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Papers

(The median citation count of Topics in Cognitive Science is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
By Design: How People Adapt to Cognitive Limitations in Politics	86
Too Many Cooks: Bayesian Inference for Coordinating Multi‐agent Collaboration	52
Cognitive Science Progresses Toward Interactive Frameworks	40
A Methodological Framework to Study Change in Team Cognition Under the Dynamical Hypothesis	33
Establishing Human Observer Criterion in Evaluating Artificial Social Intelligence Agents in a Search and Rescue Task	28
Adversarial Dynamics in Centralized Versus Decentralized Intelligent Systems	28
Everyday Activities	23
An Introduction to Predictive Processing Models of Perception and Decision‐Making	22
Time Slows Down in the Future: Aging and the Brain Rhythms of Language	21
Conceptual Foundations of Sustainability	21
The Collaborative Nature of Testimonial Learning	20
On the Proper Treatment of Dynamics in Cognitive Science	20
Language Entails Linguistic Relativity	20
Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach	20
Understanding Human−Autonomy Teams Through a Human−Animal Teaming Model	19
The Emergence of Specialized Roles Within Groups	18
A Critical Period for Robust Curriculum‐Based Deep Reinforcement Learning of Sequential Action in a Robot Arm	17
Editor's Review and Introduction: Cognition‐Inspired Artificial Intelligence	16
Validating and Refining Cognitive Process Models Using Probabilistic Graphical Models	16
Linguistic Relativity in Cross‐Cultural Context: Converging Evidence From Neuroanthropology	15
The Wisdom of the Crowd is not a Forgone Conclusion. Effects of Self‐Selection on (Collaborative) Knowledge Construction	15
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Human Performance in Competitive and Collaborative Human–Machine Teams	13
Through Thick and Thin: Gesture and Speech Remain as an Integrated System in Atypical Development	12
Editors' Introduction to Networks of the Mind: How Can Network Science Elucidate Our Understanding of Cognition?	12

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Finding the Words: How Does the Aging Brain Process Language? A Focused Review of Brain Connectivity and Compensatory Pathways	12
Explaining World‐Wide Variation in Navigation Ability from Millions of People: Citizen Science Project Sea Hero Quest	12
Local Search and the Evolution of World Models	12
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The Phoneme as a Cognitive Tool	11
A Cultural Evolutionary Model for the Law of Abbreviation	11
The Geometry and Dynamics of Meaning	11
Collectives and Epistemic Rationality	11
Comparing Australian Message Sticks and Sequentially Marked Objects of the Upper Palaeolithic: Problems and Opportunities	10
Immature Vocalizations Simplify the Speech of Tseltal Mayan and U.S. Caregivers	10
Shifting Between Models of Mind: New Insights Into How Human Minds Give Rise to Experiences of Spiritual Presence and Alternative Realities	10
The Tools of Enculturation	10
Implications of Grounded Cognition for Conceptual Processing Across Cultures	10
The Wire Is Not the Territory: Understanding Representational Drift in Olfaction With Dynamical Systems Theory	9
Sign Languages in Healthy Aging Population: Review of Neurobehavioral Evidence	9
Overcoming Individual Limitations Through Distributed Computation: Rational Information Accumulation in Multigenerational Populations	9
Learning Communicative Acts in Children's Conversations: A Hidden Topic Markov Model Analysis of the CHILDES Corpora	8
Play in Cognitive Development: From Rational Constructivism to Predictive Processing	8
Interval Timing as a Computational Pathway From Early Life Adversity to Affective Disorders	8
Abduction and Deduction in Dynamical Cognitive Science	8
Categorical Perception of p‐Values	8
Introduction to topiCS Volume 17, Issue 4	7
Issue Information	7
Introduction to topiCS Volume 14, Issue 4	7
A Matter of Memory? Age‐Invariant Relative Clause Disambiguation and Memory Interference in Older Adults	7
The Role of Gesture in Language Development for Neurotypical Children and Children With or at Increased Likelihood of Autism	7
COHUMAIN: Building the Socio‐Cognitive Architecture of Collective Human–Machine Intelligence	7
Resource‐Rational Virtual Bargaining for Moral Judgment: Toward a Probabilistic Cognitive Model	7
Dissociative Amnesia? It Might be Organic Memory Loss!	6
Understanding Differences in Wayfinding Strategies	6
Introduction to topiCS Volume 14, Issue 2	6
Simultaneous Hypotheses in Cognitive Agents: Commentary on Paxton, Necaise et al., and the Dynamical Hypothesis in Cognitive Science	6
Distributional Semantics: Meaning Through Culture and Interaction	6
Discourse Production Across the Adult Lifespan: Microlinguistic Processes	6
Introduction to topiCS Volume 16, Issue 1	6
Social Rationality and Human Reasoning: Logical Expressivism and the Flat Mind	6
Issue Information	6
Cognitive Symbionts. Expanding the Scope of Cognitive Science With Fungi	6
Reflections on David E. Rumelhart and the Rumelhart Prize	6
Open‐Ended Technological Evolution: The Co‐Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies	6
An Autocatalytic Network Model of Conceptual Change	6
From Cognitive Agents to Cognitive Systems: Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Developments of van Gelder's (1998) “Dynamical Hypothesis”	6
Thinking Like an Earthling: Children's Reasoning About Individual and Collective Action Related to Environmental Sustainability	6
Team Cognition Research Is Transforming Cognitive Science	6
Radical Collective Intelligence and the Reimagining of Cognitive Science	6
Graphemic Variation in Morphosyntactic Context: The Syllable u in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Writing	6
The Role of Adaptation in Collective Human–AI Teaming	6
Two Cases of Malingered Crime‐Related Amnesia	5
Issue Information	5

Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Nick Chater Receiving the 2023 Rumelhart Prize	5
Nested Selves: Self‐Organization and Shared Markov Blankets in Prenatal Development in Humans	5
Personalized Model‐Driven Interventions for Decisions From Experience	5
Linguistic Priors for Perception	5
Distinguishing Underlying, Inferred, and Expressed Preferences, Attitudes, and Beliefs: An Absence of (Mental) Flatness?	5
Measuring Spatial Perspective Taking: Analysis of Four Measures Using Item Response Theory	5
Life and Death Decisions and COVID‐19: Investigating and Modeling the Effect of Framing, Experience, and Context on Preference Reversals in the Asian Disease Problem	5
Grounded Cognition, Linguistic Relativity, and Abstract Concepts	5
What Makes Us Smart?	5
A Neural Dynamic Model Perceptually Grounds Nested Noun Phrases	5
Issue Information	4
Where Mathematical Symbols Come From	4
Self‐beliefs, Transactive Memory Systems, and Collective Identification in Teams: Articulating the Socio‐Cognitive Underpinnings of COHUMAIN	4
Material Anchors in Language Learning	4
Editors’ Introduction: Best Papers from the 19th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling	4
Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies	4
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Suppression and Memory for Childhood Traumatic Events: Trauma Symptoms and Non‐Disclosure	4
Beyond Repressed Memory: Current Alternative Solutions to the Controversy	4
Suppression‐Induced Forgetting as a Model for Repression	4
What Dynamic Approaches Have Taught Us About Cognition and What They Have Not: On Values in Motion and the Importance of Replicable Forms	4
Issue Information	4
Issue Information	4
Introduction totopiCSVolume 16, Issue 2	4
Introduction totopiCSVolume 15, Issue 1	4
Children Use Teachers' Beliefs About Their Abilities to Calibrate Explore–Exploit Decisions	4
Do We Collaborate With What We Design?	4
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When a Robot Is Your Teammate	4
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What Kind of Cognitive Technology Is the “Memory House”?	3
Using Network Science to Understand the Aging Lexicon: Linking Individuals' Experience, Semantic Networks, and Cognitive Performance	3
Knowledge Gaps: A Challenge for Agent‐Based Automatic Task Completion	3
Issue Information	3
The Limited Place in Cognitive Space	3
Learning and Dynamic Decision Making	3
Issue Information	3
Reaching the Goal: Superior Navigators in Late Adulthood Provide a Novel Perspective into Successful Cognitive Aging	3
Introduction to topiCS Volume 17, Issue 3	3
The Multiple Roles of Emotion in Interpretation and Memory of Sexual Consent	3
Validating Silent Gesture Lab Studies in a Naturally Emerging Sign Language: How Order is Used to Describe Intensional Versus Extensional Events in Nicaraguan Sign Language	3
Estimating Demographic Bias on Tests of Children's Early Vocabulary	3
The Dynamical Hypothesis in Situ: Challenges and Opportunities for a Dynamical Social Approach to Interpersonal Coordination	3
How Do We Believe?	3
Process and Dynamics in AI and Language Use	3
One Size Does Not Fit All: Idiographic Computational Models Reveal Individual Differences in Learning and Meta‐Learning Strategies	3
Traces of Intentionality: Balance, Complexity, and Organization in Artworks by Humans and Apes	2
Sustainability, Collective Self‐Regulation, and Human–Nature Interdependence	2
The Inner Loop of Collective Human–Machine Intelligence	2
Navigational Experience and the Preservation of Spatial Abilities into Old Age Among a Tropical Forager‐Farmer Population	2
Symmetry as a Cognitive Tool in Mesoamerican Divinatory Books	2
Improving Medical Image Decision‐Making by Leveraging Metacognitive Processes and Representational Similarity	2
Cultural Niche Construction as a Framework for Reorienting Human−Environment Relations	2
Beyond Linguistic Relativity, Emotion Concepts Illustrate How Meaning is Contextually and Individually Variable	2
Early Childhood Memories Are not Repressed: Either They Were Never Formed or Were Quickly Forgotten	2
Predictive Processing, Rational Constructivism, and Bayesian Models of Development: Commentary	2
Understanding Human Cognition Through Computational Modeling	2
Visual Perception Principles in Constellation Creation	2
Metaphors and the Invention of Writing	2
Independent Effects of Age, Education, Verbal Working Memory, Motor Speed of Processing, Locality, and Morphosyntactic Category on Verb‐Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Healthy Aging	2
Quantifying Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science and Beyond	2
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Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy	2
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Introduction to the Emerging Cognitive Science of Distributed Human‐Autonomy Teams	2
The Parallel Architecture in Language and Elsewhere	2
The Present and Future of Parallel Architectures of Language and Cognition	2
Toward Greater Integration: Fellows Perspectives on Cognitive Science	2
Modeling Effects of Rumination on Free Recall Using ACT‐R	2
Logic, Probability, and Pragmatics in Syllogistic Reasoning	2
Understanding Collective Human Behavior in Social Media Networks Via the Dynamical Hypothesis: Applications to Radicalization and Conspiratorial Beliefs	2