speleology: What is its relationship with spatial abilities?	14
Attention modulates incidental memory encoding of human movements	13
Forming and updating vaccination beliefs: does the continued effect of misinformation depend on what we think we know?	11
Online level-2 perspective taking for newly learnt symbols	10
Divergent thinking and the core executive functions: a state-of-the-art review	10
Contributions of working memory and inhibitory control to analogical reasoning in preschoolers: the mediating roles of vocabulary knowledge and visual perception	9
A feasibility pilot study comparing tablets and smartphones for an app-based speed training program in older people: an open-label, randomized controlled PROBE trial	9
Correction: Visuospatial or verbal–spatial codes? The different effect of two secondary tasks on the power–space associations during a semantic categorizing task	8
The relationship between working memory updating components and reading comprehension	8
Route effects in city-based survey knowledge estimates	8
Domain embeddings for generating complex descriptions of concepts in Italian language	8
Testing the persuasiveness of conspiracy theories: a comparison of narrative and argumentative strategies	7
Emotional text messages affect the early processing of emoticons depending on their emotional congruence: evidence from the N170 and EPN event related potentials	7
Visual perception and linguistic abilities, not quantitative knowledge, count in geometric knowledge of kindergarten children	7
Visual working memory for natural scenes: challenges and opportunities	7
Interoceptive sensitivity and perception of others’ emotions: an investigation based on a two-stage model	7
Chronic exercise and neuropsychological function in healthy young adults: a randomised controlled trial investigating a running intervention	6
Could direct and generative retrieval be two flips of the same coin? A dual-task paradigm study	6
Analysis of the impact of different background colors in VR environments on risk preferences	6
Decision-making regarding social situations in people with intellectual disability at different stages of the decision-making process	6
The effect of an embodied intervention on responsibility: put a load on one’s shoulder	6
Spatial memory and frames of reference: How deeply do we rely on the body and the environment?	5

Stability of individual differences in executive functions in kindergarten children – a microgenetic study	5
The generalizability issue in studying inflectional processing in real time: the potential effects of suffixal characteristics	5
Discrete, recurrent, and scalable patterns in non-operant judgement underlie affective picture ratings	5
Enactment encoding promotes relative temporal order memory	5
Effects of gender stereotype threat on motor performance, cognitive anxiety, and gaze behavior: highlighting the role of context	5
Spontaneous perceptual alternations and higher-order cognitive processes: an exploratory study	5
Impaired emotional multimodal integration in inhibition of return in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	5
Visuospatial or verbal–spatial codes? The different effect of two secondary tasks on the power–space associations during a semantic categorizing task	5
Contribution of orthographic knowledge to reading and spelling in Bosnian highly transparent orthography	5
Towards neuroadaptive navigation assistance to reduce spatial de-skilling	4
Affective distraction by emotional arousal during visual attention: a comparative study with young and older adults	4
Tracing affordances: mixed-methods review on techniques to study affordances in virtual reality environments	4
Information and meaning	4
Disgust as a basic, sexual, and moral emotion	4
Predictive structure building in language comprehension: a large sample study on incremental licensing and parallelism	4
Executive and motor function in children with autism spectrum disorder	4
False recognitions in the DRM paradigm: the role of stress and warning	4
Long-term memory for spatial frequency: a non-replication	4
Mental rotation, perspective taking, and performance profiling	4
Highly logical and non-emotional decisions in both risky and social contexts: understanding decision making in autism spectrum disorder through computational modeling	4
COVID-19 stressor reduces risk taking: the role of trait interoception	4
Specificity effect in concrete/abstract semantic categorization task	4
Implicit evidence on the dissociation of identity and emotion recognition	4
Neural activity and network analysis for understanding reasoning using the matrix reasoning task	3
Sex differences in the relationship between autistic traits and face-change discrimination sensitivity in the general population: a psychophysical investigation	3
Gestures and pauses to help thought: hands, voice, and silence in the tourist guide’s speech	3
The influence of semantic alignment on the performance of addition and division operation: age-related differences	3
The elephant in the room: attention to salient scene features increases with comedic expertise	3
Effects of wearing a surgical face mask on cognitive functioning and mood states: a randomised controlled trial in young adults	3
APOE genotype, hippocampal volume, and cognitive reserve predict improvement by cognitive training in older adults without dementia: a randomized controlled trial	3
The differential illusion memory for high-associated abstract concepts (DIM-HA) effect	3
Effects of banner ad type, web content type and theme consistency on banner blindness: an eye movement study	3
In the blink of an eye: behavioural correlates of the confirmation bias effect	3
Are subjective cognitive complaints associated with executive functions and mental health of older adults?	3
Stop affordance task: a measure of the motor interference effect	3
The role of exposure condition, awareness and item type in developing implicit and explicit knowledge of collocational rules	3
An evolutionary account of impairment of self in cognitive disorders	3
Relationship between self-reported sleep and cognitive function: a specification curve analysis	3
Reading abilities in preterm children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Development and validation of the multi-dimensional metamemory skills (MDMS) scale for students in an Indian sample	3
Object perception: four arguments from philosophy	3
Attentional adjustment in priming tasks: control strategies depend on context	3