OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Neuroscience is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	28
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	22
The role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in social decision-making against high- and low-rank opponents: a transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) study	19
Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: evidence from fMRI	17
Social status in zebrafish modulates the behavioral response to 5-HT2C receptor agonists and antagonists	13
Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations	11
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	11
The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level	10
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	10
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	9
Interpersonal negotiation skills in ADHD	9
Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?	8
Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial	8
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	8
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	8
Parent–child dyads with greater parenting stress exhibit less synchrony in posterior areas and more synchrony in frontal areas of the prefrontal cortex during shared play	7
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	7
From physical to digital: A theoretical-methodological primer on designing hyperscanning investigations to explore remote exchanges	6
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	6
Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions	6
Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials	6
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	6
Investigating the relationship of theory of mind and empathy with neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuropsychiatric data in persons with multiple sclerosis	6
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	6
Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli	5

Directed causal networks for leading and following in hyperscanning EEG	5
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	5
Oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor alterations in the superior temporal sulcus and hypothalamus in schizophrenia	5
Facial attractiveness is more associated with individual warmth than with competence: Behavioral and neural evidence	5
Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	5
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	5
Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment	4
The enhancement effect of social interaction on emotional contagion: an EEG-Based hyperscanning study	4
Population variation in social brain morphology: Links to socioeconomic status and health disparity	4
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	4
Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting	4
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	4
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	4
Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition	4