OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 8. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	41
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years	40
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions	36
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion	34
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	34
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization	33
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women	33
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	30
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	29
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry	25
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions	23
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources	23
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	23
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs	22
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing	22
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults	21
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions	21
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	20
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion	19
Relationship between behavioral inhibition and approach motivation systems (BIS/BAS) and intrinsic brain network connectivity in adult cannabis users	18
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	18
Corrigendum to: Sex differences in the human reward system: convergent behavioral, autonomic and neural evidence	18
The speed of race	18
Erratum to: effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others	17
Learning faces as concepts improves face recognition by engaging the social brain network	16

Enhanced sensitivity to optimistic cues is manifested in brain structure: a voxel-based morphometry study	15
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness	15
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood	15
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity	15
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge	15
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors	15
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall	15
Neural changes in reward processing following approach-avoidance training for depression	14
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being	14
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth	14
Self-oriented neural circuitry predicts other-oriented adaptive risks in adolescence: a longitudinal study	14
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study	13
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood	13
The OXTR rs53576 impacts moral permissibility of attempted but failed harms in populations of students and prisoners	13
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study	13
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan	13
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders	13
Reconciling psychological and neuroscientific accounts of reduced motivation in aging	12
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear	12
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better	12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+	12
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations	12
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life	12
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis	11
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception	11
Localized task-invariant emotional valence encoding revealed by intracranial recordings	11
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem	11
Touched by loneliness—how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study	11
Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and insulae	11
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy	10
Neural substrates of shared visual experiences: a hyperscanning fMRI study	10
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward	10
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study	10
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	10
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin	10
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety	10
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness	10
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	10
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers	10
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults	10
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults	10
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training	10
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals	9
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model	9
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing	9
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	9
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name	9
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years	9
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations	9
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents	9

Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages	8
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care	8
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults	8
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders	8
Altruistic acting caused by a touching hand: neural underpinnings of the Midas touch effect	8
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: A preliminary event-related potential (ERP) study	8
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future	8
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system	8
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies	8
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning	8
Lesion evidence for a causal role of the insula in aversion to social inequity	8
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation	8
Self-dependent neural variability predicts recovery from depressive symptoms	8
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition	8
Activating the attachment system modulates neural responses to threat in refugees with PTSD	8
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements	8
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli	8