OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 9. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond synchrony: the capacity of fMRI hyperscanning for the study of human social interaction	47
Social value orientation modulates fairness processing during social decision-making: evidence from behavior and brain potentials	47
The role of social isolation in opioid addiction	40
How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants	31
A hierarchical model for interpersonal verbal communication	31
Neurobiological models of emotion regulation: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of acceptance as an emotion regulation strategy	30
Neural response to monetary and social feedback demonstrates differential associations with depression and social anxiety	29
Childhood trauma, brain structure and emotion recognition in patients with schizophrenia and healthy participants	27
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents	26
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience	26
Patients with anxiety disorders rely on bilateral dlPFC activation during verbal working memory	25
A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions	24
Seven computations of the social brain	23
Beyond the average brain: individual differences in social brain development are associated with friendship quality	23
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	21
Eye contact during joint attention with a humanoid robot modulates oscillatory brain activity	21
Lasting effects of cognitive emotion regulation: neural correlates of reinterpretation and distancing	20
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety	20
Inter-brain amplitude correlation differentiates cooperation from competition in a motion-sensing sports game	20
Emotional news affects social judgments independent of perceived media credibility	20
The orbitofrontal cortex, food reward, body weight and obesity	20
Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study	19
Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits	19
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning	19
Neural evidence for cognitive reappraisal as a strategy to alleviate the effects of math anxiety	19

Are women more empathetic than men? Questionnaire and EEG estimations of sex/gender differences in empathic ability	19
Inter-brain neural mechanism underlying turn-based interaction under acute stress in women: a hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy	18
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression	18
Consequences of prefrontal tDCS on inhibitory control and reactive aggression	18
Neural representation of the parent–child attachment from infancy to adulthood	17
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	17
The neural underpinnings of intergroup social cognition: an fMRI meta-analysis	17
Becoming the King in the North: identification with fictional characters is associated with greater self–other neural overlap	17
The relationship between childhood stress and distinct stages of dynamic behavior monitoring in adults: neural and behavioral correlates	16
Impact of exercise on older adults’ mood is moderated by sleep and mediated by altered brain connectivity	15
An asymmetry in past and future mental time travel following vmPFC damage	15
Emotion depends on context, culture and their interaction: evidence from effective connectivity	15
Reported maternal childhood maltreatment experiences, amygdala activation and functional connectivity to infant cry	15
Longitudinal self-concept development in adolescence	15
Neural substrates of shared visual experiences: a hyperscanning fMRI study	14
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization	14
Multivariate spatial feature selection in fMRI	14
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	14
Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy	14
Mortality threat mitigates interpersonal competition: an EEG-based hyperscanning study	14
From scanners to cell phones: neural and real-world responses to social evaluation in adolescent girls	14
The role of objecthood and animacy in apparent movement processing	13
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	13
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli	13
A systematic review of studies that used NIRS to measure neural activation during emotion processing in healthy individuals	13
Sex-specific interaction between cortisol and striato-limbic responses to psychosocial stress	13
Default mode network functional connectivity negatively associated with trait openness to experience	13
Present and future self in memory: the role of vmPFC in the self-reference effect	13
Trait self-control mediates the association between resting-state neural correlates and emotional well-being in late adolescence	13
Recognizing humanity: dehumanization predicts neural mirroring and empathic accuracy in face-to-face interactions	13
Anterior cingulate gyrus acts as a moderator of the relationship between problematic mobile phone use and depressive symptoms in college students	13
Situating language in a minimal social context: how seeing a picture of the speaker’s face affects language comprehension	12
Neural correlates of successful costly punishment in the Ultimatum game on a trial-by-trial basis	12
Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study	12
Sexual dimorphism in hemispheric processing of faces in humans: A meta-analysis of 817 cases	12
Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates	12
Default and executive networks’ roles in diverse adolescents’ emotionally engaged construals of complex social issues	11
Neural mechanisms of reward and loss processing in a low-income sample of at-risk adolescents	11
Brain activation during cognitive reappraisal depending on regulation goals and stimulus valence	11
Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain	11
Shared and unique neural circuitry underlying temporally unpredictable threat and reward processing	11
Hippocampal subfield alterations in pediatric patients with post-traumatic stress disorder	11
The brain network in support of social semantic accumulation	11
Social cognitive network neuroscience	11
Neuro-computational foundations of moral preferences	11
Effective connectivity of the human mirror neuron system during social cognition	11
Neural correlates of negative emotion processing in subthreshold depression	10
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation	10
Subsequent memory effects on event-related potentials in associative fear learning	10
Vicarious praise and pain: parental neural responses to social feedback about their adolescent child	10

Increased amygdala and decreased frontolimbic r esting- s tate functional connectivity in children with aggressive behavio	10
Gray matter correlates of impulsivity in psychopathy and in the general population differ by kind, not by degree: a comparison of systematic reviews	10
Left superior temporal sulcus morphometry mediates the impact of anxiety and depressive symptoms on sleep quality in healthy adults	10
Negative overgeneralization is associated with anxiety and mechanisms of pattern completion in peripubertal youth	10
Confirmation of interpersonal expectations is intrinsically rewarding	10
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion	10
Studying the precuneus reveals structure–function–affect correlation in long-term meditators	10
Not all errors are alike: modulation of error-related neural responses in musical joint action	10
Social-specific impairment of negative emotion perception in alexithymia	10
Self-face and emotional faces—are they alike?	10
Effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others	10
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	10
Neural indicators of food cue reactivity, regulation, and valuation and their associations with body composition and daily eating behavior	10
tDCS effect on prosocial behavior: a meta-analytic review	10
Effective cerebello–cerebral connectivity during implicit and explicit social belief sequence learning using dynamic causal modeling	9
Optimistic amnesia: how online and offline processing shape belief updating and memory biases in immediate and long-term optimism biases	9
Resting-state functional brain connectivity for human mentalizing: biobehavioral mechanisms of theory of mind in multiple sclerosis	9
Orbitofrontal cortex connectivity is associated with food reward and body weight in humans	9
Self-oriented neural circuitry predicts other-oriented adaptive risks in adolescence: a longitudinal study	9
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	9
Activating the attachment system modulates neural responses to threat in refugees with PTSD	9
Maternal sensitivity and infant neural response to touch: an fNIRS study	9